Abstract: A hand-held vise device for holding the ends of lines to facilitate tying them together. It includes a U-shaped base formed of a pair of similarly profiled U-shaped plates, disposed with one overlying the other. The base includes a pair of leg portions interconnected by a web portion. Each leg portion has an associated lever extending generally along its length with one end of the lever adjacent the distal end of the leg portion. Vise tension is provided by an elastomer expanse encircling each leg portion and its associated lever, urging the lever's one end toward the distal end of the leg portion. Each elastomer expanse has joined to it a pad expanse interposed between the distal end of a leg portion and an end of a lever.

Abstract: In a cutting machine for a synthetic filament tow the filament tow 3 before passing between the cutting rolls 1/2 is traversed laterally to and fro. The present invention teaches, in which manner the traversing movement of the tow guide 5, moved to and fro using a grooved drum 10, is to be effected for obtaining a linear, i.e. optimum, fibre length diagram of the cut fibres. In particular, the mathematic formula for the shape of the guide groove 9, as unrolled in a plane, of the grooved drum 10 is given.

Abstract: Cotton in an extractor-feeder is passed through three scrubber cylinders. The first two having grid bars of a regular 1/4 or 5/16 inch spacing and the third having grid bars at about twice the regular, or 1/2 inch spacings. Any locks of seed cotton in the trash from the third scrub cylinder are reclaimed by reclamation saw which also reclaims any cotton slung off by a main saw cylinder. Also dust is removed by a suction connected into the housing.

Abstract: A method of, and apparatus for, checking a plant for blending textile staple fibres of different types, which are supplied by fibre metering units. The supply of fibres to the storage device is interrupted during repeated time intervals. According to the invention the fibres supplied by an individually operated fibre metering unit, supplying a constant quantity, during part time intervals within the time intervals are transported to a quantity measuring device and are measured.The present invention permits very reliable and precise checking of the fibre quantities supplied by the fibre metering units in such a manner that a desired blending proportion can be maintained precisely. The machines fed from the storage device can be maintained operating during the checking periods, i.e. at all times.

Abstract: An improved gill box with rotating heads, which comprises a plurality of needles acting on an assemblage of slivers fed substantially continuously and consists of a feeder group, a group which controls the fibers and is constituted by two heads with combs superimposed one above the other and rotating in cooperation, and a drawing group.

Abstract: An improved safety device or guard for use upon a press or other machine, which has a work zone for receiving a work piece, is provided to protect the operator. The guard has a base with sloped surfaces leading to the work area and slidable gates positioned adjacent said base. The operator inserts the work piece by moving it along the sloped surfaces of the base until it contacts the gates and forces the gates upward. The gates are raised only by an amount which is sufficient to allow the work piece to move into the work zone. The gates ride upon the top of the work piece and automatically adjust for various thicknesses of the work piece during the operation of the machine. The guard has flange members which are attached to the base for slidably mounting the guard to a machine and has a barrier mounted upon the base which is angled inwardly toward the work zone for permitting the use of work pieces which are shorter than the overall width of the barrier.

Abstract: Metallic wire card clothing for carding elements is provided by a plurality of wire strips disposed side-by-side, as by helically winding at least two strips abutting each other on a supporting roll element, with each strip having an upstanding portion providing a row of teeth extending along the strip and the front edges of the teeth on each strip defining a common acute angle with the axis of the strip on which they are carried. The common acute angle of the teeth in one row is greater than the common acute angle of the teeth in the adjacent row by more than 10 degrees with preferably this difference in angles being at least 20 degrees and the acute angles for the front edges of the teeth relative to the strip axis being in the range of approximately 40 degrees to 90 degrees.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a driving power in a drafting device of a spinning frame. In the drafting device comprising a pair of back rollers, middle rollers and front rollers arranged in order, the driving power for the middle rollers is transmitted through a transmission passage different from a transmission passage for transmitting the driving power for the back rollers and front rollers.

Abstract: The apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises a fiber preparatory unit having means for opening the material and regulating the type of wad which is to form the mattress. Also included are means for the recovery and recycling of the excess material and one or more units for the formation and preparation of the wad mattresses with means for the regulated retrieval of the material from the preparatory unit. Means for the distribution of the material within the unit itself with the regulation of the type of mattress to be produced by each unit also comprise part of this invention.

Abstract: Mechanism for rotating a spool adapted to receive a supply of filament, about the axis of the spool, comprising an electric motor which moves bodily axially toward and away from the spool to make and break the spool drive, respectively. According to the invention, the motor is mounted for limited rotation relative to its support, against the action of a spring, when the tension in the filament increases, thereby to make gradual the rise in tension of the filament. A limit switch is provided to limit this bodily rotation of the motor; and upon actuation of the limit switch, the motor is withdrawn from the spindle, thereby interrupting the spindle drive and releasing the torque that was applied by the filament to the motor, whereupon the motor is rotated by the spring back to a rest position.

