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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7318456 | Modular weaving system with individual yarn control A modular weaving machine includes a loom chassis and a plurality of modular warp units. The warp units are each configured for supporting a plurality of removable bobbins thereon, the bobbins being pre-loadable with a plurality of warp threads. The loom chassis is ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7240698 | Method for weaving face-to-face fabrics, fabric woven according to such a method and face-to-face weaving machine for carrying out such a method On the one hand, the invention relates to a method for weaving face-to-face fabrics on a face-to-face weaving machine, the fabrics (10),(20) consisting of weft yarns (2), ground warp yarns (3) and pile warp yarns (4), and one or se... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7178558 | Modular weaving for short production runs A modular weaving machine includes a loom chassis and a plurality of modular warp units. The warp units are each configured for being pre-loaded with a plurality of warp threads. The loom chassis is configured to receivably support the warp units thereon, so that th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7011116 | Terry weaving method for creating variable loop heights and a terry loom for carrying out said method A terry weaving method and a terry loom for carrying out the method. Subject matter of the terry weaving method is that a slay travel shortening does not result during the carrying out of partial beat-ups for the formation of a weft thread group, and thus the origin... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6913044 | Electric motor direct drive for the reed of a loom A direct drive for a loom reed includes a linear motor carrying out a linear oscillating motion, or an arc segment motor carrying out a pivoting oscillating motion, or a circular coaxial motor carrying out a pivoting oscillating motion. The circular coaxial motor ha... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6889720 | Method and means for textile manufacture A method and device involve simultaneously inserting weft/binding yarns and beating them up, in textile manufacturing processes like 3D-weaving and uniaxial noobing. A yarn carrier is equipped with a beating-up reed dent. In the carrier, which includes a cartridge-l... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6799609 | Sley apparatus A sley apparatus for a weaving machine which has a sley profile (1), a reed (2) and a drive (3), with the sley profile (1) carrying the reed (2) and being in active connection with the drive (3). The sley profile (1) ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6418972 | Rotary drive with direct drive electromagnetic motor for a reed slay of a loom A reed in a loom is driven or oscillated back and forth to perform the beat-up motion by a direct reed drive that avoids using the main loom drive for operating the reed. The direct drive is an electromagnetic motor which uses as one of its components a r... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6230758 | Method for controlling a motion characteristic of a sley shaft for driving a reed The sley shaft of a loom, particularly a loom for weaving terry cloth or pile fabric, is rotated so as to provide more time for a gentle beat-up of the weft along the fabric beat-up line. For this purpose, the acceleration of the sley shaft and thus of th... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6164341 | Pneumatically supported weaving shuttle In a weaving machine, the shuttles of the weaving machine are transferred over and across the warp threads of the machine. The method and apparatus have the object of preventing factors which adversely affect the weave result from occurring at high shuttl... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6039088 | Reed assembly with angled dents A slay and reed assembly for use on textile machines includes a reed having dents disposed in an upper and lower channel. A reciprocating motion slay with clamping device is used to carry the reeds and moves the reeds towards and away from a fabric fell l... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5649570 | Weaving loom with a combination of a weft thread cutting device and a selvage laying-in device A weaving loom for producing at least one woven fabric web (9) with at least one laid-in selvage includes a weft thread cutting device (23) and an associated selvage laying-in device (14). The cutting device and the laying-in device are mounted relative t... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5630449 | Energy storer, for reducing drive torque and improving power consumption in a weaving machine In the method, a reed (3) for a weaving machine is continuously driven from a drive means (2) and the kinetic energy of the reed is stored in order to reduce the drive energy. The apparatus comprises an energy storer (1) and a drive means (2) in order to ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5564474 | Weaving loom having axially displaced sley legs A weaving loom with a sley having a defined weaving range, is provided with at least one first and one second sley leg (21; 22), respectively, for supporting the sley (2), the sley legs being arranged in the form of a deformable rectangle with hinge point... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5505231 | Projectile guiding elements synchronously movable with a full width power loom sley A full width power loom which produces flat woven paper machine webs and other articles with warp and weft threads and which has a width more than 6 meters has a sley reciprocable in a direction of warp threads, a thread introducing element formed as a pr... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5503197 | Method for producing high weave density airbag fabric on a water-jet loom using unsized yarns A method for forming an airbag fabric for use in protecting vehicle occupants during a collision. The airbag fabric includes at least a portion of fabric woven by water-jet weaving yarns without chemical sizing compounds thereon at weave constructions com... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5423354 | Drive system for a loom slay shaft for producing terry or smooth fabric A drive system for a weaving loom includes at least one four-pivot three-link drive or preferably two such drives for transmitting drive power from a main loom shaft through a cam drive to a slay shaft coupled to the cam drive through the four-pivot three... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5421378 | Airbag weaving on a water-jet loom using yarns A method for weaving airbag fabric for use in protecting vehicle occupants during a collision. The airbag fabric includes at least a portion of fabric woven with unsized warp and fill yarns by water-jet weaving at a weave construction of at least 47 warp ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5285820 | Power loom lay or baton drive A power loom, particularly for weaving of sieves or screen fabrics, has a fabric batton, a fabric batton drive, a shaft drive, and a shuttle drive. The fabric batton drive includes a program-controlled servo motor, and a transmission located between the s... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5245858 | Method of measuring air-speed in a reed groove Air is jetted into the reed groove of a modified reed in a manner equivalent to that in which air is jetted in practical weaving operation, air-speed is measured at a plurality of measuring points in the reed groove on each of a plurality of planes perpen... