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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7299827 | Loom restarting method A loom restarting method restarts a loom stopped due to a loom stopping cause without entailing a “wavy set mark”. When a loom is stopped due to a loom stopping cause entailing faulty picking, the loom restarting method provides a loom stopping command, withhold... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7168456 | Method and apparatus to remove yarns from the fringes of an industrial textile A method and apparatus for the removal of one or more lateral yarns from a woven industrial textile to prepare it for seaming. The apparatus consists of a movable table, a clamping device to hold the fabric, and a yarn removal device, consisting of a cutter and a co... | 01/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6675837 | Woven fabric having modified selvage and related assembly and method for the manufacture thereof A roll (25) of woven fabric (30) having a length greater than the diameter thereof wherein the diameter (28) is substantially the same across said length of the roll. An assembly (50) operable with the tucking units of the picking (51) and receiving (52) ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6450210 | Linear motor yarn-cutting device for mechanical looms A yarn cutting device for mechanical looms, having two mutually movable blades which are arranged on a mounting surface, at least one of the blades being operable by a drive. The drive is constructed as an electrically energized linear motor, whereby a co... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6450211 | Weaving process for a high-density fabric on a water-jet loom Process for producing high-density woven fabrics on a water-jet loom, comprising feeding a warp having up to three catch threads on one edge, inserting weft threads into the warp in the direction of the catch threads, beating-up the weft threads to produce a woven ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6286561 | Method and apparatus for monitoring the removal of a catch selvage from a loom The removal or transport of cut-off catch selvages in a loom is monitored by one or more sensors which produce a sensor output signal that represents the actual movement of the cut-off catch selvage. The sensor output signal is processed in an evaluation ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6227254 | Method and apparatus for recycling selvage warp yarns A method of recycling selvage yarns in a weaving operation involves providing selvage warp yarns which are continuous. The selvage is slit after passing through the loom from the main fabric warp yarns.... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6223779 | Auxiliary selvage forming and weft thread cutting device A loom with pneumatic weft thread insertion and including a reed, a weft thread guide device connected with the reed and pivotable therewith between an insertion position and a beat-up position, a stationary weft insertion device having at least one blowi... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6209588 | Weaving machine with pneumatic weft insertion and catch selvedge forming device A weaving machine with pneumatic weft insertion is provided which includes a fixed reed filler at an output end of a reed when it is in a weft insertion position. A catch salvage forming device is disposed at an output end of the fixed reed filler when th... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6206051 | Non reed interfering suction weft removal A weft yarn end removing mechanism is incorporated into a shuttleless loom that holds leading end part of a picked weft yarn under tension by a weft yarn tightening device and beats up the weft yarn into the cloth fell of a fabric on the shuttleless loom ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6155309 | Settable weft clamping and severing apparatus An apparatus for severing a weft thread which is to be inserted into a shed comprises a clamping device with a stationary clamping part and a settable clamping part in order to hold back the weft thread and a severing device in order to sever the weft thr... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6109308 | Fringed selvage retainer operating device A fringed selvage retainer operating device is incorporated into a shuttleless loom to operate a fringed selvage retainer for preventing the folding of free ends of weft yarns which form a fringed selvage of a fabric on the shuttleless loom on an arriving... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6102082 | Selvage cutter for cutting weft ends to a uniform length in a weaving loom A selvage cutter for a weaving loom has a cutter guide (9A, 9B) that causes the cutter to follow the cut fabric edge (8A) dependent on any fabric edge shrinkage locations (SL). The cutter guide has a guide claw (9A) that is elastically urged into contact ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6058980 | Method for cutting a selvedge of a weft insertion side of a rapier loom A method for cutting a selvedge on a weft thread insertion side of a rapier loom equipped with a weft thread supply by creating a free space of warp threads arranged separately from a main warp body. The weft thread is inserted through an open shed of the... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6039086 | Separating weft thread waste of a single uncontaminated material from untwisted leno binding threads in trimmed catch selvages A method and an apparatus serve to process a catch selvage that has been trimmed from a web being woven on a loom, so as to separate weft thread ends and leno threads from the catch selvage to produce a type-pure weft thread waste and a type-pure leno thr... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5992471 | Removal device for a waste weft A weft removal device removes a waste weft using a catch cord yarn without a shed motion. The device includes a spindle having a cling part formed at its one end portion for entangling a thread to a cord, and a bracket supporting the spindle. The device f... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5762111 | Roller-type weft thread cutting apparatus A weft cutting apparatus contains a first and a second cutting blade as well as a drive element which is connected to the second cutting blade and can be driven by the cloth directly. The cutting process is thereby synchronized with the speed of the cloth... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5735316 | Air weaving loom including a leading end weft stretcher and method for inserting a weft thread into a weft insertion channel of the loom An air nozzle weaving loom is equipped on its weft exit sides (E2) with a cutter (11), a suction opening (8A), a first weft stop motion sensor (4), a weft stretcher (6), and a second weft stop motion sensor (7) arranged in that order in the weft insertion... