Abstract: This disclosure relates to a control device for opening fiber bales arranged in a row including a carriage movable along a horizontal rail and carrying a slide which is vertically reciprocal with the slide carrying grabbing fingers which can both grab and release a fiber bale, such as a pressed bale of cotton, and a pneumatic control circuit for pneumatically oscillating the carriage, operating the grabbing fingers and moving the slide up and down, the pneumatic control system also including a program wheel carrying a plurality of contact cams which operate a valve to initiate the cycling of the device and a pneumatically operated ratchet for indexing the program for appropriately cycling the control device and moving the fiber bales as desired.

Abstract: A suction duct for textile machines such as bale-openers which is provided for receiving fibers removed from a bale through a flexible tube. The flexible tube 30 is moved with a carriage 21 over a row of bales when removing fibers therefrom. The fibers passing through the flexible tube 30 are deposited into the suction duct 1 which has a longitudinally extending opening 10 provided in the top thereof. In order to maintain the suction duct closed except for the opening 10' communicating with the flexible tube 30, a flexible cover-strip 4 is moved with the connection-opening 3. The remote end of the cover-strip 4 is fixed.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an improved gun case which includes a bullet resistant material, integrally formed as part of the gun case or as an insert within the gun case, so that the gun case may be converted into a lightweight shield or a personal body protector garment.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for producing high quality fibrous webs at high rates of speed. Fibers are fed to a rotating lickerin for opening, then to a rotating card cylinder for individualizing, and are then doffed into an air stream from which the fibers are condensed, as on a moving foraminous belt.

Abstract: A draw frame of a sliver-drafting apparatus has three cascaded roller pairs whose lower rollers are driven by respective motors at speeds determined by associated frequency dividers and/or multipliers in the output of a common oscillator of adjustable operating frequency. The slivers drafted by the roller pairs form, after doubling or plying, a fiber bundle traversing a thickness sensor whose output, integrated over predetermined time periods, is used by a microcomputer to ascertain optimum nip-line spacings and contact pressures reducing the thickness variations to a minimum.

Abstract: The drawing illustrates a card screen comprising a fiber cleaning assembly positionable adjacent a lickerin roll of a carding machine. The fiber cleaning system has a number of spaced segments conforming generally to the configuration of the lickerin roll with fastening means for removably securing the spaced segments for varying the angular, as well as the proximity settings between the segments and the lickerin roll. The settings may also be varied between segments. A number of depending baffles are removably mounted beneath the spaced screen segments for controlling air flow and increasing waste extraction through the lickerin.

Abstract: A metal mesh protective glove extending continuously around the user's hand and fingers. A continuous cuff extends around the circumference of the glove near the user's wrist and encloses a strap which is free to slide in and is removable from the cuff. The opposite ends of the strap extend from an opening in the cuff; and the strap includes means to secure its ends to each other to form a band of varying length so that the strap and cuff may be tightened about the wearer's wrist with minimum folding or drooping of the glove mesh.

Abstract: Apparatus for opening and cleaning fiber tufts, composed of a rotatably mounted cylinder with a card clothing mounted on its circumference for gripping tufts and conveying them, a system for pneumatically feeding a mixture of tufts and air toward the cylinder circumference to strike the cylinder while traveling in a direction having a component opposite to the direction of movement of the portion of the cylinder which is struck by the mixture, cleaning elements operatively associated with the cylinder, a wall defining with the cylinder an air gap extending in the direction of flow of such mixture, and a system for discharging cleaned tufts.

Abstract: A garment is fabricated from a flexible, bullet-resistent material and includes an upper section, a lower section, and a weight transfer region. The upper section shields the wearer's torso while the lower section shields the wearer's hip and thigh areas. The weight transfer region is positioned adjacent to the wearer's upper hip area. The weight transfer region of the garment is secured to the wearer's hip area to transfer a substantial amount of the weight of the upper section of the garment to the wearer's hips.

Abstract: Textile fiber bale opener with rotary beater which extends in a radial direction while rotatingly sweeping over an annular area defined by concentric circles between which bales are disposed. Up/down means is provided to raise and lower the beater automatically.

Abstract: In a pleating machine having intermittently driven pleating rolls (4,5), between which a pleatable fabric can be inserted with the aid of pleating blades which are disposed on an upper and a lower blade beam and work in the manner of feed tongs, and in which machine the blade beams are pivotably mounted on arms on a blade shaft (13) which in turn is adapted to be swivelled to-and-fro and optionally to perform axial reciprocating movements, individual drives (17, 18, 19, 20, 21) are provided for driving the individual components participating in the pleating, which drives are associated with the individual components and whose functions are controllable by an electronic control device (22).

