With Other Operations Patents (Class 57/6)
  • Patent number: 11970794
    Abstract: The invention relates to a yarn treatment device for intermingling multifilament yarns by means of a pulsating air stream that is generated by a rotating cup ring having openings, characterized in that the drive motor and the support of the cup ring are located in the interior of the housing with the air supply channels thereof, and to a yarn treatment device for intermingling multifilament yarns by means of a pulsating air stream that is generated by a rotating cup ring having openings, characterized in that one or more nozzle inserts, through which the pulsating blown air flows, per thread run are arranged on the housing cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Vandeweile nv
    Inventors: Andreas Mack, Ralf Ertl
  • Patent number: 11346022
    Abstract: A method for starting a spindle of a cabling or two-for-one twisting machine, wherein a yarn reserve is formed on a take-up package, the machine has a workstation having a spindle pot for holding a first feed package and having a spindle rotor with a lateral outlet below the spindle pot, an outer yarn from one feed package is wound around an inner yarn from another feed package and the outer yarn is guided through the spindle shaft and its lateral outlet in a balloon orbiting the spindle pot to a yarn-guiding device above the spindle which merges the two yarn supplies, and a winding device in which the produced twist is wound onto the take-up package. A ratio of the take-up speed of the twist to the rotation speed of the spindle rotor is increased in comparison with the production data is used during creation of the yarn reserve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Saurer Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Keil
  • Patent number: 10901163
    Abstract: A cable introduction assembly that can include: a spool assembly including a spool having a first axis, the spool configured to retain a cable wound around the first axis in an undeployed mode; and a spool mount assembly configured to retain the spool and introduce the cable in a deployed mode into a conduit configured for a downhole environment, the conduit having a proximal end and a distal end, the cable in the deployed mode extending from the proximal end towards the distal end, wherein the spool assembly is configured to provide a handedness to the cable in the deployed mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikko Jaaskelainen, Jason Edward Therrien, Seldon David Benjamin
  • Patent number: 10851493
    Abstract: A wire rope formed from a resin core and six strands, the resin core having an inner core with a circular cross section and an outer layer built up on the periphery thereof. The outer layer has a melting temperature lower than that of the inner core. The six strands are twisted together helically on the periphery of the resin core in an intertwining die in such a state that gaps are assured between the strands. The resulting wire rope is heated in a heating unit at a temperature higher than the melting temperature of the outer layer but lower than the melting temperature of the inner core. The wire rope is formed by subsequently compressing the six strands from the periphery thereof in a compressing die. The molten outer layer is hardened by natural cooling, after which the wire rope is taken up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOKYO ROPE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Watanabe, Kaori Kanamori, Jun Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10578820
    Abstract: An optical communication cable subassembly includes a cable core having optical fibers each comprising a core surrounded by a cladding, buffer tubes surrounding subsets of the optical fibers, and a binder film surrounding the buffer tubes. Armor surrounds the cable core, the binder film is bonded to an interior of the armor, and water-absorbing powder particles are provided on an interior surface of the binder film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Mario Sergio Sandate Aguilar, Michael John Gimblet, Julian Latelle Greenwood, III, Warren Welborn McAlpine
  • Patent number: 9303336
    Abstract: Methods are provided to make composite yarns having a filamentary core with at least one elastic performance filament and at least one inelastic control filament. A fibrous sheath, preferably formed from spun staple fibers, surrounds the filamentary core, preferably substantially along the entire length thereof. The at least one elastic performance filament most preferably includes a spandex and/or a lastol filament. The at least one inelastic control filament is most preferably formed of a textured polymer or copolymer of a polyamide, a polyester, a polyolefin and mixtures thereof. Preferably, the fibrous sheath is formed of synthetic and/or natural staple fibers, most preferably staple cotton fibers. The elastic composite fibers find particular utility as a component part of a woven textile fabric, especially as a stretch denim fabric, which exhibits advantageous elastic recovery of at least about 95.0% (ASTM D3107).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: CONE DENIM LLC
