Patents by Inventor Eduard Prediger

Eduard Prediger 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).

  • Patent number: 12312712
    Abstract: An air jet spinning machine and a drafting system unit for a spinning unit produce a thread or roving from a supplied fiber strip, with a front roller pair including a front top roller on a load carrier and a driven front bottom roller on a bottom roller carrier, and a bearing element arranged on the bottom roller carrier for movably bearing an air jet spinning nozzle. A reliable pivotable air jet spinning nozzle which can be released from the bottom roller carrier is implemented by the bottom roller carrier including a bearing element having a free end, for receiving the air jet spinning nozzle, wherein the bearing element forms a pivot axis for pivoting the air jet spinning nozzle between an operating position and a second position, wherein the bearing element is connected to a portion spaced apart from the free end on the bottom roller carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Sauer Intelligent Technology AG
    Inventors: Lars Lindemann, Eduard Prediger, Michael Reimann, Philipp Schiffers
  • Publication number: 20240410090
    Abstract: A tube magazine for a textile machine, in particular a spinning machine. This can have a plurality of holding devices for bobbin tubes. The textile machine can have at least one marking device. In order to reduce costs, to save resources and to improve the spinning process flow, it is provided that the at least one marking device is designed and arranged to be assigned to a plane between at least two holding devices in such a way that the at least two holding devices are each assigned to a region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Thomas, Tai Mac, Eduard Prediger
  • Publication number: 20240318362
    Abstract: Method for cleaning an air jet spinning device of a spinning station, an air jet spinning device and a thread-forming unit for an air jet spinning device. The air jet spinning device has a thread-forming unit having a thread-forming element arranged in a vortex chamber of a nozzle unit, and a nozzle unit having at least one air nozzle orientated towards the vortex chamber such that an air flow exiting the air nozzle impinges on the sliver in the vortex chamber with a rotation flow. The thread-forming unit has an element carrier for detachably receiving and releasing the thread-forming element or, alternatively or in addition, can be linearly shifted in conjunction with the air jet spinning device relative to the nozzle unit between a closed operating position and an open cleaning position, and the air jet spinning device can be linearly shifted and/or pivoted in the cleaning position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jochen DRESSEN, Eduard Prediger
  • Patent number: 12054855
    Abstract: Method for cleaning an air jet spinning device of a spinning station, an air jet spinning device and a thread-forming unit for an air jet spinning device. The air jet spinning device has a thread-forming unit having a thread-forming element arranged in a vortex chamber of a nozzle unit, and a nozzle unit having at least one air nozzle orientated towards the vortex chamber such that an air flow exiting the air nozzle impinges on the sliver in the vortex chamber with a rotation flow. The thread-forming unit has an element carrier for detachably receiving and releasing the thread-forming element or, alternatively or in addition, can be linearly shifted in conjunction with the air jet spinning device relative to the nozzle unit between a closed operating position and an open cleaning position, and the air jet spinning device can be linearly shifted and/or pivoted in the cleaning position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Saurer Intelligent Technology AG
    Inventors: Jochen Dressen, Eduard Prediger
  • Patent number: 12006181
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of workstations on the two longitudinal sides of the machine and is equipped with a tube magazine arranged at an end of the machine, the tube magazine having a plurality of empty-tube transport rows, driven by electric motor and loaded with empty tubes of different yarn lots. In order to avoid the fixed division of the empty-tube transport rows that hitherto was defined by the construction of the tube magazine and thus to avoid limited variations in the yarn lot management, the invention provides for the empty-tube transport rows to be equipped with electric drives, which are connected to a control unit of the textile machine, the machine control system being designed in such a way that different lot management programs are set by software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Michael Spitzer, Heiko Toepke, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Wolfgang Doerner, Harald Wassen
  • Publication number: 20240068133
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air jet spinning machine and a drafting system unit for a spinning unit of an air jet spinning machine for producing a thread or roving from a supplied fiber strip, with at least one front roller pair consisting of a front top roller on a load carrier and a driven front bottom roller on a bottom roller carrier and forming a clamping line, and a bearing element arranged on the bottom roller carrier for movably bearing an air jet spinning nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Lars LINDEMANN, Eduard PREDIGER, Michael REIMANN, Philipp SCHIFFERS
  • Patent number: 11873185
