Patents by Inventor Winfried Schumacher

Winfried Schumacher 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).

  • Method and device for supplying an automatic winding machine with bobbins
    Patent number: 4685630
    Abstract: A method for supplying winding units of an automatic winding machine with bobbins to be unwound from a bobbin feeding device, includes requesting a bobbin from the feeding device at a given winding unit, depositing a given bobbin requested by the given winding unit at a distance from other bobbins onto a conveyor belt running along the winding units, transporting the given bobbin to the given winding unit on the conveyor belt, subsequently removing the given bobbin from the conveyor belt and conducting the given bobbin to the given winding unit with a controllable bobbin removing device of the given winding unit, and preventing bobbin removing devices of winding units other than the given winding unit from diverting the given bobbin and from conducting the given bobbin to the winding units other than the given winding unit, and a device for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Heinz Buhren, Winfried Schumacher