    Inventors: Ralph B. Tharpe, Jr., John L. Allen, Jr., Fulton A. Little, Reuben E. Hart
  • Publication number: 20150000242
    Abstract: With a wire rope comprising at least one plastic core (11) and a number of wire strands (15) twisted around the latter a helical groove (20) is respectively produced by machining around the periphery of the plastic core (11) for each wire strand (15). The cross section of these helical grooves (20) is respectively matched to the outside diameter of the wire strands (15). The plastic core (11) is provided with the helical grooves (20) for receiving the wire strands (15) by this machining directly before the wire strands (15) are wound onto said core. By thus forming the wire rope by means of this machining in order to produce helical grooves of the plastic core, optimal guiding of the wire strands in the twisted state is achieved, and so overall there are improvements to the properties of the wire rope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Christof Nater
  • Patent number: 8919092
    Abstract: An SZ laying machine for umbilical/power umbilical is described. Starting from an input end the machine includes: a first die receiving and collecting a first set of elongate elements substantially rectilinear from respective supplies of elongate elements, a second static die which receives and collects a second set of elongate elements substantially rectilinear from respective supplies of elongate elements and this second set is closed together with the first set into an assembled bundle, at least one supporting means which keeps the assembled bundle radially in place; a revolving device able to torsional rotate the bundle back and forth in an oscillating SZ manner, and a tape or band winding apparatus which in immediate proximity to the revolving device applies band or tape circumferentially onto the SZ laid bundle of elongate elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Aker Subsea AS
    Inventors: Arild Figenschou, Finn Peter Gjerull
  • Publication number: 20140373502
    Abstract: Hybrid elastic cable comprising at least one elastic filament yarn (1) and at least one resistant filament yarn (2), the elastic filament yarn (1), at a maximum rate of elongation of the cable, is found to be wound in a helix around the resistant filament yarn (2) with a specific number of turns per linear metre of the cable ranging between nsE?15% and nsE+15%, nsE being determined based on the following formula: n sE = 1000 ? ? ( ? e + ? K ) × K max × ( K max + 200 ) K max + 100 in which ?e is the diameter in mm of the elastic filament yarn (1) at rest, ?K is the diameter in mm of the resistant filament yarn (2), and Kmax is the predetermined maximum rate of elongation of the hybrid cable, the elastic filament yarn (1) moreover being also twisted about itself with a specific number of distinct turns about itself per linear metre of the cable ranging between nsE and 3×nsE, the distinct turns about itself of the elastic filament yarn (1) being wound in the opposite d
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: CALYF
    Inventor: Francis Cour
  • Publication number: 20140370772
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a composite yarn of paper, e.g., traditional Korean paper, and a composite yarn manufactured thereby, a method for manufacturing a fabric using the same and an automotive interior material manufactured thereby. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a composite yarn of traditional Korean paper by using a traditional Korean paper yarn and a synthetic yarn, in which the composite yarn can be used in weaving and knitting, and a method for manufacturing a fabric as an automotive interior material using the same. Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a composite yarn of paper, comprising twisting a tape-type paper yarn, and covering the twisted paper yarn as a ground yarn at least two strands of synthetic yarn as an effect yarn to manufacture a composite yarn of paper of 160˜700 denier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Si Young Ban
  • Publication number: 20140323999
    Abstract: A wound dressing for use in vacuum wound therapy comprising a wound contact layer which is an open structure comprising a yarn comprising gel-forming filaments or fibres, the structure having a porosity which allows exudate to flow through it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Wayne Bonnefin, Sarah Wroe, Amelia Prentice
  • Publication number: 20140248461
    Abstract: A process is described wherein pile yarn is woven with cotton weft and warp yarns to produce terry fabrics, such as towels. The fabric is then washed in warm water to dissolve the PVA fiber. The amount of fibers dissolved, depends upon the count of the yarn or yarns used. By dissolving the PVA fibers, a hollow air space is produced throughout the pile yarn, corresponding to an increase in the air space in the pile yarn. By increasing the in space in the pile yarn, the resulting towels are softer and bulkier than standard cotton towels. The present invention further relates to pile yarn in terry woven fabric (warp yarn), or weft yarn, in the case of flat fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: WELSPUN UK LTD.
