Patents Assigned to Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publication number: 20100058727
    Abstract: Yarn draw-off device for a textile machine producing cross-wound bobbins with a yarn draw-off roller that can be driven by a single motor and an associated pressure roller which is driven via frictional engagement, characterised in that the yarn draw-off roller (10) has a rotationally symmetrical basic member (15) with devices (33), which, during the rotation of the yarn draw-off roller (10) produce an air flow which cools the yarn draw-off roller drive (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz-Georg Wassenhoven
  • Publication number: 20100015266
    Abstract: A device for melt-spinning synthetic filaments includes a spin-die manifold for holding at least one bank of spinnerets and heating device for heating the bank of spinnerets. At least one spinneret with second heating device for heating the spinning pump is allocated to the bank of spinnerets and the spinning pump and bank of spinnerets are interconnected by a melt line. To achieve a user-friendly arrangement for the bank of spinnerets and the spinning pump, the pump and the second heating device are held by a separate pump support which is placed at a distance from the spin-die manifold. This allows the spinning pump to be heated independently of the spin-die manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Günter SCHÜTT, Volker BIRKHOLZ
  • Patent number: 7644570
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an open-end spinning device (1), comprising a spinning rotor (2) and an opening roller (12), which can be controlled so as to be driven individually independently of one another, wherein after an interruption in the spinning process takes place as a result of the detection of the absence of a thread, a piecing operation is initiated, comprising a piecing process, in which an upper thread passes through a fiber ring formed in the spinning rotor (2) and is connected to the latter, and a subsequent drawing-in accumulating process which serves to reduce a thin point in the thread following the piecer, wherein during the piercing operation, the opening roller (12) is temporarily driven at a piecing speed which is higher than the operating speed of the opening roller (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Manfred Lassmann
  • Publication number: 20090321982
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for depositing synthetic fibers to form a non-woven web includes guiding the synthetic fibers by a blowing stream through a drawing unit for depositing on a deposit belt. Multiple guidance elements are arranged inside the guidance distance between a blast opening of the drawing unit and the deposit belt, and form a guidance channel above the deposit belt. The guidance elements form a channel opening at a distance from the blast opening of the drawing unit. In order to achieve constant strength in the deposition of the fiber strands, the distance between the outlet of the drawing unit and the channel opening of the guidance channel is larger than half the guidance distance, and the guidance width of an open space formed between the outlet of the drawing unit and the channel opening of the guidance channel is larger than the guidance channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Lutz Maas, Henning Rave, Wiley Scott Harris
  • Publication number: 20090317505
    Abstract: A device for drawing melt-spun filaments for forming a spunbonded fabric includes at least one guide member. The filaments are guided through a slot-shaped nozzle, onto which compressed air is applied, and which conveys the filaments through the drawing nozzle. Guide members are provided on both sides of the slot on the base of the slot-shaped outlet, which cause a uniform structure of the fabric due to their shaping. This is achieved when a guide member has a plurality of notches parallel to the conveying direction, and the opposite guide member has a plurality of bores, which passively connect the space between the guide member with the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Holger SCHÖTTLER, Dimitrios SAPOURIDIS
  • Patent number: 7614127
    Abstract: An apparatus for needling a non-woven web. The apparatus comprises at least one needle beam. The needle beam, the lower side of which comprises a needle board having a plurality of needles, is held by a beam support, which is guided by means of a vertical drive for an oscillating movement in an upward and downward movement and is guided by means of a horizontal drive for an oscillating movement in a reciprocating movement. At least two driven eccentric shafts and several connecting rods, which are assigned to the eccentric shafts and the free ends of which are coupled to the beam support, are provided as the vertical drive. The horizontal drive comprises at least one horizontal link, one end of which is connected to the beam support and the opposite end of which is coupled to a gear kinematics, which comprises an eccentric drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tilman Reutter, Andreas Plump, Robert Strasser
  • Publication number: 20090260190
    Abstract: A method and a cutting device for the continuous cutting of fibers fed in fiber cables into fiber sections of particularly short length is disclosed. In order to avoid high friction forces between the formed knives and the fiber sections, and furthermore, to prevent excessive deforming of the fiber section during the transport between the knives, the knives are arranged at an offset to each other such that the fibers are initially cut into longer fiber sections, and into shorter fiber sections in a second step. The respective free space between the knives is increased due to the offset arrangement of the knives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Herbert PETERS
