Patents Examined by Dorsey Newton
  • Patent number: 4195388
    Abstract: An improvement in and to can creels for feeding fibre slivers to textile machines, wherein one or more reserve slivers are provided for and advanced when one or more of the normally fed fibre slivers are broken or run-out. A pair of feeding rollers automatically controls the advancement and the positioning of each reserve sliver in order to substantially maintain a feeding continuity between the broken or run-out normal sliver and the reserve sliver and between such reserve sliver and a newly introduced normal sliver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1980
    Inventor: Beatrice Bulla
  • Patent number: 4192018
    Abstract: A baseball glove having a thumb and finger stalls, a crotch portion between the base of the thumb stall and the base of the next adjacent finger stall, and a web extending between and being secured to the thumb and next adjaent finger stall and to the crotch portion. The web has a series of spaced lacing loops or tunnels at its margin, and the inner margins of the thumb and next adjacent finger stalls and the margin of the crotch portion also have a series of spaced lacing loops or tunnels alternating with and being generally in line with the web tunnels so that a lace may be passed through the tunnels for securing the web to the glove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1980
    Assignee: A-T-O Inc.
    Inventor: Roland N. Latina
  • Patent number: 4187800
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a photosensitive screen comprising a vapor supply source and a mesh-shaped electric conductive substrate arranged above the vapor supply source along at least one portion of a circular plane having a center located at the vapor supply source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1980
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Nakatsubo, Masaji Nishikawa, Eiichi Sato
  • Patent number: 4187594
    Abstract: In a roll for pressure treating webs of material comprising a stationary core which is surrounded by a rotatable hollow cylinder spaced from the core, and in which there are provided, between the core and the hollow cylinder, longitudinal seals and end seals which seal off a longitudinal chamber which extends between the core and the hollow cylinder on the side of the working gap and is filled with a pressure liquid, with discharge canals provided in the core for discharging leakage liquid from the space between the core and the hollow cylinder which remains between the core and the hollow cylinder on the side facing away from the working gap, an improved sealing arrangement, which includes a strip which extends along the hollow cylinder over the length of the longitudinal chamber following in the direction of rotation, the seal projecting at an angle from the core toward the longitudinal seal up to the inner circumference of the hollow cylinder and discharge canals opening in the region between the point whe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1980
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters
    Inventor: Valentin Appenzeller
  • Patent number: 4186684
    Abstract: An apparatus for performing vapor deposition processes on a substrate includes essential housing having a centrally located reaction chamber, with the housing having a pair of opposed openings in opposed sides thereof. Cover means are removably secured to the housing for closing the opening and they define coolant chambers therein. Reaction gases are supplied and exhausted from the reaction chamber through a ducting system, and the housing includes at least one additional coolant chamber therein about periphery of the reaction chamber between the cover plates. Coolant is supplied to and exhausted from the coolant chambers in order to cool the reaction chamber, and support means are provided in the reaction chamber supporting a substrate thereon upon which vapor deposition is to occur. Heat is supplied in the reaction chamber on the side of the support means opposite the substrate to heat the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Inventors: Joseph Intrater, Ralph Gorman
  • Patent number: 4177522
    Abstract: A belt is formed of a single piece of high strength nylon line approximately 50-100 feet long attached to a belt buckle by a series of longitudinal loops which constitute the warp strands of a woven band. The weft strands of the band are woven through the warp strands in a series of loops, each succeeding weft loop passing through the end of the previous weft loop. At the end of the longitudinal loops, the end of the cord is passed through the penultimate weft loop and is then woven back through the warp to releasably lock the weave. The belt may be rapidly converted to a long single length of survival line by merely pulling the end of the cord out of the warp and through the penultimate loop to unlock the weave which can then be completely unraveled in seconds to yield a long and strong survival line of great utility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Inventor: Parker K. Auburn
  • Patent number: 4177544
    Abstract: A carousel rotatable about a fixed axis carries a plurality of treatment units which are mounted on the carousel removably for easy repair and replacement. A supply fixed adjacent the carousel feeds a strip of pressable material tangentially toward the carousel. Each of the units has a cutter for severing from this strip a portion of the pressable material, a gripper for holding the strip during such severing, a winder for rolling up each of the severed portions into a tampon blank, a press for compressing the tampon blank into a finished tampon, and a heater for heating and thermally fixing the finished tampon. These various devices are all controlled by at least one cam fixed adjacent the carousel and operatively engageable with the various elements of each unit for synchronously operating same and thereby automatically producing tampons at a high production rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Assignee: Biloma GmbH Spezialmaschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Gerd Bischkopf, Herbert Gawarecki, Gerhard Cremer
