Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7926518 | System for support of the cutting bench in a face-to-face weaving machine A face-to-face weaving machine is disclosed, which includes a cutting bench to guide the movement of a cutting blade in order to cut a face-to-face fabric. The cutting bench is carried and/or supported at its extremities by the frame of the weaving machine. In at le... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7438093 | Symmetrical measurement of jaw Cutting device for a face-to-face weaving machine, comprising a cutting knife and an upper (2) and a lower cutting rail (3) with an intermediate distance (13) which may be adjusted by means of one or several screw means (3, 7), the device... | 10/21/2008 |
| 6928911 | Method and apparatus for cutting tire ply stock Method and apparatus for severing tire ply stock (S) wherein the apparatus includes a knife assembly (14) utilizing a blade (50) having a curved leading edge (58) and a straight trailing edge (62) which meet at a leading point (66)... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6910508 | Method for weaving a double layer cloth A method for weaving a double layer cloth (1, 2) for use in the manufacture of airbag cloths. It is carried out using a weaving machine which includes, between the weaving sley (3) and the cloth beam (10), a temple arrangement (4) which i... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6681668 | Device and process for thermally cutting a moving web of textile material A device for cutting a moving web of textile material as it passes the device, and for sealing the cut edges of the material, having an electrically heated cutting member capable of severing the material as it passes the cutting member, and an electricall... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6260586 | Rail mounted weft cutting device with blade carrying arms A device for cutting the weft yarn in weaving looms includes a fixed-blade and movable-blade cutting group which has associated motor for the cutting movement of the movable blade in order to perform cutting of the weft yarn. The fixed and movable blades ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6213159 | Sharpening device for the cutting knife of a face-to-face weaving machine A sharpening device for the cutting knife (12) of a face-to-face weaving machine, comprising a belt-shaped sharpening means (4) of a flexible material provided with a sharpening face that is so disposable that the cutting knife (12) during its back and fo... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6155307 | Knife carriage for face-to-face weaving machines A knife carriage for face-to-face weaving machines has a supporting surface with interchangeable, adjustable sliding parts which direct the knife carriage in relation to a guiding section. A cutting instrument separates top and bottom fabrics from each ot... | 12/05/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5312132 | Gas cushion and method and apparatus for its manufacture An inflatable air cushion for use as a safety device in an automobile is made of two blanks cut from strips of fabric interwoven with one another along a seam extending along the peripheries of the blanks. The strips are initially flat, but include at lea... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5309948 | Apparatus for replacing full cloth roll on weaving machine with empty cloth roll An apparatus for replacing a full cloth roll loaded on a pair of rollers of a weaving machine with an empty cloth roll, which apparatus includes a pair of oscillating members supported by the weaving machine to oscillate about an axis of a rod supported b... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5265649 | Cloth roll exchange apparatus for a loom A full roll transferred from a cloth wind-up position in a weaving machine to a temporary full-roll storage position on a transfer carriage is prevented from rotation by meshing with a gear mounted stationarily. The transfer carriage is equipped with empt... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5202077 | Method for removal of substrate material by means of heated pressurized fluid stream A method and apparatus for treatment of relatively moving substrate materials and the novel products produced thereby created by precise application of high temperature pressurized streams of fluid against the surface of the materials to melt and remove m... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5178193 | Manufacturing a long bias cloth from a circular loom by spiral cutting Continuous production of a long bias cloth is accomplished by manufacturing a tubular fabric on a circular loom having a circular frame, reeds arranged on the frame and a shuttle for a weft rotatable along the frame. The fabric is removed from the loom un... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5115839 | Weaving machine with ribbon cutting device A weaving machine includes a guide device for a woven material web. The guide device is arranged downstream of a filling thread set-up edge. The weaving machine further includes a ribbon cutting device for cutting the woven material web into ribbons and f... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5101094 | Device for thermically cutting of textile material The device for cutting textile material and sealing the edges of the cut material comprises a heated resistance wire of round cross section supported in a supporting means. The wire forms a flattened central portion shaped to form a semi-circular bow havi... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5092368 | Cloth roller replacement system for weaving machine A cloth roller replacement system for at least one weaving machine, includes an actuating system for removing a full cloth roller from the machine and then installing an empty cloth roller in its place. The system further includes an instrument for measur... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5090456 | Weft gripping and cutting apparatus in rapier loom A picking apparatus of a rapier loom has gripping bodies between a weft selection device and a yarn cutter. The gripping bodies are movable up and down. The gripping bodies selectively grip a plurality of weft yarns in accordance with a color pattern. One... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5076331 | Pile cutter for face to face weaving loom Cutting device for face-to-face weaving loom, having a cutting rail (2) on which a cutting carriage (4) moves to and fro and is connected to a rope (6) which forms a closed circuit with the cutting carriage (4) and moves to and fro, being driven by a reci... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5063970 | Loom with device for automatically exchanging cloth beams A loom for automatically exchanging a full cloth beam for an empty one without stopping its weaving operation. The loom has a driving mechanism for driving a cloth beam to rotate and wind thereon woven fabric. After having wound thereon a predetermined am... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5042533 | Auto-doffer for looms in a weaving mill In construction of an auto-doffer for weaving looms, a pair of arm mounted to a carriage carry out full automatic doffing separation by means of their three dimensional movement and a cutter unit also mounted to the carriage disconnects, in cooperation wi... