US Patent Issued to Belmont Textile Machinery on Jan. 13 for "Powered creel systems, receiver apparatuses and related methods for yarn packages" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,466, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Belmont Textile Machinery Co. (Mount Holly, N.C.).

"Powered creel systems, receiver apparatuses and related methods for yarn packages" was invented by Jeffrey Todd Rhyne (Belmont, N.C.) and Daniel Arthur Rhyne (Gastonia, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems and methods include support brace(s), one or more of which are configured to support a receiver apparatus relative to a frame and define an opening that is configured to receive and orient a post along a vertical axis. A stator element coupled to one or more of the support brace(s) is rotationally fixed relative to the on...