Patents Examined by William E. Dondero
  • Patent number: 11414287
    Abstract: A roller (1) is used for guiding and/or width stretching of a running material web (2). The roller (1) has a supporting body (3), on the outside of which receptacles (4) for axially displaceably held battens (5) are provided. These grasp the material web (2). In order to improve the functionality of this roller (1), at least one undercut groove (6) is formed on the supporting body (3) between at least two of the battens (5). This undercut groove (6) can receive at least one functional component (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Texmag GmbH Vertriebsgesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Spatz, Bernd Rester
  • Patent number: 11401130
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a manual multispool cabinet for winding a number of filaments (40, 40a) onto a respective removable transport spool (14, 14a) having a driven main winding shaft (10, 10a) per transport spool (14, 14a), wherein the main winding shaft (10, 10a) is formed for an exactly fitting reception of the transport spool (14, 14a, 214), and wherein the main winding shaft (10, 10a) drives the transport spool (14, 14a). Providing such a manual multispool cabinet that has such an increased filament speed is achieved in that, in addition to the transport spool (14, 14a), a buffer spool (12, 12a) is held on the main winding shaft (10, 10a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventor: Karl Friedrich Rolf Wetekam
  • Patent number: 11401068
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for packing articles as well as a device for counteracting winding up of film or web material for an apparatus for packing articles, the packing being formed by at least one web material conveyed over at least one pulling roller, wherein the device for counteracting winding up is disposed in relation to the pulling roller and extending at least partially around the pulling roller, whereby is achieved an easy, secure and functional device that efficiently counteracts and obviates the possibility of web material being wound around a pulling roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GRAM EQUIPMENT A/S
    Inventor: Steen Pedersen
  • Patent number: 11390485
    Abstract: A yarn tensioner is adapted for adjusting tension in a running yarn. The yarn tensioner has a base, an adjustable pin rack, a fixed pin rack, and a fastener assembly. The adjustable pin rack is carried by the base and incorporates a first plurality of spaced apart parallel friction pins. The fixed pin rack is carried by the base and incorporates a second plurality of spaced apart parallel friction pins residing alternately between the friction pins of the adjustable pin rack. The running yarn travels across the yarn tensioner by snaking over and under adjacent parallel friction pins of the adjustable pin rack and the fixed pin rack. The fastener assembly attaches the adjustable pin rack to the base, such that the adjustable pin rack is movable relative to the fixed pin rack, thereby controlling frictional drag on the running yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: American Line, LLC
    Inventor: Donald Lynn Hoover
  • Patent number: 11377768
    Abstract: A feed assist apparatus for a flexible sheet material spreader, comprising a first arm attached at a first end to one side of the material spreader, a second arm attached at a first end to another side of the material spreader, and a material retainer attached at a second end of each of the first and second arms, the material retainer having a first configuration for feeding flexible sheet material there-through and a second configuration for retaining flexible sheet material. The first arm and the second arm are moveable together from a first position adjacent a flexible material supply and a second position adjacent entry to the material spreader, and the material retainer is in the second configuration when the moveable arms are in the first position, and the material retainer is in the first configuration when the moveable arms are in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GERBER TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Hong Pan
  • Patent number: 11370635
    Abstract: A single box type electric wire pushing and pulling machine is disclosed herein. It comprises a U-shaped shell having a first panel and a second panel, and an assembling socket accommodated in the U-shaped shell and having a first holder, a second holder, an adjusting rod disposed between the first holder and the second holder for adjusting the spacing, two extension parts respectively extended from an upper end and a lower end of the second holder, a gear axle hole defined by front ends of the two extension parts, two long troughs respectively disposed at a front end and a rear end of the second holder and two limit members correspondingly assembled to the two long troughs for respectively connecting with the first panel and the second panel of the U-shaped shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Shiu Chuan Fa Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11365078
    Abstract: An elastic roll includes: a roll core; an inner-layer laminate covering an outer-peripheral surface of the roll core parallel to a roll longitudinal direction; a surface-layer elastomer including a tubular portion covering an outer-peripheral surface of the inner-layer laminate, and edge portions connected to the tubular portion, covering both end surfaces of the inner-layer laminate orthogonal to the roll longitudinal direction, and arranged in a manner being in contact with the roll core; and end-portion sealing structural bodies configured to press the edge portions of the surface-layer elastomer against the roll core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kawashita, Hiroki Shoji
