Abstract: A separator for successively seizing threads (14) held in an array (28) includes a frame (10) having a front face or recess gap (12) and in which two or more strap or bar needles (15, 16, 18) are slidably disposed side by side. Each needle is provided with a pair of facing hooks (20, 22; 24, 26) at opposite sides of a cutout in its forward edge for cooperatively seizing a single thread for separation when the needles are driven in opposite directions.

Abstract: An apparatus and process to produce a spun-like synthetic yarn which employs a filament loop breaker which is periodically and automatically opened to break the vacuum pressure to allow lint collected therein to be released and collected.

Abstract: A suspender hangar apparatus is disclosed for holding a plurality of suspenders. The hangar includes a mounting block, a lower portion having a clip to grip the suspenders, and an upper portion having two laterally extending arms over which the suspenders are draped.

Abstract: A seam is provided for a papermaker's felt for use in a papermaker's machine. The seam joins a felt having at least four layers of machine direction yarns in which at least two layers at each end of the felt are finished in loops, and the remaining layers are finished with or without loops. The loops of the ends to be joined are mated, and a pintle is inserted to close the seam.

Abstract: A clothing hanger formed of a synthetic plastic material and comprising a body portion adapted to support articles of clothing and a hook portion by which the hanger may be supported. The body portion comprises a pair of arms each of which has a cross sectional configuration having a non-central neutral axis. Each arm includes a pair of, spaced apart, first webs positioned on the neutral axis, a second web displaced on one side of the neutral axis, a pair of connecting webs one of which connects the second web with each of the first webs extending from each end of the second web towards and through the neutral axis, and flanges extending transversely of the first webs on both sides of the neutral axis. The hangers according to the invention are lighter and stronger than prior art hangers and may be produced more rapidly than such prior art hangers.

Abstract: A clothes hanger with a suspension hook, where a continuous slot, lying essentially in the plane of the hook, is situated in the area of the top of the curve of the suspension hook. A rod is pivotably mounted in this slot in such a fashion that its free end can swing between two terminal positions, in which it extends below or above the curve of the hook.

Abstract: A thermoplastic material web is stretched transverse to the machine direction along a stretch course which widens exponentially in the stretching zone, an improved stretching apparatus being used to effect such stretching.

Abstract: The invention relates to automatic stretchers of sleeves of knitted garments and the like, for ironing machines. These stretchers are composed of chains (1) having links (12), on one side, shaped with conventional grip teeth (13) and, on the other side, with flat surfaces (14) ending in perpendicular side ledges (15). Another feature is constituted by the fact that the chains have their ends pivoted on slides (2), mobile along the external side edges (3) of an extensible elastic frame (4), and on fixed points (5) included inside carters (6) incorporated in the frame (4). In the carters (6) are included powered cogwheels (8), which engage the chains (1).

Abstract: This invention pertains to a spreader roll adapted to remove wrinkles, ripples, bags and torque marks from fast-traveling webs of material of fabric, plastic or combinations thereof. The resulting fast-traveling web has a smooth, uninterrupted surface. This spreader roll is not a bowed or grooved roll, but is a straight roll having a resilient outer tubular rubber sleeve. The supporting shaft is straight, rigid, non-rotating, and is carried by support blocks. This outer sleeve is retained at each end by clamp means which is carried by anti-friction bearings. This clamp means includes a bearing ring which is pivotally carried by the central shaft. Each pivoted bearing ring is individually adjusted to stretch the resilient cover to remove the distorting wrinkles, ripples, bags or torque marks in the fast-moving web. A multiplicity of disc brushes is carried on a freely rotating tubular member and these brushes are positioned by spacer rings.

Abstract: An apparatus and process to produce a spun-like synthetic yarn which employs a filament loop breaker which is periodically and automatically opened to break the vacuum pressure to allow lint collected therein to be released and collected.

Abstract: The invention concerns a thread separator for seaming machines, especially the seaming of dewatering webs, drying webs, felts and so on.The object underlying the invention consists therein to optimize the reliablility of the function of the thread separator by configuring their gripper needles such that the singling out of each foremost thread of a row of warp threads of the web is ensured and each piercing and taking with of the following thread is avoided.It is proposed to construct the gripper needles as separator needles, providing them with special hooks, of which at least two are located with respect to the upper side and the lower side of the web strip related to the row of threads in the same or parallel level opposite to one another, the tips thereof being directed to the opposing thread surface, respectively. The separator needles are provided with concave apertures adapted to the diameter of the thread which is to be separated on grasping it.

