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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7287553 | Leno cloth as well as method and weaving machine for production thereof A leno cloth is prepared, which comprises at least ground warp threads 1, leno warp threads 3 and weft threads 2, and in which the weft threads 2 and the ground warp threads 1 are arranged essentially interspace free. The weft thre... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7140168 | Device for packaging continuous webs of materials such as selvedges generated on thermoforming units The device for packaging continuous webs of materia1, such as selvedges generated on thermoforming units, includes an input regulator of webs, driving guide for the webs, a cutting unit and, downstream thereof, a collector for bits of webs. The cutting unit has at l... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7124782 | Weaving machine including a selvedge tucking apparatus for weft threads A weaving machine having an apparatus for tucking in one or more weft thread ends (2′a) and for forming a cloth edge (10) as well as a shed forming apparatus for forming a shed (14) with a shed apex (14a). The apparatus fo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7040354 | Device for regulating the tension of a thread unwound from a bobbin of a bobbin-holder for a leno selvedge apparatus The subject matter of the invention is a device for regulating the tension of a thread unwound from a bobbin of a bobbin-holder for a leno selvedge apparatus, said device comprising a brake drum for receiving the bobbin-holder, said brake drum having a brake means a... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6705354 | Method of forming tuck-in selvage in cloth After a picking action of a weaving machine, a cloth-end warp maintains its shed over a plurality of weaving cycles including a weaving cycle in which weft ends are tucked in. Air is jetted toward a shed formed by warps in a widthwise direction of weaving from outsi... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6467511 | Selvage yarn tensioning apparatus and method A mechanism to automatically control tension of supplemental yarns added to a weaving or knitting machine has a pivotal control arm, one end of which is influenced by the tension of the yarn being controlled, while a counteracting force is applied to anot... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6240974 | Apparatus for controlling the tension of catch selvage yarn in a weaving loom The tension of catch selvage yarns reeling off a yarn supply spool is kept constant by applying a braking force to the supply spool by a disk brake. The brake has a brake disk (12) rotating with the yarn supply spool (1') and a position variable brake com... | 06/05/2001 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6009917 | Selvedge-forming device with independent control and eccentric drive system A selvage-forming device (1) for a loom includes yarn guide structures (2, 3, 5) to guide at least two selvage yarns (8, 11) that are alternating raised and lowered to form a selvage shed (12). These yarn guide structures are powered through the intermedi... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5803133 | Selvage-forming device for a power loom A power loom selvage forming device includes at least two thread guide elements for guiding selvage threads. The thread guide elements are guided in longitudinal guides and are connected by transmission elements to a drive shaft driven by a drive motor. T... | 09/08/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5725029 | Tension control apparatus for weft threads An apparatus for reducing the load on a weft thread being inserted into a loom shed reduces the necessary number of weft thread monitors or stop motion devices functioning as thread tension sensors while still ensuring a reliable tension measurement, espe... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5586582 | Support assembly for a planetary-type selvage unit on a loom A support shaft for a planetary-type selvage unit on a loom is mounted at its proximal end to a drive shaft for the selvage unit in an arrangement swingable between operative and stand-by positions. A locker unit is attached to the support bracket in orde... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5454404 | Weave structure for preventing woven tape selvedge from fraying A woven structure for preventing selvedges of a woven tape with a back surface covered by a coating of synthetic resin from fraying, wherein at least the cut portion of the woven tape, which is obtained by cutting a large-width woven fabric longitudinally... | 10/03/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5353845 | Rapid release system for false selvedge and fabric edge binding members A shuttleless loom in which that part of the reed traversed, by the false selvedge yarns and the binding yarns for the side edges of the fabric under formation is detached from the rest of the reed. The detached part is made easily removable from the loom... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5327621 | Method of producing fabric reinforcing matrix for composites A reinforcing matrix is produced using a plurality of regulating members (pins) removably arranged in rows in a predetermined direction on a base. Yarns are woven between the pins on the base repeatedly looping back and forth between spaced apart position... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5307845 | Split loom including a selvage-former mounted in a removable loom part A split loom with a stationary loom part and a removable loom part includes selvage-formers mounted in the removable loom part, at least one selvage-former being driven by a shaft entering the loom and also mounted on the removable loom part, the shaft be... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5261464 | Open eyelet heddle system for shedding warp threads In order to control the warp shedding motion, on weave looms and similar textile machines, a plurality of flexible and elastic heddles are utilized. The heddles are formed with an open eyelet (1) and are driven within support elements (3). They are vertic... | 11/16/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5168000 | Flat textile body A flat textile body is composed of adjacent bands (2) that extend in a perpendicular direction to its main center-plane (M). Each band has marginal sections (4) made of woven or knitted warp (6) and weft threads (8). Between the marginal sections at least... | 12/01/1992 |
