Abstract: An intermittent drive revolving clearer for drafting rollers that moves to avoid the motion of a top comb thereby permitting continuous cleaning of the drafting rollers resulting in high efficiency cleaning and improved yarn quality. A knife edge removes the waste material from the continuous clearer cloth without mixing the clearer waste material with the sliver, thereby permitting continuous operation of the clearer for long periods of time.

Abstract: A variable speed drive system for a carding machine employs a variable pitch pulley assembly that rotates the feed cylinder and doffer cylinder at a constant slow speed as the sliver is made up to the coiler can, and after a predetermined time lapse the speed of the feed cylinder and doffer automatically and progressively increase at a fixed speed ratio from the slow speed condition to a constant high speed condition. If the sliver is not made up properly within the time lapse, the operation of the feed cylinder and doffer cylinder is automatically terminated.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to an opening and cleaning machine for fibrous material, including a plurality of rotatable beaters disposed within a housing, grating means adjacent to and beneath the beater units, guide plate meansgenerally adjacent to and above the beater units, first and second aperture means respectively adjacent first and last of the beater units through which fibrous material is respectively fed into and removed from the machine, and third aperture means in a top wall of the housing through which suction can be drawn to remove dust during the processing of the fibrous material.

Abstract: Release material applicator structure for utilization in a heat and pressure fuser including a fuser roll structure for fixing toner images to support sheets. The release material employed is solid at room temperature and liquid at the operating temperature of the heated fuser roll structure. It is disposed in a sump and contacts the fuser roll structure. A collector bar is supported by the sump such that it is disposed adjacent to the fuser roll structure and coextensive therewith. When the liquefied release material reverts back to its solid form it accumulates on the collector bar and the bar maintains contact of the release material with the fuser roll structure.

Abstract: A controller converts the number of operating stands in a cotton gin plant into a simulated stepwise movement of a potentiometer for modulating control of a humidifier. I.e., processing units of a cotton gin plant are regulated according to the rate of cotton being ginned.

Abstract: A cable core, the interstitial spaces within which are being filled with waterproofing compound in a semi-fluid state as it passes through a compound-applying or filling chamber into which the compound is introduced under pressure, is advanced through a wiping die in a constricted passageway and into another chamber into which similar compound is pumped. The compound in the second chamber is at a substantially lower temperature than the compound in the filling chamber and exerts pressure radially on the cable core being filled to form a sheath or coating of the lower temperature compound around the filled core to seal the first compound in the core. The core is thereafter passed through a sizing die into a cooling chamber which solidifies the compound in and around the core. The cable core is thus conditioned for the subsequent application of sheathing materials thereto, for example, core wrapping and/or armor sheathing.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically shaping cellulose type menstrual tampons with all the operational steps being automated wherein a cotton band used as a stock material is processed therein until a product of cocoon-like final shape suitable for use as a menstrual tampon is produced.

Abstract: Fibers enter a textile mill at bale breaking equipment where fibers are distributed onto an open conveyor, and possibly blended, for transmittal to processing machinery such as opening and cleaning equipment, picker equipment for forming a lap, carding equipment, and drawing, roving and spinning equipment. The fibers are carried on the open conveyor past a spray station including at least one nozzle for spraying a finely diffused liquid onto the surface of the fiber material carried on the conveyor. The liquid is an aqueous solution which consists of about 75% water and about 121/2% of animal or vegetable fats as an active compound which is converted ionic salt by reaction of the organic acids contained in the animal and vegetable fats with an amine and subsequently with an alkyl sulfate. After passing the spray station, the fiber material may be transmitted through pneumatic conveyor systems to the additional processing equipment which ultimately converts the fibers into yarn or thread.

Abstract: A method and apparatus whereby a carded web is removed from a rotating member carrying the web by passing the web through a mouth constituted by a nip between a rotating element such as a stripping roller which may have a non-circular cross-section and a stationary element such as a blade-like member that may be oscillated toward and away from the rotating element, the mouth continuously opening and closing in a plane radial of the rotating element.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus and method for improving the homogeneity of textile fibers which are blended together in a textile drawing machine. Vertical posts are critically aligned with corresponding angled rods which are spaced between a pair of drafting rolls thus substantially forming a guide mechanism which allows for alternating silver of cotton and synthetic fibers to be placed one on the top of the other and drafted together thereby achieving a more uniform and homogeneous blend.

Abstract: A removable fixing system for the needle bars on chain gills, for supporting and driving the bars, in which each bar is pivotally connected, by its two ends on two chains, and has, at one of its ends, a bent extension the free end of which is engaged in a fixed cam groove the configuration of which determines the orientation of the bar at every point on its path. Each bar is mounted for pivoting, by its two ends, respectively adjacent the inner lateral face of one of the two chains and adjacent the external lateral face of the other of the chains, the pivotal connections between each of the two members constituted by each bar and the corresponding chain each being provided by a respective pivot mounted in overhung manner on one of these two members, in a direction transverse to the direction of the chain, and engaged in a corresponding bore of the other member, while locking means ensure axial positioning of the bar on its pivots.

