Patents by Inventor Jochen Cuppers

Jochen Cuppers 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).

  • Apparatus for moving a yarn processing device
    Patent number: 5816515
    Abstract: In connection with a device for retracting and advancing a thread processing element in relation to a threadline it is provided that the retracting and renewed advancing is caused solely by switching on a drive motor in a direction opposite its normal operational direction of rotation. For this purpose a drive member, which is maintained fixed against relative rotation in this direction of rotation, and another drive member which can be rotated in this direction of rotation in relation to the first by way of a drive motor, are provided, which change a rotating movement into an axial movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
    Inventors: Andreas Kruger, Franz-Josef Flamm, Jochen Cuppers, Joachim Stiller, Reinhard Marquardt