Abstract: A method for training a gin saw assembly and a ginning rib assembly that have been removed from a cotton gin includes a telescoping stand on which the gin saw assembly, including its bearings is temporarily mounted. The apparatus includes an adjustable template with alignment marks with which the individual gin saw blades are manually aligned. The apparatus also includes mounting elements by means of which the ginning rib assembly can be mounted adjacent to the gin saw assembly after the gin saw blades have been trained. The telescoping stand is then extended so that the gin saw blades extend into narrow gaps between the individual ginning ribs in substantially the same relation thereto as when the gin saw assembly and ginning rib assembly are operating in the cotton gin. The individual ribs are then adjusted so that the gin saw blades are precisely centrally positioned in the gaps.

Abstract: An air-tight self-adjusting protective garment having a torso covering portion with integral arms and legs. Gloves are sealingly affixed to the free ends of the arms and boots are sealingly affixed to the free ends of the legs. A head enclosing hood or helmet is sealingly attached to the garment, and hood and garment are supplied with a positive pressure air plenum which is exhausted through one or more one-way valves. The garment is prevented from ballooning due to the internal air pressure by a plurality of elastic strip members which are affixed to the inner surface of the garment without destroying the air-tight integrity thereof and extend longitudinally of the torso covering portion and of the arms and legs thereof, which elastic strip members also enable the garment to self-adjust to fit a range of different size individuals.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for opening and mixing the fibers from a plurality of bales according to a predetermined mixture. The device includes tongs-like gripper means which press into the fiber bales for removing fibers therefrom. A measuring means and a control means determine the width of opening of the gripper means. A control circuit is provided for receiving a signal representing the weight of the first pick-up from a particular bale and the weight of the fibers deposited in a receiver container. When the sum of these signals is equal to the preset desired weight of the fibers that are to be deposited in the receiver container, a compared signal is produced causing the tongs on successive pick-ups to be opened to a lesser degree. As a result, a high degree of accuracy is obtained when mixing to a predetermined ratio while maintaining a high production output.

Abstract: Athletic pants of the type worn by football players include in each pant leg a frontal pocketed thigh pad and an adjacent independently pocketed pad to cover and protect the vastus lateralis. The hinged cooperative relationship of the two separate pads allows full leg flexure and freedom of movement without binding or discomfort. The added side pad also prevents excessive movement of the larger frontal pad and tends to hold the latter in its preferred position. The additional pad is easily installable on newly manufactured and existing pants at relatively minimal cost.

Abstract: The method and apparatus are disclosed for winding ribbon or yarn around rows of upstanding spindles spaced a desired distance apart. The ribbon or yarn is wound around the spindles in a desired pattern of loops and secured between the spaced rows of spindles by typing with a wire.One of the rows of spindles is moved toward the other to slacken the loops, the wire is further tightened if necessary and the winding is removed to produce a uniform, multi-looped bow of ribbon and/or yarn.Extender spindles are also provided which mount adjacent the above spindles and extend the effective height thereof for winding additional rows of ribbon or yarn and/or wider ribbon.

Abstract: An emergency actuator bar extends across an opening in the housing of a lint cleaner in a cotton gin. Actuator arms which hold the bar also normally hold a trip plate in the run position. However, a workman striking the emergency bar will remove a sear on one of the actuator arms from the trip plate to permit a spring to snap the trip plate into a stop position. When the trip plate moves to the stop position, it disconnects electrical power to a motor driving the machine. The trip plate movement also applies a brake which stops the machine.

Abstract: A baseball glove according to this invention comprises an anti-glare web attached between sheaths thereof for the thumb and the index finger. A player can watch a fly by peering through the web without being hindered by the glare of sunlight or stadium lights of illumination.

Abstract: A lightweight sports neck and collarbone protector is provided for sports players, especially for lacrosse or hockey players, comprising a combined bib and upstanding collar to protect the clavicles and throat of the wearer respectively, the bib and collar being connected together along the entire length of their junction so that the collar holds the bib in position and an object such as a hockey stick or skate blade cannot pass between them. Each of the bib and collar includes protective padding and armour members to overlie the clavicles and vulnerable front and side parts of the throat. The padding may be foam padding and the armour members may be stiff plastics sheet material, the padding preferably being moulded from a soft plastics material as an integral member, while the armour members are moulded from a more rigid plastics mateiral, also as an integral unit with a thin flexible connection between the armour members.

Abstract: A textile processing system is disclosed in which a chute feeder is juxtaposed with a card as a web supply device for the card, and the card, in turn, is juxtaposed with a coiler device, typically a dual coiler, for coiling sliver into cans, from the output of the card. In order to reduce variation in weight of fiber per unit width across the width of the output of the card, the horizontal angle of the chute feed output relative to the horizontal angle of the card input is made adjustable. In the preferred embodiment this is accomplished by mounting the chute feed for controlled, limited pivotal movement about a vertical axis generally coinciding with one lateral margin of the chute feed, the adjustment members being provided at the opposite lateral margin of the chute feed.

Abstract: A prefabricated bow forming machine in which a pair of ribbons are mated along their sides with a strap approximately centrally disposed lengthwise of said pair of ribbons. The pair of ribbons and strap are joined together at the head end and the ribbons are bonded together to form seams at preselected intervals along their length at either side of the strap. The seams are at an angle to the respective edges of the ribbons and are oppositely angled with adjacent seams. The bow forming machine has a bench on which the pair of ribbons are laid out in a track with the strap centrally disposed lengthwise therebetween. The machine includes a pivotable press which swings down against the bench and heat welds the pair of ribbons at preselected intervals to form the seams. The bench and press have heat elements which spot weld the two ribbons at preselected intervals and angles. The number of welded seams along the length of the ribbon determines the number of loops and size of the bow.