    Abstract: A textile machine producing cross-wound packages with a plurality of identical workstations which are arranged in the area of the longitudinal sides of the textile machine and each of which has a winding device, and equipped with a tube supply device which includes a central tube magazine and at least one tube conveyor belt installed in the area of the longitudinal sides of the machine, in which case a cross-wound package can be removed, if necessary, from the winding device of the relevant workstation on the textile machine producing cross-wound packages and can be transferred to a cross-wound package transport device running the length of the machine, and an empty tube provided on the tube conveyor belt of the tube supply device can be inserted by means of a tube gripper into the winding device of the relevant workstation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Philipp Schiffers, Eduard Prediger, Harald Wassen, Michael Spitzer, Dirk Brakensiek, Jonathan Sprecher
  • Patent number: 11649135
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, the machine being equipped with a plurality of workstations arranged next to one another on both longitudinal sides of the machine and having a cross-wound package transport apparatus. The cross-wound package transport apparatus has a first transport device, arranged between the two rows of workstations for conveying cross-wound packages, and a handling apparatus for moving cross-wound packages from the first transport device to the second transport device. The handling apparatus is arranged between the end regions of the first transport device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Robert Geisler, Wolfgang Doerner, Bodo Hansen, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Jonathan Sprecher, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen
  • Publication number: 20230016534
    Abstract: Method for cleaning an air jet spinning device of a spinning station, an air jet spinning device and a thread-forming unit for an air jet spinning device. The air jet spinning device has a thread-forming unit having a thread-forming element arranged in a vortex chamber of a nozzle unit, and a nozzle unit having at least one air nozzle orientated towards the vortex chamber such that an air flow exiting the air nozzle impinges on the sliver in the vortex chamber with a rotation flow. The thread-forming unit has an element carrier for detachably receiving and releasing the thread-forming element or, alternatively or in addition, can be linearly shifted in conjunction with the air jet spinning device relative to the nozzle unit between a closed operating position and an open cleaning position, and the air jet spinning device can be linearly shifted and/or pivoted in the cleaning position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jochen DRESSEN, Eduard PREDIGER
  • Patent number: 11180341
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, comprising a plurality of workstations, each of which has at least one pneumatic consumer, and comprising a suction system which has at least one vacuum source to which the pneumatic consumers of the workstations are connected via a machine-length vacuum duct arranged in the region of the central axis between two rows of workstations. In order to modify such a textile machine producing cross-wound packages in such a way that it is ensured that the required minimum spinning vacuum is always available at all workstations of the textile machine during spinning operation, according to the invention the textile machine producing cross-wound packages has, in addition to the vacuum duct, a machine-length bypass duct which is also installed in the region of the central axis and is arranged above chain ducts for service units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Elisabeth Klaczynski, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Detlef Schelter, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen, Lothar Uedinger, Harald Wilhelm Wassen
  • Patent number: 11174105
    Abstract: A tube storage and transport device for a textile machine producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of similar workstations arranged side-by-side on both longitudinal machine sides, having a central tube magazine and two empty-tube conveyor belts arranged in the region of the longitudinal machine sides is provided. To improve the known tube storage and transport devices, and in particular to optimize the clock times that can be achieved during the empty-tube delivery, the tube magazine has at least two elevator units, that the elevator units have stacked and vertically displaceable holders for empty tubes, that the holders are designed for the empty tubes to be set down in a manner oriented the longitudinal direction of the machine, and that each of the elevator units is connected to one of the empty-tube conveyor belts and is designed in such a way that empty tubes are removed from the elevator units from the longitudinal machine side and transferred onto the empty-tube conveyor belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAURER SPINNING SOLUTIONS GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Erwin Peters, Lothar Winzen, Bodo Hansen, Lothar Uedinger, Robert Geisler, Heiko Toepke, Dirk Brakensiek, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer
  • Publication number: 20210300717
    Abstract: A textile machine producing cross-wound packages with a plurality of identical workstations which are arranged in the area of the longitudinal sides of the textile machine and each of which has a winding device, and equipped with a tube supply device which includes a central tube magazine and at least one tube conveyor belt installed in the area of the longitudinal sides of the machine, in which case a cross-wound package can be removed, if necessary, from the winding device of the relevant workstation on the textile machine producing cross-wound packages and can be transferred to a cross-wound package transport device running the length of the machine, and an empty tube provided on the tube conveyor belt of the tube supply device can be inserted by means of a tube gripper into the winding device of the relevant workstation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Philipp SCHIFFERS, Eduard PREDIGER, Harald WASSEN, Michael SPITZER, Dirk BRAKENSIEK, Jonathan SPRECHER
  • Publication number: 20200392651
