Patents Examined by Robert R. Mackey
  • Hanger for bow ties and suspenders
    Patent number: 4768649
    Abstract: A hanger for the hanging of suspenders jointly with a bow tie of the type having a bow and a bow retaining member arranged centrally of the bow and circumscribing same, the hanger comprising an integral body having a first portion for engaging a display rod, and a second portion depending from the first portion and defining at least one pair of suspender hanging openings and further defining a bow tie hanging opening in the body and bounded in first part by continuous wall structure of the body and in second part by a discontinuity in the body providing a passage into the bow tie hanging opening, separate parts of the continuous wall structure respectively aside the passage being mutually deflectable, permitting the receipt in the bow tie hanging opening of the bow tie retaining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: B&G Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chester Kolton, Stuart S. Spater
  • Adjustable cedar-wood hanger insert
    Patent number: 4768686
    Abstract: An adjustable insert of aromatic cedar wood for insertion into the interior of a clothes hanger to prevent against moths and silverfish. The insert is made up of two relatively adjustable members, both of which are made of aromatic cedar wood, the upper member having a substantially rectangular shape. The two members are adjustable toward and away from each other by a screw and associated knurled nut. The coacting surfaces of the members are formed with grooves for receiving therein respective portions of the interior surfaces of the frame of the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Inventor: Henry L. Storti
  • Apparatus for straightening of weft threads in textile fabric
    Patent number: 4768265
    Abstract: Apparatus for straightening distorted weft threads comprising a number of flexible rods (1) which form a roller shell (2) around a shaft (3). In the center of the roller shell (2), the rods (1) are connected articulatedly with a disk (5) disposed on the shaft (3) and are thereby held at a certain diameter in this region. In the region of the sides of the roller shell (2), the rods (1) are hinged via load levers (7) to sleeves (11) displaceable on the shaft (3). Via a driven spindle (15), the position of the sleeves (11) and hence also the form of the roller shell (2) can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: H. Krantz GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Roland Hampel
  • Rubber boot removal apparatus
    Patent number: 4768687
    Abstract: Soft rubber boot removal apparatus comprising a pair of coacting U-shaped heel grasping jaws which in one embodiment are mounted to a pair of pivoting handle members. In a floor-mounted version, a stationary jaw mounts to a tapered base plate and a movable jaw mounts to a pivotally-mounted, pedal-actuated axle member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Inventor: Dwight Ault
  • Apparatus for removing residual rovings on roving bobbins
    Patent number: 4765043
    Abstract: An apparatus for removing residual rovings on roving bobbins in a most efficient manner. A roving bobbin has an annular sticking cloth secured to a portion of the peripheral surface thereof for attaching of a wind-starting end of a roving wound around the roving bobbin. The roving bobbin is rotated in a direction in which the roving is wound around the roving bobbin. A jet of air is directed toward the sticking cloth substantially in a tangential direction thereof in such a manner as to oppose the rotation of the roving bobbin, thereby removing residual portions of the roving attached to the surface of the sticking cloth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Murao Boki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Yamashita
  • Apparatus for the production of short warps especially for cloth designs in multicolor weaving
    Patent number: 4765041