  • Publication number: 20090263060
    Abstract: A spindle bearing for a two-for-one twisting spindle, with a spindle rotor having a thread guide body and a spindle shaft rotatablv mounted in a vertical arrangement by a lower bearing device in a bearing housing which can be fastened to a spindle bank and which has an upper bearing device for mounting a protective pot. A lubricant duct extends from the top through the thread guide body at least approximately parallel to the rotational axis of the spindle shaft and opens into the lower bearing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz Fink
  • Patent number: 7605509
    Abstract: A rotor shaft of a spinning rotor has an annular magnet bearing component which is secured from the centrifugal force effective during the spinning process by means of a ring liner, for radially and axially supporting the rotor shaft, whereby the rotatable magnetic bearing component interacts with a stationary magnetic bearing component. The magnetic bearing component linked with the rotor shaft (4) of the spinning rotor (3) is configured as a slotted permanent magnet ring (32,42), thereby ensuring the deformability required for fitting a ring liner (6,7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Stephan Bühren
  • Publication number: 20090256278
    Abstract: A process and a device involves melt-spinning and cooling synthetic filaments. Therein, a plurality of filaments is extruded from a polymer melt and, after the extrusion, is guided into a cooling shaft for cooling. Within the cooling shaft cool air is blown, via a blower wall, into the cooling shaft, where, for cooling, the filaments are guided along the blower wall and at a distance from it. In order to obtain cooling adapted to the particular filament titer, the blowing onto the filaments can be set by selecting one of several operating positions, where to change the operating position of the blower wall it is moved in the direction towards the filaments or in the direction away from the filaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wiley Scott HARRIS, Fumin LU, Henning RAVE, Holger SCHOTTLER
  • Publication number: 20090257060
    Abstract: Housing (1) for an optical measurement device, in particular for yarn monitoring, and a method for producing such housing, from a plastics material by prototyping and receiving components of the measurement device such as a light source, sensor or lens. According to the invention, a glass insert (3) is arranged on the housing (1) and is used for the protection of the components from environmental influences, and the glass insert (3) is fitted into the housing (1) by means of the shrinkage occurring during prototyping in such a way that the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Olav Birlem
  • Publication number: 20090249765
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus involves crimping a multifilament thread, wherein the thread which is produced by melt spinning is compressed to a thread plug. The thread plug is cast on the circumference of rotating processing drum for thermal treatment and is wrapped around the circumference of the processing drum with many side-by-side wraparounds. Following that, the thread plug is unravelled in an unraveling area on the circumference of the processing drum into the crimped thread which is pulled of the processing drum. To obtain a continuous and regular unraveling of the thread plug with multiple wraparounds and mutual touching of the wraparounds of the thread plug, the thread is guided at a slant from the unraveling area of the thread plug such that a growing axial space appears between the thread and the thread plug, on the circumference of the processing drum, during increasing wraparounds of the thread on the circumference of the processing drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Mathias STUNDL
  • Patent number: 7594383
    Abstract: A balloon control ring for a textile machine for limiting a circulating yarn balloon, wherein the balloon control ring comprising a metallic hollow cylinder with a wear-resistant surface, is characterised in that the hollow cylinder (2, 23, 37) is formed from a sheet metal strip, the hollow cylinder (2, 23, 37) is held by the end portions (3, 4; 14, 15; 38, 39) of the sheet metal strip, and an edge strip (8, 9; 10, 11; 55, 56) is folded round at the two edges of the hollow cylinder (2, 23, 37), with the sheet metal thickness of the sheet metal strip being at most 0.6 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinz Fink, Ludwig Appelhans
  • Patent number: 7594382
    Abstract: A joining method wherein fibers of a fiber band are wound around an auxiliary thread threaded into a spinning device and drawn through a spinning cone. The newly spun thread is separated from the auxiliary thread and connected to the end of an upper thread. A spinning device is provided for a jet spinning machine for carrying out such method, comprising a first clamping device for temporary clamping of the upper thread and a second clamping device for temporary clamping of the auxiliary thread. A jet spinning machine for carrying out the method has a mechanism for storing the auxiliary thread and the newly spun thread, a mechanism for separating the auxiliary thread from the newly spun thread, and a splicing mechanism for connecting the newly spun thread to the upper thread, all arranged only on at least one operating carriage displaceable along multiple spinning stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Weide, Helmut Feuerlohn
