Abstract: A holder for rotatably retaining a roll dispenser tube in its carton includes a self-tapping screw for piercing opposite ends of the carton and engaging the inside of the tube. Each screw has a shallow head forming a thumbturn that occupies minimal space outside of the carton. In one configuration, the shank of each screw forms a sharp cone-shaped root surface having a first thread member extending from the apex to the head member, and a second thread member displaced 180: from the first and extending from the head toward the apex, but not necessarily reaching it.

Abstract: A stationary tape guide of the type comprising a guide block having, on its front face, a laterally extending guide path across a plurality of tape-face guides integrally formed on said block, at least a tape-edge guide having a guide surface extending from the guide block above the guide path for restricting lateral movement of the tape and means for securing said guide block in close proximity to a helical scanning cylinder of a magnetic tape recorder, wherein said tape-edge guide being formed as a detachable part from the guide block and slidably mounted on said guide block, bias means disposed between said tape-edge guide and said guide block for urging them away from each other, and means for adjusting the distance between said tape-edge guide and said guide block.

Abstract: A braking device controls retraction of the tape blade of a retractable blade tape measure. The tape measure includes a tape measure case and a coiled tape blade inside the case. A motor mechanism retracts the tape blade into the case. A braking device contacts the coiled tape blade inside the case before the end of the tape blade strikes the case. The braking device reduces or stops retraction of the tape blade before the end of the tape blade strikes the case.

Abstract: A contacting caliper gauge measures the thickness of a moving sheet material. The gauge has two heads, one on either side of the sheet. The sheet contacting pads of the caliper gauge are aerodynamically designed to limit and/or reduce the tendency of boundary layer air travelling with the sheet to raise the sheet-contacting pads off of the sheet surfaces.

Abstract: A yarn spinning, twisting or doubling machine having bobbin doffing and donning apparatus for the spindles of the machine, the apparatus comprising bobbin conveying means extending along and above a row of spindles, a series of bobbin grippers spaced at the same pitch as the spindles, each gripper being mounted for vertical movement between its respective spindle and the conveyor, each gripper being designed to hold or grip a bobbin at a point beyond one end of a package wound on the bobbin so that the grippers can lift the wound bobbin from its spindle for engagement by means on the conveyor and then release the bobbin for subsequent removal, or grip an empty bobbin on the conveyor and move it to its respective spindle and control means operable to move the conveyor after it has received the full doffed bobbins and to bring empty bobbins into line with the spindles so that the grippers can place empty bobbins on the spindles.

Abstract: A residual roving clearing apparatus for clearing a residual roving remaining on a roving bobbin. The residual roving clearing apparatus comprises a bobbin holding device for rotatably holding a roving bobbin, a cutting device for cutting layers of coils of residual roving remaining on the roving bobbin held by the bobbin holding device, and a rotary brush device for clearing the residual roving from the roving bobbin. The residual roving clearing apparatus is capable of efficiently clearing the residual roving from the roving bobbin by cutting layers of coils of the residual roving along a cutting line parallel to the axis of the roving bobbin held by the bobbin holding device, and stripping off the cut layers of coils of the residual roving from the roving bobbin by the rotary brush of the rotary brush device.

Abstract: A novel pile fabric and method of making the pile fabric which employs a three-ply yarn having one yarn being textured and the other two yarns being non-textured to provide a wool-like appearance to the fabric and eliminate the tendency of such a fabric to finger mark.

Abstract: A driven winding core member is elevationally displaceable and a supply spool member serves for the delivery or reception, as the case may be, of a winding band which can be wound-up with the flat structures or can be unwound in conjunction with the flat structures. A conveyor device serves for the infeed or outfeed of the flat structures which are to be respectively wound-up on or wound-off from the winding core member. Between the conveyor device and the winding core member, there is provided a conveyor band arrangement which either infeeds the flat structures and the winding band or outfeeds such flat sturctures and the winding band. To reduce the space requirements of the apparatus and to simplify driving thereof and still afford a faultless winding-up and winding-off or unwinding operation, the conveyor band arrangement is designed as a freely revolving structure and, under resilient or spring action, partially wraps about the winding core member or, as the case may be, the package located thereupon.

Abstract: A cleaning device for removing debris from the fiber collection groove of an open end spinning rotor utilizes a holder having a rounded end portion and a scraper component having a tubular foot portion mounted thereabout for pivotal movement with respect thereto. A leaf spring attached to the holder retains the scraper component in attachment with the holder and is selectively disengagable for removal and replacement of the scaper component and end portion of the scraper component is bent oppositely to the direction of rotation of the rotor for engagement in the rotor groove to break up and scrape out accumulated debris deposits therein.

