Splicing Patents (Class 57/22)
  • Patent number: 4481761
    Abstract: A pneumatic yarn splicing apparatus having a splicing member arranged in the central portion thereof. The splicing member comprises a yarn splicing hole of a cylindrical shape extending through the body of the splicing member, a slit extending along the splicing hole and two nozzles opened to the splicing hole in confronting relation. The two nozzles are so constructed that there is a time lag between the initiation of jetting at a first nozzle and the initiation of jetting at a second nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 4476671
    Abstract: Device for the partial straightening and parallelizing of fibers of a thread or thread end, including a turbine being drivable by compressed gas, the turbine including a rotor being accessible from outside the turbine, the rotor having a central opening formed therein being coaxial with the axis of rotation of the rotor for receiving a thread or thread end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld
  • Patent number: 4470248
    Abstract: An arrangement for winding yarn (3) from a supply roll (2) by means of a flyer (4) onto a bunch of wires fed through the center hole of the supply roll for automatically transferring to the unwinding of a new supply roll (2') when the yarn on the first supply roll (2) is used up or broken. The new supply roll (2') is disposed downstream of the first supply roll (2) seen in the direction of feed of the bunch of wires and a second flyer (4') is associated with it. Downstream of the new supply roll (2') and the second flyer (4') there is a holding device (13) to loosely hold the free end of the yarn (3') on the new supply roll (2') as long as the yarn (3) on the old supply roll (2) is not used up or broken. At its free end the yarn (3') on the new supply roll (2') is formed into a sliding knot (15) carried by the holding device (13), through which sliding knot the bunch of wires (1) is freely fed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Bengt A. Nortenius
  • Patent number: 4468918
    Abstract: A compressed gas splicing head assembly in an automatic splicing device for producing a knot-free thread connection by splicing, includes a compressed gas splicing head having a splicing channel with two ends formed therein defining a plane of symmetry in longitudinal direction of the splicing channel, the splicing head having outlets for the splicing channel formed therein, and the splicing head having at least two compressed gas injection openings formed therein discharging in said splicing channel mutually opposite and offset to the left and right of the plane of symmetry for holding and mutually tangling, bunching, swirling and winding fibers of two threads to be interconnected, said injection openings including an injection opening disposed closest to a given portion of each respective outlet, and thread and air guides each disposed at a respective one of the ends of the splicing channel, each of the guides obstructing a respective one of the given portions of the outlets, and the threads being disposed
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld, Reinhard Mauries
  • Patent number: 4468919
    Abstract: Respective leading and trailing end portions of two multi-filament yarns are joined together by disposing the leading and trailing end portions of the two multi-filament yarns in longitudinally contacting conditions, clamping the end portions of the multi-filament yarns at two points which are located at a predetermined distance from each other, drawing and slackening the end portions of the yarns between the two points, and blowing air under pressure toward the end portions of the yarns so that a jet stream of air impinges at a predetermined angle upon the end portions of the yarns over a predetermined length of the end portions between the two points for causing the end portions of the yarns to disintegrate into filaments over the aforesaid predetermined length and causing the filaments to entwine on one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: Teijin Seiki Company Limited
    Inventors: Jiro Nakajo, Shunzo Naito
  • Patent number: 4452035
    Abstract: Thread splicing device, including a stationary base body having a first compressed-air canal formed therein, a splicing head being interchangeably connected to the base body, the splicing head having a second compressed-air canal formed therein being in communication with the first compressed-air canal formed in the base body, the splicing head having a plurality of air discharge nozzles formed therein being in communication with the second compressed-air canal formed in the splicing head, and the splicing head having a splicing chamber formed therein being in communication with the air discharge nozzles formed in the splicing head, the splicing chamber including a selectively coverable longitudinal slot for inserting and joining threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld, Reinhard Mauries, Hans-Jurgen Preuhs
  • Patent number: 4446687
    Abstract: A pneumatic yarn splicing apparatus for splicing spun yarns including two nozzle pipes for untwisting and attracting yarn ends to be spliced and a yarn splicing member having a yarn splicing hole which is disposed between the nozzle pipes. The nozzle pipes have opening areas reduced with respect to the diameter of the nozzle pipe to increase the speed of flow of the suction stream of air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mima
