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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7600539 | Low profile textile wire bundler sleeve A low profile fold protective textile sleeve for bundling elongate members has longitudinally and laterally interlaced monofilament warp and fill yarns. Flat profile monofilaments are employed in the warp direction and round monofilaments in the fill direction. The ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7565919 | Tubular fabric and method of making the same A tubular fabric receives an underwire garment such as a bra. The tubular fabric is formed by arranging a fusible yarn and melting the yarn to form a barrier. Preferably, the fabric does not include an elastomeric yarn or contains a minor amount and is treated to im... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7467647 | Process for manufacturing shoe laces having designated features The process includes steps for using raw yarn; dying the yarn; drying the dyed yarn by heating it; using the yarn in an appropriate loom machine such as a Jaquard loom or a needle loom to form concentrically-tubed shoe lace stock having a ridge on its outer tube; cu... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7406986 | Woven tape for trimming of a brassiere A woven tape for use as a trimming of a brassiere is disclosed as including a body portion provided with a number of openings along its warpwise centerline. An advantage in the use of a woven tape according to this invention as a trimming of a brassiere is that its ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7347229 | Tubular fabric and method of making the same A tubular fabric receives an underwire in a garment such as a bra. The tubular fabric is formed by arranging a fusible yarn, such as Grilon®, and melting said yarn to form a barrier, which exhibits excellent resistance to penetration by underwires. Preferably the f... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340780 | Sports garment A sports garment including a pullover shirt having inner and outer lower layers. The inner lower layer is almost always worn tucked into pants to provide comfort and support to the wearer. The outer lower layer may be worn outside of the pants to provide the wearer ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7331363 | Textile weave of inelastic and elastic fiber forming an elastic weave with one or more rigid loops Procedure consisting of the of textile weaving of inelastic and elastic fiber forming an elastic weave with one or more rigid loops. Field of application: clothing, footwear, headgear, haberdashery, costume jewelry, items for personal use, travel items, cases, leath... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7287552 | Process for weaving fabrics and shaggy fabrics The invention relates, on the one hand, to a process for weaving fabrics on a weaving machine, wherein these fabrics comprise a plurality of warp yarn systems, wherein for at least two mutually adjacent warp yarn systems, in each of these at least two mutually adjac... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7216678 | Self-curling sleeve A substrate including a plurality of monofilaments, or a combination of monofilaments and multi-filament yarns oriented in perpendicular directions, has a tendency to curl around a central space. When all monofilaments are used, the monofilaments along one direction... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7188642 | Low-friction pull tape A pull tape for facilitating positioning of elongated items within a protective sleeve is disclosed. The pull tape is woven of filamentary members preferably using a twill or satin weave that allows floats to form on the surface of the tape that reduce friction betw... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7111648 | Terry fabric and method for weaving same A terry fabric comprises a plurality of repeat units of interwoven warp and weft threads. Each of the repeat units comprises a set of ground warp threads, a set of pile warp threads, and a set of weft threads. The ground warp threads are woven tightly with the weft ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7032626 | Tubular fabric and method of making the same The present invention relates to a tubular fabric for receiving an underwire in a garment such as a bra. The tubular fabric is formed by arranging a fusible yarn, such as Grilon®, and melting said yarn to form a barrier, which exhibits excellent resistance to penet... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7025375 | Air-bag arrangement and a method of inflating an air-bag An air-bag arrangement provides protection for the occupant of a motor vehicle. The air-bag arrangement incorporates an airbag (50) formed by two layers (51, 52) interconnected to form a first set of chambers (53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58), having a p... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7020947 | Metal wire with filaments for biomedical applications A method for constructing a metal wire with embedded filaments or cavities therein for biomedical applications. The method includes first drilling nonconcentric apertures in a symmetrical pattern in a metal rod and then embedding filaments in the apertures. The meta... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013929 | Self-closing thermal protection sheath and its method of fabrication A self-closing thermal protection sheath includes an interleaved structure comprising firstly a monofilament and secondly strips of metallized foil. ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7000649 | Woven tubing for stent type blood vascular prosthesis and stent type blood vascular prosthesis using the tubing A woven tubing for use in a stent type blood vascular prosthesis, using a monofilament having a flattening in the range of 1.2-5.0 and a size in the range of 11-250 dtex in at least part of the warp and a stent type blood vascular prosthesis using the tubing are dis... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6994125 | Fabrication of air bag fabric A method for weaving fabrics that comprise in at least some sections multiple layers, especially one-piece woven (OPW) airbags comprising single-layer, double-layer and multi-layer sections. Weaves or weave combinations are produced in the double- or multi-layer sec... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994724 | Soft-tissue tubular prostheses with seamed transitions Single tubular woven or bifurcated prostheses are disclosed having varying diameters and tapered transitions. The prostheses comprise a seam along the tapered edges, thereby providing a substantially fluid-tight transition between sections or extents of the prosthes... