Material Outer End Removed From Package Patents (Class 242/476)
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Patent number: 10969556Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing optic fibers from multiple spools of optic fiber involving one or more rotating trees on which spools of optic fiber are seated, a transport passage and a rotating carousel. The free end of a fiber is pulled through the passage and attached to the rotating carousel such that the rotation of the carousel removes the rest of the fiber from the spool(s). The passage can be equipped with one or more rollers to reduce the friction between the fibers and the passage. The carousel may feature retractable rails to facilitate removing the fibers. The passage may also feature a blower and/or a venturi that provides suction to facilitate the movement of one or more fibers through the passage. A reciprocating tracking unit can be used to spread the fibers onto the carousel.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: NET RECYCLING, LLCInventors: Thomas Gardner, Forrest Cleveland Bacon, Martin Lee Rice
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Patent number: 10384908Abstract: A textile machine and associated operational method are provided, wherein the textile machine has a plurality of workstations for (a) delivering a thread to a bobbin, (b) laying the thread on the bobbin, (c) winding the thread on the bobbin, and (d) finding a thread end wound on the bobbin with a suction nozzle. The thread is run through the suction nozzle during delivery to the bobbin such that the thread enters an inlet mouth in the suction nozzle and exits the suction nozzle through an extraction mouth. Starting from a thread delivery device at the workstation, the thread is run freely until the thread enters the inlet mouth of the suction nozzle directly in front of the bobbin. For finding of the thread end wound on the bobbin, the thread end is sucked into the suction nozzle through the extraction mouth.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Rieter Ingolstadt GmbHInventors: Mario Maleck, Thomas Gruber, Robin Wein, Christian Kettner, Robert Hagl
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Patent number: 10202254Abstract: A system and associated operational method are provided to extract a thread by suction from a bobbin and for re-attachment of a thread end of the thread to a new thread. The thread is extracted from the bobbin by sucking the thread in against its spooling direction on the bobbin through a suction nozzle and into an extraction port of an extraction system. A loop is subsequently formed in the thread, and the thread is separated in the area of the loop. One thread end of the separated thread is discharged into an extraction port, and the other thread end coming from the bobbin is prepared for re-attachment to a new thread. Upon being extracted by suction into the extraction system, the thread is guided through an eyelet located in a run of the thread to the extraction port and the eyelet, together with the thread, is moved out of the run of the thread to the extraction port such that the thread forms the loop between the bobbin, the eyelet, and the extraction port.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Rieter Ingolstadt GmbHInventors: Mario Maleck, Thomas Gruber, Robin Wein, Christian Kettner, Robert Hagl, Romeo Pohn
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Patent number: 8805151Abstract: A lashing assembly lashes together two or more fiber optic telecommunications cables. The lashing assembly comprises at least a first and a second bobbin. As the cables are passed through the first bobbin, twine pays off from the first bobbin and wraps around the cables in a clockwise helix. As the cables are passed through the second bobbin, twine pays off from the second bobbin and wraps around the cables in a counterclockwise helix. In this way, the twine from the first and second bobbins lash the cables together as the cables are passed through the first and second bobbins.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Wayne M. Kachmar, Ronald J. Kleckowski, Trevor D. Smith
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Publication number: 20080217462Abstract: The device is intended for the detection of a thread during the detection of the ends of threads (21) in suction pipe (17) crossflown by air, comprising a sensor device (22) having a transmitter (31) and a receiver (32) in a textile machine that produces cross-wound bobbins. A measuring field (26) is formed between the transmitter (31) and the receiver (32). The suction pipe has a curvature in the area of the measuring field (26). The measuring field (26) is arranged in the proximity of the smaller radius of the suction pipe (17), which has a recess (27) oriented in the running direction of the suction pipe (17) in order to form the measuring field (26). The suction pipe (17) is curved upstream and downstream of the measuring field (26) in such a way that the detected thread is tensed inside the recess (27) in such a manner that it is spaced at least partly from the bottom of the recess (27) in the measuring field (26), thereby making it possible to easily and reliably detect the thread.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2004Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: SAURER GMBH & CO.KGInventors: Erwin Peters, Thomas Wegmann
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Patent number: 6126107Abstract: A yarn manipulating device for textile packages, e.g., a preparation device (17) for loosening and placing the yarn end (30) of a spinning cop (16) in preparation for use as the feeding bobbin in a winding machine, comprises pneumatic yarn-end receiving member (18) connected via a suction line (23) to a housing (31) which contains an air aperture (33) and a yarn separating device (32) and therefrom to the vacuum system of a textile machine, preferably to a waste collector (24). The suction line (23) connecting the yarn-end receiving member (18) to the housing comprises an end (34) which extends inwardly past the front housing wall (35), as viewed in the direction of flow R of the suction air (36).Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1999Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.Inventor: Helmut Kohlen