ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,953, issued on July 21, was assigned to STC Spinnzwirn GmbH (Chemnitz, Germany).
"Thread production system" was invented by Peter Steinke (Leubsdorf, Germany), Michael Schroter (Remscheid, Germany) and Marcel Ehrler (Mulsen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thread production system has a workstation with, in each case one after another on a processing path, a melt-spinning device with multiple melt nozzles, a thread inlet section, an inlet godet roller pair located at the end of a thread inlet section, a thread drawing device with two hot godet roller pairs which are arranged on a drawing panel frame of the thread production ...