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  2. /D · Textiles
  3. /D01 · Natural or man-made threads or fibres
  4. /D01H · Spinning or twisting
  5. /D01H 4/00 · Open-end spinning machines or arrangements for imparting twist to independently moving fibres
  6. /D01H 4/04 · Imparting twist by contact of fibres with a running surface
  7. /D01H 4/16 · Friction spinning, i.e. the running surface being provided by a pair of
  8. /D01H 4/18
D01H 4/18

Friction drums

Official title: Friction drums, e.g. arrangement of suction holes

D01H4/18 (Friction drums) appears on 19 US grants and 1 published applications in this corpus.

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Where it sits

  1. DTextiles
  2. D01Natural or man-made threads or fibres
  3. D01HSpinning or twisting
  4. D01H 4/00Open-end spinning machines or arrangements for imparting twist to independently moving fibres
  5. D01H 4/04Imparting twist by contact of fibres with a running surface
  6. D01H 4/16Friction spinning, i.e. the running surface being provided by a pair of
  7. D01H 4/18Friction drums
Granted patents
19
Published applications
1
Assignees
7
Inventors
19
Latest grant
27 Apr 2004

Filings by year

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D01H 4/18: granted patents and published applications per publication year
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1979198919992004

By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.

Recent patents

  • Method of manufacturing a reinforcing thread27 Apr 2004US 6,725,641 B2Lainiere De Picardie Bc
  • Suction roller for an open-end spinning machine14 Jul 1998US 5,778,653 A
  • Arrangement for spinning staple fibers into a yarn23 Feb 1993US 5,187,930 A
  • Mold for, and method of, fabricating a perforated body and perforated body for use as a friction spinning element5 Mar 1991US 4,997,528 AMaschinenfabrik Rieter AG
  • Method for production of friction spinning means6 Nov 1990US 4,968,525 ARieter Machine Works, Ltd.
  • Method of manufacturing a reinforcing thread7 Feb 2002US 2002/0014066 A1Lainiere De Picardie Bc

Most cited

By later US patents
  • Open-end spinning apparatus24US 4,315,398 APlatt Saco Lowell Limited · 1982
  • Frictional open-end spinning method and apparatus20US 4,281,507 AVyzkumny ustav bavlnarsky · 1981
  • Friction spinning roller arrangement10US 4,571,932 A1986
  • Apparatus for making a yarn8US 4,502,272 ATextilmaschinenfabrik Dr. Ernst Fehrer Aktiengesellschaft · 1985
  • Rollers for friction spinning apparatus6US 4,522,022 AHollingsworth (U.K.) Limited · 1985

Top assignees

Documents
  • MRMaschinenfabrik Rieter AG4
  • RMRieter Machine Works, Ltd.3
  • LPLainiere De Picardie Bc2
  • HUHollingsworth (U.K.) Limited1
  • PSPlatt Saco Lowell Limited1
  • TDTextilmaschinenfabrik Dr. Ernst Fehrer Aktiengesellschaft1
  • VUVyzkumny ustav bavlnarsky1

Often classified with

  • D02GCrimping or curling fibres, filaments, threads, or yarns2

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