    Abstract: In apparatus for the production of short warps, yarns of different color are consecutively wound up while traversing yarn crossing means. A drum having a conically ascending initial portion is provided as a winding body, while lease rods and an overrun rod are displaceably fitted along the drum axis. A support (18) displaceable along the drum axis includes a thread guide means and a heald frame (24) for shedding. In addition to the lease rods (4,5) serving for the formation of yarn crossings, the warping drum comprises further lease rods (5) for the preparation of yarn divisions (86). As for the heald frame (24), it comprises in addition to the two shafts for the yarn crossing formation, further shafts (27a,b,c . . . ) of a number of corresponding to the yarn divisions of the yarn package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Hergeth Hollingsworth GmbH
    Inventor: Erich Baltzer
  • Stocking holder apparatus
    Patent number: 4765520
    Abstract: Stocking holder apparatus includes a flexible wire frame on which a stocking is placed and is held in place while a user inserts a foot into the stocking. The frame supports the stocking so that the toe of the stocking is accessible to the user of the apparatus. The user makes contact with the toe of the stocking first, and the user's foot moves downwardly through the frame such that the stocking slides off of the frame and onto the user's leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Inventor: Jeffrey E. Barton
  • Hanger for neckties and suspenders
    Patent number: 4765467
    Abstract: A hanger for the hanging of both a necktie and suspenders comprises an integral body having a first portion for engaging a display rod, and a second portion depending from said first portion and defining at least one pair of suspender hanging openings and further defining a necktie hanging opening in the body and bounded throughout by continuous wall structure of the body, the hanger body supporting first and second deflectable members extending collectively across a major extent of the necktie hanging opening and defining thereby first and second portions thereof for respective receipt and retention of successive courses of the necktie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: B&G Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chester Kolton, Stuart S. Spater
  • Apparatus for texturing continuous filamentary tow
    Patent number: 4765042
    Abstract: An improved moving cavity yarn texturing device is described. One improved feature is a two stage energy tube which provides for more effective filling of the moving cavity by the yarn. The first stage has a cross section with a major axis and a minor axis. The second stage has a cross section with a major axis and a minor axis whose ratio is less than that of the first stage. A second feature is an improved chamber design which employs a channel having a "V" shaped cross section which eliminates snagging of the yarn by the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Allied Corporation
    Inventors: Hsin L. Li, Hendrikus J. Oswald
  • Parallel thread supply system
    Patent number: 4761864
    Abstract: A textile material for supplying parallel threads to a machine for manufacturing two-dimensional textile fabrics. The material is loosely woven and has a low number of withdrawable weft loops 3 per unit length. Immediately prior to entering an end-product machine weft thread 2 is withdrawn to the side, so that the remaining group 1 of threads enters the machine. The material passes over braked rollers 31,32 and a bar 35. Retainer stitches 7 are unravelled and the weft thread 2 is passed through a guide 55 onto a transport device 57.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Elastic-Berger OHG
    Inventors: Johann Berger, Josef Berger
  • Method for producing hooks on hook-and-loop fasteners
    Patent number: 4760625
    Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for producing hooks on hook-and-loop fasteners, wherein loops on a loop sheet are cut from the outside thereof on one of the legs thereof near loop heads by reciprocating first movable cutting comb teeth of a first movable blade in a direction perpendicular to the axes of first stationary cutting comb teeth of a stationary blade while the loops are guided along the first stationary cutting comb teeth, thereby producing a hook from each loop thus severed, and then the severed leg of each severed loop is further cut from the outside of the loop near a foundation fabric by reciprocating second movable cutting comb teeth of a second movable blade in a direction perpendicular to the axes of second stationary cutting comb teeth of the stationary blade while the severed leg is held in one of the two adjacent guide grooves defined in the stationary blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K. K.
