Patents by Inventor Masaharu Kiriake
Masaharu Kiriake 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).
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Patent number: 5445334Abstract: An unwinding assisting device for an automatic winder. The automatic winder has a winding position at which a cop of yarn is unwound from a take-up tube supported on a tray. A lifting mechanism raises the tray at the winding position as the cop of yarn is unwound from the take-up tube. A tubular member receives the take-up tube therein. The tubular member has an inside diameter that is smaller than the outside diameter of the cop and larger than the outside diameter of the take-up tube.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1994Date of Patent: August 29, 1995Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isamu Matsui, Yoshiyasu Maeda, Yuji Todo, Masaharu Kiriake, Takashi Nakao
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Patent number: 5390868Abstract: A conveyor system for carrying various kinds of bobbins which can easily and reliably discriminate a wrong combination of a tray with a specific mark and a color bobbin of specific color, wherein a spinning bobbin wound on a color bobbin of specific color is inserted on a tray having a specific mark; the tray having the specific mark is selected by a tray selector from a main conveyor line on which two or more kinds of trays are transported together, being distributed to delivery lines and of specific winding unit groups. In the delivery lines, color sensors are mounted for discriminating color bobbins of specific color.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1993Date of Patent: February 21, 1995Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 5374000Abstract: A cop changing mechanism for a winding unit, for transferring a tray supporting a cop in an upright position from a waiting position to a winding position and removing a tray supporting an empty bobbin away from the winding position is provided with a tray holder for pressing down the tray located at the winding position.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1993Date of Patent: December 20, 1994Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isamu Matsui, Yoshiyasu Maeda, Yuji Todo, Masaharu Kiriake, Takashi Nakao
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Patent number: 5215271Abstract: A bobbin switching device for winding units comprising a disk rotatable in taking-in direction along a lower surface of a passage on the taking-in side for taking-in a bobbin erected on a tray from a bobbin supply conveyor to a winding position, and a turnable eject lever for holding a bobbin at a winding position and ejecting an empty bobbin from a winding position to an empty bobbin eject conveyor via a passage on the eject side. The eject lever is driven through a cam row of a winding unit U, wherein the disk is rotatable by mounting of a ratchet wheel and a pawl and the pawl is operatively connected to the eject lever through the cam row and driven.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1992Date of Patent: June 1, 1993Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4995230Abstract: A steam setting system for steam setting a plurality of bobbins reduced by a fine spinning frame in which a steam setting apparatus comprising at least a pair of independent steam setting mechanisms is provided on the way of a bobbin feeder line connecting a fine spinning frame with a winder.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1988Date of Patent: February 26, 1991Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Tone, Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4953798Abstract: In the winding position of each winding unit there is provided a bobbin dislodgement preventing device adapted to come into abutment with part of a bobbin which is fed to the winding position as it is fitted upright on a tray with peg to thereby prevent the bobbin from coming off the peg.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1989Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Tone, Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4875572Abstract: A tray transfer device in which a tray carrying a bobbin is fed along a tray feeding path. The tray transfer device comprises a sliding member which slides along the tray feeding path reciprocally and engaging members which are located on the sliding member by a pitch equal to the predetermined pitch such that the trays may be pitch fed at a time by the engaging members.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1987Date of Patent: October 24, 1989Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4854453Abstract: A cop selecting and conveying apparatus for an automatic winder in which winding units are divided into a plurality of winding sections and different kinds of cops carried on carrying mediums are transferred on the conveying passage to each of the winding sections. A indicia is formed in either the carrying medium or the guide member at the side of the conveying passage and a device for discriminating or detecting the discrimination indicia is disposed at a position to corresponding to the indicia.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1987Date of Patent: August 8, 1989Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Ueda, Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4845937Abstract: A bobbin transfer system consisting of a pair of conveyors, one to carry the spinning bobbins and the other to carry the empty bobbins, each installed at a top portion of a spinning machine to run along the spindle row. The spinning machine and a winder may be connected with each other by the conveyors.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1988Date of Patent: July 11, 1989Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaharu Kiriake, Shoichi Tone
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Patent number: 4844357Abstract: A yarn kind changing process for a spinning winder which comprises the steps of stopping winding of a bobbin being wound on a spinning spindle after a yarn kind changing instruction, cutting a sliver which extends between a draft part of a spinnig frame and a yarn supply station and joining a supply side sliver of a different kind to the sliver remaining on the draft part, starting the spindle again to wind yarn of the new kind on a layer of the yarn of the preceding kind on a winding bobbin, and removing the yarn of the new kind wound on the yarn of the preceding kind before the fully wound bobbin doffed from the spindle is subsequently supplied to a winder.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1988Date of Patent: July 4, 1989Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4809919Abstract: In an automatic winder comprising plural winding units, a preset yarn quantity per lot and a residual quantity of yarn to be taken up are grasped upon generation of a full-loaded signal, then the number of operating winding units is decreased gradually, allowing operation of only winding unit or units of a number corresponding to the residual quantity of yarn to be taken up.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1987Date of Patent: March 7, 1989Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Ueda, Isamu Ikeda, Masaharu Kiriake, Kazuhiko Nakada