  • Patent number: 7594384
    Abstract: Spinning rotor (1) for an open end rotor spinning machine comprising a rotor shaft (2), a rotor cup (3), which has an opening (4), an inner chamber (5), a rotor groove (6), a conically widening slide wall (7) extending from the opening (4) to the rotor groove (6) and a rotor base (9) arranged opposing the opening (4) and designed with a bore (8), through which the rotor shaft (2) extends at least partially. The rotor shaft (2) is connected by means of a connection element (10) to the rotor cup (3) and the rotor shaft (2) and rotor cup (3) comprise a common rotational axis (13). The rotor shaft (2) and the rotor cup (3) have connection means (11, 12), which are at least partially surrounded by the connection element (10) configured as a cast part, so a positive connection of the rotor shaft (2) to the rotor cup (3) can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz-Georg Wassenhoven
  • Publication number: 20090230897
    Abstract: An electric motor for a textile machine can be operated as a generator if the supply voltage fails. The electric motor comprises a rotor configured as the motor armature and a motor phase control circuit comprising a plurality of semiconductor components wherein the electric motor can be short-circuited if a predeterminable limit value is passed during generator operation. The motor circuit causes the short-circuiting on passing the limit value by activating one or more of the semiconductor components. The multi-phase electric motor is used as the single drive of a rotor of the textile machine. wherein the semiconductor components of the phase control bridge. on passing a predeterminable limit value, contactlessly short-circuit the electric motor to brake the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Norbert Coenen
  • Publication number: 20090230230
    Abstract: Wind-on device for workstations of two-for-one twisters and ply twisters with a take-up bobbin, a drive shaft extending in the longitudinal direction of the machine, a friction roller which is driven by the drive shaft and causes the take-up bobbin to make a rotational movement, and a driven advance roller positioned upstream of the friction roller in the yarn run. According to the invention, in addition to the friction roller (14, 15), the advance roller (8, 9) is also driven by the drive shaft (27, 28) and in that the advance roller (8, 9) is mounted on a support element (23, 24) and can be pivoted together with the support element (23, 24) about a pivot axle selectively into an operating position or into a higher situated service position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinz Fink, Georg Heinen, Wolfgang Leupers, Joachim Beckers
  • Publication number: 20090205925
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a clutch (20) for torque transmission between a shaft (2) and a roller (30) which is arranged coaxially around the shaft (2), comprising pneumatically actuable means for selectively interrupting and/or producing a force flow between the shaft (2) and roller (30), wherein the clutch (20) is arranged within the roller (30) coaxially between the shaft (2) and roller (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Kotte, Ralf Kotte
  • Publication number: 20090199631
    Abstract: This invention relates to a textile machine that produces cross-wound bobbins, comprising a device, which is arranged on an operating unit and which serves to test the quality of a yarn or yarn piecings produced at one of the spinning locations of the textile machine. The operating unit has a tensile testing device as well as a device for transferring a yarn to the tensile testing device. The invention provides that the tensile testing device (15) has a measuring section (19) of a predetermined length. Yarn clamps (20, 21) are placed at the end of the measuring section (19). The first yarn clamps (20) is displaceably mounted and can be acted upon in a defined manner by a drive (22). A sensor device (23) is placed in the area of the measuring section (19). Both the drive (22) as well as the sensor device (23) are connected to a control device (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Paul Straaten
  • Patent number: 7568262
    Abstract: A device and a method for serially depositing a filamentary strand into several cans of a can creel with a traversable depositing device. The depositing device comprises a conveyance means which is held in such a manner that it can be moved and which can be guided into several depositing positions. The strand is fed continuously to the conveyance means and from each depositing position at least one of the cans of the can creel can be filled by the conveyance means. In order to make the filling of a plurality of cans in the can creel as rapid and flexible as possible, the depositing device comprises a robot with a multi-axis robot arm, where the robot carries the conveyance means at the free end of its robot arm. Thus, the conveyance means can be guided, in its positioning as well as in its movements for filling the can, by the multi-axis robot arm of the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Olaf Schwarz, Bernhard Schoennagel, Matthias Strebe