  • Patent number: 4176407
    Abstract: The hitting mitt comprises a flexible pad structure formed into a tube shape having opposite end openings and including a hole formed through the side wall of the tube shape. A person can insert either his right or left hand into one of the end openings and orient the tube shape so that his thumb can extend through the hole with his fingers extending out the opposite end opening, the pad covering both the palm and back of his hand. The hitting mitt provides protection while playing volleyball, four square, tether ball and many other games.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Inventors: Bert Goebel, Leo Perez
  • Patent number: 4176425
    Abstract: A bale breaker machine includes a breaker arrangement on which a textile fiber bale is positioned for being opened at its underside, a guiding wall pair formed of two substantially vertically oriented bale guiding wall disposed above the breaker arrangement and spaced from one another to accommodate the textile fiber bale therebetween; and a bale supporting device which includes an insert carried by at least one bale guiding wall at a face thereof oriented to the other bale guiding wall of the guiding wall pair and a displacing arrangement coupled to the insert for moving at least one part of the insert away from the associated bale guiding wall and for urging the insert part into a face-to-face engagement with a side of the textile fiber bale positioned between the bale guiding walls of the guiding wall pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Assignee: Trutzschler GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hermann Trutzschler
  • Patent number: 4173057
    Abstract: Apparatus for receiving and gathering a fibre band from a card or stretcher is arranged for a hopper wheel to deliver the band into the top of a cylindrical tube inclined to a vertical line passing centrally through its lower end, the tube being arranged to wobble so that its longitudinal axis traces out the surface of a cone around this vertical line. This movement is effected by crank mechanism acting on the outer race of a ball bearing assembly embracing an upper portion of the tube. The lower end of the tube rests on an internal flange of a cylindrical ring that centers the lower end of the tube. The band is gathered in rings of overlapping loops contacting the inner surface of the tube. The gathered material passes through the ring and then through a tubular duct to a container at one side of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1979
    Assignee: Heberlein Hispano SA
    Inventor: Louis Vignon
  • Patent number: 4169301
    Abstract: In gilling or stretching apparatus wherein a plurality of pin bars are driven and guided in a circuitous path including a stretching run and a return run, with threaded spindles engaging the pin bars along said runs, means are provided to retard the speed of movement of the pin bars before they engage the drive spindles so as to decrease noise in the operating apparatus and reduce wear of the pin bars and spindles. Such retarding means comprises cushioning wheels disposed at the entry end of the stretching run and cushioning rollers disposed at the exit end of the stretching run. The cushioning wheels and rollers have cushioning surfaces arranged to be engaged by the moving pin bars at an acute angle to the tangent to the surface at the point of engagement. Means are provided to insure that the cushioning wheels and rollers rotate at a slower speed than the speed of the travelling pin bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1979
    Assignee: Hanseatischer Maschinenbau G.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Hans Kaiser
  • Patent number: 4168545
    Abstract: A hand covering or glove having a flexible two-piece body with a plurality of discrete abrading units disposed on the hand covering to permit free flexing thereof. Each abrading unit is a discrete one-piece molded synthetic organic resin member with an abrasive front surface and a smooth rear surface secured to the front piece of the two-piece hand covering. Preferably, the two-piece hand covering is secured at the periphery thereof by heat sealing and the abrading units are also heat sealed to the front piece of the construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1979
    Assignee: Rub-A-Venture
    Inventors: Sam Kupperman, Dennis Kupperman
  • Patent number: 4167914
    Abstract: An extrusion coater for high viscosity, thin coatings of the hot melt type, includes an elongated slot coating head across which the web to be coated is advanced under tension and includes a lead-on lip at the slot plus a fixed, unyieldable, lead-off lip having an elongated, rotatable, cylindrical rod deeply seated for about two thirds of its circumference therein and unyieldably supported on a fixed axis of rotation. A yieldably mounted, press roll with a rubber like surface forms a pressure nip with the smooth hard unyieldable surface of the rod and the rod is rotated intermittently, or continuously by power means depending on the amount of impurities in the coating media. The rod rotation is not for metering purposes but for spreading wear while overcoming any streaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1979
    Assignee: Bolton-Emerson, Inc.