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6978805 | High pressure flexible hose A flexible, thermoplastic hose for high pressure and high velocity flow is provided with a flexible braided reinforcement layer with a static drain therein for conducting static electricity towards a ground. This is achieved by having at least one textile fiber yarn... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6946003 | Implants for connective tissue reconstruction Biocompatible, implantable material comprising flexible, elongate tape and a plurality of elongate elements, each elongate element being aligned along and independently translatable in the longitudinal direction of the tape; implants manufactured from this material,... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6941775 | Tubular knit fabric and system A tubular knit fabric comprising at least one insulative yarn, at least one stretchable yarn, and at least one functional yarn, the insulating yarn, the stretchable yarn, and the functional yarn knitted together to define a tubular fabric sleeve having the functiona... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6938646 | Needleloom, weaving method, and textile articles formed thereby A method of weaving tubular textile articles, comprising: forming first, second, third and fourth superposed layers of warp threads; weaving by weft insertion through sheds formed in said layers, the weaving being performed by first and second weft threads inserted ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6918411 | Ribbon and method for production thereof A method and a device for the production of a ribbon are provided. The method may be performed on a narrow fabric needle loom and may include repeating the following steps: picking a weft thread (4), with (only) one weft needle (1); meshing the weft th... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6918410 | Method for fabricating wovens A method for weaving single-layered and/or multi-layered woven fabric, especially airbag fabric, includes interweaving warp threads delivered by at least two warp beams. ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6915668 | Wearable electrode apparatus and manufacture thereof The invention provides a wearable electrode apparatus and manufacture thereof. The wearable electrode apparatus includes a garment and 2M terminals. The garment includes 2M electrically conductive portions. Each of the terminals is disposed on one of the 2M electric... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6892767 | Uncoated air bag fabric A compact, economical air bag fabric of low air permeability and light mass is realized by a thermoplastic fiber fabric having a distribution of pores formed by the fibers constructing the fabric, that is, the pore distribution of 2.0 or smaller and air permeability... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6883557 | Method for weaving an airbag The available fabric mass in the one-piece woven airbag as tailorized by the method, now makes it possible to reinforce the airbag fabric individually oriented. Thus, at a high stress location formerly exhibiting airbag tears, a fabric quality is now available of en... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6883555 | Device for producing a tubular belt band that can be turned inside out A device for producing at least two tubular belt bands that are turned inside out, where each of the belt bands has two fabric layers on top of one another and connected to each other in a longitudinal direction by woven hems to form a cavity. Warp threads of the la... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6863696 | Vascular prosthesis A tubular vascular prosthesis with a uniform velour outer layer has an elementary unit of tubing composed of a double velour outer layer, made from polyester yarn, the middle layer, made from two polyester yarns, positioned between two strained polyurethane monofila... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6803333 | Airbag fabrics made from high denier per filament yarns An airbag fabric is made from multifilament yarns each comprised of a plurality of individual filaments, with each filament having a linear density in the range from about eight (8) decitex to eleven (11) decitex per filament, and more preferably a linear density in... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6794319 | Unbalanced twill weave fabric and airbag device The present invention relates to an unbalanced twill weave fabric having fill yarns at least about three times larger than the warp yarns. Such a fabric thus has increased strength provided by the fill direction. The present invention further relates to an airbag re... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6777051 | Protective sheath for flexible tubes A protective sheath made of a woven synthetic fabric having a structure formed of high tenacity warp and weft yarns, the count of the yarns ranging from 400 to 2000 decitex and the number of the yarns ranging from 54 to 78 yarns per centimeter. The woven synthetic f... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6770578 | Laminated textile fabrics for use in air holding vehicle restraint systems A multi-layered woven side air curtain has pre-configured air holding cavities and a polymeric film laminated thereto. An adhesive polyether polyurethane or polyester polyurethane prime coat layer is first coated onto a textile substrate, and then a polymeric film, ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6748980 | Base fabric for hollow-woven air bag and air bag A base fabric for a hollow-woven air bag, including: a bag portion (multiple fabric portion) formed by connecting a plurality of cloth pieces by hollow weaving; a fastened portion A connected to the bag portion (multiple fabric portion); and a fastened portion B of ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6740607 | Substrate with stretch and heat sealing properties to make a multidirectional restraint module design The invention is directed to coating a plurality of polyurethane films onto a stretchable knit fabric substrate and heat sealing such substrates together to yield an air curtain or air bag having improved air-holding properties. ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6734125 | Laminated multi-denier mixed fabrics for use in inflatable vehicle restraint systems A woven textile fabric is disclosed which is formed of synthetic yarns of at least two different deniers to which a solid polymeric film is laminated. An adhesive polymeric coating is provided for adhering the solid polymeric film to the woven textile fabric. The co... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6729356 | Endovascular graft for providing a seal with vasculature A graft provided with a flexible sealing member to substantially prevent blood from leaking between the graft a lumen into which the graft is placed. In one embodiment, the flexible sealing member may be pressed against the vascular wall by an outwardly biased sprin... | 05/04/2004 |