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4898213 | Device for mending and trimming broken warp yarn A device for mending and trimming broken warp yarn includes a yarn holder mounted on a moving member for holding a free end of a mending yarn tied to a broken warp yarn. When a warp yarn is broken during the operation of the loom, one end of a mending yar... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4892120 | Apparatus for regulating the jaw of the cutting rails in face-to-face weaving looms Cutting device to spilt a face-to-face woven fabric provided with one or more electronic displacement transducers (11, 12) which produce a signal proportional to the position of the top cutting rail (4) and bottom cutting rail (5) of the cutting device re... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4892119 | Changing cloth beams in a weaving mill A transporter is constructed to exchange an empty cloth beam for a full cloth beam of a weaving machine; the cloth being wound into the empty beam while the empty beams remains in the transporter. The transporter has a pair of gripper arm which are automa... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4850085 | Apparatus for producing hooks on hook-and-loop fasteners An improved method and apparatus for producing hooks on hook-and-loop fasteners, wherein loops on a loop sheet are cut from the outside thereof on one of the legs thereof near loop heads by reciprocating first movable cutting comb teeth of a first movable... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4760625 | Method for producing hooks on hook-and-loop fasteners An improved method and apparatus for producing hooks on hook-and-loop fasteners, wherein loops on a loop sheet are cut from the outside thereof on one of the legs thereof near loop heads by reciprocating first movable cutting comb teeth of a first movable... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4691743 | Method and device for removal of waste slivers in a weaving loom In order to remove waste slivers produced by cutting false selvedges in a weaving loom, at least two slivers are introduced into a rotating feed duct and subjected to a false twist, thus automatically balancing the tensions of the different slivers. The c... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4606381 | Method and apparatus for automatically exchanging cloth rollers in a loom A method and an apparatus for automatically exchanging cloth rollers without stopping the loom, including: transferring a cloth roller from a truck to a loom when the cloth roller has taken up a given amount of cloth; mounting an empty roller on the loom ... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4572245 | Electrothermal fabric melt cutter for a weaving machine A shield is provided upstream of the heating wire of the electrothermal fabric melt cutter to prevent cooling of the heating wire by a fanning action of the reed during beating-up. The shield extends to the fabric and may have a cover for further supporti... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4561473 | Double-pile loom A cutter for a double-pile loom which cutter is fixed to a slider to slide on a rail in parallel with the cloth fell. The cutter is adapted to reciprocate crosswise in the space between the top and bottom sheets of fabric synchronously with picking to cut... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4549582 | Apparatus for removing severed fabric parts from a weaving machine The apparatus comprises an injector nozzle, for instance on the loom take-up roll. The injector nozzle has a plurality of air supply passages or channels opening into an extraction conduit surrounding the selvedge to be removed or extracted. The selvedge ... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4542771 | Adjustable anvil for ultrasonic material cutting and sealing apparatus An improved anvil construction, for use in an ultrasonic apparatus for edge cutting and sealing moving lengths of at least partially thermoplastic material, particularly textile fabric having at least some thermoplastic fibers, and including a vibrating s... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4478255 | Devices for cutting pile threads in a loom for weaving velvet in a double layer Velvet which has been woven in a double layer passes between a table and a rule before the pile threads are cut by a knife in order to separate the two layers. The rule is suspended from a reinforcement bar by means of two anchoring points located at a di... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4459724 | Pile fabric cutting apparatus A slitting apparatus for separating face-to-face pile fabrics, double plush ware or the like, into two separate panels includes a closed loop feedback arrangement that maintains equal tension on both panels thereby permitting the cutting knife to sever th... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4453572 | Method and apparatus for waste selvage removal Waste selvage containing warp ends or leno yarns interlaced with filling tails is removed from a shuttleless loom. The loom includes a suction source having an impeller pump with an exhaust, with fabric being removed by a fabric take-up roller. A venturi ... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4299878 | Bias cut, continuous fabric of ceramic or synthetic fibers An apparatus and process for producing a unique, continuous and endless, bias cut fabric employing ceramic and synthetic fibers is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a take up roll system positioned at the output of a tubular weaving operation. The roll s... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4261391 | Apparatus for separating double plush cloth webs Apparatus for separating a cloth web, produced in a double plush weaving machine, into two pile cloth webs. Cutters move transversely of the cloth web in adaptation to the beating strokes of the reed of the weaving machine, with the cutters being arranged... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4124420 | Method and a device for providing woven bands or ribbons from tissue woven by a standard weaving machine A method and a device for cutting ribbons from a large fabric as provided by any weaving machine wherein the cutting-sealing operation is effected downstream of said weaving machine before the fabric is wound up in bobbins and serially with the production... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4100945 | Apparatus for withdrawing leno waste in weaving machines A pair of parallel rollers disposed in a path of advance of leno waste exiting from a leno weave portion of a weaving machine are provided with facilities for maintaining their peripheries free of the leno waste as such waste advances through the roller n... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4100946 | Device for cutting velvet bands on lappet looms A device for cutting velvet bands on lappet looms, comprising at least one disk blade mounted on an oscillating arm and which can be brought segment by segment into an operative cutting position and a grinding device on the side of the cutting device.... | 07/18/1978 |
