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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7309667 | Woven fabric and a method for the production thereof A fabric includes mutually transverse thread systems, with at least one of the thread systems including a differential shrinkage yarn C. The shrinkage yarn C has at least one effect component A that irreversibly elongates itself upon heat treatment, and at least one... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7219516 | Heat setting machine with sealing head A continuous heat set line for setting yarn, having spaced-apart, elongate, tubular entrance and exit cooling chambers interconnected by an elongate intermediate steam heat-setting chamber communicating therewith. The entrance and exit cooling chambers and the inter... | 05/22/2007 |
| 6432202 | Textile yarn slashing system A textile yarn slashing system having a foam applicator disposed therein for pre-wetting the sheet of yarns prior to passing through the size box. The foam is delivered under pressure and a resilient hold down member opposes the slot to create a space for... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6430789 | Application of antimicrobial to warp yarn A process for imparting antimicrobial properties to textile fabrics by applying an antimicrobial substance to the fibers from which the textile is woven, knit or constructed. Preferably the antimicrobial substance is applied, prior to weaving, to warp yar... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6395041 | Method and apparatus for sizing a yarn sheet In a method and apparatus for sizing a yarn sheet, the yarn sheet is passed over rollers through a wetting unit and a following roller nip that reduces the moisture content to a selected level. The wetted yarn sheet then passes through a sizing unit and o... | 05/28/2002 |
| 5381593 | Apparatus for sizing warps made of textile threads Apparatus for sizing warps made of textile threads for the weaving process by application of a sizing liquor by means of rollers and subsequent removal of the excess liquor by roller conveyance through dehumidification--and drying zones, where following u... | 01/17/1995 |
| 4773136 | Textile slasher lubricating apparatus The invention relates to a method of lubricating warp yarn ends arranged in sheet form (W) on the dry side of the drying process (16) as part of the process of preparing a loom beam (22) on a slasher. The method comprises providing a pair of rotating poro... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4726098 | Combination vortex action processing and melt sizing of spun yarn Spun yarns are subjected to the vortex action of an impinging, circularly rotating fluid to lay down extending staple fibers against the yarn body while causing the yarn path to balloon and are then contacted with a melt size presented on a slower moving ... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4656705 | Textile slasher lubricating method The invention relates to a method of lubricating warp yarn ends arranged in sheet form (W) on the dry side of the drying process (16) as part of the process of preparing a loom beam (22) on a slasher. The method comprises providing a pair of rotating poro... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4641404 | Porous warp sizing apparatus An apparatus and method for sizing warp yarn utilized in preparing a loom beam for weaving are disclosed. A porous application roll (A) is utilized for applying a sizing material onto a sheet of warp yarns (12) passing between a pressure roll (30) and the... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4611410 | Apparatus for the heat treatment of synthetic yarn An apparatus for the heat treatment of synthetic yarn is provided where synthetic yarn is provided by a synthetic yarn source and is fed via rollers to a first heating surface and then via a heating pin to a second heating surface and from there via rolle... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4530876 | Warp sizing composition, sized warp strands and process Warp sizing compositions are used to treat textile yarn to withstand the abrasive forces encountered by the warp yarn during weaving. A warp sizing composition having poly(vinyl alcohol); and a second film forming polymer, which is water soluble, dispersi... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4364157 | Method for applying sizing to warp yarns A method and apparatus for applying sizing S to warp yarns W for weaving is disclosed. The method includes applying a concentrated solution having at least twenty percent solids and possibly up to eighty percent by applying the solution to the warps at th... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4118183 | Process for the treatment of warp yarns A process for the treatment of warp yarns as a row of substantially parallel threads, wherein said yarns are impregnated with excess treating liquor, said excess is removed from the yarns and the treated yarns are finally dried and wound up on a loom beam... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4015317 | Process for sizing textile fibers for use on water jet looms Textile fibers exhibiting improved characteristics for weaving on water jet looms are prepared by sizing such fibers with copolymers of an aliphatic -olefin such as ethylene and an ammoniated ,ଲ-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic aci... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4009513 | Production of warp of textured yarns of uniform properties A plurality of synthetic fiber yarns which have latent bulk by virtue of false twist texturing or stuffer box crimping are pulled from a creel in the form of a warp between a first pair of rolls and then a second pair of slower moving rolls, passing throu... | 03/01/1977 |
| 4009512 | Method for sizing warp yarns A method for sizing warp yarns for yarn dyed fabric. It consists of the first operation of arranging cheeses on a cheese creel for a desired pattern and winding the warp yarns from the cheeses to form a warpers beam, and the second operation of sizing and... | 03/01/1977 |