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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7308901 | Canopy cover having a meshed portion A canopy system including a canopy frame and a canopy cover supported by the canopy frame. The canopy cover includes an inner solid portion, an outer solid portion, and a meshed portion disposed between the inner and outer solid portions and disposed proximately to ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7178559 | Webbing belt Belts and methods of their manufacturing are provided. In one aspect, belts are manufactured by the steps of weaving the belt from a plurality of warp yarns and at least one weft yarn, the belt having a central region and two opposed edges. The warp yarns in the cen... | 02/20/2007 |
| 6446677 | Weft controlling device for using weft as warp in a strap weaving machine A weft controlling device for using weft as warp in a strap weaving machine has motors mounted on an assembly board and controlling rods each movably connected to a corresponding one of the motors by a controlling thread and each controlling rod having a ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 4660605 | Belt with flexible weft material The invention relates to a woven belt, in particular for motor vehicle safety systems, which is found with a monofilament and a multifilament weft thread, both forming the central portion while only one forms the marginal portions.... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4506611 | Three-dimensional thick fabrics and methods and apparatus for making same Three-dimensional thick fabrics are made from a laminate of fabric plies by first inserting pointed rods through the laminate to form rows of holes after which needles are reciprocated through the different holes to pull loops of various yarns through the... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4436121 | Process for manufacturing an elastic or non-elastic ribbon A process for making a woven ribbon having stitched selvages on a ribbon loom by moving a single weft inserting member crosswise in two directions. The weft inserting member inserts a first auxiliary thread along each selvage and alternately drives a seco... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4421142 | Method for the production of a fabric, particularly tape fabric, loom for the performance of the method and fabric produced according to the method In the method for the production of a fabric, particularly tape fabric, two weft thread loops formed from different weft threads are laid into a shed formed of warp threads and bound off without use of an auxiliary thread. This is made possible thereby, t... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4399841 | Method and device for the manufacture of a woven fabric and woven fabric manufactured according to the method Method and device on a loom for the manufacture of a woven fabric, wherein weft thread loops are formed by a weft thread in a shed formed of warp threads. Through feeding the weft thread in within the warp width and out to both sides over the outermost wa... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4372998 | Heat adhesive tapes for finishing hems of trousers, skirts and like articles A heat adhesive tape comprising a tape main body of heat-resistant woven or knitted fabric and a heat adhesive thread of thermoplastic resin provided at each side of the main body on one surface thereof. To form a finished hem on trousers, skirts or the l... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4344463 | Ribbon-type fabric and method of making The ribbon-type fabric is provided with weft-yarn loops inserted at both sides of the run of the warp yarn, the weft-yarn loops being held together at the two edges of the ribbon-type fabric by at least one auxiliary yarn. In order to avoid that the joint... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4027703 | Shuttleless weaving machine, especially ribbon loom A shuttleless weaving machine, especially a ribbon loom, comprising at least one filling thread-insertion element and at least one to-and-fro driven knitting needle moving along the selvage or cloth edge which is situated opposite the filling thread-inser... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3957088 | Method and loom for weaving a fabric To insert an effect thread into a fabric being woven a warp is opened and an effect thread is inserted from one side into the open warp. It is then engaged from the open side of the warp and retained until such time as it can no longer be withdrawn from t... | 05/18/1976 |