  • Patent number: 4445318
    Abstract: Method of producing a knot-free thread connection by splicing, which includes mixing, alternately interlocking and anchoring individual fibers of the threads to be joined to each other in a first pre-splicing operation, and subsequently further and finally intertwining and anchoring the threads to each other in a separate finish-splicing operation, and an apparatus for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Rolf Becker, Josef Bertrams, Franz Grabatsch, Gregor Kathke, Wolfgang Kiesewetter, Herbert Knors, Jakob Leven, Erich Quack, Klaus Rautenberg, Joachim Rohner, Klaus Rosen, Gunter Wilms, Heinz Zumfeld
  • Patent number: 4445319
    Abstract: Device for tying a first thread to a second thread by splicing with pressure gas, the device having a splicing chamber formed with an elongated slot for inserting and tying the threads, at least one pressure-gas channel terminating in an interior space of the splicing chamber, a thread regulator movable from a thread take-up position to a thread delivery position for laying the thread into the elongated slot of the splicing chamber, and controllable parts including thread severing devices for separating ends of the threads, a controllable and adjustable pressure-gas dosing device connected to the pressure-gas channel, a device disposed above the splicing chamber for taking up the thread end of the second thread, a device disposed below the splicing chamber for taking up the thread end of the first thread, a controllable thread gripper for the first thread, and a controllable thread gripper for the second thread, including an opening device in the thread gripper of the second thread, and the pressure-gas chann
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld
  • Patent number: 4445317
    Abstract: An improved splicing method in which both the yarn ends to be spliced are once untwisted and then lapped and then the lapped portion of the yarn ends is subjected to the action of a compressed fluid. The length of the lapped portion arranged in a splicing hole having a jet nozzle can be changed appropriately according to kinds or count number of yarns to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mima
  • Patent number: 4444004
    Abstract: A portable hand-held traversable yarn end splicer adapted to be carried and operated by one hand of an operator while freeing the other hand to serve the splicer preparatory to, during, or after a splicing operation as conditions may require.The invention is characterized by the splicer of the class described provided with: a traverse mechanism responsive to the grip of the holding hand of the operator for axially reciprocating a tensioned segment of a pair of oppositely extending overlapped yarn ends, a wrap wheel responsive to said grip for consecutively winding one or more helical courses of wrap thread around said segment, a stationary cutter responsive to said grip for severing the tail of the yarn end near the beginning of the first course, and a second stationary cutter responsive to said grip for severing the tail of the other yarn end near the end of the first course.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Assignee: A. B. Carter, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred P. Rankin, Buren L. Goins
  • Patent number: 4441308
    Abstract: Thread splicing device, including a stationary base body having a compressed air conduction channel formed therein, a splicing head being exchangeably connected to the base body and having a splicing chamber for inserting and joining threads being formed therein, the splicing head having a compressed air conduction channel being formed therein in communication with the compressed air conduction channel in the base body and terminating in the splicing chamber, and the splicing head having at least one air outlet slit being formed therein at an inclination relative to the longitudinal axis of the splicing chamber and being in connection with the compressed air conduction channel formed therein at the splicing chamber, and a cover for temporarily covering the splicing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld, Reinhard Mauries
  • Patent number: 4439978
    Abstract: A pneumatic splicing apparatus for spun yarns comprising a splicing member having a splicing hole and a jet nozzle for jetting a compressed fluid into the splicing hole, control nozzles arranged on both the outer sides of the splicing hole to suck and to untwist the yarn ends, cutting devices for cutting the yarn ends, and yarn guiding means for inserting the yarn ends into the splicing hole. The control nozzles provides with a cylindrical sleeve slidably fitted in the nozzle hole thereof to change the position of a jet hole of the control nozzle relative to the yarn ends to be untwisted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mima
  • Patent number: 4438621
    Abstract: Thread joining device, including a stationary basic body having a channel for compressed air formed therein, a splicing head having formed therein a splicing chamber for inserting and joining threads and a compressed air channel for communication between the splicing chamber and the channel formed in the basic body, and means for easily exchangeably fastening the splicing head to the basic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventor: Joachim Rohner
  • Patent number: 4437299
