ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,712, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sauer Intelligent Technology AG (Arbon, Switzerland).
"Air jet spinning machine and drafting system unit for a spinning unit of an air jet spinning machine" was invented by Lars Lindemann (Meerbusch, Germany), Eduard Prediger (Monchengladbach, Germany), Michael Reimann (Grevenbroich, Germany) and Philipp Schiffers (Erkelenz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air jet spinning machine and a drafting system unit for a spinning unit produce a thread or roving from a supplied fiber strip, with a front roller pair including a front top roller on a load carrier and a driven front bottom roller ...