    Inventor: Rajesh R. MANDAWEWALA
  • Patent number: 8695317
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming a high strength synthetic rope useful for towing warps, trawler warps, yachting ropes, mooring lines, anchor lines, oil derrick anchoring lines, seismic lines, seismic lines and any other uses for rope, cable or chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hampidjan hf
    Inventors: Hjortur Erlendsson, Sherif Adham Safwat
  • Publication number: 20140073468
    Abstract: The present application discloses a cord comprising a low modulus yarn core that is wrapped by a plurality of high modulus wrapping yarns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: CARLISLE TRANSPORTATION PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Steven Knutson, Curtis Scott Hatch, Michael Darin Crites
  • Publication number: 20130251974
    Abstract: An elastic thread yarn comprising linen and/or ramié and/or hemp and an elastic thread, with a thread made of an elastomeric material, and a substantially inextensible yarn made of linen and/or ramié and/or hemp helically wound about the elastomeric core at a predetermined number of windings per length unit of elasticized yarn, wherein, for each metric count Nm, the number of windings substantially inextensible yarn of the elasticized yarn, is set between two values indicated by two curves (12, 13) which can be expressed according to exponential laws, for example, with the same exponent, i.e. according to equations of the form T=KN0, 327 where K is 20 and 50, respectively. In particular, an intermediate curve 11 is such that, by choosing for a given metric count a number of windings proximate to curve 11, this best feature balance is obtained. In an exemplary embodiment, the core comprises a bare elastic thread, i.e. an elastic thread that is not coated by other fibres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventor: Paolo Benelli
  • Publication number: 20130247534
    Abstract: A rope having a cut-resistant jacket which includes a core comprised of a plurality of sub-ropes. The sub-ropes may be in a parallel strand configuration. The sub-ropes and the strands thereof may be made of fibers of a synthetic material, such as polyester, nylon, polypropylene, polyethylene, aramids, or acrylics. A cut-resistant jacket surrounds the core and is made from a material that has increased strength and/or abrasion resistance over the material of the core. The cut-resistant jacket may comprise steel wires and may further comprise braided steel wires or rope. The braided steel wires or rope may be covered with a plastic material for increased corrosion resistance. A filter layer may be disposed between the core and the cut-resistant jacket and may be wrapped around an outer surface of the core prior to the cut-resistant jacket being formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: WireCo WorldGroup Inc.
    Inventors: José António Canedo Duarte da Rocha, João Manuel Morais de Sousa
  • Patent number: 8484940
    Abstract: The present invention relates to composite elastomeric yarns and fabrics, to methods of making same, and to articles in which such yarns and fabrics are used. The composite yarns of the present invention comprise a elastomeric core, an elastomeric thermoplastic sheath disposed about the core and, preferably, fibers mechanically anchored in the sheath. The composite fabrics of the present invention comprise the composite yarns of the present invention and conventional fibers arranged to form a fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: The Quantum Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey W. Bruner
  • Patent number: 8323437
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the continuous production of a multiaxial laid scrim web (2) using at least one uniaxial laid scrim (4, 5), which is wound about a winding apparatus (3) for producing a substantially tubular multiaxial laid scrim (8). In order to provide a method that allows a multiaxial laid scrim web (2) to be produced in higher quality with higher speed, it is proposed according to the invention to apply the uniaxial laid scrim (4, 5) onto the winding apparatus (3) at least with portions of its surface and thereby transport it continuously through the winding apparatus into a feeding apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: MD Fibertech Corporation
    Inventors: Friedhelm Scholten, Klaus Szukat
  • Patent number: 8205425
    Abstract: A method for producing a multidirectional contexture made of fibers, in particular carbon fibers, in which a unidirectional contexture web is wound at an angle about a plate to form a coil, wherein the plate is provided with a device for compensating friction, and the coil is pulled off from the plate. In order to provide improved pulling of the fibers off a plate a cascade guide is being used, which is disposed at the end of the plate and which comprises a laterally extended wedge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: MD Fibertech Corporation