    Abstract: In an apparatus for joining textile threads with the aid of compressed air, there is provided a device for checking the tearing strength of the joint zone of the threads before their extraction from the apparatus. The device comprises at least one mobile member arranged to act on the loop formed by the joined threads with a predetermined traction force at an intermediate point between the points at which the threads are locked at the apparatus inlet. Control means are provided which are operated so that they travel through a predetermined outward and return stroke and act on said mobile member by way of a yieldable coupling which is set to yield when the predetermined traction force is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Assignee: Mesdan S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ferdinando Truzzi, Mauro Premi
  • Patent number: 4437298
    Abstract: An apparatus for joining textile threads with the aid of compressed air, for mounting in an automatic winding machine, comprises, in front of and behind a mixing chamber, opposing walls with guides for positioning the threads laterally to the chamber and perpendicularly to its longitudinal axis. The front wall carries members for crossing-over the threads before their insertion into the chamber. In the vicinity of the positioning guides for the thread locking members, the opposing wall, at which the threads to be joined enter the apparatus, carries adjustable members for adjusting the length of the free ends of the threads after they have been cut, and an adjustable member for operating a valve which controls the entry of compressed air into the chamber. A control drum which can be coupled to a power take-off of the winding machine is provided with profiled cam grooves for controlling the movements of the mobile members of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Assignee: Mesdan S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ferdinando Truzzi, Mauro Premi
  • Patent number: 4433534
    Abstract: A pneumatic yarn splicing apparatus 12 for spun yarns comprises a yarn quiding means 24, 25, yarn-cutting devices 22, 23, yarn end control nozzles 20, 21 and a yarn-splicing member 19. The yarn-splicing member 19 includes a flat jet nozzle 35 opened on a yarn-splicing hole 33 perforated through the yarn-splicing member 19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mima
  • Patent number: 4432197
    Abstract: A method for preventing abnormal splicing. When two or more yarns are sucked from the package by the suction arm or when a slab or other disorder is detected by the detecting device, the yarn is cut in response to a yarn cutting signal from the detecting device, and after completion of the splicing operation, the yarn is forcibly cut again and the splicing operation is conducted again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Ueda, Isamu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4432194
    Abstract: A splicing head has a turbulence chamber which is circular in cross section. The turbulence chamber is cylindrical or has a cylindrical center portion and conical outwardly enlarging end portion, and an insertion slot. Air inlet passages open into the cylindrical portion along tangents and in opposite directions so that air under pressure through the passages creates circumferential flow in opposite directions. Air is supplied alternately to the two passages, creating oppositely alternating air currents in the chamber, thereby twisting and joining thread ends inserted through the slot into the chamber without having overtwisted or untwisted portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Schweiter AG
    Inventor: Rudolf Luz
  • Patent number: 4428992
    Abstract: Reinforcement fiber for fiber-reinforced resin composites such as graphite tows are spliced by applying a solution of a linear, soluble, high glass transition temperature polyimide having good thermal-oxidative stability to the broken ends of a fiber, placing the ends in contact and removing solvent. The preferred polyimide is an aromatic-cycloaliphatic diamine such as 5,(6)-amino-1-(4' amino phenyl)-1,3-trimethylindane (DAPI) imidized with a dianhydride such as PMDA or BTDA. The soluble polyimide can be preapplied to the fiber as a sizing. The splices are not apparent by visual inspection nor by instrumental scanning of cured composites indicating there is no blistering nor loss of strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: Hitco
    Inventor: Sidney W. Street
  • Patent number: 4424663
    Abstract: Thread splicing device, including a stationary base body having a first compressed-air canal formed therein, a splicing head being interchangeably connected to the base body, the splicing head having a second compressed-air canal formed therein being in communication with the first compressed-air canal formed in the base body and the splicing head having a splicing chamber formed therein being in communication with the second compressed-air canal formed in the splicing head, the splicing chamber including a selectively coverable longitudinal slot having a slot bottom and being operable for inserting and joining threads, the slot having a substantially circular cross section, at least in the vicinity of the bottom thereof, forming a partly full circle leaving an open aperture for inserting and removing the threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld, Reinhard Mauries, Hans-Jurgen Preuhs
  • Patent number: 4423586
