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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7371445 | Structurally efficient airbag cushion exhibiting high available inflation volume The present invention relates to an airbag cushion which exhibits a low amount of seam usage (in order to attach at least two fabric panels or portions of a panel together) in correlation to an overall high amount of available inflation airspace within the cushion i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7299964 | Method and apparatus to create electrical junctions for information routing in textile structures Disclosed are systems or apparatuses and methods for forming a junction between conductive fibers that are incorporated into a fabric. Briefly, one method includes the steps of removing insulation from two intersecting individually insulated conductive fibers to exp... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7104286 | Weaving machine with correction of the distortion of the weft A weaving machine includes two temples whose axis is parallel to the weft threads and which are located at the lateral edges of the cloth, a cylindrical cloth-deflecting bar on which the cloth presses around an arc of contact before winding around a haul-off roll on... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7069961 | Inflatable fabrics comprising basket-woven attachment points between fabric panels All-woven inflatable fabrics having areas of two layers and attachment points or “seams” where single layers of fabric are formed. Such single fabric layers may be constructed solely through the utilization of basket weave patterns. These specific single fabric ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6962363 | Multiple chamber airbags and methods A two or more chambered airbag provides much improved safety and/or performance. A modified single chamber airbag can be used as the primary chamber of the two-chamber airbag. A piece of fabric of appropriate size is sewn to the inside or outside surface of the fron... | 11/08/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6722393 | On loom dryer A water jet loom having an on loom drying system. The water jet loom includes: a frame; a warp former; a shed former; a weft inserter and a two mode on loom dryer system downstream from the weft inserter. In the preferred embodiment, the two mode on loom dryer inclu... | 04/20/2004 |
| 5673727 | Fabric treating process A fiberglass mesh process includes coating fiberglass yarn, conveying the coated yarn to a loom without first beaming the yarn, weaving a mesh fabric of said yarn, conveying the mesh fabric to an in-line fabric treating station from said loom, tentering t... | 10/07/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5578359 | Magnetic shielding garment for electro-biologic measurements An electromagnetic shielding garment comprising amorphous alloy strips or strands woven together. The woven material or sheet can be reenforced by bonding it to a flexible material such as plastic. This garment is effective in shielding a patient from ext... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5566723 | Apparatus and method for guiding a textile web over a convex guiding surface An apparatus and method for guiding a web utilizes a curved outer convex cloth guiding surface constructed of extruded aluminum with a specially hardened, brittle, wear resistant surface (A) on arcuate sections such as extrusions provided respectively at ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5524677 | Doffing a cloth roll using a DC motor under full power A doffing mechanism wherein a cloth roll doffer (C) is normally carried in aligned laterally spaced relation to the cloth roll with a motor which are actuated by manually raising the cloth roll engaging means to forcefully move the cloth roll engaging mea... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5477890 | Integrated weaving and wet treatment method for manufacturing uncoated industrial woven fabrics In a method of manufacturing uncoated industrial woven fabrics having specifically adjusted air permeability from synthetic fibers, after the synthetic fibers have been woven into a fabric the fabric is passed through an aqueous bath having a temperature ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5477891 | Woven filter fabric A woven fabric filter medium having particular use in a pressure filter apparatus. The fabric is useful in separating liquids from solids in a slurry fed into the pressure filter apparatus. The fabric is woven in a pattern and of materials that provide de... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5437238 | Waist band attachment system A continuous loop waist band (10) is placed in edge alignment with a garment body (11), and the garment parts are stretched about spindles (19, 20, 21 and 23). The spindles are moved away from one another so as to stretch the aligned edges of the garment ... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5431192 | Light box for use in web inspection apparatus and method An apparatus and method for inspecting and guiding a web utilizes a curved outer convex cloth guiding surface (A) on arcuate sections such as extrusions provided respectively at the top and bottom of the viewing area for guiding cloth and for forming a ho... | 07/11/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5305803 | Retoolable trough-shaped spreader table for an air loom A retoolable spreader table for an air loom has a trough-shaped cross-section. The spreader table has a projection pointing substantially toward the center of the weft thread insertion channel of a weaving reed. The projection forms with its upper side a ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5224517 | Loom cloth beam changer with loop forming wedge for incoming cloth A transporter has transfer elements for moving an empty cloth beam into a position between a loom and a transporter or into a winding station of the loom. In addition, the transporter carries a curved wedge for engaging against the positioned empty cloth ... | 07/06/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5146954 | Loom cloth beam replacement in weaving machines A method and a device for replacing a cloth beam in a weaving machine utilize the steps of removing a cloth beam from a winding device, pressing an empty cloth beam against a fabric and against a guide piece such that the fabric is turned over the guide p... