US Patent Issued to A.B. Carter on Sept. 16 for "Canister-yarn tensioning assembly incorporating a pivoted yarn tensioner" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,703, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to A.B. Carter Inc. (Gastonia, N.C.).

"Canister-yarn tensioning assembly incorporating a pivoted yarn tensioner" was invented by Donald Lynn Hoover (Cramerton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A canister-yarn tensioning assembly is adapted for controlling tension in a running yarn drawn from a yarn supply package located within an open-top canister. The canister-yarn tensioning assembly includes a cylindrical adapter configured to reside at a mouth of the open-top canister. The adapter defines an unobstructed package transfer space sufficient to allow the yarn supply package to be manually lo...