| 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 |
| 5050645 | Mobile weft clamps for a shuttle box loom Movable clamps are provided on each side of a weaving loom between the selvedge of the fabric being made and the adjacent shuttle box with the number of clamps equal to the number of shuttles and with the clamps, which are offset in a vertical plane, bein... | 09/24/1991 |
| 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 |
| 5031668 | Jacquard weaving machine utilizing selectively reciprocatable control members An apparatus for controlling warp threads on weaving machines, particularly suited for control of warp threads on Jacquard type machines, for example selvedge machines. Control members are arranged to control movement of a warp thread and are adapted to b... | 07/16/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4580605 | Leno selvedge forming device The invention relates to the textile industry and, more particularly, to weaving machines. The device comprises: a support (1) to be fixed on the weaving machine; a first lever (2) oscillating on the said support and provided with at least one tongue (3) ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4549582 | Apparatus for removing severed fabric parts from a weaving machine The apparatus comprises an injector nozzle, for instance on the loom take-up roll. The injector nozzle has a plurality of air supply passages or channels opening into an extraction conduit surrounding the selvedge to be removed or extracted. The selvedge ... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4526211 | Fabric selvage end cut prevention cutter guide A cutter guide wherein a fabric selvage end guide is provided at a fabric selvage end in close proximity to a cutter, and in forming a fringed selvage on a selvage end of a fabric by cutting weft threads after insertion in a shuttleless loom, the position... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4502513 | Strap fabric and method of and machine for manufacturing the strap fabric The strap-like fabric made of interwoven weft and warp yarns has a selvage in the form of knitted stitches. A binding yarn made of a thermoplastic material or covered with an adhesive layer is applied to the cross points of respective loops of the knitted... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4498504 | Filling fringe waste reduction A structure for weaving without outer leno yarns on an air jet loom eliminates the auxiliary selvage from both sides of the fabric being woven. A mechanical filling yarn clamp is disposed between the filling detector and suction source on the right-hand s... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4453572 | Method and apparatus for waste selvage removal Waste selvage containing warp ends or leno yarns interlaced with filling tails is removed from a shuttleless loom. The loom includes a suction source having an impeller pump with an exhaust, with fabric being removed by a fabric take-up roller. A venturi ... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4431035 | Woven fabric with covered edges and method of a manufacture A fabric woven on a needle loom including a cover thread on the woven edge covering the exterior edge of the woven edge warp thread by a serpentine pattern interlocked with the weft loops and a binder thread knitted at the other edge covering the exterior... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4421142 | Method for the production of a fabric, particularly tape fabric, loom for the performance of the method and fabric produced according to the method In the method for the production of a fabric, particularly tape fabric, two weft thread loops formed from different weft threads are laid into a shed formed of warp threads and bound off without use of an auxiliary thread. This is made possible thereby, t... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4404997 | Waste binding yarn take-up device for shuttleless loom A waste binding yarn take-up device for a shuttleless loom, comprises a traction device for pulling waste binding yarns at a constant traction speed, a rotary traverse roller rotatable at a peripheral velocity slightly higher than the traction speed of th... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4296783 | Weft yarn end treating device for shuttleless loom A weft yarn end treating device for a shuttleless loom comprises a conveyer for conveying the end portion of a weft yarn picked into the shed of warp yarns when the end portion is held to contact with the conveyer, a holder for holding the end portion to ... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4259998 | Loom with stationary weft supply A shuttleless loom having a multiple weft supply and weft selection mechanism including a plurality of selector arms is provided with a weft holding device which holds all wefts adjacent one edge of the warps. Means are provided to move a selected weft fr... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4185667 | Positioning and holding mechanisms for filling yarns in a shuttleless loom In a shuttleless loom for weaving repeating patterned fabrics including rapier mechanisms for inserting picks of selected ones of a plurality of filling yarns, a filling yarn pattern control mechanism for selectively presenting desired filling yarns at pr... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4103714 | Apparatus for removing flues from selvage yarn feeding device of weaving loom In a weaving loom including a selvage yarn feeding device usually including a pair of yarn feeding units mounted on and driven by a planetary gear mechanism and each having a yarn guide area in which a selvage yarn being passed therethrough is scraped aga... | 08/01/1978 |