    Abstract: A pneumatic yarn splicing device comprises a bracket, a yarn splicing member mounted on the bracket and having a pair of side faces and a yarn splicing hole extending transversely between the side faces, the yarn splicing member including an air ejection nozzle for ejecting a compressed air flow into the yarn splicing hole, and a pair of yarn presser levers pivotably mounted with respect to the bracket and each having on a distal end thereof a step defined by a first portion close to one of the side faces and a second portion spaced therefrom, the yarn splicing hole being partly closable by the first portion when the yarn presser levers are angularly moved to bring the step into confronting relation to the yarn splicing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: Mutata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Isamu Matsui
  • Patent number: 4419859
    Abstract: A splicing apparatus for spun yarns includes a splicing member having a cylindrical splicing hole formed to pierce through the splicing member, a V-groove, a slit extended from the lower end of the V-groove to the upper portion of the splicing hole and a jet nozzle opened in the splicing hole. Control plates for covering the opening of the splicing hole partially is arranged to be adjustable on both the sides of the splicing member to control the quantity of the fluid flowed out from the opening of the splicing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mima
  • Patent number: 4419858
    Abstract: Thread splicing device, including a stationary base body having a first compressed-air canal formed therein, a splicing head being interchangeably connected to the base body, the splicing head having a second compressed-air canal formed therein being in communication with the first compressed-air canal formed in the base body and the splicing head having a splicing chamber formed therein being in communication with the second compressed-air canal formed in the splicing head, the splicing chamber including a selectively coverable longitudinal slot for inserting and joining threads, the slot having a flat slot bottom and a substantially prismoidal cross section being modified in accordance with specifications of the threads to be spliced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld, Reinhard Mauries, Hans-Jurgen Preuhs
  • Patent number: 4419860
    Abstract: Splicing device for producing a knot-free thread connection by splicing, including a splicing head having a longitudinal groove formed therein for the insertion of threads to be joined together, the splicing head having a plurality of cross grooves formed in the longitudinal groove and the splicing head having compressed air supply holes formed therein, at least two of the cross grooves having at least one compressed air supply hole terminating therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Rolf Becker, Josef Bertrams, Franz Grabatsch, Gregor Kathke, Wolfgang Kiesewetter, Herbert Knors, Jakob Leven, Erich Quack, Klaus Rautenberg, Joachim Rohner, Klaus Rosen, Gunter Wilms, Heinz Zumfeld
  • Patent number: 4416110
    Abstract: A splicing apparatus for spun yarns includes a splicing member having a splicing hole and a jet nozzle jetting a compressed fluid. Yarn end control nozzles, yarn cutting devices, a yarn gathering lever and yarn clamping devices are arranged in sequence on both sides of the splicing member. The yarn gathering lever for taking out the yarn ends left in the untwisting nozzle is regulated with the quantity of turning by a stopping means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1983
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mima
  • Patent number: 4414799
    Abstract: A device and method are shown for splicing a rope of the type made up of multiple strands. A frame is adapted to receive a length of rope to be spliced. A flexible cable extending between sides of the frame secures the rope within the frame. A fluid actuated piston-cylinder and cable-pulley arrangement cooperate to provide an upwardly biasing force to bias a selected strand of the rope outwardly from the remaining rope strands secured within the frame. The user of the device can then pass a strand free end through the opening to effect a splice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Inventors: Louis Alexander, Willie Brown, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4414798
    Abstract: A splicing apparatus for spun yarns comprises a splicing member which has a cylindrical splicing hole, a slit for insertion of the yarns and a jet nozzle jetting a compressed fluid and opened to the splicing hole in the tangential directions, and yarn end control nozzles, yarn cutting devices, a yarn guiding means and yarn clamping devices, which are arranged in sequence on both sides of the splicing member. Control plates for covering the opening of the splicing hole partially is arranged on both the sides of the splicing member to control the quantity of the fluid flowed out from the opening of the splicing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Hiroshi Mima
  • Patent number: 4411128
    Abstract: Pneumatic yarn splicing method and apparatus for spun yarns. Suction nozzles for controlling yarn ends are arranged on both the sides of a splicing nozzle with a nozzle hole for jetting a compressed fluid. The sucking action of the yarn end control nozzle is stopped when or after the treatment of the yarn ends is completed, and then, a compressed fluid is jetted from the splicing nozzle to effect splicing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mima
