The Singer Company

Platt Saco Lowell Corporation, Inc.

Richard N Ryer, Ii

James R Sistare

James L Glass

Harvey C Rettberg

Perry E Talley

Fetta, Jeffrey E

Michael P DeKoning

A brushless DC motor-driven spindle assembly for a textile ring spinning frame wherein a shaft for rotatably supporting a bobbin for yarn collection is mounted for rotation about a central axis of rotation in a bolster section and, under certain conditions of operation, for rotation about axes which are incrementally angularly displaced from the central axis of rotation, and including rotor/stator position detecting elements comprising sensed elements mounted on the motor rotor for rotation therewith and sensing elements mounted in fixed position relative to the rotor and adjacent the path of movement of the sensed elements so as to maintain the same radial distance between the sensing elements and the sensed elements during incremental angular displacement of the axis of rotation of the shaft and motor rotor. In a preferred embodiment, the sensed elements may be a magnetic ring mounted on the rotor and having alternating North and South pole sections, and the sensing elements may be Hall effect sensors mounted in fixed position on a portion of the bolster section to correspondingly move with the incremental angular displacement of the rotational axis of the bobbin support shaft of the spindle assembly.

Motor-driven spindle assembly for ring spinning

A tension compensator for a textile strand includes an electronic closed loop arrangement for use intermediate means delivering the strand which may be at constant speed and a take up or other consuming apparatus such as a package onto which the strand is being wound at a varying rate.

Strand tension compensator

Means and method are disclosed to clean the fiber collection groove of an open end rotor's cup by use of a flexible member rotated about the groove and counterrotated in the opposite rotational sense, it being the changeovers or reversals in rotational directions which apply through the tip of the flexible member the cleaning force at the points of changeover at the groove which effect the cleaning of accumulations of foreign matter. These changeovers are effected by changing relative rotation and counter rotation between the rotor cup and the flexible end member, and are controlled by a programmable control means which may include a microprocessor working through one or more motors, one of which may be a stepped motor of high torque values and occupying but little space.

Rotor cleaning

Portable circular saw

In a power driven, portable surface treating machine, a mechanism is provided for clamping a surface treating material to the back plate of the surface treating machine. The clamping mechanism comprises a back plate having a clamp seat at one end thereof extending horizontally across substantially the entire length of said one end of said back plate, and a device for clamping one end of the surface treating material. The clamping device includes a manipulative over-center camming lever pivotably supported on the back plate, the lever having a power arm section which has a finger grip at its rear and a camming arm section offset laterally from the forward end of the power arm section. The clamping device also includes a reciprocably shiftable, resilient wire clamping member having a connecting section substantially perpendicular to and pivotably mounted on the camming arm section of the lever and a clamping section fixedly secured to the connecting section and extending substantially parallel to the clamp seat in the back plate, whereby when the camming lever is moved to its over-center position the clamping section of the resilient wire clamping member aligns itself within the clamp seat to thereby clamp the end of the surface treating material.

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Cleveland, SC, United States of America

Richard N Ryer, Ii