With Drafting Patents (Class 57/315)
  • Patent number: 5701729
    Abstract: A system for forming elastomeric core/staple fiber wrap yarn using a spinning machine such as an air jet, roller jet or roller spinning machine. The system includes a package drive assembly, yarn motion and presence sensors, an improved drafting assembly and a yarn clearer delay cylinder to provide continuous formation of superior quality elastomeric core/wrap yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Dixie Yarns, Inc.
    Inventors: John Joseph M. Rees, Leonard L. Hixon, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5699661
    Abstract: This invention is concerned with a spinning apparatus with an arrangement of a spinning nozzle which generates a rotating air current positioned close to the front roller and a pair of false twist units having hollow cylindrical rollers formed from elastic material which are positioned down stream from that spinning nozzle. As contact surfaces are formed that nip the fiber bundle by contacting the hollow cylindrical rollers having elastic properties, the fiber bundle can be reliably nipped in conjunction with the elasticity and the centrifugal force of the hollow cylindrical rollers. Even when driving the false twist apparatus at high speed a sufficient false twist can be imparted, a strong delivery power and unwinding power can be applied to the fiber bundle, and not only can high speed spinning be achieved, but also a strong, uniform spun yarn with little hairiness can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshige Maruki
  • Patent number: 5689945
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for guiding a broken thread end in a yarn spinning machine into a position in readiness for piecing wherein the broken thread end is retrieved from a bobbin, routed through a yarn spinning mechanism, guided into the nip of a pair of rollers of an operating drafting apparatus without abrasion of or interference with the yarn end during the guiding of the yarn end and wherein the yarn end is deposited in a position in the drafting apparatus such that the yarn end is controllably withdrawn from the drafting apparatus through the spinning mechanism and pieced or joined with a new sliver as the yarn end is withdrawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventors: Martin Tobler, Reto Debrunner, Martin Witschi
  • Patent number: 5660035
    Abstract: A spinning method and a spinning frame are provided that yields spun yarn, with the comfortable feel of a hand-spun yarn, on an industrial scale. In spinning frame 1, rovings 11 are drafted with signals derived from a numerical sequence of having a 1/f fluctuation or signals derived from a melody or other sound having a 1/f fluctuation to yield a spun yarn 13 in which the diameter varies with said 1/f fluctuation, thus providing a natural, comfortable feel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignees: Toshimitsu Musha, Nisshinbo Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Musha, Yuichi Yanai, Kazuyoshi Muraoka, Yuki Niwa, Yasuo Nakano
  • Patent number: 5651244
    Abstract: The ring spinning method drafts a silver in a multi-stage drafting system where the silver acquires a total draft in a range of from 60 to 150-fold. Following outlet from the last nip of the drafting system, the drafted silver is conveyed without drafting over a guide path in which the fiber band is condensed to form a compact fiber strand of not more than 2.5 millimeters width and preferably less than 15 millimeter in width. At the end of the guide path, the fiber strand passes through a twist inhibiting nip between two rollers and is then passed by twist distribution to a ring spinning device. The yarn produced possesses a high quality with respect to hairiness and neps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Rieter Machine Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Angelo Lucca, Herbert Stalder
  • Patent number: 5647197
    Abstract: A spinning apparatus having a nozzle (n1) that exerts the actions of a rotating air current on the fiber (f), a hollow spindle (s1) and a fiber introduction member (e2) positioned opposite the inlet end part (s1") of the hollow spindle with a fiber guide member (E) arranged with a fiber guiding surface (e9) twisted in the rotation direction of the air flow and the fiber introduction member (e2) projecting from the fiber guide member toward the hollow spindle. The end part of the guide member (E) may be formed into a flat or a curved shape whereby a spun yarn with improved fiber evenness and having higher strength, a round cross section, a better exterior and resembling blend yarn which differs from core yarn, can be spun. Furthermore, improvements in the spinning properties and success rate of yarn piecing can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuji Imamura
  • Patent number: 5617714
    Abstract: A drafting unit for a ring spinning device is described for use on a ring spinning device, comprising two delivery rollers (1, 2) defining between them a delivery nip (3) for at least one drawframe-treated roving (4), one of them forming a deflection length (5) with a slot-shaped suction zone (6) for the roving (4) exiting the exit nip (3), which extends between the delivery nip (3) and a pressure roller (7) arranged downstream in the sense of deflection, and having an air nozzle (8) offset sidewards with respect to the suction zone (6) for a blast of air directed towards the delivery roller (1) with a flow component transverse to the suction zone (6) which extends in an arc-shaped path between its feed end and its discharge end with the air nozzle (9) on the inside of the arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Inventor: Ernst Fehrer
  • Patent number: 5598692
    Abstract: A plant structure having three floors with first and second ring spinning apparatuses located on the first floor and with vertical sliver feed tubes extending from the first and second ring spinning apparatuses respectively to the second floor for feeding a sliver through the sliver feed tube to the first ring spinning apparatus and to the third floor for feeding sliver from a can thereof to said second ring spinning apparatus. Each of the sliver feed tubes is provided with a fitting, including a slide section extending at an obtuse angle to the tubes, such that sliver strands descend through the tubes and through the associated fittings before they are fed into associated ring spinning machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: TNS Mills Inc.