Abstract: An absorbent article includes an air-laid fibrous web having a medial portion of a greater basis weight than flanking end and side portions. The fibers forming one surface of the web are adhesively bonded together to provide an abrasion resistant, nonpilling, facing layer, and also to aid in maintaining the structural integrity of the web. The fibers forming the other surface of the web are either adhesively bonded together, or a separate backing sheet, preferably in the form of a water-proof plastic sheet, is adhered directly to the other surface of the web to form a stabilized backing layer. The above contructions are adapted for use as disposable diapers.Apparatus of this invention includes a vacuum box having an open end underlying a discrete section of a foraminous forming surface so that regions of the forming surface extend beyond the open end of the vacuum box.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improvement in a fiber drafting assembly which includes an opening roll, the improvement wherein the assembly has a housing member extending about at least a portion of the circumference of the opening roll, the housing member being characterized by having a groove located interiorly thereof.

Abstract: An improvement in an apparatus for winding a batt of material in strip form carrying a free end of a withdrawal tape to form a rolled body thereof having withdrawal tape attached thereto which comprise a forked shaped totatable winding mandrel having fork tines, means for moving said winding mandrel back and forth in the plane of movement of said batt of material said fork tines positioned so as to straddle the longitudinal side of said batting material which carries the free end of the withdrawal tape with it, the improvement residing in that said winding mandrel contains an interior bore lengthwise thereof which bore is connected to a vacuum source means for transporting said batt of material in rolled form from said winding mandrel to a subsequent work station disposed on the side of the so-formed roll that carries the free end of the withdrawal tape.

Abstract: A drawing system arrangement for spinning machines, in which there are at least two dies for holding the bottom rollers of the drawing system and the dies are connected by a carrying rod. In the new embodiment, the carrying rod is at least twice as long as the distance between two adjacent dies; the carrying rod is attached directly to the machine frame and supports the dies attached to it in addition to the top roller carrying and loading arm.

Abstract: A contact fuser assembly for use in electrostatic reproducing apparatus including a heated fuser roll structure cooperating with a backup roll to form a nip through which copy sheets having toner images thereon move with the toner images contacting the heated fuser roll structure. The fuser assembly is characterized by the provision of a cleaning arrangement comprising a roll having a tacky surface which is adapted to contact the fuser roll structure to thereby remove contaminants therefrom. The cleaning arrangement is further characterized by the provision of means for rejuvenating the tacky surface of the cleaning roll wherein polymer material is applied to the cleaning roll and is tacky at the operating temperature of the fuser apparatus.

Abstract: A feeding apparatus for a sheet-like material is disclosed wherein means for introducing a rectified liquid stream are oppositely provided on both sides of the inlet portion of a slit type guide passage for the sheet-like material.

Abstract: At least one assembly grouping of cooperating cylindrical rollers comprising a rotatable worker and a rotatable stripper roller is mounted in specific relation to a rotatable carding drum. The worker roller performs a pick-up and retaining function in that it picks up the fibrous web from the carding drum, retains the fibrous web thereon and delivers it onto the stripper roller whereon the web is combed, cleaned and discharged onto the carding drum. This operation may be repeated a plural number of times until the web is discharged from the carding drum. The worker and stripper rollers are rotatably journalled in the carding drum housing, both rollers being rotatable in a first direction, while the carding drum is rotatable in a second direction. The carding drum and rollers have a planetary arrangement. In the arrangement of the rollers relative to the carding drum, the worker roller is mounted upstream relative to the stripper roller. The gauge distances among the drum and rollers is constant.

Abstract: An improved web former for feeding a fiber web of dense material or the like to subsequent textile processing machinery. The web former disclosed incorporates an offset cam means comprising an eccentric sleeve concentrically rotatably journalled in a bearing assembly. The offset cam means oscillates a shaker plate between horizontal positions so that a web of uniform density and thickness may be compressed and moved downwardly through a chute defined by the shaker plate and a vertically extending wall to a plurality of fluted aluminum delivery rolls. The delivery rolls further assist in forming a web and transporting a web of fiber material to other textile equipment.

Abstract: A taker-in under casing in a carding machine is disposed below a taker-in roller and between an under casing for a cylinder and a dish plate so as to extend along a portion of the lower peripheral surface of the taker-in roller. In order to vary the spacing between the taker-in under casing and the dish plate and/or the gauge between the taker-in under casing and the taker-in roller to thereby control the quantity and a quality of substances to be removed at the taker-in under casing, the latter is provided with a device for adjusting the position of the taker-in under casing, which is manually operable at the outside of the carding machine. The adjusting device has a first adjusting mechanism for causing the taker-in under casing to slide along the circumference of the taker-in roller, and a second adjusting mechanism for causing the taker-in under casing to pivot toward and away from the taker-in roller, these mechanisms being operable independently of each other.