Patents by Inventor Alphonsus J. Lambe

Alphonsus J. Lambe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for cleaning carding flats
    Patent number: 5259092
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for the intermittent cleaning of carding flats by the use of pressurized air. A carriage having a plurality of nozzles is oscillated intermittently back and forth on a track adjacent to flats revolving about a carding cylinder of a carding machine. Pressurized air delivered from the nozzles on the flats blow trash and debris from the clothing of the flats downwardly into a vacuum plenum for disposal. A proximity sensor is provided for sensing a flat to initiate the cleaning cycle, wherein the carriage and nozzles are activated for cleaning a particular carding flat. After the cleaning cycle, delivery of pressurized air to the nozzles is ceased and is again activated upon the next predetermined cleaning of a carding flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: John D. Hollingsworth on Wheels, Inc.
    Inventors: Alphonsus J. Lambe, Gary F. Keener