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5101864 | Loom guide bar for stretching a fabric laterally A weaving machine including a device for stretching a fabric in the weaving machine includes a guide bar over which the fabric is bent to thereby bring a surface of the fabric into contact with the guide bar. An array of notches on each end of the guide b... | 04/07/1992 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4901766 | Method and apparatus for cooling warp threads in a loom The warp threads in a loom are cooled, in order to prevent damage to the warp threads due to heat generation by the contact between the warp threads and loom components. Such contact can generate temperatures of 50° to 80° C. due to thread friction and ... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4825911 | Patterned woven fabric A novel method and apparatus to produce a novel woven fabric with a pattern integral therewith. The pattern is formed in the fabric during weaving by selectively stretching the warp yarn between the fell line and the warp beam so that the stretched warp y... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4791481 | Method for locating weft thread defects in fabric A process for locating weft thread defects in woven fabrics includes using a macro (close-up) lens and video camera to produce an enlarged image of the fabric, and then observing and evaluating the weft pattern from the video generated image. Transmissive... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4736776 | Adjustable breast beam system for heaving loom During the weaving process, the location and displacement of the cloth line and/or the breast beam are continuously detected; the detected value is supplied to a drive unit; in the event of a variation in cloth line location with respect to the desired lo... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4706715 | Mandrel for use with loom for forming loops of surface-type fasteners An improved mandrel for use with a weaving loom for the formation of loops of a looped fabric suitable for use as a surface-type fastener generally known as a loop-and-hook fastener. The mandrel has a generally V-shaped first recess defined in an upper lo... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4584152 | Controlling fabric porosity Fiber reinforced plastic products are produced in such a way that there is uniform resin dispersion throughout the product. Fabric is woven on a loom, and the reed dents of the loom are varied from the center to the edges of the fabric so that when the st... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4582095 | Fabric monitoring means for power looms A power loom for the manufacture of woven fabrics, in particular woven wire fabrics and felts for use in papermaking machines, is provided with a computerized pattern recognition system for monitoring the warp, the fabric, the edge of the fabric, the dens... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4551995 | Regulating device for the warp and thermo-fixing yarns of ribbons with self-gripping loops, capable of being adapted to a knitting machine A device for thermo-fixing tapes as they are taken up from the knitting machine.... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4462431 | Method and apparatus for forming Z-shaped folds in a tubular film and for inserting the latter into a woven tubing Z-shaped folds are formed in a tubular film and the latter is inserted into a woven tubing as the latter is woven and collapsed in a circular loom. The tubular film is squeezed between pairs of pinch rollers and is then inflated to form a bubble, which is... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4404997 | Waste binding yarn take-up device for shuttleless loom A waste binding yarn take-up device for a shuttleless loom, comprises a traction device for pulling waste binding yarns at a constant traction speed, a rotary traverse roller rotatable at a peripheral velocity slightly higher than the traction speed of th... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4245675 | Weaving loom with improved guide means for fabric In a weaving loom having a frame and a take-up roller spanned between first and second spaced sections of the frame to wind thereon a fabric, a resilient rod is spanned between the first and second spaced sections to cross the fabric at a position upstrea... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4221240 | Apparatus and method for absorbing moisture removed from fluid-jet loom An apparatus and method for absorbing a portion of the moisture removed from material woven on a fluid-jet loom. A shed of warp yarns is formed in the loom and a fluid jet is used to feed weft yarns into the warp yarns for forming a length of woven materi... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4194540 | Water jet loom A water jet loom in which heat generated by the vacuum source blower is recycled to the fabric heater to reduce the amount of auxiliary heat needed to dry the fabric as it passes to the take-up roll.... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4146061 | Method of and apparatus for marking woven fabric with indicia during weaving of the woven fabric Herein disclosed is a method of and an apparatus for marking a woven fabric with indicia of discrete events of a predetermined nature or natures such as unit lengths of the fabric woven and the occurrences of defects in weaving such as improperly inserted... | 03/27/1979 |
| 3967655 | Apparatus for stabilizing the fabric within the weft beat-up area in wave weaving looms A method of and apparatus for stabilizing the fabric within the weft beat-up area in multiple-shed weaving machines or wave weaving loom wherein the beat-up is effected by means of a rotary reed. Immediately after the weft has been beaten-up, the fabric p... | 07/06/1976 |