Abstract: In an apparatus for guiding the folding blades (3,5) and for actuating the tilting arm (24) of a blade bar (4) mounted pivotably on the jib (10) of a blade shaft (11), a reversible individual drive (23) with a pivoting member (21) which can move a rocker (16) to and fro between two positions serves for actuating the tilting arm (24). Mounted pivotably on the rocker (16) is an intermediate member (14) on which the tilting arm (24) is articulated on a pivot pin (13) at a distance from the point of articulation of the intermediate member (14) on the rocker (16). The geometry of the articulated chain formed by the jib (10), the pivoting member (21), the rocker (16), the intermediate member (14) and the tilting arm (24) is, at the same time, selected so that the tip of the particular folding blade (3) is guided along on the upper or lower contact plate (7,8 ) of the pleating machine as a function of the position of the pivoting member (21).

Abstract: The can changing apparatus operates so that the full can and empty can are arranged to move in guide paths which are at a right angle to each other. A simultaneous exchange of the cans takes place with one can being shifted at a constant speed while the other can moves with a speed characteristic which corresponds to a tangent function. The support members on which the arms for pushing the cans are mounted are connected, for example by a rigid curve rod, a resiliently bendable rod, or a linked arm such that one support member moves the other.

Abstract: A cotton gin bar including a roller assembly comprising a pair of discs rotatably arranged on the upper portion of the bar at the ginning point, the discs being operative on opposing sides of the bar for detaching lint from the seed. Each roller disc is provided with an annular rib and the gin bar is provided with an annular groove in which the rib is received, thereby defining a rotatable seal. The rotatable seal restricts the passage of small particles such as grit and lint which interfere with operation of the annular bearing on which the roller disc is mounted.

Abstract: The leveling device comprises a rectangular duct connected at its inlet end to a pneumatic fiber supply and at its outlet end to the upper end of a feed chute for a carding machine. A pair of opposed accelerator plates are adjustably mounted adjacent the duct's inlet end to accelerate the incoming stream of fibers, which then passes between two deflector nozzles that are mounted with their discharge ends opening on opposite sides of the duct, and with their outer or inlet ends connected to opposite ends of a flexible, generally U-shaped tube. Downstream from the nozzles the opposed sidewalls of the duct curve outwardly and away from each other to form a diffusion section, the enlarged end of which is connected to the upper end of the feed chute. In use the air pressure at the outlet end of each nozzle alternately rises and falls causing the stream of fibers to be deflected alternately toward one and then the other of the opposed, curved sidewalls of the duffusion chamber.

Abstract: A drawing frame with a drawing region or with two independent drawing regions includes, as a whole, four or more so-called drawing and control rollers. These latter all comprise pressure rollers with barrel rubbers. The control roller situated immediately upstream of the draw-off or "total" drawing roller is arranged in such a position that its periphery is separated from that of the drawing roller by a narrow gap. The ratios between the diameters and the speeds of rotation of these rollers is selected in such a way that the peripheral velocity of the "total" drawing roller is significantly greater than the peripheral velocity of the adjacent control roller. Consequently, an upwardly directed flow of air is created which removes the floating fibres which would otherwise tend to form windings or so-called "rolls".

Abstract: The folding clothes stand comprises first and second rod-like elements, adapted to support a coat and trousers, which are mutually hinged together, and being effective to be arranged in a first position, of use, in which the rod-like elements lay on mutually substantially perpendicular planes, and in a second position, of rest or non-use, in which one of the rod-like elements is totally included within the outline defined by the other of the rod-like elements.

Abstract: An apparatus for turning a circular knit hose inside out and sectioning same into unit hoses, includes an air suction pipe extending in the direction of feeding the knit hose, a pair of contact rollers carried on a carrier capable of reciprocally moving along the air suction pipe, the contact rollers frictionally retaining the knit hose covering the air suction pipe so as to allow the knit hose to be sucked into the pipe unit by unit with its tail end ahead. The apparatus includes a cutter for sectioning a protruded end portion of the knit hose from the air suction pipe.

Abstract: In a device for carding, cleaning or opening fibre tufts. An improvement comprises two or more rotating working members or organs (1, 2, 3) which have intersecting planes of rotation and they are arranged to make the fibres fed in at one end move in addition in an axial direction and pass through the lines of close proximity repeatedly in several changed planes of rotation, so that the fibres are worked by a high proportion of the working points before being doffed at the other end or "out" feed. In relation to the dimensions of the working members or organs, the fibres can dwell on the average a longer time in the device so modified and come into contact with a greater proportion of the wire points or pins in the system. This provides for and makes adequate processing of the fibres possible particularly with smaller units in comparison with conventional systems.

Abstract: A cotton ginning system embodying a lint cleaner in which the batt of cotton delivered to the lint cleaner is maintained at an optimum thickness even though the rate of ginning varies. The batt thickness is maintained by correlating the same with the rate of feed of seed cotton to the system. Controls are provided to assure that the batt remains at optimum thickness, and such optimum thickness is assured by sensing the rate of input of seed cotton to the system.