Patents by Inventor Eike HOLLE

Eike HOLLE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240133083
    Abstract: Techniques produce a crimped composite thread, in which multiple individual threads are extruded in each case in the form of a plurality of strand-shaped filaments, cooled, drawn by means of a drawing device and together crimped by means of a crimping device to form the composite thread. Before the multifilament individual threads are crimped, they are entangled separately in each case by means of an entangling unit of an entangling device. A position and/or orientation of at least one of the entangling units relative to the drawing device, the crimping device and/or a further one of the entangling units is changed during the production of the crimped composite thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Mathias Stündl, Eike Holle
  • Patent number: 11591719
    Abstract: A plurality of colored filament bundles are initially extruded separately, cooled and each combined into a partial thread. The partial threads are then separately pre-swirled and stretched individually or as a partial composite thread formed from a plurality of partial threads. Crimping then occurs. After the crimping, the partial threads and the partial composite thread are combined into a composite thread and wound into a coil. In accordance with certain techniques, a melt spinning apparatus has a pre-swirling apparatus having a plurality of swirling nozzles, a post-swirling device having a plurality of post-swirling nozzles and a crimping device having a plurality of texturing nozzles, wherein the nozzles are designed such that an individual partial thread or a partial composite thread formed from a plurality of partial threads can optionally be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Mathias Stündl, Eike Holle
  • Patent number: 10988864
    Abstract: Various techniques involve a device for entangling a plurality of individual threads of a composite thread in a melt-spinning process for the production of crimped yarns. The device to this end has a plurality of entanglement nozzles which are collectively held on a support. In order to enable a flexible utilization of the entanglement nozzles and of thread guiding, the entanglement nozzles on the support are assigned at least one thread guide in such a manner that the threads are guidable optionally in the entanglement nozzles and/or in the thread guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Hubert, Ludger Legge, Jan Westphal, Eike Holle, Mathias Stündl
  • Publication number: 20200340141
    Abstract: A melt spinning device for producing synthetic threads includes at least a spinneret apparatus, a cooling apparatus, a processing apparatus and a winding apparatus. An automatic operating device is provided for carrying out at least one operator action. The automatic operating device has at least one movable robotic arm, which can be coupled selectively to one of a plurality of exchangeable tools in order to selectively carry out a plurality of operator actions during a start-up and/or during a maintenance interval and/or during thread production. Thus, a high level of flexibility in the automated operation of the melt spinning device is ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Mathias Stündl, Stefan Kalies, Christian Hubert, Jan Westphal, Eike Holle
  • Publication number: 20200115824
    Abstract: A plurality of colored filament bundles are initially extruded separately, cooled and each combined into a partial thread. The partial threads are then separately pre-swirled and stretched individually or as a partial composite thread formed from a plurality of partial threads. Crimping then occurs. After the crimping, the partial threads and the partial composite thread are combined into a composite thread and wound into a coil. In accordance with certain techniques, a melt spinning apparatus has a pre-swirling apparatus having a plurality of swirling nozzles, a post-swirling device having a plurality of post-swirling nozzles and a crimping device having a plurality of texturing nozzles, wherein the nozzles are designed such that an individual partial thread or a partial composite thread formed from a plurality of partial threads can optionally be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Mathias Stündl, Eike Holle
  • Publication number: 20180216259
    Abstract: Various techniques involve a device for entangling a plurality of individual threads of a composite thread in a melt-spinning process for the production of crimped yarns. The device to this end has a plurality of entanglement nozzles which are collectively held on a support. In order to enable a flexible utilization of the entanglement nozzles and of thread guiding, the entanglement nozzles on the support are assigned at least one thread guide in such a manner that the threads are guidable optionally in the entanglement nozzles and/or in the thread guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Christian HUBERT, Ludger LEGGE, Jan WESTPHAL, Eike HOLLE, Mathias STÜNDL