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5226458 | Device for the stretching of a weft thread in weaving machines A device for stretching a weft thread in weaving machines includes a stretching nozzle mounted on the sley of the weaving machine and a blower device for removing weft threads from the stretching nozzle. The blower device is mounted on the sley near the s... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5172733 | Weaving thick fabric by lifting cloth fell A method and apparatus for weaving a thick fabric. The method comprises the steps of providing a plurality of vertically stacked layers of textile weave, and weaving a set of wefts into the layers of textile weave. This weaving step, in turn, includes the... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5135033 | Rapier loom having picking tapes and spacers A rapier loom has rapier heads which are moved by picking tapes into an open shed. Spacing elements are provided for the rapiers to ensure that when the shed is fully opened, a space is present between the tape and the bottom shed to reduce frictional con... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5092374 | Guide and support devices for weft inserters in shuttleless looms A shuttleless loom has a pair of inserters each having a head provided with a respective weft-yarn gripper and movable from respective sides of a warp therethrough to an advanced position in a central warp region with a weft yarn held in the gripper of a ... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5088525 | Reed beam construction with adjustable gripper rod guide surfaces A gripper loom is equipped along its reed or slay beam with a plurality of compartments formed by separation walls extending in parallel to each other and in parallel to the lower shed forming warp threads which pass through these compartments. The upper ... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5070912 | Air jet weaving loom with expander element and spreader table An air jet weaving loom is equipped with at least one expander element and a spreader table, whereby the spreader table surrounds a spreader in a trough and has an extension (8) in a forward fabric guidance area pointing toward the middle of a weft thread... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5058629 | Sley for a magnetic shuttle A sley for a loom has a slot in which the magnet of a shuttle and/or the magnet of a magnetic force-generating device extends, so as to minimize the distance between the magnets of the shuttle and the magnetic force-generating device. This results in an i... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5052447 | Guide device for a web of material at the loom cloth fell A guide device for a web of material at a point of a textile machine, preferably a weaving machine, at which the web of material is produced. The guide device includes a first guide strip with a guide edge which first guide strip is arranged subsequent to... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5020574 | Mechanism for mounting a part on a loom sley A mechanism for mounting a part on the sley of a weaving machine includes a holder in which a relay nozzle of the weaving machine is mounted, a groove extending over the length of the sley, a clamp to be mounted in the groove and having on opposite sides ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4997010 | Cloth support with cloth guiding surface for close engagement with reed side walls The reed of an air jet loom has a passage for guiding the weft yarn to be picked which in cross-section is trough-shaped with substantially parallel walls and a base which extends transversely to the walls. The cloth support extends so far into the weft-g... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4903737 | Producing a multi-ply fabric on a loom having auxiliary end reeds A fabric which contains warp threads made of a delicate material is produced on a loom which includes a main reed and auxiliary end reeds at opposite ends of the main reed and which are independently operable with respect to the main reed. The warp thread... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4887650 | Beat-up mechanism for weaving looms A beat-up mechanism for a weaving loom includes a relatively movable indexing reed and beat-up reed adjacent each other and arranged to transport weft threads adjacent the fell of the fabric and then beat-up the weft threads into the fell by means of beat... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4760869 | Loom reed A weaving machine reed which has a protective strip connected to the reed on the end adjacent the fill yarn insertion device. The protective strip basically consists of a vetically elongated piece of metal with a ceramic material mounted centrally of the ... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4730644 | Loom In a device for securing cloth-forming parts (19) to the sley of a loom, two clamping members (71, 72, 91, 92) directed towards one another wedge-fashion are tightened on one another by a clamping screw (6), the clamping members bearing on one side in the... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4669513 | Guide for a picking element in a weaving machine The guide for a picking element is provided with five plane guide surfaces which are peripherally disposed about the picking tunnel. These five guide surfaces are disposed on each of the single guide tooth or are distributed between a separately construct... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4655259 | Lamella for a picking comb of a weaving rotor The weaving rotor for a series shed weaving machine is formed with picking combs which have lamellae of unitary structure to define a weft-guiding part and a warp-guiding part. The lamellae may be made of ceramic pressings with the two projections on the ... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4653545 | Projectile guide for a weaving machine The projectile guide employs support teeth which have horizontally disposed support surfaces for slidably receiving and supporting a picked projectile thereon. In addition, alternately arranged guide teeth are provided to define a picking tunnel while als... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4638839 | Guide for the gripper carrying straps inside the shed of weaving looms A guide for the gripper carrying straps inside the shed of weaving looms is formed as a nonsymmetrically shaped plate, the upper side of which is broken off to form two lateral slanting beaks delimiting the seat for the strap, the beak close to the reed b... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4628968 | Guide for a weft-picking element The guide for the weft-picking element of a weaving machine is formed of alternating supports and hooks which complement one another in pairs to form a guide tooth. Each support is single armed while each adjacent hook widens towards the guide passage in ... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4625769 | Guide device for a weft picking element and a method of making same The guide device for the picking element of the weaving machine is formed with guide teeth each of which has a flexible zone which permits a positional adjustment of the guide and support member and guide hook relative to one another. During production of... | 12/02/1986 |