    Inventor: Kiyohiro Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 5551225
    Abstract: A fluff suppression apparatus comprising a pair of rollers disposed with axes of rotation thereof crossed with each other and in contact with each other for nipping a spun yarn thread, and at least one of the pair of rollers has, at a contacting portion thereof with the spun yarn thread, has resiliency and flexibility and has a cavity formed in the inside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshige Maruki, Tsutomu Mekata
  • Patent number: 5528895
    Abstract: A spinning apparatus for producing a spun yarn by using swirling air currents to twist a non-twisted short staple fiber bundle drafted by a drafting unit. A nozzle block having at least one nozzle provides a swirling air current that acts upon the fiber bundle. A fiber bundle passage is defined by the nozzle block and a needle holder having a substantially central, longitudinal axis and a guide surface that twists relative to the longitudinal axis. A guide member associated with the needle holder projects toward the inlet of a hollow spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Deno
  • Patent number: 5524427
    Abstract: A sliver piecing unit 80 includes three sets of separable rollers 804 and 844, 806 and 846, and 808 and 848 for nipping a sliver S1 fed from a consumed can to a spinning machine. A throttling nozzle 870 is arranged between the second and third sets of rollers 806 and 846, and 808 and 848. The draft ratio between the first and second sets of rollers 804 and 844, and 806 and 846 can be varied between 1.0 and 2.0. A sliver feed unit 70 includes a separable first and second roller 702a and 702b for feeding a sliver S2 from a full can to the piecing unit 80 so that the slivers S1 and S2 are combined. The draft ratio between the first and second sets of rollers 804 and 844, and 806 and 846 is controlled to obtain combined slivers of a thickness corresponding to that of a single sliver. A nipping belt 884 and nipping roller 886 are provided at the outlet from the third set of the rollers 808 and 804 for obtaining a rubbing movement in the combined slivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Howa Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Sekiya, Takashi Kogiso, Yoshio Kurachi, Toshiyuki Kuzutani
  • Patent number: 5481863
    Abstract: A spinning device for producing a spun yarn from a staple fiber bundle. A staple fiber bundle is supplied to a spinning nozzle via the front rollers of a draft unit. A pair of delivery rollers is positioned downstream from the spinning nozzle and spaced from the front rollers by a distance that is shorter than the length of the longest fibers in the staple fiber bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naritoshi Ota
  • Patent number: 5481859
    Abstract: A stiff mounting unit is formed by a pair of longitudinal main girders and support bars for a two sided spinning or twisting machine frame. Bridge pieces are connected to these bars and girders. The support rollers and pressing rollers of the drafting or feed units are mounted on the bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Mann, Kurt Hack, Thomas Benkert
  • Patent number: 5465565
    Abstract: A plant structure having three floors with first and second ringless spinning apparatuses located on the first floor and with vertical sliver feed tubes extending from the first and second ringless spinning apparatuses respectively to the second floor for feeding a sliver through the sliver feed tube to the first ringless spinning apparatus and to the third floor for feeding sliver from a can thereof to said second ringless spinning apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: TNS Mills
    Inventor: Kiyohiro Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 5431005
    Abstract: For use with a ring spinning apparatus, a drawing frame is described, which comprises two delivery rollers, which define between them an exit nip for a drawn fibrous roving and one of which defines on its air-permeable peripheral surface a deflecting path for the fibrous roving being delivered and a suction zone, which extends along the deflecting path between the exit nip and a pressure, applying roller, which is peripherally spaced from said nip, and the suction zone comprises two juxtaposed and laterally spaced apart branch suction zones, and a blast nozzle is disposed between said branch suction zones and is operable to direct an air blast against the suction-free area which is disposed between the branch zones, whereby the drawn fibrous roving is divided into two branch rovings. The two branch suction zones merge in the suction zone upstream of the pressure-applying roller into a peripherally extending common suction zone portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Inventor: Ernst Fehrer