Abstract: A prosthetic device to enable persons incapable of proper control of their fingers to manipulate objects such as brushes, pencils, or toys. It resembles a partial glove, covering only the palm, held in place with straps around the back of the hand. It uses hook and loop pile (Velcro for example) both to fasten the straps to the body and as a patch on the palm side to which objects fitted with mating pile can be attached. One strap is long enough to provide added support by passing over the handle of the object. A separate patch with a ring in the center is described--this works better for grasping reasonably rigid, extensive objects like balls.

Abstract: A system for monitoring and securing a zone associated with a power driven textile machine, which machine includes a part which moves when the machine is in operation in a manner to endanger an individual present in the zone, which system includes a radiation emitting device for producing a beam of directed radiation and for directing such beam along a path coincident with at least one boundary of the zone, a radiation responsive device positioned in the path of the radiation beam for producing an output indication when it is not receiving the directed radiation and a control unit connected to the radiation responsive device for halting movement of the part in response to appearance of the output indication.

Abstract: A shoe which comprises an upper and a sole having a plurality of elongated chambers disposed therein and have fluid communication between the top face of the sole and the ambient surrounding the shoe.

Abstract: A drafting device in a spinning machine including a cylindrical sliver guide and an adjusting guide for reshaping and controlling the sliver, and a traverse mechanism for an apron supported on the middle roller. The sliver guide is disposed in front of the back rollers and the adjusting guide is arranged between the back rollers and the middle rollers.

Abstract: A welders glove is constructed of deer skin with the stretch axis of the skin forming the palm and back of the hand and fingers oriented to extend transverse to the axis of the hand and with the cuff portion of the glove oriented to extend longitudinally of the hand. A liner of a PVC closed-cell foam lines the three bottom fingers and the bottom half of the palm and back of the hand extending back to the end of the cuff leaving the thumb and forefinger unlined to provide for ease of feel and manipulation of tools by the thumb and forefinger.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus which forms and folds a precut pocket patch and sets it in position on a garment panel, ready to be sewn by an adjacent sewing machine. The apparatus comprises a holding blade on which a precut pocket patch is manually positioned, and a pocket patch-forming and folding assembly located over the holding blade. The latter and the assembly are vertically movable one with respect to the other and to an underlying garment panel support table. The assembly includes a forming plate, having a flat underface and a downwardly-extending rim at its periphery creating a cavity to receive the pocket patch; the latter is clamped and its margin creased by the rim about the edge of the holding blade. The assembly further carries around its periphery folding blades which move inwardly underneath the holding blade to complete the folding of the pocket patch. The contour of the holding blade and of the plate cavity corresponds to the desired contour of the folded patch.

Abstract: The invention provides a creel for feeding slivers (21) of fibers to a processing machine (10), comprising a bank of feed stations (13c) to (13i) and two reserve feed stations (13a) (13b). Upon disruption at any feed station in the bank, a reserve feed station comes into operation and is moved into the bank of feed stations, while the station where the feed was interrupted is moved to a reserve feed station position. Movement of the stations is effected by moving a carriage at a station, which includes feed rollers, sensors etc. to the required positions. The carriages are moved along a first rail in an upstream position and a second rail in a downstream position and are transverable between these rails.

Abstract: A one piece resilient and compressible pad having a generally oblong shape has a flat bottom surface with a rounded rear end, generally parallel longitudinal sides, a substantially straight forward end and rounded corners connecting the forward end to the longitudinal sides. The top surface of the pad is contoured with the forward end of the pad having a flat portion of maximum thickness and its heel end having a flat portion of lesser thickness. A sloping portion is provided between the two flat portions. The dimensions of the pad are selected so that when placed in a shoe with the heel end closely approaching the inside rear of the shoe, the flat portion of maximum thickness will underlie and protect the metatarsal and longitudinal arches.

Abstract: In this tentering device the skin to be tentered is placed on a tentering frame in which a plurality of tentering clamps are displaceably held on radial guides, the skin being grasped by said tentering clamps is stretched by means of transmitted pulling forces.For the dependable detection and holding of the outer edge of the skin to be tentered without slipping or displacement, each tentering clamp (7, 8, 28) is provided with a pressing device (20, 29) which is displaceable with it, particularly in the form of a roller (25, 30), cylinder or rotating brush which, in combination with a backer-up, arranged below the skin, smooths and positions the skin for the closing of the tentering clamps.

Abstract: A protective batting jacket is disclosed having a plurality of shock absorbing structures selectively positioned to be adjacent predetermined body locations of the batter to protect the batter from injury caused by a pitched ball. The shock absorbing structure includes a flexible air-tight fabric structure having an internal surface defining a chamber and an external surface adapted to be in fluid communication with the atmosphere outside the shock absorbing structure. The fabric structure includes a plurality of selectively dimensioned and disposed apertures for continuous fluid communication between the chamber and the external surface of the shock absorbing structure. A flexible foam portion having an open-celled structure defining a reservoir to releasably hold air is disposed in the cavity of the fabric structure and bonded, at least, to at least a portion of the interior surface of the fabric structure.