ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,171, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Saurer Technologies Gmbh & Co. KG (Krefeld, Germany).
"Yarn feed apparatus, workstation of a cabling machine and method for feeding" was invented by Michael Deitlaff (Krefeld, Germany) and Cenk Duralti (Moenchengladbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a yarn feed apparatus for a workstation of a cabling machine for feeding a creel yarn from a feed package arranged on a bobbin creel or from a transport conveyor arranged above the cabling machine to a cabling apparatus equipped with a cabling spindle and/or for feeding a starter yarn from the cabling spindle to th...