Patents Assigned to Courtaulds Textiles (Holdings) Limited
  • Feeding of flexible sheets
    Patent number: 5263700
    Abstract: Apparatus for feeding flexible sheets singly from the top of a stack of sheets comprises a pick-up device which includes a gas deflector and gas supplying holes for directing a stream of gas at the topmost sheet on the stack to cause the sheet to separate from the stack. One of the gas supplying holes also directs a further gas stream at the gas deflector, with this further gas stream attaching itself to the gas deflector by the Coanda effect and entraining the topmost sheet into contact with the gas deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Courtaulds Textiles (Holdings) Limited
    Inventors: Anthony B. Tubb, Michael A. Nash
  • Robot end effector
    Patent number: 5240299
    Abstract: A robot end effector (10) for holding a fabric workpiece (64) against a working surface (74) has a rigid backing member (11), a facing strip material (13) arranged to contact the workpiece (64) around its periphery and a resilient intermediate layer (12) between the backing member (11) and the facing strip material (13), the width (w) of the facing strip material (13) being no greater than the thickness (t) of the intermediate layer (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Courtaulds Textiles (Holdings) Limited
    Inventors: John Flavell, Keith Jeffcoat
  • Brassiere
    Patent number: D373236
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Courtaulds Textiles (Holdings) Limited
    Inventor: Rachael Vass-Betts
  • Brassiere
    Patent number: D373237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Courtaulds Textiles (Holdings) Limited
    Inventor: Rachael Vass-Betts
  • Ladies sports garment
    Patent number: D403486
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Courtaulds Textiles (Holdings) Limited
    Inventor: Julia Chetwynd