Patents by Inventor Michael Sopalae

Michael Sopalae 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).

  • Centrifugal spinning machine and method for centrifugal spinning
    Patent number: 6240715
    Abstract: A centrifugal spinning machine having at least one spinning station (10), each of which has one rotatable spinning centrifuge (14), one yarn guide (18) that can be supplied with a fibrous spinning strand (26′), and one drive device (38) for generating an axial motion between the yarn guide (18) and the spinning centrifuge (14). The yarn (26) is guided in the yarn guide (18) to travel through the rotational axis of a rotor 46 of the drive device (38).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Bruss, Karl Koltze, Michael Sopalae