    Inventors: Friedhelm Scholten, Klaus Szukat
  • Publication number: 20120152219
    Abstract: A bowstring for use with a crossbow, the bowstring including a plurality of strands and a first serving material wrapped around the entire length of the plurality of strands between opposite looped ends, such that the first serving material is self-secured to the bowstring and a method of making the same. A second serving material is wrapped around selected portions of the first serving material to provide a composite crossbow bowstring of surprisingly improved durability and performance. The second serving material having a first end, a second end and middle portion extending therebetween. The middle portion of the second serving material being wrapped over at least a portion of the first end and the second end such that the second serving material is self-secured to the first serving material and the stands of the bowstring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventor: Mathew A. McPherson
  • Patent number: 8171710
    Abstract: An automatic lacer wraps bundles of polymeric fibers with thread, before the bundles are woven into a fabric mat and placed in a housing to form a gas-separation membrane module. A fiber bundle passes through a spool which is previously wound with thread on its outer surface. The thread is attached to the fiber bundle, so that when the bundle is moved through the spool, the thread is pulled from the spool, and automatically becomes wound around the bundle. Threads from two or more spools may be wrapped around the fiber bundle simultaneously. Lacing of the fiber bundles reduces the amount of tangling in the loom feeder, and improves the quality of modules made from the fiber bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Generon IGS, Inc.
    Inventor: Frederick L. Coan
  • Patent number: 7934366
    Abstract: A wire wrapping device that includes a turntable assembly that is made up of a turntable and a driver adapted to rotate the turntable. Also, a set of payout carriers are mounted on the turntable, each payout carrier adapted to let out wire to be wrapped. A driver is adapted to turn each payout carrier relative to the turn table, the driver being user adjustable to turn each payout carrier by a selectable amount, per each complete rotation of the turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Don Dye, John W Swanson, Jerome J Boogaard, Dave Locke
  • Patent number: 7921630
    Abstract: A method for producing a multiaxial contexture, preferably from carbon fibers, in which a mono-axial contexture is wound from at least one storage device about a winding plane, wherein the winding plane and the at least one storage device rotate about one another, in order to wind the mono-axial contexture about the winding plane, wherein the winding plane. In order to avoid distortions or twisting of the particular fibers of a mono-axial contexture, a slanted orientation of the longitudinal axis of the winding plane with reference to the direction of gravity is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: MD Fibertech Corporation
    Inventors: Friedhelm Scholten, Klaus Szukat
  • Patent number: 7921629
    Abstract: A method for producing a multiaxial contexture, from fiber materials, winds mono-axial contexture from at least one storage device about a winding plane, wherein the winding plane and the at least one storage device rotate about one another, in order to wind the mono-axial contexture about the winding plane. In order to prevent twisting the mono-axial contextures and to facilitate pulling it off from the winding plane, a vibration drive is proposed, which imparts mechanical vibrations onto the winding plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: MD Fibertech Corporation
    Inventors: Friedhelm Scholten, Klaus Szukat
  • Publication number: 20110020645
    Abstract: The present invention provides a yarn comprising a composite yarn composed of a core part comprising a short fiber and a sheath part comprising a synthetic fiber filament yarn, the core part and the sheath part being integrated via fluff of the short fiber getting between or entangled with the long fibers, the specific gravity of the yarn being adjustable in the range of 1.0 or more, a fishing line comprising the yarn, and a method for producing the fishing line. The present invention provides an ideal fishing line which has a strong core-sheath structure, does not allow separation or detachment of the core part and the sheath part, is easy to handle, and also is excellent in strength, weatherability, and water resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Y.G.K CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20100281842
