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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5947164 | Cloth beam arrangement for tubular felts loom A cloth beam arrangement for tubular felts or cloths in a weaving machine brings about feed in the weaving machine of the overfelt and the underfelt. The arrangement comprises an upper first beam, an intermediate second beam and a lower third beam. The un... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5327939 | Loom take-up with wedge doffer A doffing apparatus for use with a loom take-up which includes a pair of drive spaced and aligned drive rolls supporting a cloth roll therebetween. The drive rolls act to drive the cloth roll so as to wind cloth delivered from the loom thereon. The doffin... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5184650 | Loom having a resilient locking element for the cloth beam bearing To secure a cloth beam (2 ) of a loom in an open bearing shell (6) a resiliently borne tongue (7)is provided. The tongue includes a nosing (11) between two arms (10, 12) and is connected at one end of the first arm (10) to a bearing table (5). The nosing ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 4967804 | Fabric rolling unit of tangential type, with a load-control device A fabric rolling unit comprises a pair of tangential fabric-rolling rollers, one of which is a driving roller and the other one is a driven roller, with the axes of said rollers being parallel to each other and horizontal, on which rollers either a beam t... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4722369 | Take-up device for the cloth beam of a textile machine The cloth take-up device comprises a pressing device having a flexible pressure hose which is connectable to a pressure source and which presses a presser on to the cloth take-up roll. The pressure applied by the presser to the roll can be varied in a sim... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4276911 | Take-off apparatus for the fabric web of a textile machine, especially a loom At a fabric take-off apparatus the deflection rod arranged forwardly of the cloth take-off roll, is provided at both halves thereof with opposite pitch threaded grooves and, if desired, at the ends thereof with spreader-needle rolls. The fabric, directly ... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4273163 | Fabric take-off device The fabric take-off device comprises a fabric take-off roller mounted to be movable transversely of its longitudinal axis and two associated rod-shaped fabric guide elements which are mounted on fixed axes for supplying the fabric to the take-off roller a... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4125131 | Fixed driving connection between a guide roller and delivery roller of a loom A loom including a drive device for weaving fabric from warp yarn extending from a source over a back rest provided adjacent one end of the loom and after being woven into fabric being fed over a breast beam positioned adjacent the other end of the loom. ... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4028912 | Fabric take-up mechanism A drawing-off mechanism having at least two driven rollers for drawing off knitted fabric in which the rollers are positively driven at the same peripheral speed while being resiliently pressed against each other to permit drawing off fabrics of varying t... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4003411 | Device for withdrawing fabrics from looms Device for withdrawing fabrics from looms, particularly hydraulic jet looms. The loom has a hauling beam and at least two pressure beams, brackets carrying the pressure beams being mounted by means of eccentrics on the journals of the hauling beams. At le... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3973598 | Loom having a cloth take-up system The cloth take-up system positively drives the deflecting roller at a transmission ratio in which the roller has a greater peripheral speed than the cloth take-up roller. A gear-type transmission is used to produce a difference of about 5% in the peripher... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3955604 | Deflecting device for flat textile structures An endless belt is disposed between the cloth take-off roller of a weaving machine and the pressing roller in order to press a cloth passing between the belt and the take-off roller or between the belt and each of the take-off roller and pressing roller. ... | 05/11/1976 |