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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7357157 | Industrial two-layer fabric In a repeating unit of a two-layer fabric, a first upper surface side warp forms a first upper surface side warp design. A second upper surface side warp forms a latent portion in which the second upper surface side warp passes between the two layers of the fabric. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357156 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric having eight upper side warps and eight lower warps are stacked vertically forming upper and lower layers which are bound by a warp binding yarn of these warps. In a repeating unit of the upper layer, one of the warps has repetition of... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7275566 | Warped stitched papermaker's forming fabric with fewer effective top MD yarns than bottom MD yarns A papermaking fabric includes a series of repeat units, each of the repeat units including: a set of top machine direction (MD) yarns; a set of top cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns; a set of bottom MD yarns; a set of bottom CMD ya... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270152 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric obtained by alternately arranging, on an upper surface side thereof, (a) a warp complete design made of a design in which a warp passes over one upper surface side weft and then passes under one upper surface side weft, and any one of ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7216677 | Industrial two-layer fabric In an industrial two-layer fabric, running surface side wefts constituting the running surface side layer each has a design in which the running surface side weft passes over a running surface side warp, passes under two successive running surface side warps, passes... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7198067 | Warp-runner triple layer fabric with paired intrinsic warp binders A papermaker's fabric, usable in a forming section of a paper machine, having a first layer formed of a first system of paired machine-direction (MD) warp yarns interwoven with a first system of cross machine-direction (CD) weft yarns and a second layer formed of a ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195040 | Papermaker's forming fabric with machine direction stitching yarns that form machine side knuckles A papermaking fabric includes a series of repeat units, each of the repeat units including: a first set of top machine direction (MD) yarns; a second set of top MD yarns; a set of top cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven with the first and second sets of t... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7059357 | Warp-stitched multilayer papermaker's fabrics A warp-stitched multilayer papermaker's fabric has a set of bottom warp yarns, a set of bottom weft yarns, a set of top weft yarns and a set of warp stitching yarn pairs. The bottom warp yarns are interwoven with the bottom weft yarns. The stitching warp yarns inter... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 4702283 | Process and apparatus for inspecting woven fabric during its production on one or more looms Optical scanning and inspection of loomed fabric on one or more looms is carried out using a travelling optical scanner that scans an inspection area of fabric on a loom faster than the fabric traverses the inspection area, such inspection area provided b... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4361171 | Weaving defect detector A weaving detector for detecting weaving defects generated on the surface of a ground fabric of a carpet or rug moving in a first direction is disclosed. The weaving detector moves in the direction of the width of the cloth and includes one or more detect... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4049023 | Stop motion for narrow width needle looms A floating electrode is positioned in the nip between a pair of tape pull rollers on a needle loom for sensing the presence of excess yarn in the nip caused by improper winding of the tape on a take-up roll or a wrap around one of the pull rollers to an u... | 09/20/1977 |
