Patents Examined by Robert R. Mackey
  • Patent number: 4796340
    Abstract: A yarn texturizing nozzle and method of thread-up of the nozzle are disclosed, and wherein the temperature of the nozzle remains substantially unchanged during yarn thread-up. The nozzle includes a body member having a yarn passageway extending therethrough, and the passageway is adapted to be laterally opened to permit the lateral insertion of the yarn during thread-up. Means are provided for supplying a heated treatment fluid such as air to the passageway, and control means are provided for maintaining the mass flow rate of the air substantially the same during yarn thread-up as when the passageway is closed during normal yarn processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Barmag AG
    Inventor: Klaus Gerhards
  • Patent number: 4794679
    Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for simultaneous sizing and drying a complete number of warps of filament yarns required for weaving of cloth. During sizing, a warp sheet having high yarn density is put to uniform arrangement state using a first slant reed and a guide roller, and the warp sheet in the uniform arrangement state passes through a sizing solution and is squeezed at high pressure. The sized yarns are separated using dividing rods and a second upright reed before preparatory drying, and separated using a third upright reed and dividing rods after the preparatory drying, thereby the sized yarns in separated state in vertical and lateral directions pass through hot air during the preparatory drying. Yarns separated after the preparatory drying are put to uniform arrangement state using a fourth slant reed and a guide roller, and the yarns in the uniform arrangement state are laid over heating cylinders during finishing drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: Kawamoto Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshitsuyo Hiraki
  • Patent number: 4794677
    Abstract: Tubular textile fabric passes through a singeing apparatus preferably vertically upwardly. A guide path including a circular spreader guides the tubular fabric past gas operated singeing nozzles which are position adjustable in parallel to the longitudinal travel direction and radially thereto. The circular spreader forms a conical zone in the tubular fabric and the singeing nozzles are located around the conical zone so that an axial position adjustment of the nozzles changes the spacing between the nozzles and the fabric and a radial adjustment of the nozzles centers the nozzles relative to the fabric. The conical zone may taper in a direction opposite to the travel direction or in the travel direction of the fabric. The taper and its direction is determined by the diameter and the location of fabric guide rings forming part of the spreader. Cooling devices are located downstream of the singeing nozzles as viewed in the travel direction of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Werner Strudel
  • Patent number: 4793036
    Abstract: Apparatus for removing waste rovings from bobbins, in which the bobbins are conveyed in contact with a flocked endless belt driven in an opposite direction to the driven direction of the conveyor for the bobbins, the conveyor accommodating bobbins individually, and being provided with an air nozzle for ejecting compressed air against the bobbins, thereby removing fine fibrous waste therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Murao Boki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 4793531
    Abstract: A hanger for garments of the type having a waistband has a rigid body resistant to compression loads applied lengthwise thereof. The ends of the hanger are so designed that the waistband of a garment can be wrapped around them and then resiliently pulled with sufficient force that the garment seats firmly against the end faces of the hanger body. The hanger has one or more hooks to engage the waistband and a resilient stretchable member to apply tension to the waistband by means of the hook. The end faces of the hanger are so designed that the garment, once tensioned along its waistband, will have no tendency to slide either upwardly or downwardly with respect to the hanger body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell O. Blanchard, John H. Batts
  • Patent number: 4793035
    Abstract: The amount of textile warp size added to a sheet of threads in a running slasher is controlled by measuring the force applied to a separator bar, by passage of alternate threads on alternate sides of the bar. This force is the result of the dried size, which causes adjacent threads to adhere to each other. The force is compared to a predetermined value corresponding to the desired amount of size to be added to the threads. Based on this comparison, the pressure on the nip rolls is adjusted in order to squeeze more or less of the size solution from the threads. In this way, the amount of size added is maintained substantially equal to the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Donald L. Nehrenberg, Robert L. Washburn
  • Patent number: 4792071
    Abstract: A coat hanger structure with a variable configuration provided with an accessory-holder mainly for the display of garments in general includes a plurality of tubular elements that can modularly combine in various ways and an upper support element and a lower suport element for the garments, which can be positioned in various ways on a straight portion of one of the tubular elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Assignee: Benetton S.p.A.
