Patents Represented by Attorney M. Howard Silberstein
  • Patent number: 4043004
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of processing textile stock to achieve cleaning and opening by use of a retracting tooth processing cylinder is disclosed. Self doffing is achieved by means of each tooth folding from a positive rake to a negative rake and eventually disappearing to the surface of a rotating cylinder during each cycle of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventor: Craig L. Folk