US Patent Issued to Belmont Textile Machinery on Sept. 22 for "Automated yarn package handling system and method" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,264, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Belmont Textile Machinery Co. (Mount Holly, N.C.).

"Automated yarn package handling system and method" was invented by Jeffrey Todd Rhyne (Mount Holly, N.C.) and Donald Alan Pubentz (Mount Holly, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of robotically tying a knot that includes the steps of removing the package from the elevator tray to a knotting head apparatus at the knot-tying location where a knot is tied in a yarn tail of the package to secure the package tail from unraveling in subsequent package handling steps. Correct application of the knot to the yarn tail is eith...