    Inventors: Afra B. Scarpa, Tobia Scarpa
  • Patent number: 4790086
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and kit for ironing wrinkled fabrics or clothes without using heat or an iron is disclosed. A board is covered with furniture grade velour, bristle side facing upwards. The wrinkled article to be pressed is spread out on the upwardly facing velour bristles. The hands of the user are then placed against the article, palms down, and the article is pressed by the palms against the bristles. The article is then "ironed" using the operator's hands in a spreading motion to move wrinkles from the center of the article radially outward to the perimeter of the article. In this "ironing" process, the palms and fingers of the hands keep a downward force on the article as the wrinkles are spread to extinguishment at the perimeter of the article. When all of the wrinkles have been spread to and extinguished at the perimeter of the article, the article is lifted from the velour bristles and will be wrinkle free. In some instances, sprinking water on the article facilitates the ironing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Inventor: Ann-Britt Bosson
  • Patent number: 4788756
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for correcting the bow distortions in a fabric web during a tentering operation is disclosed, and which includes a tension applying means at each of the entry and exit ends of the tenter frame, and such that a tension is applied at each of the respective opposite ends of the tenter, with the applied tensions being directed in opposite directions. A sensor is provided for detecting either a leading or a trailing bow in the advancing web, and a control system is provided which acts in response to a signal from the sensor to change the tension applied at one or both ends of the tenter frame and thereby straighten the bow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1988
    Inventor: Frank W. Leitner, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4785510
    Abstract: A fixed base plate provided with a circular recess accommodates a rotating disk. Mounted above the base plate and the rotating disk, is an endless band conveyor swivellable about the axis of the roller in the area of the edge of the base plate. The rotating disk is fitted with a channel through which the yarn is guided from below into the space between the disk and the lower run of the band conveyor in which loops are formed and moved toward the edge of the base plate. Arranged at the edge of the base plate, below the conveyor, is a belt, receiving the loops. The drives of the band conveyor and the belt conveyor form a single unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: G & W Maschinen AG
    Inventor: Emil Asfour
  • Patent number: 4783887
    Abstract: A machine for classifying, cleaning and arranging textile tubes, including an intake section for bringing in both clean tubes and tubes containing yarn residue, a classifying section which circulates the tubes so that the clean tubes are separated from the tubes containing yarn residue, a cleaning section for cleaning the yarn residue from the tubes containing the same, and an arranging section for arranging the tubes so that they are properly oriented for packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Inventor: Jose R. Trias
  • Patent number: 4782566
    Abstract: An arrangement for texturizing continuous filament threads using a heated flowing medium comprises a housing which includes a feeding portion, a treatment portion and a crimping portion. The crimping portion includes a stuffing chamber in which the threads are longitudinally compressed to produce crimping of such threads. The crimping portion has openings through which the medium fed into the stuffing chamber with the threads can escape from the stuffing chamber. The crimping portion accommodates a plurality of lamellae which are arranged in a star-like configuration and jointly bound the stuffing chamber. A jet introduces a gas stream into the stuffing chamber in a direction which differs from the direction of advancement of the threads through the stuffing chamber, the gas stream penetrating between the lamellae into the stuffing chamber. At the commencement of the crimping operation, this gas stream causes initial retardation of the continuous thread passing through the stuffing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventors: Werner Nabulon, Peter Grossenbacher
  • Patent number: 4777706
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing endless, needled, longitudinally oriented, paper machine felts having a predetermined width formed from a plurality of overlapping loops of a narrower width strip is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Morrison Berkshire, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter P. Stanislaw
  • Patent number: 4777906
    Abstract: Apparatus is shown for mixing and dispensing an epoxy adhesive. An epoxy resin and its associated curing agent are simultaneously loaded from separate cartridges into a length of flexible PVC tubing, part of which is contained between a rotor and a stator. Bearings, mounted rotatably about the rotor, engage and travel along the tubing as the rotor is revolved, each bearing compressing the tubing at its point of engagement. The tubing, repeatedly compressed and released by each bearing in succession, kneads the epoxy resin and curing agent into a homogeneous mixture. From the tubing, the epoxy mixture is deposited on a moving carrier tape and forms a continuous bead. Downstream, a control tape is spaced apart from the carrier tape and moves in the opposite direction. As the bead encounters the control tape, the control tape removes part of the bead material from the carrier tape and plastically forms the remaining mixture into a film of a uniform thickness substantially less than the bead diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Magnetic Peripherals Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Mourning, Gordon W. Nygren
