Patents Assigned to Greenbat, Limited
  • Traveling yarn dispensers
    Patent number: 4232714
    Abstract: A travelling yarn dispenser for use in a textile machine, particularly a circular loom shuttle has an electric generator the rotor of which is adapted to be driven by yarn leaving the dispenser. In the preferred construction the driving member of the generator frictionally engages with the yarn carrier, which is mounted for rotation in the dispenser.Several arrangements for using the current generated by the generator to give weft failure signals and pick-up means adapted to co-operate with these arrangements are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1980
    Assignee: Greenbat, Limited
    Inventor: Andrew K. Clokie