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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5857607 | Feed system for textile goods Via a textile guide system for flat textile goods, the textile goods are fed by a continuous conveyor to processing stations and the textile web is fed between conveyor elements of the continuous conveyor and a stationary support whereby means is provided... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5839379 | Apparatus for making a pillow or blanket case An apparatus for making a pillow or blanket case from a textile strip has a vertically movable gripper engageable with one of the end edges of the strip, a support surface generally below the movable gripper, a conveyor defining a horizontal transport dir... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5599410 | Method of and device for making labels To implement a process for operating a device for making labels from strip material with a roll (1) of strip material, a feed device (2, 3) for the strip material, clamping tongs (16) to take the end of the strip from the feed device, a folding sheet (23)... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5564356 | Selvedging system A piece of textile goods is selvedged along an edge extending between ends of the piece by gripping a strip of the piece offset from the edge and displacing it parallel to the edge at a constant travel speed such that successive portions of the edge pass ... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5340008 | Fabric conveyor system A fabric conveyor system for a textile web includes a plurality of guiding rollers pressing against one side of the web, a toothed driven belt pressed against the opposite side the web, and a plurality of pressure pads supporting a toothed side of the dri... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5335611 | Edge guide for a textile web A sewing machine includes two machine halves spaced from one another and each provided with respective tongues capable of displacing pieces of the material web previously cut into pieces on a conveyor, the conveyor being provided with guide rails, one of ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5315944 | Machine for automatically changing lower-thread bobbins An automatic bobbin-winding machine, in particular for lockstitch machines, comprises a changing head (27) with pneumatically driven gripping levers (30,31) for removing the lower part (35) of the bobbin case holder from the sewing machine. The changing h... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5282433 | Device for applying fabric webs or lengths of fabric A device for applying fabric webs includes upper and lower runners each formed with a respective edge facing a pile edge of the web and provided with respective first, second and third segments which are differently shaped and provide aligning of the edge... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5282298 | Pile-edge detector for pile-fabric treatment machine A pile-detecting apparatus is used in a machine wherein a pile fabric is deflected over a smooth surface of a roll to detect the edge between the pile-free portion of the fabric and the portion with the pile, which edge runs parallel to the displacement d... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5262653 | Scanner for napless areas on a web having beams trained tangentially thereon In order to provide a device for the lateral scanning of napless areas of fabric webs which operates automatically with great accuracy and reliability even at high web speeds while being of relatively simple construction, it is proposed to cause the fabri... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5165353 | System for selvedging pile-type textile A piece of pile-type textile goods having a longitudinal pile-free edge strip of predetermined width is selvedged by moving the goods longitudinally in a transport direction sequentially through four folding stations and then through a stitching station. ... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5141098 | Handling web workpieces A succession of web workpieces are first positioned at a loading station one after the other flat on an upstream input conveyor and then are transported by the conveyor in a transport direction through a treatment station where the workpieces are acted up... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5018416 | Method of and apparatus for cutting pieces from an elongated textile web A leading edge of a web is fed to an upstream cutting station and is gripped at the cutting station with an upstream clamp which is then advanced downstream away from the cutting station to a middle station and is arrested in the middle station where the ... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4881479 | Method of transversely subdividing an elongated flexible web Pieces are cut off the end of a long web by first impaling the leading end of the web on a crosswise circulating needle bar that is then moved downstream from a cutting to a holding section. Then at the cutting station another such circulating needle bar ... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4834232 | Conveyor gripper for a flat object, especially a textile web A conveyor gripper for a substantially flat object, especially a textile web, has two gripping plates forming gripper tongs held in a gripping body. A pressing force which is constant over the entire length of the gripping plates is generated by at least ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4611517 | Process and apparatus for continuous lengthwise cutting of a pile web A process for continuous cutting of a pile fabric web, having at least one comparatively narrow loopless or napless zone running lengthwise thereon between napped or looped surfaces, lengthwise in the exact center of one of the loopless or napless zones. ... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4609182 | Device for tensioning and aligning a fabric A device for tensioning and aligning a fabric includes a support member to which a plurality of tensioning segments are connected such that each of the segments in automatically lifted when a longitudinal hem of the fabric passes thereunder. The support m... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4604926 | Method of and apparatus for automatically orienting a fabric with aligned nap zone and napless zone Process and apparatus for automatically producing a fabric with aligned nap zone and napless zone includes a conveyor along which the fabric is transported in such a manner that its nap zone is located at one side of a press pad and the napless zone is lo... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4570557 | Apparatus for folding and reinforcing an edge portion of fabrics An arrangement for folding and reinforcing an edge portion of a fabric includes at least two pairs of press rolls and a folding unit therebetween. The folding unit is provided with a conveyor whose upper extension projects beyond the plane along which the... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4548141 | Apparatus for applying ribbon strips to a textile fabric An apparatus for putting ribbon pieces on a textile fabric's edge comprising a ribbon folding apparatus with a fold plate having two long sides with slanting, converging fold edges and two fold plate stops engageable by the slanting fold edges and a fold ... | 10/22/1985 |