    Inventor: Ryuichi Murasaki
  • Guiding and spreading device
    Patent number: 4760626
    Abstract: There is disclosed a device for guiding and spreading out a moving material web, which includes a spreading station, a guide station and at least one edge-sensing system downstream from the guide station. The spreading station is arranged downstream from the guide station, so that very high web speeds can be realized because the web corrections are executed very gently and without whipping up the correcting pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Erhardt & Leimer GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Lonner, Franz Mair
  • Boot lifter for elderly and handicapped
    Patent number: 4760942
    Abstract: A boot lifter comprising two elongated members arranged in side-by-side relation, the two members having forward and rearward ends and substantially flat coplanar surfaces thereon, each member having a cut away portion within its forward end forming a substantially U-shape opening adapted to receive the heel portion of the user's boot. Adjustable fastener means are provided for securing the two elongated members together while permitting relative movement of each member with respect to the other, whereby both the size and contour of the substantially U-shaped opening can be varied to fit most any type of boot. A pedestal member elevates the forward end of each member so that when placed on a level surface, the boot lifter is inclined at an angle which will accomodate placement of the idle foot or boot of the user to stablize the boot lifter when removing the boot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Inventor: Sandor Kadar
  • Drawing-in of heddles remote from a loom harness frame
    Patent number: 4760628
    Abstract: Methods and means for allowing heddles to be drawn-in with warp yarns away from a loom for subsequent loading into the loom. A heddle holder allows rows of drawn-in heddles to be carried to the loom. Removable heddle rod sections allow for the heddle holder to load the rows of drawn-in heddles into intermediate portions of heddle rods of adjacent harness frames. The heddle holder also positions the adjacent harness frames during loading of the drawn-in heddles. Individual warp yarn beam canisters provided with the drawn-in heddles facilitate the heddle holder loading of the drawn-in heddles into the harness frames. A protective covering protects the drawn-in warp yarns as they are transferred from the remote drawing-in site to the loom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Steel Heddle Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: Frank H. Kaufmann, Charles F. Kramer, James D. Grigsby, Stephen J. Root
  • Process for the treatment of a filament cable
    Patent number: 4760629
    Abstract: The treatment of a filament cable in a device into which it is introduced, in which it is crimped, treated with a gas, and withdrawn, characterized by the fact that the cable is crimped using a crimping device which is operated gas-dynamically, which has been mounted into the front face of a device for the treatment of the cable with a gas, and is thus introduced into this device in the manner of a sluice, and is folded using a slide with an S-shaped section onto a gas-permeable, horizontally transporting base as a crimping cake, is treated there with the gas, and is finally withdrawn from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Paulini, Wolfram Wagner, Peter Schmitz-Bastian, Robert Bruck
  • Hanger for suspenders with trouser snaps
    Patent number: 4759440
    Abstract: A hanger for the hanging of suspenders of the type having snap means in first open state for receiving the waistband of trousers and in second closed state for closure retentively upon the waistband comprises an integral body having a first portion for engaging a display rod, and a second portion depending from the first portion and defining at least one pair of openings therethrough, each such opening being bounded in first part by continuous wall structure of the body and in second part by a discontinuity in the body providing a passage into the opening, first and second segments of the wall structure respectively aside the passage being mutually deflectable, permitting the receipt in the opening of the suspender snap means in such closed state thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: B&G Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chester Kolton, Stuart S. Spater
  • Method for knitting and separating garment pieces
    Patent number: 4759106
    Abstract: Fabric made up of a series of knitted collars, sleeve bands, bottom bands, plackets, or the like, intended for use on knitted sport shirts, blouses, and the like, and held together by a separator thread with a relatively high melting point is separated by means of gradually heating the fabric to near the melting point of the separator thread and then to the melting point while holding the fabric under tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Quality Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. McPeak, Jerry W. Hicks
  • Garment hanger with auxiliary bar
    Patent number: 4759480
    Abstract: A plastic hanger for articles including garments has article gripping clamps and is provided with an auxiliary bar over with portions of the articles or garments can be draped. The auxiliary bar depends below the hanger and is wider than the spacing between the outer ends of the clamps. The bar can be a separate component pivotally supported by the hanger body or it can be molded as an integral part of the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventors: Everett L. Duester, John H. Batts
  • Stocking assist device
    Patent number: 4756453
    Abstract: A device to assist a person with putting on stockings, or other hosiery, includes a pair of posts connected by a hinge. Each post is fitted with a hosiery inversion arm. A user places a sock, or the like hose, over both arms, the top inverted and the sock toe extending downward between the arms. The user then spreads the posts apart to stretch the sock open and pushes a foot into the open sock, the sock unfolding as it is mounted on the foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Inventors: John J. Pettit, Frank Pettit
  • Method and arrangement for crimping cables of synthetic fibers
    Patent number: 4756063
    Abstract: Crimping of cables of synthetic fiber is performed by an arrangement in which a cable is supplied by rotatable compression rolls with a high speed into a compression chamber, and a cooling air is supplied into the compression chamber, wherein water is added to the cooling air in form of fine droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Assignee: Neumuenstersche Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Vehling, Diethard Huebner