Patents Assigned to Graf + Cie AG Kratzen- und Maschinenfabrik
  • Patent number: 5701637
    Abstract: A sawtooth wire for an all-steel fiber-working clothing is formed unitarily with a longitudinally extending foot having a longitudinally extending base surface and a blade extending from the foot and formed with teeth having tips. The blade tapers uniformly outward from the foot toward the tips. The teeth are symmetrical to a plane extending longitudinally and perpendicular to the base surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Graf+Cie AG Kratzen- und Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Ralph Armin Graf
  • Patent number: 5467505
    Abstract: A card clothing has an array of parallel elongated strips each having an inwardly directed and longitudinally extending foot part, a multiplicity of hooks extending outward from the foot part, and a pair of ends. A pair of longitudinally spaced support elements wholly out of direct contact with each other is provided, one end of each of the strips being seated in one of the support elements and the other end of each of the strips being seated in the other support element. The support elements are formed to fit with support structure of the carding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Graf + Cie AG Kratzen- Und Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Ralph Graf
  • Patent number: 5452627
    Abstract: A profiled wire such as a toothed card roll wire, is made by first fitting together at least two longitudinally extending starting wires each of a predetermined cross-sectional size and each having a longitudinally extending surface region by engaging the regions together transversely and thereby forming a longitudinally extending interface. The fitted-together wires are then bonded together at the interface and the joined wires are subsequently profile pressed, that is deformed by rolling or drawing, while maintaining constant the relationship between the cross-sectional sizes perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the starting wires. A toothed wire for a card roll can be made by further forming one of the profiled sections as a root section to be seated into a groove of the card roll and the other section as a blade with card teeth therein and hardening the formed blade section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Graf + Cie AG Kratzen- und Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Ralph Graf, Hank O. Heuvel