    Abstract: Composite yarns have a filamentary core provided with at least one elastic performance filament and at least one inelastic control filament. A fibrous sheath, preferably formed from spun staple fibers, surrounds the filamentary core, preferably substantially along the entire length thereof. The at least one elastic performance filament most preferably includes a spandex and/or a lastol filament. The at least one inelastic control filament is most preferably formed of a textured polymer or copolymer of a polyamide, a polyester, a polyolefin and mixtures thereof. Preferably, the fibrous sheath is formed of synthetic and/or natural staple fibers, most preferably staple cotton fibers. The elastic composite fibers find particular utility as a component part of a woven textile fabric, especially as a stretch denim fabric, which exhibits advantageous elastic recovery of at least about 95.0% (ASTM D3107).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: CONE DENIM LLC
    Inventors: Ralph B. THARPE, JR., John L. Allen, JR., Fulton A. Little, Reuben E. Hart
  • Patent number: 7698883
    Abstract: A wire wrapping device that includes a turntable assembly that is made up of a turntable and a driver adapted to rotate the turntable. Also, a set of payout carriers are mounted on the turntable, each payout carrier adapted to let out wire to be wrapped. A driver is adapted to turn each payout carrier relative to the turn table, the driver being user adjustable to turn each payout carrier by a selectable amount, per each complete rotation of the turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Don Dye, John W Swanson, Jerome J Boogaard, Dave Locke
  • Publication number: 20100089017
    Abstract: A composite yarn for technical or industrial use, particularly suitable for textile webs, is uniformly coated with a polymer and exhibits improved fir behaviour and improved resistance to sheath stripping. The yarn may be obtained by a process where a continuous yarn, obtained by spinning a large number of fibers, such as about 100 to 600 fibers made of an organic or inorganic material, of a suitable yarn diameter, such as between about 1 to 10 micrometers, is subjected to a process for mechanically opening the yarn by splaying, to uniformly spread out and separate the fibers, including inner layers of the fibers, without impairing functional properties of the yarn, simultaneously with or prior to coating of the fibers by a polymer material having a viscosity between 1000 and 10,000 mPa·s, and formed to have a circular cross-section and uniformly distributed fibers throughout the cross-section of the polymer material to limit desheathing of the yarn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: CHAVANOZ INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Isabelle Conesa, Laurence Pollet, Philippe Berge
  • Patent number: 7571594
    Abstract: A process for producing composite yarns comprises the steps of first wrapping a second yarn around the perimeter of and along the length of a first yarn and then heating the yarn intermediate produced by such wrapping to produce a composite yarn. When a heat-shrinkable yarn is used in producing such a composite yarn, the shrinkage of the heat-shrinkable yarn enables the production of composite yarns possessing aesthetic qualities similar to those exhibited by yarns produced by much more complicated processes, such as bouclé and chenille yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: William M. Pascoe, André M. Goineau, Brenda W. Marcus
  • Publication number: 20090044510
    Abstract: The presence/absence of a core fiber in a core yarn is reliably detected to prevent production of a core fiber-free core yarn. In a method for producing a core yarn C by wrapping a fiber bundle S around a core fiber F, the core yarn C is spun with a core fiber F content being changed from that of normal spinning for a predetermined time period after the start of spinning, in order to detect whether the core fiber F is present. The core yarn C may be spun with a core fiber made of a drawn elastic yarn to detect whether the core fiber is present based on a thickness fluctuation of the core yarn that is caused by slackening the core yarn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventor: Harutoshi Sawada
  • Publication number: 20080268734
    Abstract: Composite yarns have a filamentary core provided with at least one elastic performance filament and at least one inelastic control filament. A fibrous sheath, preferably formed from spun staple fibers, surrounds the filamentary core, preferably substantially along the entire length thereof. The at least one elastic performance filament most preferably includes a spandex and/or a lastol filament. The at least one inelastic control filament is most preferably formed of a textured polymer or copolymer of a polyamide, a polyester, a polyolefin and mixtures thereof. Preferably, the fibrous sheath is formed of synthetic and/or natural staple fibers, most preferably staple cotton fibers. The elastic composite fibers find particular utility as a component part of a woven textile fabric, especially as a stretch denim fabric, which exhibits advantageous elastic recovery of at least about 95.0% (ASTM D3107).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: CONE MILLS LLC