Abstract: A device to aid an individual in putting on an elastic stocking. The device includes a member with a slidable surface. The member has a U-shaped portion on a front end extending into a flat base portion on the back end. The U-shaped portion has opposed side walls extending upwardly from a flat bottom base. A stocking is bunched up and slid over the front end and onto the side walls to form a cavity for inserting a first foot of the individual. The second foot exerts pressure on the flat base portion while the first foot slides along the flat base portion and into the stocking cavity. The stocking slides off the side walls and the front end as the first foot is slid forward. In the process the stocking is slid on the first foot of the individual.

Abstract: The method for the production of partial warps wound on warping beams or sectional beams, or warps of synthetic filament yarns wound on warp beams, which are completely stretched and sized, consists of sizing a group of parallel synthetic thermoplastic filament yarns, the filaments of which are not completely stretched, in a sizing zone, predrying the sized yarns in a heated predrying zone, subjecting the predried sized group of yarn by final drying in a heated final drying zone, and finally winding the dried group of yarns on warping or (sectional) beams, while the filaments of the filament yarns are stretched jointly and simultaneously in the predrying zone. The stretching occurs preferably between rolls (5, 6) assigned to the sizing zone and rolls (10) assigned to the final drying zone. The method may be carried out with conventional, at most slightly modified sizing machines and it furnishes very uniform partial warps or warps.

Abstract: Yarn hairiness is reduced by employing a vortex action of a fluid, such as air or steam. Yarn in a substantially dry condition is passed in a generally linear path through a body having a central through-extending generally linear passageway that is circular in cross-section. A plurality of bores are provided in the body which extend from the periphery of the body to intersect the central passageway, being tangentially disposed with respect to the central passageway. Fluid under pressure is introduced into the bores, and creates a vortex action which acts upon the yarn to twist and lay down protruding hairs that cause yarn hairiness. The bores are preferably disposed at an angle of about 40.degree.-50.degree. with respect to the central passageway, and are spaced along the length of the passageway. Shortly after the yarn exits the body, hot melt sizing is applied to it to maintain the protruding hairs in their laid down position.

Abstract: An apparatus for needling a nonwoven web comprises a needle carrier, which is adapted to be driven, and a bedplate and a stripper for guiding the web between them. In order to impart a pure rotary motion to the needle carrier, the needle carrier consists of a roller and is adapted to rotate about its own axis and to revolve in the opposite sense about an axis of revolution which is parallel to the axis of the roller so that each needle describes a hypocycloidal path.

Abstract: A garment hanger is provided comprising a middle section with a hanging member such as a hook mounted thereon and two end sections with means for engaging a garment. At least one of the end sections is arranged for sliding movement relative to the middle section between a retracted position and an extended position. In particular, the end section may be telescopically mounted within the middle section. The end section is urged towards the extended position by an elastomeric band. In one aspect of the invention, the elastomeric band, when in the retracted position of the end section, is longer than the length of overlap between the said end section and the middle section. In another aspect of the invention, the band is trained in a path such that, as it stretches, an increasing proportion of the material of the band extends between the end section and the middle section to urge those sections apart.

Abstract: An apparatus for texturizing endless filament threads comprises a thread infeed portion, a treatment portion and a crimping portion. The crimping portion is structured as a so-called slotted nozzle provided with lamellae arranged in a star-shaped array. The lamellae are insertably held at their upper ends and at extensions provided at their lower ends in substantially half-circular-shaped insert members provided with slots. The upper insert members are firmly received in a separable connector element and the lower insert members in a separable mouth portion. Furthermore, in accordance with the invention, the insert members possess cleaning grooves which in the opened condition, i.e. the separated condition of the connector element or mouth portion, as the case may be, can be cleaned, for example by utilization of compressed or pressure air, to enable removal of dirt or other contaminants from the slot base of the insert members.

Abstract: Filament cables are crimped and the crimp cake of the filament cable obtained is passed over a gas permeable screen plate while gas flows to the bottom of the cake from flow through the screen plate so that the cake can be moved over the plate without making contact therewith or with reduced contact force and can be treated during its residence over the screen plate.

Abstract: In an improved crimping process, use is made of a stufferbox where(a) lid and/or floor are arranged movably and(b) in the working position, the distance between lid and floor at the inlet opening is smaller than the distance between lid and floor at the outlet opening.

Abstract: A locking garment hanger is disclosed in which a single length of wire similar resilient material is formed into a generally triangular frame member having a hook portion for suspending the hanger from a suitable support. Arm members depend angularly downward from the hook portion and are joined by a transverse garment supporting rod member. Integrally formed in the wire are clip means in generally horizontal planar alignment with the rod member and spring means for biasing the clip means against a garment disposed on the rod member upon lateral displacement of the clip means from a resting position to a garment securing position.