Quotables
"That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"
President Rutherford B. Hayes ; Said in 1876, after Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to him at the White House
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7926519 | Integral 3-D foam core fabrics, composites made therefrom and methods of making A 3-D woven fabric having substantially elongated foam elements integrally formed therein during fabric formation for providing open corridors within the fabric. The fabric is preferably used for structural, stiffener, or component applications. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7028718 | Method for manufacturing a fabric and an apparatus for manufacturing a fabric The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a fabric and an apparatus for manufacturing a fabric that enable weaving of weak fibers including monofilaments of noble metal such as 24-carat gold. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6845792 | Thread clamp for a carrier thread gripper in a rapier loom Thread clamping arrangement for a carrier gripper of a rapier loom wherein the arrangement includes a rigid support coupled to a lateral wall of a body of the carrier gripper. Each of an elongated first clamping element and an elongated second clamping element are p... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6164341 | Pneumatically supported weaving shuttle In a weaving machine, the shuttles of the weaving machine are transferred over and across the warp threads of the machine. The method and apparatus have the object of preventing factors which adversely affect the weave result from occurring at high shuttl... | 12/26/2000 |
| 4830064 | Mechanical loom A mechanical loom including a shooting device for shooting a shuttle into the shed from an initial position into a receiving position at a transfer device. The shuttle is connected through a flexible return element to a return member of a return device, s... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4413658 | Warp and weft weaving machine A weaving machine has a continuous line of heddles 9 defining a shed and undulating means 8 for traversing the shed along the line as a wave 12, 13 and moving a weft-inserting means 15 in synchronism therewith from the inlet 17 to the outlet 18 ends of th... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4276912 | Weft thread control device for a weaving loom with removal of the weft thread from a supply spool beside the loom In a loom having a weft thread supply spool at each side thereof and a shuttle whereby thread from each spool is alternately carried across the shed as a U-shaped loop, improved thread guide elements, one on each end of the batten, are actuated in consequ... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4259996 | Shuttleless loom A shuttleless loom comprises a weft thread carrier throwing device and a recovering device, and provides for a substantial halting of each of the weft thread carriers prior to the throwing thereof. The throwing device includes a rotary member set for subs... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4190089 | Projectile launching apparatus A projectile launching and receiving apparatus for a pneumatic loom which includes a bore for receiving the projectile, a pneumatic launching chamber connected to the bore which is pressurized for launching the projectile, a passageway for guiding filling... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4147187 | Shuttle A weft thread carrier is disclosed for a loom with a weft thread supply at each side thereof and wherein the carrier, just before entering the shed, engages a weft thread segment that it draws into a loop while moving in the shed. Each weft thread segment... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4098300 | Shuttleless loom with unidirectional weft thread carriers A shuttleless loom of the type having unidirectional weft thread carriers, comprising a device for throwing at least one said carrier, the device including a guide defining a closed path one portion of which passes through the shed and another returns bel... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4046174 | Pneumatic loom A pneumatic weft insertion system in which means are provided for inserting up to an entire length of a weft pick from an outside weft storage, the weft being stored within an open projectile shell prior to insertion. The system involves unidirectionally ... | 09/06/1977 |