  • Patent number: 5390485
    Abstract: A draft device is provided with a rotatable porous roller and a suction tube for establishing a negative pressure within the porous roller. A pneumatic spinning apparatus is provided with a spindle and a nozzle for exerting a whirling air current on a fiber bundle from the draft device. A waste transport pipe is provided for circulating waste discharged from the spinning apparatus back to the porous roller. Waste discharged from the spinning apparatus is thereby recycled to join with the fiber bundle from the draft device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideshi Mori
  • Patent number: 5381651
    Abstract: For the monitoring of the lap formation in the case of delivery bottom rollers of drafting units, sensing elements are provided which, when a lap is formed, as a result of the enlarged diameter at the delivery bottom roller, are moved radially away from this delivery bottom roller. The sensing elements are used as switching elements for an electric circuit to which a number of sensing elements, and preferably all sensing elements of the spinning machine, are assigned. When a lap is formed, the assigned electric contact is opened by the shifting movement of the sensing element so that the electric circuit is interrupted. The interruption of the electric circuit causes the triggering of a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignees: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Gerd Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5375406
    Abstract: A spinning arrangement in which the working elements for the processing of fiber material are arranged within an adjustable climate-controlled zone. The climate-controlled zone can be adjusted in such a manner that the fiber material fed to the working elements has the tendency to supply humidity to the ambient air of the climate-controlled zone. Before the feeding, particularly when deposited in a can or on a roving bobbin and/or on the transport path to the working elements, the fiber material is surrounded by air whose climate differs from the climate in the adjustable climate-controlled zone of the working elements. During the processing, the fed fiber material and the working elements are each in a different climatic condition that is optimal for the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignees: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
    Inventors: Roland Gorlich, Kurt Lang
  • Patent number: 5372003
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine for the spinning of yarns from slivers with a can feeding, the slivers are transported from the cans to the spinning stations by a belt which is provided with holding elements which hold the sliver on its surface. The holding elements may comprise surfaces which guide the sliver laterally by a frictional engagement or may have devices so that the sliver adheres with its supporting surface to the belt. Advantageously, two slivers are transported by one belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5363639
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine with several spinning stations, which each comprise a drafting unit, and with depositing sites for cans containing sliver, transport devices are provided for transporting the slivers from the cans to the drafting units. The transport devices as well as the drafting units comprise devices which can interrupt the transport of an individual sliver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Inventors: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5343689
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronously piecing rovings applied to a ring spinning frame in combination with a system of transporting roving bobbins by a bobbin carriage between a roving room and a spinning room, wherein rovings supplied from corresponding bobbins of a bobbin carriage in a creel portion of the ring spinning frame are synchronously pieced with corresponding supplemental rovings taken from respective full packaged roving bobbins held by another bobbin carriage in the creel portion of the ring spinning frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: Howa Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Sasaki, Shinji Kato
  • Patent number: 5333440
    Abstract: A plant structure having three floors with first and second open-end spinning apparatuses located on the first floor and with vertical sliver feed tubes extending from the first and second open-end spinning apparatuses respectively to the second floor for feeding a sliver through the sliver feed tube to the first open-end spinning apparatus and to the third floor for feeding sliver from a can thereof to said second open-end spinning apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: TNS Mills, Inc.
