Patents Assigned to Zinser Textilmaschinen
  • Patent number: 6865780
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling the suction, by speed alteration of a blower motor, in a unit for suctioning away thread breakage in a textile machine. A standard speed of the blower motor without speed control is established to achieve the suction, after which the speed of the blower motor is so controlled that a set suction is reached and maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Heinz, Reinhard Grauli, Günter Neuburger, Martin Mense
  • Patent number: 6604261
    Abstract: Downstream of the last roller pair of a drafting frame for a spinning machine, the roving is condensed in a fiber-bundling zone having a belt with perforations to which suction is applied. Another belt converges toward the belt with the perforations and engages the roving at a nip spaced from the nip formed by the last roller pair of the drafting frame so that the wedge-shaped converging of the two belts promotes the compacting or condensing action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Angelika Stoll, Daniel Friedrich
  • Publication number: 20030037532
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling the suction, by speed alteration of a blower motor, in a unit for suctioning away thread breakage in a textile machine. A standard speed of the blower motor without speed control is established to achieve the suction, after which the speed of the blower motor is so controlled that a set suction is reached and maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: ZINSER TEXTILMASCHINEN GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Heinz, Reinhard Grauli, Gunter Neuburger, Martin Mense
  • Publication number: 20020184737
    Abstract: Downstream of the last roller pair of a drafting frame for a spinning machine, the roving is condensed in a fiber-bundling zone having a belt with perforations to which suction is applied. Another belt converges toward the belt with the perforations and engages the roving at a nip spaced from the nip formed by the last roller pair of the drafting frame so that the wedge-shaped converging of the two belts promotes the compacting or condensing action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: ZINSER TEXTILMASCHINEN GmbH
    Inventors: Angelika Stoll, Daniel Friedrich
  • Patent number: 6418705
    Abstract: To improve the breaking of a roving between a pressing finger bed and a fully wound bobbin preliminary to a bobbin change, the roving is initially wound around the tube above the upper cone and an unwound roving reserve is formed from at least a half turn on the upper winding cone and the body. A false twist is generated to provide a weakened region so that the roving has a first segment extending from the upper edge of the upper winding cone to the lower edge thereof, a second segment extending to the weakened zone and a third segment extending from the weakened zone to the pressing finger bed. The false twist increases the number of twists per unit length in the first segment and decreases the number of twists per unit length in the second and third segments. The pressing finger is moved along the bobbin periphery and the roving is broken at the weak spot by further movement of the pressing finger relative to the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Machnik
  • Patent number: 6341484
    Abstract: A sliver compactor is provided between a drafting roller of a drafting frame and the delivery unit which supplies the sliver to the spinning stations of the spinning machine. The sliver compactor has a shielding element juxtaposed with the perforated moving surface to which suction is applied and which reduces the suction force required to draw the fibers of the sliver into a compact form. The shielding element extends over a plurality of slivers and the respective spinning stations and a number of such shielding elements may be aligned over the length of the machine below the stretching field plane and secured on the machine frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Dinkelmann, Andreas Olbrich, Peter Artzt, Günter Steinbach
  • Patent number: 6332312
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for spinning with a suppressed yarn balloon (75), whereby the rotation of the yarn is predominately produced between a top spindle (2) and the clamping gap (523) of delivery rolls (521, 522) at the exit of the drafting system (5). The top spindle (2) is provided with one or a plurality of projecting parts in the head area thereof and extends with said projecting parts on the elongated axis of the spindle (1) from underneath up to a vertically displaceable yarn guide (3). The vertically adjustable yarn guide is displaced upwards and away from the top spindle in order to prepare an automated feed package changing. Afterwards, the ring tail (4) is lowered into the underwinding position. The aim of the invention is to provide a method which can also be used for flat and very fine yarns, especially combed yarns. To this end, the extended slubbing (71) which exits the drafting system is compacted while the yarns are maintained in a parallel position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Löscher
  • Patent number: 6324825
    Abstract: A drafting frame for a spinning machine, especially a ring-spinning machine can be readily retrofitted with a compaction device adjacent the last pair of drafting rollers if the condensing zone is defined between a clamping location formed by the nip of the last roller pair and a clamping location formed by a number of elements of the compacting device against the upper roller of the last roller pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Dinkelmann, Andreas Olbrich, Detlef Buschlüter, Angelika Stoll, Rainer Löscher
  • Patent number: 6318060
    Abstract: A method and device for the production of core yarn (63), whereby a core yarn (12) is brought to a fiber slubbing (8) which has been refined in a drafting system before said slubbing is reinforced by twisting. The core yarn (12) is embedded in covering fibers. The fiber slubbing is compressed in a compacting device (22) after the core yarn (12) has been brought to the slubbing and before twisting occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Dinkelmann, Andreas Olbrich