  • Patent number: 4408442
    Abstract: Method for joining an upper thread with a lower thread, which includes moving at least one thread regulator from a thread receiving position to a thread delivery position, inserting the threads with the at least one thread regulator into a longitudinal groove formed in a splicing chamber, automatically admitting compressed air laterally into the splicing chamber for splicing the threads, automatically separating the ends of the upper and lower threads and blowing compressed air into the splicing chamber in dependence on the position of the at least one thread regulator, separating the threads to form new shorter thread ends, sucking up the newly-formed shorter thread ends with an air stream, and securing the newly-formed shorter thread ends and device for performing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventor: Joachim Rohner
  • Patent number: 4407117
    Abstract: A method for the splicing of two twisted staple yarns includes the steps of untwisting portions of each yarn, drafting these portions to form beards and retwisting the beards to form the splice. In one aspect of the invention, the untwisting is effected by rolling the yarns between two surfaces at nip point to rotate the yarns. In a second aspect, each yarn is gripped between nips at two locations (defining the respective yarn portion) which are spaced apart by a distance not significantly greater than the mean yarn fibre length; after untwisting, the beards are formed by drawing the ends of the yarns in opposite directions and longitudinally through the adjacent nips, whereby both ends of each beard are held between the nips defining the respective yarn portion. Also disclosed is apparatus for carrying out the respective aspects of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Inventor: Russell K. Garnsworthy
  • Patent number: 4406115
    Abstract: To unravel a terminal portion of a textile yarn, in particular in preparation for joining that yarn to another one by twisting their ends together, an extremity of the yarn is vibrated to loosen the fibers while a part of the yarn spaced from its end is held fast and the yarn extremity is combed or subjected to an aspirated air stream to remove loose fibers. In a preferred arrangement the air stream also causes vibration of a flexible tongue mounted in an air duct alongside the yarn extremity to oscillate its fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1983
    Assignee: Fomento de Inversiones Industriales S.A.
    Inventors: Guy Negaty-Hindi, Carlos Pujol, Erwin Zurcher
  • Patent number: 4397140
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for interentangling ends of multi-filament yarn and tow which involves subjecting the overlapped ends to jets of gaseous fluid to interentangle the ends. The method involves employing a plurality of jets, one of which tends to rotate at least one of the filaments, and the other of which tends to move the filaments transversely. The jets act on the filaments when they are in motion from a previous jet. The apparatus provides a chamber for containing the overlapped ends and for defining the jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Sherwood Research Corporation
    Inventors: Richard W. Sheehan, Willys D. Burnett
  • Patent number: 4397138
    Abstract: Method of joining textile threads, respectively, formed of a plurality of twisted-together filaments by splicing the threads with the aid of compressed air, the threads being inserted into a splicing chamber having a compressed-air channel communicating therewith, the threads being fed from two sides of the splicing chamber and being held by respective thread holding members, which includes, prior to splicing the threads, freeing the threads of the twist formed therein in a region thereof at which the splicing connection is to be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld, Ivica Romic
  • Patent number: 4397137
    Abstract: Yarn splicing chambers which in one form comprise a block with an open channel therethrough, one wall of the channel being vertical and the other inclined to form an included angle of between 30.degree. to 45.degree. . An inlet is provided centrally of the bottom of the channel for admission thereto of gas under pressure of 5.5 bars to produce vortex flow having a predominant direction of rotation when, in use, the open top of the channel is sealed by a shutter, the gas exhausting out of the open ends of the channel into which yarns are introduced for splicing. An alternative form of chamber comprises a block having an open channel therethrough wherein each wall of the channel comprises a first wall portion substantially vertical with respect to a flat bottom portion of the channel at respective end portions of the channel, and a second wall portion inclined with respect to the said flat bottom portion, and the inlet means is located within the central portion of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Pentwyn Precision, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gerald B. Davies, Roger J. Shea
  • Patent number: 4397139
    Abstract: Controlled compressed-air splicing device for textile threads with a controlled compressed-air metering valve supplied from a compressed-air supply device, including an automatic quality control device for ensuring the quality of spliced joints formed by the splicing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Edmund Wey, Gregor Kathke, Herbert Knors, Klaus Rosen
