Patent ID: 6307953
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: B65H,G01B,G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for electronically evaluating one or more measured qualities of one or more yarn samples, comprising the steps ofassigning one or more physical thresholds for each measured yarn quality;establishing an event when a measured yarn quality violates the physical threshold;establishing one or more cells, wherein each said cell represents one or more portions of the yarn sample configured as an electronic yarn board or fabric display;sorting the events in each cell into types of events, wherein a type includes both a measured yarn quality and a physical threshold;counting the number of events of each type which occur within one or more cells; andcomparing the type and number of each type of events in each said cell with a reference cell to determine whether the number of events of each type in each cell exceeds a predetermined number of events of the same type of events in the reference cell.