Patents by Inventor Grant M. Fletcher

Grant M. Fletcher 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).

  • Process for apparatus for collecting continuous supplied yarn to waste
    Patent number: 5086679
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for accumulating yarn from a continuous supply source to waste and apparatus for cutting the yarn initially and upon preparation for threading the yarn into a continuous process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: BASF Fibres Inc.
    Inventor: Grant M. Fletcher
  • Apparatus and process for automatically taking up a continuously supplied yarn
    Patent number: 4856722
    Abstract: An automatic transfer device and process for the transfer of a continuously supplied yarn from a first take-up tube, which usually has a full package thereon, to a second take-up tube, which has usually no yarn thereon. In carrying out this process, the apparatus automatically cuts and aspirates the continuously supplied yarn, and an actuator arm applies the yarn to the second take-up tube by moving the continuously-supplied yarn into contact with a yarn snagging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: BASF Fibres, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Horsey, Laurent C. Pilon, Grant M. Fletcher, Arland W. Horner