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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7341077 | Method for operating a loom A loom having a first drive motor (10), which for instance drives a batten (13), and having at least one second drive motor (44), which drives a dobby (46), is provided with a control and regulating device (48), which forms a rotat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7147009 | Method for hands only weaving A process for weaving that can be implemented using just the hands as the loom and shuttle, a weaving material such as yarn, an instrument for cutting like nail clippers or a small pair of scissors, and an object for intermissions in the process such as a paper clip... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7147008 | String bead loom A string bead loom includes a body having a top side, a bottom side, and a rear edge; source means for providing and dispensing string wherein the source means is mounted on the top side of the body; guide means for guiding string being dispensed from the source mea... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7134457 | Method of weaving braille and woven braille textile A method of weaving Braille and/or the resulting woven Braille textile may assist sighted persons in determining the woven Braille cells by differentiating the colors of each number 1 through number 6 Braille cell warp thread. A method of weaving Braille and/or the ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7021340 | Method of and loom for teaching Braille Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method of and loom for teaching Braille by weaving with a loom, wherein the levers to move the harnesses are shaped and spaced like the levers on a Perkins Brailler (a Braille typewriter). ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6979347 | Implantable drug delivery prosthesis An apparatus and associated method for delivering a therapeutic substance to a vascular lumen, using an implantable prosthesis, such as a stent, which has grooves or trenches formed thereon. The grooves are formed on specific regions of the stent struts to increase ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6834682 | Set of hand held devices Portable looming templates for creating fabric from yarn. Square templates with a series of indentations around the perimeters. The templates are divided into halves and held together with hinges. The looms have location holes to which are attached to a swinging arm... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6719013 | Bead-weaving system A bead-weaving system including a multiplicity of beads for spacing apart a multiplicity of warp threads, wherein the beads are pierced by a hole in their diameter and threaded on a weft thread by a needle and positioned between each warp thread, the needle having a... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6453951 | Pivotable heddle for a loom A heddle includes a plurality of passages spaced from each other in a first direction for guiding warps, respectively, and a retainer provided in each of the passages for retaining a corresponding warp. Each of the guide passages is defined between a firs... | 09/24/2002 |
| 4784187 | Shedding motion of loom A device for producing shedding motion in a loom includes two assembled guides disposed parallel in the loom. Each of the guides includes a shaft to which a plurality of blocks are mounted. The blocks not only cross feed yarn in the loom but transfer the ... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4564049 | Weaving device The invention discloses a weaving device, which includes (a) a support base adapted to support a number of weaving needles in spaced substantially parallel relationship; (b) two groups of weaving needles, each needle having a longitudinal axis and being a... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4556945 | Multi-harness loom control A control system for a multi-harness loom comprising drive means for each harness and electronic control means for operating the drive means to move each harness for creation of a shed pattern, the electronic control means being manually operable to seque... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4489761 | Hand weaving loom A hand weaving loom comprising a frame provided with a loom beam and a breast beam between which the warp threads are stretched in operation, the warp threads being guided between the loom beam and the breast beam along guide members which are movable in ... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4462432 | Hand weaving machine A shedding device for a loom, having a plurality of thread separator discs, inner abutments on one side of each disc, outer abutments on a face of the disc, subtending a predetermined arc, on which a thread may be raised, a central opening through the dis... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4244400 | Hand weaving looms A shedding mechanism for a foot treadled hand loom is disclosed. The mechanism insures ease of operation and uniform shed formation. Harness motion is always parallel to the original harness position, and each harness moves further than the one in front o... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4214613 | Loom A lever is pivotally connected to the upper part of a loom frame on a horizontal axis and carries a roller at one end that normally is held by the lever in a predetermined central position and that supports an upper cable that carries a pulley at each end... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4181158 | Portable table loom A portable table loom of compact and firm construction in which a simplified harness system is provided which includes transverse harness bars mounted in the system in pre-selected positions with the assurance that they will remain in such positions durin... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4178970 | Hand loom A hand loom of improved and simplified construction in which the course of travel of the warp threads during the weaving operation is similar to conventional looms. However, the loom of the present invention is provided with a beater which is mounted for ... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4160467 | Hand loom having rotary heddle assembly A hand loom for making woven fabric is disclosed. The loom includes a frame for supporting warp threading. Warp alignment structure on the frame maintains relative alignment of each thread of the warp. A detachable heddle spindle assembly mounted to the f... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4109685 | Horizontal hand weaving loom A horizontal hand loom supported on brackets, tables, or the like, comprising a basic frame provided with warp beam, cloth beam, support frame, and harnesses located on either side of the support frame, said harnesses upwardly being hingedly connected to ... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4103715 | Versatile hand loom A versatile hand operated loom having features making it uniquely suited for utilization in occupational therapy for hospitalized or institutionalized persons. Simplified hand loom assembly dispensing with the conventional shedding harness enables utiliza... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4063574 | Loom A simple backstrap type loom consisting of a rigid heddle, two identical end boards, that will be called the warp board and the woven web board, and four flexible laces. The boards hold the warp and finished weaving under tension, when tied with the flexi... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4046172 | Weaving device A device for spreading lengths of warp thread mounted on a weaving frame to allow lengths of weft thread to be woven therethrough. The device includes an elongated bar member rotatably mounted to the weaving frame for passage underneath the lengths of war... | 09/06/1977 |
