Patents by Inventor Helmut Feuerlohn

Helmut Feuerlohn 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: 7594382
    Abstract: A joining method wherein fibers of a fiber band are wound around an auxiliary thread threaded into a spinning device and drawn through a spinning cone. The newly spun thread is separated from the auxiliary thread and connected to the end of an upper thread. A spinning device is provided for a jet spinning machine for carrying out such method, comprising a first clamping device for temporary clamping of the upper thread and a second clamping device for temporary clamping of the auxiliary thread. A jet spinning machine for carrying out the method has a mechanism for storing the auxiliary thread and the newly spun thread, a mechanism for separating the auxiliary thread from the newly spun thread, and a splicing mechanism for connecting the newly spun thread to the upper thread, all arranged only on at least one operating carriage displaceable along multiple spinning stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Weide, Helmut Feuerlohn
  • Publication number: 20090094958
    Abstract: A joining method wherein fibers of a fiber band are wound around an auxiliary thread threaded into a spinning device and drawn through a spinning cone. The newly spun thread is separated from the auxiliary thread and connected to the end of an upper thread. A spinning device is provided for a jet spinning machine for carrying out such method, comprising a first clamping device for temporary clamping of the upper thread and a second clamping device for temporary clamping of the auxiliary thread. A jet spinning machine for carrying out the method has a mechanism for storing the auxiliary thread and the newly spun thread, a mechanism for separating the auxiliary thread from the newly spun thread, and a splicing mechanism for connecting the newly spun thread to the upper thread, all arranged only on at least one operating carriage displaceable along multiple spinning stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Weide, Helmut Feuerlohn
  • Patent number: 7441395
    Abstract: A drafting arrangement for a spinning machine, comprising at least one pair of feed rollers, one pair of central rollers and a pair of withdrawal rollers, wherein the lower rollers of the drafting arrangement are configured as roller segments, which are rotated by single-motor drives, and the upper rollers are mounted in a pendulum carrier. The lower roller drive (14) at least of the pair of central rollers (21) is arranged together with its lower roller (21A) in a bearing device (15) in such a way that, after opening of the pendulum carrier (17) receiving the associated upper roller (21B), the lower roller (21A) and its drive (14) can easily be removed from the bearing device (15) in the direction of the pendulum carrier (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Feuerlohn, Christoph Haase, Thomas Weide
  • Publication number: 20070044277
    Abstract: A drafting arrangement for a spinning machine, comprising at least one pair of feed rollers, one pair of central rollers and a pair of withdrawal rollers, wherein the lower rollers of the drafting arrangement are configured as roller segments, which are rotated by single-motor drives, and the upper rollers are mounted in a pendulum carrier. The lower roller drive (14) at least of the pair of central rollers (21) is arranged together with its lower roller (21A) in a bearing device (15) in such a way that, after opening of the pendulum carrier (17) receiving the associated upper roller (21B), the lower roller (21A) and its drive (14) can easily be removed from the bearing device (15) in the direction of the pendulum carrier (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: SAURER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Feuerlohn, Christoph Haase, Thomas Weide
  • Patent number: 6820407
    Abstract: An opening arrangement for an open-end spinning device with a rotating opening roller having opening elements stationarily arranged on its circumference for opening a delivered sliver into individual fibers and for combing out the fibers at a comb-out point. The opening roller has a mechanical stripping arrangement that rotates along with it. The stripping arrangement includes ejectors that are pivotably fastened on the opening roller. Each ejector is arranged between the opening elements and extends over the opening roller transversely in relation to the direction of rotation. The ejector strips combed-out fibers off the opening elements and improves the opening of the opening roller as well as the transfer of the fibers from the opening roller. The opening arrangement is advantageously employed with an open-end spinning frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
    Inventors: Helmut Feuerlohn, Thomas Weide
  • Patent number: 6792744
    Abstract: A spinning device for producing a spun yarn by a circulating air flow in a housing has an adjustment device (17) for controlling the angular position of the fiber ends wrapped around a spindle head, and in turn, the angular position of the fibers wrapped around the produced yarn, by adjusting a linear component of an air flow into the spinning device as a function of the yarn withdrawal speed, whereby a yarn is produced of a required yarn strength even during a spinning start phase in the process of making the spun yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
    Inventors: Helmut Feuerlohn, Thomas Weide