    Inventor: Kiyohiro Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 5323598
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine whose spinning stations spin slivers which are withdrawn from cans, it is provided that the cans during the withdrawal rotate about their axis so that the slivers are provided with a true twist during the withdrawal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Inventors: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5315814
    Abstract: A production apparatus for spinning ring spinning filaments and staple compound slivers into compound yarns wherein the main improvement comprises altering the three-line roller draft system to a four-line roller draft system, combining multi-filaments with short staple fiber clusters and then the resultant being twisted to form compound ring yarns that are superior to the conventional ring yarns. It indeed achieves the maximum practical value and is adaptable to industry uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: China Textile T&R Institute
    Inventor: Shin-Chuan Yao
  • Patent number: 5311731
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having several spinning stations for spinning slivers into yarns which were fed in cans, conveyor belts are provided which guide the slivers between the cans and the spinning stations. The cans each contain several slivers, a joint conveyor belt being assigned to at least the slivers of one can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Inventors: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5311730
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having several spinning stations for the spinning of slivers fed in cans, drivable transport belts are provided for the transporting of the slivers from the cans to the spinning stations, to which stationary guiding belts are assigned which form a sliding guide for the slivers transported by the transport belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Inventors: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5291727
    Abstract: The case of a spinning machine system with several adjacently arranged ring spinning machines to the spinning stations of which one sliver respectively is fed, which is deposited in a can, it is provided that the cans are set up on a platform situated above the ring spinning machines. Conveyor belts lead from the cans to the individual spinning stations. The cans are arranged in rows in such a manner that the interior rows of two machine sides facing the center plane of the respective ring spinning machine have a distance from one another which corresponds to approximately 1/10 to 1/4 of the distance between the exterior rows of cans of two adjacent ring spinning machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Inventors: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5271214
    Abstract: In the ease of a spinning machine for the spinning of yarns from slivers which are fed in cans on a platform above the spinning machine, the slivers are conveyed from the cans to the spinning stations by conveyor belts. Several spinning stations are combined to a machine section, and a support is provided between two machine sections respectively on which the guide rollers of the conveyor belt are held. In the area of the center plane of the spinning machine, the support projects upwards through the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Inventors: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5261219
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having a plurality spinning stations to which one depositing site respectively is assigned for a can containing a sliver to be spun, and having transport devices for transporting the slivers from the cans to the spinning stations, it is provided that at least the horizontal sections of conveyor belts pertaining to these transport devices are covered by sliding skids which rest loosely on them and which press the slivers against the conveyor belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Inventors: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5243813
    Abstract: In a process and arrangement for false-twist spinning, it is provided that, by use of an air current in the delivery area of a drafting unit, an increased number of fiber ends are spread away which subsequently, in a controlled manner, are wound around the sliver by means of a guiding element moving in the travelling direction of the sliver and holding the spread-away fiber ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignees: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5237806
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having several spinning stations for the spinning of slivers into yarns, the slivers are transported from cans to the spinning stations by transport devices which comprise transport belts. The transport belts are provided with tension inserts which are covered by the closed smooth lateral edges of the basic material of the transport belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Spindelfabrik Sussen, Schurr, Stahlecker & Grill GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Braxmeier
  • Patent number: 5228281
    Abstract: An arrangement for pneumatic false-twist spinning having a drafting unit, a false-twisting device which follows, having a connected withdrawal device and having a rotation body arranged between the false-twisting device and the drafting unit. It is provided that the rotation body is arranged directly behind the pair of delivery rollers of the drafting unit in such a manner that its suction device is effective into the area of the nip line of the pair of delivery rollers of the drafting unit. A suction slot of the rotation body has a section which extends essentially in the direction of the nip line and is situated in the area of a deflection of the sliver leaving the pair of delivery rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignees: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5226270
