Abstract:
Articles of footwear and methods of making articles of footwear including one or more continuous threads wound around anchor points. The winding of the one or more continuous threads forms a thread pattern that imparts desired characteristics to components of the article of footwear. Thread lines of the thread pattern may be bonded together. In some embodiments, thread lines may be bonded with a bonding layer.
Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing slide fastener spiral continuous element row comprises a forming screw assembly, a die assembly, an abutment assembly, and a rear forming assembly. The invention can effect a stable operation with the cooperation of a spring-biased shaft mechanism, a rear adjustment screw, and two side adjustment screws so as to manufacture quality products.
Abstract:
Improvements in apparatus of the type including a mandrel around which a continuous filament is coiled and which has a guide channel formed longitudinally therein for slidably receiving a continuous core to be positioned within the coil, and a mandrel holder holding the mandrel adjacent one end thereof and reciprocating with the latter in the longitudinal direction thereof in step with the formation of each convolution of the coil. A unit length of the core required for each coil convolution is forcibly pulled away from a core pay-off bobbin by a pair of pull-out rolls actuated intermittently by a ratchet mechanism. The mandrel holder has formed therein passageways through which the core travels from the pull-out roll pair to the entrance end of the guide channel in the mandrel. The passageways are adapted to provide several obtuse-angled bends for holding the core in frictional contact with the mandrel holder, so that the successive unit core lengths are delivered without tension to the guide channel in the mandrel with the reciprocation of the mandrel holder.
Abstract:
A MACHINE FOR COILING CONTINUOUS LENGTH FILAMENTARY MATERIAL SO AS TO FORM A PAIR OF COILED FILAMENTS FOR USE IN SLIDE FASTENER STRINGERS COMPRISING A PAIR OF ROTATABLE SPOOLS HORIZONTALLY ARRANGED IN ALIGNMENT WITH ONE ANOTHER WITH EACH HAVING A SUPPLY OF FILAMENT WOUND THEREAROUND, A PAIR OF ARCUATED NEEDLE-LIKE STATIONARY MANDRELS AROUND WHICH THE FILAMENTS ARE WOUND AS THEY PASS FROM THE ROTATABLE SPOOLS, EACH OF SAID MANDRELS BEING RIGIDLY SUPPORTED AT A POINT OFFSET FROM THE AXES OF ROTATION OF THE ROTATABLE SPOOLS AND BEING RECTANGULAR SHAPE IN CROSS SECTION WHEREBY THE FILAMENTS ARE SUBJECTED TO A GREATER TENSION AS THEY PASS FROM THE ROTATABLE SPOOLS TO
THE RESPECTIVE MANDRELS THROUGH ONE PART OF A REVOLUTION THAN THAT TO WHICH THE FILAMENTS ARE SUBJECTED DURING THE ROTATION OF THE SAME THROUGH THE OTHER PART OF THE REVOLUTION SO AS TO DEFORM THE FILAMENTS AT SPACED-APART INTERVALS THEREALONG IN COOPERATION WITH THE SIDES OF SAID MANDRELS IN EACH OF THE CONVOLUTIONS OF THE COILED FILAMENTS AT ONE SIDE THEREOF, AND A FORMING WHEEL HAVING A PAIR OF GROOVES ARRANGED AND AROUND THE PERIPHERY THEREOF IN WHICH THE FREE ENDS OF THE NEEDLE-LIKE MANDRELS ARE POSITIONED AND INTO WHICH GROOVES THE COILED FILAMENTS ARE DELIVERED.