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5575314 | Weft cutter for air loom which is controllable as a function of weaving conditions A weft cutter for an air loom in which a movable blade is hinged to the ram of a pneumatic cylinder which is pneumatically fed through a solenoid valve provided at its inlet with a pressure regulator. The ram is kept in a rest position by a return spring ... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5560400 | Removing waste selvage from woven fabric A method and apparatus for removing waste selvages (11) formed when weaving fabric on a loom includes a pair of selvage removal rollers (19, 23) fitted with friction coverings and driven against one another to form a gripping nip for engaging and drawing ... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5544679 | Defective weft yarn insertion prevention A feed mechanism for several weft yarns, each with its own feed device capable of selecting the weft yarn to be inserted, includes sensors for monitoring the weft yarns for quality defects and for, upon detection a defect in a weft yarn, precluding the we... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5392819 | Planetary gear type selvage forming and cord catching device for loom A selvage forming and cord catching device for use in a loom includes a base adapted to be secured to the loom and has two planetary gear systems mounted on it. Each of the planetary gear systems has two planetary gears orbiting about a central axis. A cy... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5349990 | Device for holding weft threads for series-shed looms A device or holding weft threads of a series-shed loom between a weft input side and a weft output side of a rotating rotor. The device includes one thread-holding device on the input side of the rotor, and one thread-holding device on the output side of ... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5253681 | Reed for forming a gap in the fabric produced on an air weaving loom The reed of an air weaving loom is divided into spaced sections for forming a fabric gap. The warp threads are guided through the reed sections, but are absent in a zone of the fabric gap. The weft threads that would bridge the fabric gap are cut in the g... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5224521 | Weft catcher with gripping device The weft yarn insertion mechanism exhibits at the side of the shed (6) where the weft yarn comes out a yarn holder device (13) for taking over and releasing the end (4") of the weft yarn, which comprises essentially two gripping parts (16, 17) and one noz... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5105856 | Guide mechanism for tensioning a weft thread presented to a cutter A guide mechanism for presenting a weft thread to a cutter, especially in an air jet loom, has a weft thread guide pin which is driven up and down in synchronism with the beat-up motion of a loom slay, so that a beat-up weft thread is stretched by the gui... | 04/21/1992 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5085917 | Fabric having ravel resistant selvages and method for imparting the same This invention relates to a fabric having a radiation cured crosslinked coating composition applied to the selvages of the fabric to provide ravel resistance thereto. The coating composition is a copolymer of an elastomeric-forming low viscosity monofunct... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5040570 | Collecting dust and selvage waste ribbon in weaving machines onto a winding spool A method for collecting dust and waste in weaving machines wherein a continuous waste ribbon is generated during the weaving process includes blowing the dust and waste onto the ribbon while it is being wound on a waste spool to thereby collect and compac... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4976292 | Weft end tensioning and detecting devices for shuttleless loom A weft end treating device for a shuttleless loom comprises a yarn holding device which holds the free end of an inserted weft and tensions the weft in synchronism with the beating motion, and pushing dents for pushing the free end of the weft into the ya... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4958664 | Air jet loom with a jacquard frame and a variable drawing-in width An air jet weaving loom with a jacquard frame wherein harness threads are fed to a reed having a defined drawing-in width. Weft thread insertion devices are arranged on the weft insertion side. A catch side or weft exit side having an adjustable length, i... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4905741 | Weft thread inserting device for pneumatic looms A pneumatic loom having at least two blow nozzles arranged in a bundle, is equipped with a weft thread insertion alignment device (2) located in a fixed position between the blow nozzles and the weft thread guide channel formed by the reed teeth. The alig... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4858657 | Yarn cutting device of the gripper shuttle type A yarn cutting device for weaving looms having fixed reserves of weft and which operate with a gripper type weft-carrying shuttle wherein the shuttle supports a guiding member which carries the yarn towards the shed on the side of the loom. The guiding me... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4834147 | Weft thread cutting mechanism for shuttleless looms A scissors mechanism for cutting the weft thread in a shuttleless loom performs an excess stroke to bring the scissors mechanism, which is combined with a clamping mechanism, as close to the weft thread insertion gripper as possible in order to reduce wef... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4834145 | Apparatus and method for cutting an inserted weft thread A method and apparatus for cutting a weft thread are disclosed in which a completely separate, independent drive system for the weft thread cutter and clamping device enables the cutting time to be optimized without affecting the main drive system for the... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4784188 | Air jet weaving machine An air jet weaving machine has a weft deflector (7, 90, 23, 22) to keep the weft yarn away from the shed after the occurrence of a disturbance. The deflector is disposed between the picking nozzle (61) and the weft yarn entry into the weft duct (12). Befo... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4778546 | Screen fabric and method of making same A screen fabric employed in screen printing is improved by flattening its selvages to the extent of the thickness of the ground of the screen fabric so that wrinkles having been occurred in the selvages of the wound-up fabric are removed to increase the y... | 10/18/1988 |
