Patents by Inventor Theo Kenk

Theo Kenk 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).

  • Device for monitoring the yarn travel in the shuttle of a shuttle loom
    Patent number: 3970115
    Abstract: A device for monitoring the travel of a yarn, particularly weft yarn in the shuttle of a loom, which device is designed as an assembly or unit comprising a piezoelectric transducer element, a yarn feeler member fixedly bonded with the transducer elements and arranged as a unilaterally clamped flexural vibratory member, and an induction coil operatively connected with the piezoelectric transducer element, and wherein a yarn guide means is provided at or near the free end of the vibratory yarn feeler member such that the yarn when traveling acts upon said feeler member in a restricted area thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1976
    Assignee: Aktiengesellschaft Gebruder Loepfe
    Inventors: Erhard Kenk, Theo Kenk