  • Patent number: 11358828
    Abstract: There is provide a process for unwinding material from a spool (2) wherein the angle (?) of take off at the first contact point (4) for the unwind is always in the range 0±20°, and wherein the first contact point (4) for the unwind is no more than 600 mm from the axis (3) of rotation of the spool (2). There is also provided an apparatus for the unwinding of material from a spool (2) comprising an axis (3) upon which a spool (2) may be rotatably mounted and a static first contact point (4) for the unwound material positioned no more than 600 mm from the centre of the axis (3), wherein the angle (?) of take off at the first contact point (4) for the unwind is always in the range 0±20°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: HEXCEL COMPOSITES LIMITED, HEXCEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Ellis, Anthony Loccisano
  • Patent number: 11358829
    Abstract: A filament winding apparatus winds, around a workpiece, a fiber bundle formed by bundling a plurality of fibers. The filament winding apparatus includes a widening roller that rotates while making contact with the fiber bundle that is being conveyed. The widening roller has, provided on the peripheral surface, a plurality of projecting ridges extending in the axial direction, the projecting ridges being arranged side by side in the circumferential direction. The projecting ridges make contact with the fiber bundle to thereby widen the fiber bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Noji, Kosuke Tatsushima, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Kenta Umetsu
  • Patent number: 11357366
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a web material feed assembly for a web material dispenser comprising a housing, the web material feed assembly comprising first and second rollers rotatable relative to the housing of the dispenser about first and second parallel axes. The first roller is provided with friction rings forming a nip between the first and second rollers for feeding the web material therethrough, at least one of the friction rings comprising a recessed surface forming an anti-wrinkling space between the first and second rollers. The disclosure also concerns a web material dispenser with such a web material feed assembly and a method for preventing wrinkles in a web material dispensed by a web material dispenser with such a web material feed assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CASCADES CANADA ULC
    Inventors: John Formon, Jeffrey J. Brickl, Matthew T. Woerpel, Edward A. Raleigh
  • Patent number: 11358830
    Abstract: A robotic spooler may be provided. First, a first take-up section of a Capture, Cut, and Transfer (CCT) device may receive a longitudinally continuous material. Then, the CCT device may cause the longitudinally continuous material to be captured by a first spool adjacent to the CCT device, cause the longitudinally continuous material to be taken up onto the first spool, and to provide a first cut to the longitudinally continuous material. Next, the CCT device may transfer the longitudinally continuous material from the first take-up section of the CCT device to a second take-up section of the CCT device. Then the CCT device may cause the longitudinally continuous material to be captured by a second spool adjacent to the CCT device, cause the longitudinally continuous material be taken up onto the second spool, and to provide a second cut to the longitudinally continuous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWIRE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Neal Dewberry, Kenneth Heifner, Patrick Slaughter
  • Patent number: 11350800
    Abstract: An example sheet product dispenser includes a housing, a first roll holder, and a second roll holder. A first roll of sheet product is positioned on the first roll holder and assigned as a primary roll and a second roll of sheet product is positioned on the second roll holder and assigned as a secondary roll. A dispensing mechanism is configured to dispense sheet product from at least one of the first roll and the second roll. A sensor is configured to sense measurement data associated with the primary roll, including sensing when the primary roll rotates to dispense and measuring the diameter of the primary roll. A data communication device is in communication with the sensor and configured to transmit the measurement data. A controller is configured to determine situational information regarding the sheet product dispenser and provide corresponding alerts to users regarding the situational information and measured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: GPCP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Russel Kobs, Ryan Anthony Goltz
  • Patent number: 11339024
    Abstract: An apparatus for the transportation and dispensing of spooled wire or cable, the apparatus comprising a payoff reel, wherein the payoff reel comprises an arbor hole having a payoff reel diameter and a detachable side car reel, wherein the detachable side car reel comprises an arbor hole having a detachable side car reel diameter and wherein the detachable side car reel is attachable to the payoff reel and wherein the detachable side car reel further comprises a reel lift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Encore Wire Corporation
    Inventors: William T. Bigbee, Jr., Kevin D. Rodgers, John L. Rhoads
  • Patent number: 11339025
    Abstract: A method of winding fibre to create a tubular winding by using at least three different motions to create interlocking segments. The interlocking segments may have at least one fibre parameter that is different, such as colour. The tubular winding may be bent into a curved shape so that a portion of each of the segments is visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SPINRITE INC.