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having spinning stations arranged on both sides of the machine for the spinning of yarns from slivers which are fed to the spinning stations in cans deposited above the spinning machine, the slivers are guided from the cans to the spinning stations by guiding devices. In the area of the center plane of the spinning machine, the guiding devices comprise two skids which extend vertically at a distance from one another, are each assigned to one side of the machine and are pressed apart in the manner of a fishbelly bulge by spreader devices. A transport belt which is placed against the skid is assigned to each skid and transports one sliver or several slivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignees: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5220776
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine for the spinning of yarns from slivers with can feeding, the slivers are guided from the cans to the spinning stations in each case by drivable guide aprons which are disposed opposite stationary sliding surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignees: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5198521
    Abstract: A water reaction synthesis with polyoxyethylene diol, diisocyanate and dibutyltin bis lauryl mercaptide produces a high molecular weight thermoplastic polyurethane-urea linear polymer with surface resistivity 10.sup.11 -10.sup.6 ohm/sq. Thermoplastic and/or elastomeric antistatic compositions containing other melt processable polymers and/or filler, and the polymer exhibit permanent protection. Antistatic protection can be increased when the polymer complexes with a metal salt such as lithium chloride, or lithium acetate. The composition is useful in the manufacture of antistatic floor coverings and textile texturing and drafting elements such as cots and aprons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Wendell A. Ehrhart, Nowaf Halout, Kenneth K. Ko, David A. Smith
  • Patent number: 5172542
    Abstract: In a spinning machine for pneumatic false-twist spinning, a plurality of spinning points are provided which are each equipped with one drafting unit. Two air nozzles are connected behind a pair of delivery rollers of the drafting unit and are pivotable around a separate swivel shaft and are connected by a restricted guidance in such a manner that, by an actuating movement, they can be moved into servicing positions which deviate from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignees: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
    Inventors: Fritz Stahlecker, Josef Scholz
  • Patent number: 5163205
    Abstract: An apparatus for drafting a continuous strand of staple fibers into a finer strand of the staple fibers and including a mechanism for supplying separated fibers suspended in a fluid and a rotating fiber chute receiving the fluid with the separated fibers axially and dispensing the fluid and the fibers radially. A collection belt with a porous portion is used for passing the fluid but holding back the fibers wherein the belt moves in a circular path around the chute and leaves the circular path to move the collected fibers thereon out of the circular path. A vacuum housing is positioned in close proximity to the collection belt and with an opening facing the collection belt for collection of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Inventor: Kurt W. Niederer
  • Patent number: 5157911
    Abstract: In an arrangement for pneumatic false-twist spinning having a drafting unit, a pneumatic false-twisting device which follows and a withdrawal device which follows, it is provided that a roller of the pair of delivery rollers is constructed as a hollow roller which has an air-permeable shell surface. In addition, a suction roller is provided between the pair of delivery rollers and the false-twisting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Inventors: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5138830
    Abstract: In a spinning machine having a plurality of drafting units which each comprise several bottom rollers constructed as roller sections, it is provided that the sliver-carrying area of the bottom rollers is separated from the area receiving the clutch element and the driving wheels by means of a partition, the partitions of two adjacent drafting units being connected with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5119622
    Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having a plurality of drafting units arranged next to one another which each comprise a stripping device, a cleaning device for the stripping devices is provided which can be moved along the spinning machine. The cleaning device, in each case, moves the stripping devices from an operating position into a cleaning position, in which the cleaning of the stripping device is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1992
    Assignee: Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5090192
    Abstract: In an arrangement for false-twist spinning, a yarn guiding element is arranged between a drafting unit and a false-twisting nozzle which moves in the travelling direction of the yarn at a speed which is higher than the delivery speed and the withdrawal speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 5085046
    Abstract: In order to avoid the need for providing expensive fine rovings, a process is proposed in which two rovings are supplied to respective ring spinning stations (3). A common primary roving (2) is drawn and is subsequently divided into two separate rovings (2a, 2b) for feeding respective ring spinning stations (3). The primary roving (2) is divided into two separate rovings (2a and 2b) by conveying means (11), which comprise two juxtaposed suction zones (12a, 12b), which extend in the direction of conveyance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Inventor: Ernst Fehrer
  • Patent number: 5038553
