Pneumatic Doffing Patents (Class 19/59)
  • Patent number: 9090053
    Abstract: An air dispenser attached to a printing press has a tube with a plurality of holes for directing air toward sheet material moving toward the gripper of the printing press to ensure registration and accurate feeding of the sheet material to the gripper of the printing press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Inventor: Bruce A. Franke
  • Patent number: 4856148
    Abstract: Differential ginning is achieved by modifications to conventional saw-type ginning including, providing a saw gang including at least two saw sections each including at least one saw blade, conveying of material to be ginned (e.g. seed cotton) successively to each section, ginning of the material in each section so as to separate a portion of lint from the material, and separate removal of lint from each section. Thereby producing portions of lint, wherein the fiber qualities vary from portion to portion e.g. separating longer fibers from shorter fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventor: Eugene P. Columbus