Abstract: Toothed edging apparatus for mounting on a rotatable support of a textile machine includes tooth segments each having a plurality of teeth elements arranged generally along an arc and a foot portion from which the teeth elements extend, the foot portion being mounted on the rotatable support of the textile machine. At least one recess is provided in the segments, and a holding element passes through the recesses and is secured to the support for holding a plurality of such segments on the rotatable support, the holding element having a longitudinal axis disposed generally parallel to the axis of the rotatable support.

Abstract: For controlling the output and the silver density in a carding machine, lot-specific data are determined, then fed into a memory from which the data may be recalled at will and applied to the control of the carding machine.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus and process for finishing hosiery articles such as men's, women's and children's socks. Each sock is placed inside-out on an elongated hollow tubular member, with the toe seam covering a first open end of the tubular member. The tubular member is rotated adjacent shears so that unfinished threads extending from each sock are trimmed and removed. A stretching ram is then inserted in the first open end of the tubular member to sandwich each sock between the ram and the tubular member, and a portion of the ram then extends through the tubular member to stretch the sock and thereby straighten the toe seam. The stretching ram is removed, and pressurized air forces the sock through the hollow tubular member and out a second open end of the tubular member in a rightside-out condition.

Abstract: The device for separating individual fibers of a fiber sliver comprises sliver feed rollers, sliver opening means comprising a press roller and a separating roller adapted to carry a stack of thin disks provided with combing elements which consist of teeth or wire points for separating the fibers and with drafting elements for parallelizing the fibers, and a duct for the delivery of freed fibers. The separator can be employed for spinning slivers containing either long or short fibers or a mixture of both.

Abstract: A bale supporting apparatus for stabilizing fiber bales during opening of the fiber bales from the top includes a support element arranged to engage a vertical end face of a bale and further arranged for stepwise, vertically downwardly oriented motion as the bale height decreases during the bale opening process. The support element is mounted on a stationary carrier structure which is situated horizontally adjacent the space occupied by the fiber bales undergoing opening.

Abstract: A method for laying a shirt, comprising the steps of folding a first shirt yoke and a second shirt yoke along mutually parallel folding lines; laying said first folded yoke on said shirt back and on said second yoke; fastening said first shift yoke to said second shirt yoke with a clamp positioned in the area of a beak formed by said first folded shirt yoke and said second folded shirt yoke; laying a first shirt sleeve and a second shirt sleeve on said fastened yokes respectively; folding said shirt torso end along a folding line extending transversely to said mutually parallel folding lines and at a distance from said shirt collar; fastening said torso end to said shirt by means of at least a first pin and a second pin located at a distance from said shirt collar; folding said torso end along said first shirt yoke and said second shirt yoke; and, tucking said torso behind said first folded shirt yoke and said second folded shirt yoke.

Abstract: An apron drafting system for textile fibers includes a pair of front rolls, a pair of middle rolls, and a pair of back rolls defining front and back drafting zones therebetween. A cradle, including a pair of side plates, is mounted on both of said middle rolls and extends towards both said front rolls and said back rolls to support a pair of front apron pins adjacent the front rolls and a pair of back aprons pins adjacent the back rolls. Top and bottom aprons extend over the middle rolls and over the apron pins adjacent both the front and back rolls to make adjacent contact to guide the textile fibers from a point immediately adjacent the back rolls, through the nip between the middle rolls, to a point adjacent the front rolls.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an apparatus for severing a fibre layer (3) composed of mutually slidable staple fibres, and containing two driven pairs of rolls (9/10; 11/12) forming two nip lines for the fibre layer (3) guided therebetween. Severing is achieved in that the two pairs of rolls (9/10; 11/12) are kinematically coupled using a flexible power transmitting element (19) in such a manner that by moving a roll tandem (26) contained in the path of movement of the power transmitting element (19) one pair of rolls (11/12) is rotated relative to the other one (9/10). Owing to this relative rotation of the pairs of rolls the fibre layer clamped between the nip lines is severed. This apparatus presents the advantage that its design is simple and reliable and that, in particular, no clutch is required.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and an apparatus for producing a draftable staple fibre sliver (12) from a strand (12) of endless filaments, which is united and condensed for further processing. According to the invention the zone of the united and condensed sliver, from which, due to the cutting process, fibre points stick away inclined and pointed towards the front and outside, is inserted into the inside of the sliver.In this manner the detrimental effects, caused by the fibre points sticking out, are eliminated. Particularly the defective points in the end product produced, caused by these fibre points, are eliminated, fly waste generation in the processing room is reduced and, owing to the reduction of the danger of clogging of the fibre sliver guiding funnels, the operational reliability of the subsequent processing machines is improved.

Abstract: Carding cylinder takeoff apparatus for producing a randomized web of textile fibers comprises a doffing roll, a wire covered transfer roll closely spaced from the doffing roll surface and a rotatable takeoff roll having a resilient rubber surface with a Shore A Durometer hardness of less than about 80 closely spaced from the transfer roll. The transfer roll is rotated in the same surface direction and at a surface speed less than that of the doffing roll for transferring the fibrous web and forming fiber hooks in the web to randomize it. The takeoff roll is rotated in the opposite surface direction and at a surface speed greater than that of the transfer roll for removing the randomized web from the transfer roll.