    Abstract: The delivery roller pair are made with continuous uninterrupted cylindrical surfaces so that air flows on the input side converge in the nip and then flow from the central zone thereof to opposite end zones. In addition, the air flows on the output side flow from the end zones towards the central zone. The suction nozzle is disposed downstream and in alignment with the nip so as to receive the fiber material for spinning into yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Rieter Machine Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Herbert Stalder, Emil Briner
  • Patent number: 5033262
    Abstract: The corespun yarn is formed on a friction spinning apparatus and comprises three components, including a core of high temperature resistant fibers, a core wrapper of low temperature resistant fibers surrounding and covering the core, and an outer sheath of low temperature resistant fibers surrounding and covering the core wrapper and the core. The high temperature resistant fibers of the core are selected from the group consisting essentially of aramid fibers (Kevlar and Nomex), and polybenzimidazole fibers (PBI). The low temperature resistant fibers of the core wrapper and the outer sheath are either natural or synthetic fibers, such a cotton and polyester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Springs Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry G. Montgomery, William G. Martin
  • Patent number: 4991387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyester and cotton blended yarn capable of obtaining a polyester and cotton blended fabric having a superior bulkiness and a soft touch, and a polyester staple fiber stock which is useful to obtain the blended yarn as a yarn having superior properties with regard to neps and a yarn uneveness. To obtain the above-mentioned polyester cotton blended yarn, a coarse denier staple fiber having a predetermined range of fineness and a fine denier staple fiber having a predetermined range of fineness are used, and a suitable number of staple fibers constituting the blended yarn and fiber lengths of the staple fibers are defined in the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Mikio Tashiro, Akira Kimura, Tsukasa Kobayashi, Nobuharu Izawa, Tamio Mitamura, Sei Tanizawa
  • Patent number: 4976096
    Abstract: A core wrap system is provided in which a core strand and wrap strands spaced from said core strand on each side of said core strand are passed from the nip of a pair of rollers to a stationary support surface that is outwardly, downwardly curved, and which includes an open channel therein which is outwardly, downwardly curved along the surface; wherein the core strand is passed through the channel from the nip; wherein the wrap rovings are passed from the nip to converge upon and wrap around the core strand in the channel to form wrapped yarn in the channel; and wherein wrapped yarn then is passed through a ring traveler to a wind-up spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: A. Paul S. Sawhney, Craig L. Folk, Kearny Q. Robert
  • Patent number: 4967547
    Abstract: In the case of a drafting unit for a spinning machine having a drafting zone, which is delimited by two pairs of rollers each consisting of top rollers and bottom rollers and in which an apron guide is located, it is provided that the diameter of at least the bottom roller of the following pair of rollers is smaller than the diameter of the bottom roller of the preceding pair of rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Fritz and Hans Stahlecker
    Inventor: Fritz Stahlecker
  • Patent number: 4961306
    Abstract: A core/wrap yarn forming system comprising two or more channels extending outwardly from the nip of the front draft rolls of a ring-spinning system; wherein each channel's entrance is closely adjacent to the nip; wherein the entrances are spaced apart from one another; wherein the channels merge with one another at the exit from the device; wherein the first channel is essentially straight throughout its length, and is perpendicular to the nip; wherein each of the other channels is curved to guide the strand therein in a convex pathway with respect to the first channel, and converge inward to the end of the first channel. The core is supplied through the straight channel, while one or more wrapping strands pass through the curved channel or channels, and wrap around the core where all the channels merge. The wrapped yarn then is passed to an ordinary ring traveler and wind-up spindle of a ring-spinning assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: A. Paul S. Sawhney, Craig L. Folk, Kearny Q. Robert, Linda B. Kimmel
  • Patent number: 4953349
    Abstract: An apparatus for making a yarn consists of at least one ring spinning mechanism and a drawing mechanism, which precedes the ring spinning mechanism and defines at least one draft path for drawing a fibrous roving and includes two delivery rollers defining a clamping nip for the drawn roving, wherein one of said delivery rollers constitutes behind the clamping nip a guiding surface for deflecting the drawn roving. In order to increase the strength of the yarn, it is proposed that the delivery roller which constitutes the guiding surface for deflecting the roving constitutes at least near the delivery end of the guiding surface a slideway for guiding the roving transversely to its axis as the roving is twisted between the ring spinning mechanism and the drawing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Inventor: Ernst Fehrer
  • Patent number: 4942731
    Abstract: A spinning apparatus which includes a drafting device, a twisting device and a take-up device is constituted such that the spinning apparatus further includes a guide device for guiding the fiber bundle in the separated condition in a plurality of rows and the twisting device includes a plurality of rows of twisting mechanism which can twist a plurality of rows of fiber bundle at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshifumi Morihashi, Shoji Sakai, Teruo Nakayama, Koshi Noda, Michiaki Fujiwara