Patents Assigned to Adria Limited
  • Yarn covering apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6718748
    Abstract: A method of covering a core yam with a cover yarn characterised in that it includes supplying a package of core yam on a member which is fixed against rotation, supplying a package of cover yam, guiding the cover yarn to form a loop which on rotation about an axis defines an envelope which surrounds the core yarn package, drawing off core yarn along the axis of rotation of the envelope in the direction away from the cover package so that when the core yarn intercepts the envelope it is covered by cover yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Adria Limited
    Inventor: Thomas Leslie Patterson
  • Hosiery finishing apparatus
    Patent number: 5005381
    Abstract: Apparatus for finishing hosiery, coupled to an individual knitting machine (2) includes a tube and valve (4, 6) for conveying completed articles to a chamber (10) formed by a sleeve heated by a resistance element (12) contained in the chamber (10). A pair of parallel control rods (18) move a slide (16), and articles are heated simultaneously with the knitting cycle of the next article to effect partial relaxation and shrinkage in step with the knitting machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Adria Limited
    Inventor: Stanley H. Moss