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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7191804 | Thread clamp for a weaving machine A thread clamp for a weaving machine includes a clamp having at least two clamping parts between which a thread may be clamped and an actuator arranged to move the clamping parts between clamping and unclamped positions. The actuator is arranged to operate the clamp... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7178560 | Device and method for inserting weft threads in a weaving machine, and thread clamp used therewith A device for inserting weft threads in an airjet weaving machine including at least one main blower and a respective thread clamp associated with the main blower. The thread clamp is constituted of an element configured in a modular form. Such modular form enables s... | 02/20/2007 |
| 6892766 | Loom and method of weaving three-dimensional woven forms with integral bias fibers A loom for weaving three dimensional woven structures which include interwoven bias fibers and at least one integrally woven junction. The loom includes bias fiber holders, bias shuttles, and independently controllable bias arms to interweave the bias fibers. Each b... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6880584 | Weft end collector A weft end recovery apparatus comprises weft end carrier for carrying by water flow weft ends formed as a result of weft insertion, a plurality of storing and dewatering sections to receive the weft ends carried from the weft end carrier together with the water, and... | 04/19/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6305433 | Air feed block for a mechanical loom A weaving machine air supply block (1). The air supply block includes conduits (8 through 13) and switched and/or adjusted valves (14, 15, 16, 17) driven by valve drives (14, 15, 16, 17) configured between an inlet (2, 3) and an outlet (5, 6). The device ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6109309 | Compressed air distributor block arrangement in an air jet loom weft insertion device A weft thread insertion device for an air jet loom includes a nozzle block mounted on a sley to be movable together therewith. The movable block has a plurality of individual nozzles. Devices supply compressed air to the nozzle block by way of one or more... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6050304 | Weaving loom, particularly an air nozzle weaving loom An air nozzle weaving loom has a prenozzle alignment arrangement for the weft yarn picking. Several prenozzles (8a) having respective blow pipe (8b) are accommodated in a prenozzle block 9 according to an order system (geometric configuration) correspondi... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5904186 | Series shed weaving machine for weaving multiple web panels on a single rotor An improved series shed weaving machine includes a weaving rotor driven to rotate a plurality of mutually spaced-apart shed-forming sections for receiving warp threads. A plurality of separate weft thread presentation devices separately supply weft thread... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5540261 | Warp wave weaving method and apparatus with pneumatic weft insertion A method and apparatus for multi-shed warp-wave weaving wherein weft threads are inserted into shed retainers by a stationary weft thread supply chamber. The inserted weft thread is transported through the shed retainer by air jet nozzles cooperatively as... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5417250 | Weft insertion system for air-jet loom A weft insertion system for an air-jet loom includes at least one main blower nozzle and a compressed air supply for the main blower nozzle, the compressed air supply including stationary components and components which move together with the main blowing... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5146955 | Filling thread distributor mechanism for a series-shed weaving machine The filling thread distributor mechanism employs a stationary part having arcuate channels through which filling threads are continuously delivered. In addition, the mechanism has a rotatable part mounted on the weaving rotor which is provided with a plur... | 09/15/1992 |
| 4903739 | Method for threading a pick insertion device on weaving machines, and a device which uses this method Method for threading a weft insertion device on weaving machines, in particular for threading a weft insertion device of the type which consists of at least one first nozzle (3, 4) mounted beside the sley (7) and at least one second nozzle (5, 6) which mo... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4850398 | Device for supplying a weft thread to a main blower of an air jet weaving loom A weft thread is inserted in a fluid jet loom by accelerating the weft thread to its insertion speed before the thread reaches the outlet of the main blower nozzle. The thread is accelerated to its insertion speed, for example, by an auxiliary nozzle upst... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4756342 | Device for supplying multiple weft threads to a main blower of a fluid jet weaving loom Device for supplying a weft thread to a main blower for weaving looms, whereby it is mainly composed of the combination of 2 or several supply channels (1, 2) for weft threads (3, 4); one main blower (5) for introducing the weft threads (3, 4) into the ga... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4703778 | Picking mechanism for looms A picking mechanism for looms with pivotable blast nozzles. Nozzles in the case of looms having picking mechanisms in which not only is the nozzle body pivotably mounted at the pivot point but simultaneously the blast nozzles in the front region are verti... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4669514 | Air jet weaving machine and weft insertion nozzle arrangement in such air jet weaving machine In the weft insertion nozzle arrangement containing at least two weft insertion nozzles the mixing tube of one weft insertion nozzle is set with its outflow or discharge end of end region parallel to a weft insertion line. The outflow or discharge end or ... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4572246 | Weft yarn presenting device for looms A weft yarn presenting device for shuttleless looms, especially air looms, feeding weft yarns of different colors, comprises a plurality of nozzles joined in a bundle and carried by a body mounted on two supports arranged at 90° one from the other, and t... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4565226 | Method and apparatus for shifting main nozzles on a fluid-jet type loom In an alternate weaving system on a fluid-jet type loom, two or main nozzles for different yarns and combined in a vertically juxtaposed arrangement are driven for common vertical reciprocation in parallel to a vertical plane including the air guide or re... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4512375 | System for alternately inserting different weft yarns into the shed of a jet loom A distributing unit synchronized with the shed-forming operation of a jet loom is positively coupled with a rocker arm carrying two insertion nozzles which are respectively aligned with the shed during alternate operating cycles, this unit temporarliy adm... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4495971 | Weft inserting device for a jet loom In the weft inserting device of the invention, a pair of main nozzles are supported by a change lever and the motion of a cam lever operatively linked with movable loom parts for reciprocation thereby is transmitted to said change lever. The timing of mot... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4385649 | Device for programmed change of position of nozzles in jet looms Apparatus for the programmed change of position of one or more members, particularly of the nozzles of jet looms. The disadvantages of similar prior devices are mitigated by the arrangement of the device according to the invention in which a driving cam i... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4241766 | Selective weft inserting apparatus in shuttleless weaving loom An apparatus for selecting inserting weft yarns each into a weaving shed of warp yarns in a shuttleless weaving loom, in which a fluid distributor valve unit, a weft feeding and length-measuring mechanism and a weft retaining unit are operated by levers s... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4178971 | Method of and apparatus for inserting weft threads into a jet loom There are disclosed a method of and an apparatus for controlling weft threads, particularly in jet weaving machines with alternating insertion of two different wefts into a shed. At least during the inserting time of the first weft the end of the second w... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4074728 | Apparatus for selectively inserting weft yarns into the shed of a weaving loom An apparatus for selectively inserting into the shed of a weaving loom a plurality of weft yarns having different natures, particularly colors, comprising cam means including at least one cam which is formed with lobe and bottom portions alternately arran... | 02/21/1978 |