  • Publication number: 20030131579
    Abstract: A spinning device for producing a spun yarn by a circulating air flow in a housing has an adjustment device (17) for controlling the angular position of the fiber ends wrapped around a spindle head, and in turn, the angular position of the fibers wrapped around the produced yarn, by adjusting a linear component of an air flow into the spinning device as a function of the yarn withdrawal speed, whereby a yarn is produced of a required yarn strength even during a spinning start phase in the process of making the spun yarn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2003
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
    Inventors: Helmut Feuerlohn, Thomas Weide
  • Publication number: 20030041587
    Abstract: An opening arrangement for an open-end spinning device with a rotating opening roller having opening elements stationarily arranged on its circumference for opening a delivered sliver into individual fibers and for combing out the fibers at a comb-out point. The opening roller has a mechanical stripping arrangement that rotates along with it. The stripping arrangement includes ejectors that are pivotably fastened on the opening roller. Each ejector is arranged between the opening elements and extends over the opening roller transversely in relation to the direction of rotation. The ejector strips combed-out fibers off the opening elements and improves the opening of the opening roller as well as the transfer of the fibers from the opening roller. The opening arrangement is advantageously employed with an open-end spinning frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
    Inventors: Helmut Feuerlohn, Thomas Weide
  • Patent number: 6314714
    Abstract: A device for producing spun yarn by means of an airflow acting in a twisting manner on the fibers of an untwisted sliver (1) as the sliver is being conducted into and through a spindle assembly (3). The spindle assembly (3) comprises a spindle head portion (5) which conically tapers toward a spindle inlet opening (2) and is rotatable independently of a spindle core portion (7) through which the yarn is withdrawn. The device suppresses any tendency of the yarn strength to decrease at high, increasing numbers of spindle revolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
    Inventors: Helmut Feuerlohn, Liberto Coll-Tortosa, Francesc Roig Munill, Thomas Weide, Jose Antonio Tornero-Garcia, Oliver Schulze
  • Patent number: 6209304
    Abstract: A device for producing spun yarn by means of an airflow acting in the area between a sliver guide and a spindle (13) on fibers of a non-twisted sliver (10) drafted and delivered by a drafting arrangement in order to twist the fibers. Thereafter, the sliver (10) is passed through the spindle (13). Outside of an imaginary center line (9) of the traveling sliver (10), the sliver guide is arranged such that the fibers are passed along the inward lying surface of the sliver guide. The sliver guide comprises fiber guide elements (16) spaced apart from each other, which permit the free passage of a core fiber bundle. An improved spinning process, along with high productivity and increased yarn strength is possible by means of the device of the invention. The spinning device can be manufactured and operated cost-effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
    Inventors: Helmut Feuerlohn, Liberto Coll-Tortosa, Frances Roig Munill, Thomas Weide, Jose Antonio Tomero-Garcia, Oliver Schulze
  • Patent number: 4974718
    Abstract: A yarn package transferring apparatus having a slide for sliding yarn packages thereon from a yarn processing machine and a vertical endless belt assembly for raising the packages from the bottom of the slide to a conveyor which carries the packages for delivering to a location for further handling. The slide has an apparatus for orienting a predetermined leading or trailing end of the packages entering the slide for sliding thereon and a recess adjacent its lower end for uniformly positioning the packages for receipt by the vertical endless belt. A plurality of inclined platforms regularly spaced along the vertical endless belt translationally carry the packages to a package stripper which removes the supported packages from the platforms and loads the packages onto the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Raasch, Helmut Feuerlohn
  • Patent number: 4506497
    Abstract: A method for metering and injecting small amounts of fluid into the splicing air of a splicing head of a compressed gas thread splicing device including a metering valve having a piston with a metering chamber formed therein, the metering chamber having a given volume determining the amount of fluid to be injected, the piston being slideable between a loading position and an injecting position of the metering chamber, a circulating fluid circuit connected to the piston, and a compressed gas circuit connected from the piston to the splicing head, which includes connecting the metering chamber to the circulating fluid circuit in the loading position before splicing, moving the piston from the loading position to the injecting position, and subsequently bringing the metering chamber in contact with a compressed gas current in the compressed gas circuit flowing into the splicing head as splicing air at the moment the fluid is to be injected for splicing, and a device for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventor: Helmut Feuerlohn