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Patent number: 4776468Abstract: A bobbin conveying system comprising a spinning frame, a winder and a bobbin conveyance line which interconnects the spinning frame and the winder and is laid above bases of the machines.A bobbin is independently erected on a tray and carried on the conveyance line and a transfer device for lifting or lowering the bobbin is disposed in a bobbin transfer position between the spinning frame and the conveying line and also in a bobbin transfer position between the winder and the conveying line.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1986Date of Patent: October 11, 1988Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4718560Abstract: A device for sorting and transporting a plurality of different kinds of articles comprises three belt conveyors disposed in adjacent parallel relationship to each other, two of the belt conveyors moving in a direction opposite to each other, guide members for dividing transporting faces of the two oppositely moving belt conveyors into some areas, and a sorting device for identifying and sorting articles transported on the belt conveyor to the respective areas.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1984Date of Patent: January 12, 1988Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4681231Abstract: A cop selecting and conveying apparatus for an automatic winder is disclosed in which winding units are divided into a plurality of winding sections and different kinds of cops carried on carrying mediums are transferred on the conveying passage to each winding sections. A discrimination indicator is formed in either the carrying medium or the guide member at the side of the conveying passage and a device for discriminating or detecting the discrimination indicator is disposed at a position to corresponding to the indicator.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1983Date of Patent: July 21, 1987Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Ueda, Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4613091Abstract: A cop supplying system for an automatic winder in which a plurality of cops from which yarns are to be unwound by winding units are always held in full stock conditions in stand-by positions of the winding units. New cops are successively carried into cop stand-by positions by way of a cop transporting passage and surplus cops are recirculated from a last one to a first one of the winding units by way of a surplus cop recirculating passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1983Date of Patent: September 23, 1986Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4597540Abstract: A full bobbin supply and an empty bobbin ejecting device for an automatic winder disposed between a full bobbin feeding conveyor and an empty bobbin ejecting conveyor. A full bobbin doffed from a spinning frame is fitted on a peg erected on a bobbin carrier and conveyed. The bobbin carrier with the bobbin is stopped at the stand-by position by a first stopper, and then supplied to a yarn running position of the winding unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1983Date of Patent: July 1, 1986Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4576341Abstract: A cop transporting system for an automatic winder in which a single automatic winder can wind a plurality of different kinds of yarn at a time. A winder including a number of winding units therein is divided into a plurality of sections each including a plurality of winding units therein as a group, each of the sections having a specific cop supplying passage provided therein along the winding units. Each of the sections have a cop supply device provided therefor and cops fed out from the cop supply devices are transported to the specific supplying passage of the sections corresponding to the cop supply devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1983Date of Patent: March 18, 1986Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isamu Matsui, Hiroshi Uchida, Kazuo Nakanishi, Masaharu Kiriake, Akira Shimano
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Patent number: 4566644Abstract: A system for transporting and supplying different kinds of cops to an automatic winder. The system includes a cop feeding passages disposed on one side of the winding units of the winder, a bobbin ejecting passage disposed on the other side of the winding units and dividing devices provided in the cop feeding passage and bobbin ejecting passage which can divide the passages at any desired positions in the direction along the unit so that the automatic winder can be divided into a plurality of sections.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1983Date of Patent: January 28, 1986Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaharu Kiriake
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Patent number: 4545551Abstract: A system for transporting various kinds of cops to an automatic winder which includes a number of winding units. The winding units are divided into a plurality of winding sections, whereby a kind of cops from a spinning frame are supplied to and unwound on one of the sections. A cop supplying passage and an empty bobbin returning passage are provided between the sections and the spinning frame so as to form a closed loop.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1983Date of Patent: October 8, 1985Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Kazuo Nakanishi, Masaharu Kiriake, Akira Shimano
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Patent number: 4544107Abstract: A spinning frame is connected to the winder through a delivery passage comprising conveyor belts, rotary disc and the like to form a closed loop. Cops are inserted independently on trays arranged on the delivery passage and are circulated along said closed loop in the state where they are vertically inserted. When the residual yarn-retaining bobbin is detected, the bobbin is re-circulated after required processes such as a pick finding operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1982Date of Patent: October 1, 1985Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isamu Matsui, Yoshio Yamamoto, Kazuo Nakanishi, Masaharu Kiriake, Akira Shimamoto