  • Patent number: 6308507
    Abstract: Singled fibers from a fiber strand, separated by a rotor, are collected by suction on a continuously moving surface of a perforated belt or rotary drum. The fiber packet is not formed with a twist in this region and, only upon transfer to a downstream region is the twist applied, e.g. by a ring spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Friedrich Dinkelmann
  • Patent number: 6289662
    Abstract: Below a ring-spinning spindle, a clamping ring and a clamping sleeve have frustoconical surfaces, at least of one first textured to increase the grip on an underwinding thread. The clamping sleeve, for example, may be spring-biased to axially engage the clamp and force may be required to open the clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Dinkelmann, Gerhard Darcis, Peter Mann
  • Publication number: 20010020357
    Abstract: A drafting frame for a spinning machine, especially a ring-spinning machine can be readily retrofitted with a compaction device adjacent the last pair of drafting rollers if the condensing zone is defined between a clamping location formed by the nip of the last roller pair and a clamping location formed by a number of elements of the compacting device against the upper roller of the last roller pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Applicant: ZINSER TEXTILMASCHINEN GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Dinkelmann, Andreas Olbrich, Detlef Buschluter, Angelika Stoll, Rainer Loscher
  • Publication number: 20010018823
    Abstract: A sliver compactor is provided between a drafting roller of a drafting frame and the delivery unit which supplies the sliver to the spinning stations of the spinning machine. The sliver compactor has a shielding element juxtaposed with the perforated moving surface to which suction is applied and which reduces the suction force required to draw the fibers of the sliver into a compact form. The shielding element extends over a plurality of slivers and the respective spinning stations and a number of such shielding elements may be aligned over the length of the machine below the stretching field plane and secured on the machine frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 6, 2001
    Applicant: ZINSER TEXTILMASCHINEN GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Dinkelmann, Andreas Olbrich, Peter Artzt, Gunter Steinbach
  • Publication number: 20010011451
    Abstract: A full bobbin before removal from a roving machine has a roving broken between the bobbin body and the pressing finger bed of the flyer by initially winding the roving around the tube above the upper cone and then generating a roving reserve from at least half a turn on the upper winding cone and the body. The roving reserve between the fastening turns and the pressing finger bed is then partly unwound to form a weak spot along the roving reserve and the pressing finger bed is then moved a certain amount along the bobbin periphery and the roving is broken at the weak spot by a further movement of the pressing finger bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Applicant: ZINSER TEXTILMASCHINEN GmbH
    Inventor: Franz MacHnik
  • Patent number: 6263653
    Abstract: A spinning plant having one or more roving frames and one or more ring-spinning machines coupled by a common transporter has bobbin/core transfer units equipped with a color sensor which ensures that color coded cores representing particular roving qualities are replaced by full bobbins of the respective quality and vice versa, thereby avoiding problems of feed of the incorrect roving quality to a spinning machine and the winding of roving incorrectly on a color-coded core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Mack
  • Patent number: 6263655
    Abstract: Method of and apparatus for bundling fibers of a sliver in the drafting frame of a spinning machine in which a fiber-bundling zone is provided downstream of the last pair of drafting rollers. The fiber-bundling zone can be formed with a transporter for the sliver, e.g. a belt, provided with an array of perforations having a width which is at least equal to the traversing width of the sliver. The suction orifice juxtaposed with the array of perforations of the belt is inclined to the direction of the travel of the sliver and preferably extends over the full width of the traversing motion. The edge of the orifice can be rectilinear or curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Artzt, Jörg Morgner
  • Patent number: 6260784
    Abstract: A thread guide engages the thread from a supply qallet to a suction element, while the thread is held by the suction element, to entrain the thread to the thread-capturing slit of a winding sleeve in a winding apparatus, especially a stretch winder. As a result, the thread meets the winding sleeve at a location at which the winding sleeve and the thread are traveling in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Günter König
  • Patent number: 6216430
    Abstract: A spinning machine in a plurality of sections has its electrical loads, especially motors, yarn feeders, stretching and heating devices supplied with electrical energy through cable segments stretching the length of the respective machine section and having plug-and-jack connectors at opposite ends. From one of these connectors a section conductor can run to all of the loads of a given type in the respective section. The cable segments are connected together upon assembly of the spinning machine from its sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Ingo Oppermann
  • Patent number: 6202398
    Abstract: A yarn is made on a pot-spinning machine by drafting a roving and then condensing the roving via a suction roller or belt before the yarn is twisted on a pot-spinning station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Dinkelmann, Andreas Olbrich
  • Patent number: 6189308
    Abstract: A yarn is produced by condensing and compacting the roving after its passage through a drafting frame by suction rollers or suction belts and then twisting and winding up the yarn without the formation of a thread balloon on a ring spinning station with a balloon-limiting finger or crown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Dinkelmann, Andreas Olbrich