    Inventor: John Mladota
  • Patent number: 4167803
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting metallic bodies in a running textile lap performs the steps of generating a high-frequency electromagnetic field; passing the textile lap through the high-frequency electromagnetic field; and deriving a sensor signal as a function of an alteration of the high-frequency electromagnetic field caused by the presence of a metallic body in the lap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1979
    Assignee: Trutzschler GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Paul G. Teichmann
  • Patent number: 4164042
    Abstract: A wall structure for use in forming part of an enclosure that is subject to high pressure differential between its external and internal environments comprises tubing that has been flattened over two diametrically opposed areas and helically wound so as to be contiguous along the flattened areas. The interior of the tubing is filled with a substantially incompressible flexible medium. Means are provided for pressurizing the flexible medium, at least during periods of operation when the enclosure is subjected to a substantial pressure difference between its external and internal environments, so as to balance some of the loads acting on the wall structure due to the pressure differential. The wall structure is particularly suitable for use in forming parts of a deep diving suit or other deep diving and submersible enclosures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1979
    Assignee: Normalair-Garrett (Holdings) Limited
    Inventor: Alistair L. Carnegie
  • Patent number: 4163304
    Abstract: The needles or teeth are rigidly fixed on longitudinal bars mounted on the cylinder body in such a manner as to be capable of pivotal displacement on the cylinder body about axes parallel to the axis of the cylinder. Locking means carried by the cylinder body cooperate with corresponding angular positioning means carried by each needle bar in order to lock all the bars in any predetermined common angular position, thereby setting the needles or teeth at the required angle of inclination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1979
    Assignee: Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Mecaniques de Mulhouse
    Inventors: Regis Laflaquiere, Rade Janousek, Rene Faessler
  • Patent number: 4162559
    Abstract: A carding flat for use with textile carding machinery comprises an array of individual pins each secured in a respective aperture in a flat support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1979
    Assignee: Wm. R. Stewart & Sons (Hacklemakers) Limited
    Inventor: David B. Stewart
  • Patent number: 4161803
    Abstract: A caster including a pair of diametrically opposed rollers having axes of rotation which are angled with respect to the supporting surface on which the caster travels. During movement of the caster, the rollers exert opposing transversely-directed forces on the caster thereby enabling the caster to be moved in its directed path without the creation of forces on the caster by the rollers which would tend to deflect the caster from its path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1979
    Inventors: Robert L. Propst, Paul L. Propst
  • Patent number: 4161805
    Abstract: Fibers are carded to produce a web on a carding machine on which at least one gaseous barrier is produced near at least one end of the main cylinder roll of the carding machine so that the edge of the web of fibers on the main cylinder roll is maintained a distance from the end of the main cylinder roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1979
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventor: Nathan T. Worley
  • Patent number: 4161052
    Abstract: An apparatus for making a uniform, continuous sliver has a sliver sensor for continuously sensing the throughput quantity of the sliver and generating a continuous main regulating signal x as a function of the throughput quantity and a first regulator connected to the sliver sensor for receiving the signal x and generating a reference signal w.sub.h as a function of the signal x. The apparatus further has a tuft column sensor connected to a tuft shaft of a card for sensing a variable of the tuft column advancing in the tuft shaft. The tuft column sensor has a signal generator for emitting an auxiliary regulating signal x.sub.h as a function of the sensed variable of the tuft column and a desired value setter which receives the signal w.sub.h and varies the signal x.sub.h as a function of the signal w.sub.h. Further, the apparatus has a tuft column altering arrangement including a second, auxiliary regulator which receives the signal x.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1979
    Assignee: Trutzschler GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ludwig Erben