    Inventors: Ralph B. Tharpe, John L. Allen, Fulton A. Little, Reuben E. Hart
  • Patent number: 7437868
    Abstract: A core yarn manufacturing apparatus includes a draft device that drafts sheath fibers of a core yarn and a core fiber supply device that supplies core fibers of the core yarn, wherein a feed-out path of the core fibers in the core fiber supply device is inclined above the draft device in such a manner that a front of the feed-out path is lower than a rear of the feed-out path with respect to a front surface of a machine frame, and wherein a CSY wind-out device and a CFY yarn guide are provided in a rear upper part of a base frame of the core fiber supply device, the wind-out device supporting a CSY package and winding out an elastic yarn, the yarn guide guiding a filament yarn drawn out from a CFY package located behind the core fiber supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Baba, Hisakatsu Imamura, Katsuya Tanaka, Satoshi Enami
  • Patent number: 7426820
    Abstract: The device has: a first interlacing jet (19); a feed path of the covering yarn (FT) and a feed path of the elastic yarn (F1; F2) towards the first interlacing jet; supporting elements (37A, 37B) for spools of elastic yarn (R1, R2); winding members (54) to wind the composite yarn (FC) on the cop being formed (BC); an interruption device to interrupt feed of composite yarn to the cop being formed and start winding the composite yarn on a new winding tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Giudici S.p.A.
    Inventors: Nerino Grassi, Samuele Gorgaini
  • Patent number: 7360354
    Abstract: The device comprises in combination: an interlacing jet for reciprocally joining the covering yarn and the elastic yarn; supporting elements for spools of elastic yarn; winding members for winding the composite yarn on a developing cop; a device for interrupting the feeding of composite yarn to the developing cop and starting the winding of the composite yarn on a new winding tube. The supporting elements for the spools of elastic yarn are suitable for arranging at least one first spool of elastic yarn in a working position and at least a second spool of elastic yarn in a standby position and for transferring the second spool from the standby position to the working position. Furthermore, a retaining member is arranged near the interlacing jet to withhold an initial free end of the elastic yarn of the second spool in standby position. Elements are also provided for introducing the elastic yarn of the second spool in the interlacing jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Giudici S.p.A.
    Inventor: Nerino Grassi
  • Publication number: 20080022650
    Abstract: A process for producing composite yarns comprises the steps of first wrapping a second yarn around the perimeter of and along the length of a first yarn and then heating the yarn intermediate produced by such wrapping to produce a composite yarn. When a heat-shrinkable yarn is used in producing such a composite yarn, the shrinkage of the heat-shrinkable yarn enables the production of composite yarns possessing aesthetic qualities similar to those exhibited by yarns produced by much more complicated processes, such as boucle and chenille yarns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: William M. Pascoe, Andre M. Goineau, Brenda W. Marcus
  • Patent number: 7287366
    Abstract: A wire wrapping device that includes a turntable assembly that is made up of a turntable and a driver adapted to rotate the turntable. Also, a set of payout carriers are mounted on the turntable, each payout carrier adapted to let out wire to be wrapped. A driver is adapted to turn each payout carrier relative to the turn table, the driver being user adjustable to turn each payout carrier by a selectable amount, per each complete rotation of the turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Don L. Dye, John W. Swanson, Jerome J. Boogaard, Dave Locke
  • Patent number: 7249451
    Abstract: The machine comprises a texturing zone (12) trough which a covering yarn (22) advances; a feed unit (C) for an elastomer yarn (20); combining means to combine the textured covering yarn (22) with the elastomer yarn (20), said means comprising a first roller (B) to which said textured covering yarn (22) and said elastomer yarn (20) are fed; downstream of said first roller (B) an interlacing device (23) to interlace said textured covering yarn (22) and said elastomer yarn (20). Moreover, a drawing roller (A) for the textured covering yarn (22) is also provided between the texturing zone (12) and said first roller (B) of the combining means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Giudici S.p.A.