Abstract: A twisting machine for use in simultaneously imparting a twist to two or more wires while coiling the twisted wires on a drum, or for imparting twist to one or more wires as they are fed from off the drum, is provided with a reel support frame, preferably having retractable pintles, by which a reel is secured in the machine. The frame has a first reeling location within the machine positioned within a circumscribing orbital wire path provided by a wire guide that rotates about the frame and reel so as to twist the wires as they are reeled. The frame is displaceable from a first in-board position within the orbit of the wire guide to a second, reel transfer position, while at standstill, in which the reel is deposited outboard beside the machine while still supported by the frame pintles or a shaft. An interlock system controls the locking, unlocking and displacement of the frame, to ensure absolute safety.

Abstract: A suspension cable is encased in a metal pipe formed from a metal strip wound in a series of adjacent helical windings on the cable. The longitudinal edges of adjacent windings are connected by a continuous tight fold.

Abstract: A facsimile device is composed of three separate units which are connected rotatably with respect to one another. A passageway for recording sheets is formed between the first and second units and can be opened and closed by rotating the second unit with respect to the first unit. Another passageway for an original document is formed between the second and third units and can be opened and closed by rotating the third unit with respect to the second unit. With the device thus structured, a jammed original as well as a jammed recording sheet can be removed quickly from the device.

Abstract: An opening roller for an open-end spinning arrangement is disclosed which contains a basic body pressed onto a shaft. This basic body contains an exchangeable ring mounting which is held by means of its end faces between a flange of the basic body and a tension disk. It is provided that the tension disk fitted onto the shaft is loaded in the axial direction by means of a screw which is screwed axially into the shaft and which, by means of the head, rests against the front face of the shaft. A spring element, preferably a cup spring, is arranged between the head of the screw and the tension disk.

Abstract: This heel device is designed to cause a heel portion of a shoe to rebound when a person walks or jogs. Primarily, it consists of a base plate secured to the bottom of the heel portion of the shoe, and a leaf hinge is secured to the base plate and pivots. Projections are secured to the leaves of the hinge and include a pair of shafts that retain and support an endless rubber belt that provides the tension for the shoe to rebound.

Abstract: A reel adapted to carry a helically wound packaging tape comprising a carrier tape having spaced pockets containing components along its length and at least one cover tape adhered over the pockets to enclose the components. The reel includes a cylindrical hub of a resiliently flexible material; two circular flanges of greater rigidity and substantially larger diameter than the hub positioned coaxially along opposite side surfaces of the flanges; and rivets fastening the flanges together through the hub and compressing the hub for providing a predetermined dimension for the reel axially of the hub and flanges.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reestablishing the spinning operation of an open-end spinning machine following completion of spinning of a full package. The apparatus uses a traveling service unit having a device for forming a yarn reserve on a projecting end of a full package, a device for removing the full package with the yarn reserve thereon, a device for placing an empty tube in position for winding, a device for preparing an end of auxiliary yarn for restart feeding to the spinning element, a device for feeding the end of auxiliary yarn to the spinning element to restart spinning and withdrawing restarted yarn from the spinning element, and a device for engaging the restarted yarn on the empty tube to reestablish the spinning operation. The forming of the yarn reserve is performed while the end of auxiliary yarn is being prepared for restarting of spinning. The package is removed while the auxiliary yarn end is being fed to the spin box for restarting of spinning.

Abstract: A flush valve operating means having a housing with a sleeve assembly therein and a piston actuating means within the sleeve, the housing having two fluid inlets and the sleeve having a by-pass means for diverting fluid from one side of the piston to the other to provide equal fluid pressure over the face of the piston and the piston being slidable within the sleeve in response to fluid supply line pressure being applied to one face of the piston to actuate the flush valve.

Abstract: The yarn to be loosened is guided by slots (7;8); it is held on one side thereof and it is cut on the other side. Air is injected by a nozzle (13) for driving the cut end of the yarn into a channel (1), between the bottom (11) of this channel and the longitudinal edge of the adjacent flexible leaf (10) which is vibrated simultaneously at several hundreds of Hz. The air can escape sidewise through a longitudinal opening (4) of channel (1) and entrains the yarn from one side to the other side of the leaf (10) and imparts to this yarn alternatively inverted twists. A further action of the leaf (10) is to pulse the air in the channel and therefore to subject the yarn to intermittently applied pulls.

Abstract: The system comprises, downstream of a ribbon-lap machine, a cradle lifting device for taking up a lap roller from a lap roller collecting frame, a gripper taking up device being moreover provided which is adapted to remove a lap roller from the cradle lifting device and to load an empty roller on an empty roller collecting frame, the gripper taking up device being supported on a carriage slidable on a guide path so as to selectively reach a combing machine preselected from an assembly of combing machines in order to discharge the lap roller on a lap roller supplying frame while simultaneously taking up an empty roller.

Abstract: A method for quality control of yarn for false twisters having a plurality of take-up motions, consisting of conducting quality measurement of yarn upon doffing by the take-up motions at a first point where the yarn is being twisted and at a second point where the yarn is being untwisted to provide readings of quality measurement by means of a quality measuring device.