  • Patent number: 4393646
    Abstract: A splicer includes a splicing head into which the two yarn ends are introduced through an inserting slot into a turbulence chamber. The turbulence chamber is formed from two juxtaposed frustum-shaped chambers interconnected by a connecting slot. A pressure medium is tangentially introduced through one opening into each chamber for forming the splice and the flow is guided in a lemiscate-like path through the two chambers. As a result of the two oppositely directed pressure medium flows, the two yarn ends are axially centrally fixed, while the two pressure medium flows escape in the direction of the larger chamber ends and thereby subject the yarn ends to a turbulent and twisting actions, so that a joint is formed having no projecting yarn ends and no weak points due to the reduced yarn twist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1983
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Schweiter AG
    Inventor: Sergio Lucchetta
  • Patent number: 4391086
    Abstract: An apparatus to recover and restring a broken threadline in a processing multiple running threadlines includes a waste suction device to collect the broken threadline, an interlacing jet to splice the broken threadline onto a running threadline, a forwarding jet to maintain tension on the broken end, a coanda surface at the exit end of the forwarding jet to deflect the broken end into the suction device. While the broken end travels over a notched swing pin to the waste suction device the swing pin is moved to contact the running end which is pulling the broken end spliced to it forward. The action of the swing pin and a pin or cutter blade at the exit of the forwarding jet serves to sever the filaments of the tensioned broken-end threadline which results in a double end running to a sucker gun at the windup. The ends are then separated, placed in the proper guides and restrung.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1983
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.
    Inventor: Charles H. Doherty, III
  • Patent number: 4386494
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for binding fiber bundles, as produced in the textile industry. Each of the two fiber bundles is mixed with the other fiber bundle in two regions of the binding and is wound around in a force-locking manner with individual fibers originating from the fiber bundles. The loose ends of the two bundles to be bound are automatically severed during the course of the formation of the binding and the remaining ends are introduced or worked into the binding using a pair of rotatable disc-shaped deformation members which are selectively movable toward one another while rotating to engage the fiber bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1983
    Assignees: Ernst Felix, Zellweger Uster Ltd.
    Inventor: Ernst Felix
  • Patent number: 4361003
    Abstract: In a device for splicing textile yarns by admixing and intermingling the component fibers thereof, a mechanical unit is provided which essentially comprises thread-clamping members comprised of fixed component parts formed pairwise on the sidewalls of the machine in an advanced position relative to the fiber-blending chamber and to the cutting members, the latter cutting members being adjustably actuated by actuators operatively connected to the blending-chamber lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: Mesdan S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Bertoli
  • Patent number: 4356688
    Abstract: The yarn pieces to be joined are stretched between the two pairs of suction tubes (28, 29; 30, 31) and untwisted by being wound about spindles (20, 21). Hot compressed air fed along the surface of two blocks (32, 33) adjacent to the untwisted yarn portions remove free fibers and distribute the fiber tufts in the base of a channel formed in said blocks (32, 33). Said tufts are retained in the base of the channel by an electrostatic field formed with the aid of conductors (46) and the generator (GE). The blocks are then rotated about the rotation shafts (4, 5) until the channel edges are in contact with each other. Air is fed perpendicularly to the plane containing the fiber tufts in proximity to their respective ends in order to cause the fibers of the two tufts to interpenetrate, the spindles (20, 21) then being driven in the reverse direction in order to twist the fiber tufts and to disengage the yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Edwin Zurcher, Guy Negaty-Hindi, Carlos Pujol
  • Patent number: 4355498
    Abstract: In a device for splicing textile yarns by fibre-intermingling with the aid of compressed air, a pneumatic timing unit is provided for adjusting the duration of the compressed air jet. The unit essentially comprises a timing reservoir composed by a number of spaces interconnected with each other and communicating with the fibre-blending chamber, a cutoff valve controlling the flow of air from the air source to the blending chamber. An auxiliary throttling means permits to adjust with the desired accuracy the flow of compressed air from the timing reservoir to the blending chamber, so that it becomes possible to select the proper time of jet duration according to the yarn types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Assignee: Mesdan S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Bertoli