    Inventor: Domenico Giudici
  • Patent number: 7152390
    Abstract: A process is provided for making a yarn with improved properties, such as lowered susceptibility to picks and snags. The yarn consists of a spandex core that is tightly covered with a nylon fiber, which tight covering is achieved by heat treatment. A knitted fabric is further provided, that is made of yarn consisting of a spandex core and a nylon fiber, which has low susceptibility to picks, as well as to tears during its production and its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Nilit Ltd.
    Inventors: Alon Weiser, Abed Zuabe, Uri Afek, Martin Blutstein, Stephen D. Lipshitz
  • Patent number: 7000295
    Abstract: A method for forming a metallic fabric includes forming a composite yarn having a metallic wire core, and a cover yarn including a fluid-soluble strand such as co-nylon or polylactic acid. The composite yarn can be knitted into an intermediate fabric product. The soluble element is dissolved to leave a use fabric suitable for other processing, such as coating with materials such as latex. The non-fluid-soluble strand may be either a single strand or multi-filaments of steel wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: World Fibers, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory V. Andrews
  • Patent number: 6945026
    Abstract: An unspun yarn including a longitudinal main rope body formed from a least one fibre assembly of substantially untwisted and parallel fibres, and a least one reinforcing thread helically wound around the rope body and extending therealong in a single longitudinal direction. The direction in which the reinforcing thread is wound around the rope is reversed at predetermined intervals. A method of forming an unspun yarn, including providing a fibre assembly of substantially untwisted and parallel fibres and reinforcing thread, forming a longitudinal main rope body; intermittently imparting opposing twists to alternate sections of the rope body while drawing the reinforcing thread longitudinally into surface contact with a twisted section of the rope body, allowing the twisted section to engage the adjacent section of the reinforcing thread, releasing the opposing twists of the rope body causing the engaged reinforcing thread to wrap the rope body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Dyers Road Re-Manufacturing and Imports Limited
    Inventor: Ashley Robert Hanna
  • Patent number: 6855423
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapped cord, to a method of making said wrapped cord, to a method of treating said wrapped cord with an adhesive treatment composition, to the treated wrapped cord obtainable by said method as well as to a reinforced rubber article comprising said treated cord, such as automotive tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignees: Continental AG, Arteva Technologies, S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Mehmet Sadettin Fidan, Charles Edward Forbes, Chad D. Fisher, Stephan Fredrick Sherriff, Andreas Topp
  • Patent number: 6840031
    Abstract: In an apparatus for cable manufacture, a cage strander rotates about a line axis at a chosen rotational speed. Bobbins supported by the strander dispense round conductors downstream of the cage strander. A forming apparatus downstream of the strander receives the conductors and forms them into many complementary segmented preshaped wires each having the desired cross-sectional profile in a final compact conductor. The conductors are positioned in a way that substantially corresponds to the orientations among wires in the final conductor. A first drive rotates the forming apparatus about the line axis substantially at the rotational speed of the strander. A second drive drives the forming apparatus. The drives are synchronized so that the conductors close about the core and cause the sides of adjacent wires to abut against each other to produce both the desired lay and a cable substantially without interstices between the wires forming the twisted conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Roteq Machinery, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Blackmore, Paul White
  • Patent number: 6804942
    Abstract: A composite tubular assembly formed by a core or tube which is reinforced by a multitape product which is wrapped in alternate non-bonded helical wraps on the core or tube. Each tape is first formed by impregnating a fibrous strip with a resin and then such tapes are fed from spools to the core of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Inventor: Michael J. Bryant
  • Patent number: 6789380