  • Patent number: 4778088
    Abstract: A garment carrier which is particularly suited for holding scarves, mufflers, gloves and the like. The garment carrier of the present invention includes a hanger adapted to be hung on a conventional closet bar. At least one set of rings having a plurality of different size rings are secured to each other so that the rings increase in diameter from one end and to the other end of the set. The smallest ring is then attached to the hanger so that the set of rings depends downwardly from the hanger. Each ring forms an opening which is designed to receive a garment, such as a scarf, muffler or the like therethrough. In addition, preferably spring loaded clips are also secured to and depend downwardly from the hanger and are adapted to hold gloves, hats and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Inventor: Anne Miller
  • Patent number: 4775421
    Abstract: Strand lap-ups may be removed from textile rolls by using the present method and apparatus while the textile rolls remain in position on the textile machine or by initially removing a roll with a lap-up thereon from the textile machine before shearing and severing the lap-up and replacing the removed roll with another roll free of any lap-ups. The present apparatus includes a wheeled hand truck with a vertical array of spaced shelves with at least one of the shelves containing replacement textile rolls and another shelf serving to receive textile rolls having lap-ups thereon. An electrically powered shear is associated with the hand truck and includes a pair of generally parallel cooperating rows of teeth facing in a common direction with the free ends of the teeth being blunt to prevent damage to the roll when being utilized to remove the lap-up from the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Ronald M. Heafner
    Inventor: Joe R. Whitehurst
  • Patent number: 4773133
    Abstract: The method for relaxing knitted fabrics according to the invention uses humidity, heat and agitation of the fabric. Said agitation is caused by projecting the fast-advancing fabric against a rigid support on which the then nontensioned fabric piles up.The projection of the knitted fabric is obtained by driving said fabric by friction and without slipping, by means of a movable element of projection into the outlet zone from which the fabric is projected against a receiving zone of the support, which receiving zone is situated close to the outlet zone of the projecting element and substantially transversely to the direction of projection.The movable element of projection is a movable belt turning over two cylinders of which one at least is a driving cylinder, whose driving speed can reach 600 meters/minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignees: Institut Textile de France, Agence Nationale de Valorisation de la Recherche Anvar
    Inventors: Eugene Voisin, Philippe Aujard
  • Patent number: 4773135
    Abstract: An improved method for manufacturing an artificial fur from an intermediate pile cloth such as a double velvet weave fabric, a knitted pile fabric provided with two ground constructions and a connecting pile connecting these two ground constructions, and an intermediate pile cloth provided with looped pile projected upward from a ground construction fabric or knitted fabric or non-woven fabric. In the method of this invention, the continuity of the pile yarns of the intermediate pile cloth is broken by sliding separation, so as not to break at least a partial number of fibrous material which will become guard hair of the artificial fur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Seiichi Yamagata, Masaski Sakai
  • Patent number: 4773136
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of lubricating warp yarn ends arranged in sheet form (W) on the dry side of the drying process (16) as part of the process of preparing a loom beam (22) on a slasher. The method comprises providing a pair of rotating porous lubricating rods (40, 42) arranged on a frame (44, 46) attached to a frame portion (88) of the slasher. The rotating porous rods are provided in the form of a hollow rod having an after lubricant surface (B), an inner lubricant distribution layer A, and a boundary region (32) in which a flow control membrane (C) is formed. The above described construction provides a highly accurate flow control and metering of the lubricant from the interior of the rod outwardly to the application surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Inventors: Scott O. Seydel, William H. Cutts
  • Patent number: 4769879
    Abstract: A continuous method is provided for mechanically conditioning a textile sheet material having a face and a back moving in a longitudinal direction, which comprises subjecting successive adjacent sections of both the face and back of the material across the entire width of the material to impact and friction with flexible impact means such that at least some simultaneous impact occurs with at least one impact means on the face of the material and at least one impact means on at least a portion of a corresponding section on the back of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Wolfgang K. F. Otto