The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1985
Albert Vroomen, Moenchengladbach, DE;
Franz Muller GmbH & Co., Moenchengladbach, DE;
Abstract
Corduroy cutting machine, including a shaft, a plurality of circular knives disposed adjacent each other on the shaft for cutting open floating wefts of a fabric web being movable along a given travel direction, a plurality of needles having points and having longitudinal slots formed therein for receiving portions of the knives defining a cutting edge opposite the knives, a device for inserting the needles into the floating wefts to be cut open in the direction opposite the given travel direction, a contact table disposed below the needle points, a device for stopping the cutting machine upon contact between the contact table and one of the needles, the needles and the contact table defining a working plane for a cutting operation into which the fabric web is guidable from below over the contact table to the cutting edge, a rear table disposed at a distance from the contact table upstream of the needle points in the given travel direction, a device for holding the rear table in the working plane during the cutting operation, a device for lowering the rear table, and the contact table from the working plane, a needle supporting table, and a device for moving the needle supporting table into a region directly below any of the needle points still disposed in the working plane when the rear table is lowered.