    Abstract: A bundle of conduit ducts is supplied by reels to a tandem arrangement of a pattern unit, a supply roller unit, an applicator unit and a delivery roller unit all supported by a wheeled base. The pattern unit has rows of discrete apertures for delivering conduit ducts at spatial positions. The supply roller unit and delivery roller unit each have spaced apart rollers supported by carriers in a frame to define a predetermined geometric passageway. The supply roller unit organizes the conduit ducts and the delivery roller unit supports a wrapped conduit ducts passed from the applicator unit. The applicator unit has a frame to support a rotator driven by a motor for rotation about a central axis extending perpendicular to the plane of rotation by the rotator. The rotator supports two reels one containing adhesive tape and the other metal wire on arbors at diametrically opposed locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Inventors: Gene Mellott, Michael Lee
  • Patent number: 6684617
    Abstract: In order to increase the cracking corrosion resistance of a wire under stress compressive stresses are introduced through surface treatment by brushing, on the apparent surface of the wire. A system and method are notably applied for the manufacture of wire-reinforced flexible pipes. The reinforcing wires are subjected to a surface treatment by brushing after setting the wires on the flexible pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Xavier Longaygue, Christian Boudou
  • Publication number: 20040000132
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for elastic fiber having fur-like touch, elastic fiber having fur-like touch made from the same, and fabrics woven by said fiber is provided to improve the defects caused by the conventional wool fiber or lack in the elasticity, wearing comfortability and maintenance of fabric having fur-like touch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventor: Zo-Chun Jen
  • Patent number: 6615571
    Abstract: An apparatus for assembling an optical cable comprises a spacer paying-out portion 7, a stationary ribbon supply unit 9, a gathering portion 14 and a taking-up portion 21. The spacer paying-out portion 7 supplies a spacer 2 having a spiral groove in the surface of a long spacer body from a supply reel 1 while revolving around a line axis X-X. The stationary ribbon supply unit 9 supplies a plurality of optical fiber ribbons 11. The gathering portion 14 forms the optical fiber ribbons 11 sent out of the stationary ribbon supply unit 9 into a cable core 15 by holding the optical fiber ribbons 11 within the spiral groove of the spacer 2 sent out of the spacer paying-out portion 7 and running forward while rotating on its center axis. The taking-up portion 21 winds the cable core 15 on a taking-up reel 20 while revolving around the line axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okada, Shigeru Suemori, Masakazu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6543213
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for manufacturing ropes, cables or the like, whereby an envelope of a flexible, web-shaped material, for example paper, is produced around at least one central core, for example a conductor, moved in the direction of its longitudinal axis, and the structure that has arisen in this way is stranded in a traditional way while being moved, for example with a SZ stranding, whereby at least one further layer of plastic material can also be applied onto the moving, stranded structure in any case, preferably by extrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Peter Khu Sondermaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Khu
  • Patent number: 6539698
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapped cord comprising a bundle of inorganic filaments, to a method of making said wrapped cord, to a method of treating said wrapped cord with an adhesive treatment composition, to the treated wrapped cord obtainable by said method as well as to a reinforced rubber article comprising said treated cord, such as automotive tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Continental AG
    Inventors: Mehmet Sadettin Fidan, Gerhard Scharr, Hanno Schombacher, Jens Kleffman
  • Patent number: 6536200
    Abstract: A composite textured helically wrapped multi-filament yarn, made up of two or more continuous filament textured yarns, each of which is of different color or dyeability from the other, each yarn being pigmented in a melt-spinning process, pre-dyed, or undyed with different dye affinities which are subsequently dyed, by wrapping the colored textured yarns into a composite yarn having repeated color change alternating cycles along its length, and the alternating cycles having between them a lengthwise color difference of about 15-97% or more on the circumferential surface of the yarn in either the red, green or blue primary colors, as measured by spectral analysis, between immediately adjacent lengths thereof, and each adjacent color length being between about 4 inches to 144 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Textured Yarn Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan G. Schwartz