    Inventors: Julia Scarlet Jackson, Amber Monique Ann Groen, Ruhi Arasan, Atakan Arasan, Tolga Arasan
  • Patent number: 11318661
    Abstract: A filament winding device includes: a helical winder which winds a fiber bundle around a liner; a bobbin supporting shaft which rotatably supports a bobbin for providing the fiber bundle to the helical winder and a bobbin different from the bobbin in a state in which winding-initiation ends of the fiber bundle wound around the bobbin and winding-termination ends of the fiber bundle wound around the bobbin connect to each other; and a fiber bundle storage unit. The fiber bundle storage unit has a stopper which can switch the fiber bundle storage unit between a storage state in which the fiber bundle is stored in the fiber bundle storage unit and a storage-released state in which the fiber bundle has been released from storage in the fiber bundle storage unit and the fiber bundle is supplied from the fiber bundle storage unit to the helical winding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Tetsuya Matsuura, Hirotaka Wada, Tatsuhiko Nishida, Shu Ikezaki, Daigoro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11319182
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are stackable cable payout devices and systems for converting cable payout systems to stackable systems. Methods of stacking cable payout devices, such as cable reel rollers are also disclosed herein. Stacking systems disclosed herein may be adjustable, and may accommodate materials commonly available at storage facilities. Devices, systems, and methods disclosed herein allow increased efficiency in storage of cable payout machinery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Cody Norton, Tyler Barr Stogner
  • Patent number: 11312593
    Abstract: An apparatus for the dispensing and retraction of wire or cable. The apparatus including a first and second plate, at least one shaft attached to the first plate and the second plate, a spool gear attached to the shaft, a power gear shaft attached to the first or second plate, and a power gear attached to the power gear shaft and in mesh with the spool gear, wherein when the power gear is rotated, the spool gear is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Encore Wire Corporation
    Inventors: William T. Bigbee, Jr., John L. Rhoads, Andrew P. Hull
  • Patent number: 11311152
    Abstract: An assembly for supporting a roll of sheet product with respect to a sheet product dispenser is provided including a mandrel configured to be positioned within a housing of the dispenser and a spindle. The spindle includes a spindle body positioned over the mandrel and configured to be received within a central opening of the roll. The spindle includes first and second sets of friction elements extending away from respective ends of the spindle body. Each friction element is configured to extend radially inward from the spindle body so as to provide a contact force against the mandrel when the spindle is installed on the mandrel. The contact forces applied against the mandrel may be designed to be constant irrespective of whether the roll of sheet product is installed on the spindle and/or if the inner surface of the central opening of the roll of sheet product has any inconsistencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: GPCP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Roy J. Rozek
  • Patent number: 11305962
    Abstract: Elastic yarn wound body packages able to simplify processing of a tail yarn of an elastic yarn when manufacturing a fabric, or the like, continuously by simultaneous vertical take-up unwinding of a multistage elastic yarn through providing elastic yarn wound body packages on a multistage stand are provided. The elastic yarn wound body package comprises a paper tube and an elastic yarn wound body, wherein: the paper tube has a groove in the circumferential direction, perpendicular to the paper tube axis, between an end portion of the elastic yarn wound body and an end portion of the paper tube; a tail yarn of the elastic yarn wound body is wound into the groove; and a wire-shaped object or tape-shaped object that crosses at least a portion of the yarn bundle of the tail yarn is held thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TORAY OPELONTEX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ozasa, Hideki Nakanishi, Kayoko Nakajima, Koutarou Mizuno, Yutaka Sato
  • Patent number: 11305960
    Abstract: Techniques are directed to a method and a device for monitoring a yarn tension of a running yarn in a yarn treatment process. To this end, the yarn tension of the yarn is continuously measured and the measurement signals for the yarn tension are compared with a threshold value of an admissible yarn tension. In the event of an inadmissible tolerance deviation of the measurement signals, a short-term signal path of the yarn tension is detected as a fault graph. In order to enable a fault diagnosis, the fault graph of the yarn tension is analyzed using a machine learning program. The fault graph is then allocated to one of the existing fault categories or to a new fault category. A device for this purpose may include a diagnosis unit, which cooperates accordingly with the yarn tension evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jörg Huthmacher