    Abstract: A textile machine having a plurality of spinning devices, more particularly air-jet spinning devices, which spinning devices have an inlet opening for a fiber band to be spun, and to a spinning hood for a spinning device of a textile machine. In order to provide a textile machine comprising a plurality of spinning devices, which have an inlet opening for a fiber band to be spun and in the case of which the feeding of contaminants into the inlet opening is prevented as much as possible, there is provision for a spinning hood to be provided, which is designed in such a way that the spinning hood separates a spinning space around an inlet opening of the spinning device from the surroundings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Jochen Dreßen, Eduard Prediger
  • Publication number: 20200340149
    Abstract: A suction channel end part for removing fiber flight in the region of a drafting system by the application of negative pressure, the suction channel end part having a first component, to which negative pressure is applied and which has an inlet and an outlet communicating with the inlet. The suction channel end part is characterised in that the suction channel end part has a second component, which is designed as a cover element and to which negative pressure is applied and which can be exchangeably connected to the first component. The second component has an opening, which, in the joined state of the suction channel end part, forms a suction port, which communicates with the inlet and via which the fiber flight is removed into the suction channel end part when a negative pressure is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Jochen Dreßen
  • Publication number: 20200331721
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of workstations on the two longitudinal sides of the machine and is equipped with a tube magazine arranged at an end of the machine, the tube magazine having a plurality of empty-tube transport rows, driven by electric motor and loaded with empty tubes of different yarn lots. In order to avoid the fixed division of the empty-tube transport rows that hitherto was defined by the construction of the tube magazine and thus to avoid limited variations in the yarn lot management, the invention provides for the empty-tube transport rows to be equipped with electric drives, which are connected to a control unit of the textile machine, the machine control system being designed in such a way that different lot management programs are set by software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Michael Spitzer, Heiko Toepke, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Wolfgang Doerner, Harald Wassen
  • Publication number: 20200331701
    Abstract: A tube storage and transport device for a textile machine producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of similar workstations arranged side-by-side on both longitudinal machine sides, having a central tube magazine and two empty-tube conveyor belts arranged in the region of the longitudinal machine sides is provided. To improve the known tube storage and transport devices, and in particular to optimize the clock times that can be achieved during the empty-tube delivery, the tube magazine has at least two elevator units, that the elevator units have stacked and vertically displaceable holders for empty tubes, that the holders are designed for the empty tubes to be set down in a manner oriented the longitudinal direction of the machine, and that each of the elevator units is connected to one of the empty-tube conveyor belts and is designed in such a way that empty tubes are removed from the elevator units from the longitudinal machine side and transferred onto the empty-tube conveyor belts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Erwin Peters, Lothar Winzen, Bodo Hansen, Lothar Uedinger, Robert Geisler, Heiko Toepke, Dirk Brakensiek, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, I
  • Publication number: 20200189860
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, the machine being equipped with a plurality of workstations arranged next to one another on both longitudinal sides of the machine and having a cross-wound package transport apparatus. The cross-wound package transport apparatus has a first transport device, arranged between the two rows of workstations for conveying cross-wound packages, and a handling apparatus for moving cross-wound packages from the first transport device to the second transport device. The handling apparatus is arranged between the end regions of the first transport device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Robert Geisler, Wolfgang Doerner, Bodo Hansen, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Jonathan Sprecher, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen
  • Publication number: 20200180900
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, comprising a plurality of workstations, each of which has at least one pneumatic consumer, and comprising a suction system which has at least one vacuum source to which the pneumatic consumers of the workstations are connected via a machine-length vacuum duct arranged in the region of the central axis between two rows of workstations. In order to modify such a textile machine producing cross-wound packages in such a way that it is ensured that the required minimum spinning vacuum is always available at all workstations of the textile machine during spinning operation, according to the invention the textile machine producing cross-wound packages has, in addition to the vacuum duct, a machine-length bypass duct which is also installed in the region of the central axis and is arranged above chain ducts for service units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Elisabeth Klaczynski, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Detlef Schelter, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen, Lothar Uedinger, Harald Wilhelm Wassen