  • Patent number: 4344277
    Abstract: Method for connecting an upper thread to a lower thread, which includes inserting the threads into a longitudinal groove formed in a chamber for connecting the threads with a thread feeder being movable from a thread receiving position to a thread delivery position, splicing the threads together in the chamber using compressed air acting on the threads from the side, securely holding the threads up to the application of the compressed air when the threads are inserted into the chamber uncrossed, and securely holding the threads which are inserted into the chamber during the splicing in the immediate vicinity of the chamber when the threads are crossed during movement of the thread feeder, and a device for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1982
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld, Reinhard Mauries
  • Patent number: 4343143
    Abstract: A binding for bundles of fibers in which fibers originating from at least one of the fiber bundles wind around the rest of the fibers in a manner locked by tension. Fiber bundles which are to be bound are deformed between deformation members and fibers are removed from at least one of the fiber bundles and are wound in a manner locked by tension around the remainder of the remaining pieces of fibers to be bound. Deformation members are positioned very close to each other, each having a profiled surface, and they can be driven in opposite directions with respect to each other. The fiber bundles which are to be bound are deformed in the gap between the deformation members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1982
    Assignee: Zellweger, Ltd.
    Inventor: August Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 4341066
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for binding fiber bundles which reduces an abrupt cross-sectional course at each end of the fiber bundle resulting from the loose ends of the bundles having been removed. The loose ends are, during the binding operation, severed in a fraying manner by abrasive edges and the frayed bound ends are worked into the resulting binding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Assignee: Zellweger Uster Ltd.
    Inventor: August Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 4341065
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for avoiding untwisting during the formation of a binding of two fiber bundles. The rotational direction of deformation members acting on the fiber bundles is selected to be different in different groups of deformation members in order to reproduce or to increase the original twist during the binding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Assignee: Zellweger Uster Ltd.
    Inventors: August Baumgartner, Martin Plaschy
  • Patent number: 4322943
    Abstract: Device for joining an upper thread to a lower thread by splicing, including a splicing chamber for inserting and joining the threads, a compressed air canal ending inside the splicing chamber, a thread feeder being movable from a thread receiving position to a thread surrender position for inserting the threads into the splicing chamber, thread cutting means for cutting off ends of the upper and lower threads to produce shortened thread ends, a controllable and adjustable compressed air dosing valve being connected to the compressed air canal, first pneumatic means disposed above the splicing chamber for receiving the shortened thread end of the lower thread, second pneumatic means disposed below the splicing chamber for receiving the shortened thread end of the upper thread, and suction nozzles disposed on the pneumatic means having screen-like perforated surfaces, the thread cutting means, dosing valve and pneumatic means being controllable as a function of the position of the thread feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1982
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld
  • Patent number: 4314437
    Abstract: Splicing assembly, including a splicing device having a pneumatic thread splicer for joining an upper thread to a lower thread and a testing device for monitoring the tensile strength of the splice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1982
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventors: Joachim Rohner, Heinz Zumfeld
  • Patent number: 4292796
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for splicing the ends of spun yarn by inserting the yarn ends into two air jet nozzles, in which they are doubled and subjected to an air jet to join them each other. Yarn end cutting and holding devices for the top yarn and the bottom yarn and automatic yarn inserting devices are disposed at each end of the jet nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mima
  • Patent number: RE31594
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for splicing the ends of spun yarn includes means for inserting the yarn ends into a hole associated with a splicing nozzle having one or more air jet pipes, in which hole the ends are subjected to an air jet to join them each other. Yarn end control nozzles for the yarn on the package side and the yarn on the bobbin side are disposed at each end of the splicing nozzle to suck the yarn ends in the corresponding yarn end control nozzles, respectively and to keep the yarn ends free therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirosi Mima