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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7395839 | Method for manufacturing high density pile fabrics The present invention relates to a method for face-to-face weaving of a pile fabric on a weaving machine, pile forming pile warp yarns (6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19) being interlaced alternately around a weft yarn (1) in the upper fabric and around a wef... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7128098 | Transfer gripper for a rapier weaving loom A thread section of a weft thread is held precisely ready for a receiving rapier in a feed rapier on a rapier loom despite the effects of retarding forces. Deflections of the thread section by the head of a receiving gripper are compensated for, whereby the feed rap... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7044174 | Method and device for opening a gripper clip of a mechanical-loom gripper A stop element (24) is used to open a gripper clamp (20) of a weaving machine (3) and is associated to the gripper clamp's stop piece (21) and the stop element during the slow mode operation of the weaving machine is transversely moved in... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6988516 | Device for driving and guiding a rapier of a weaving machine A device for driving and guiding a rapier of a weaving machine, comprises a rotatable drive wheel (1) provided for driving a rapier rod (14) in a back and forth movement and a guide channel formed by adjustable guide bodies (10), (11) in ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6843668 | Device for connecting an electrical load to an insulated power supply cable A device for connecting an electrical load to an insulated power supply cable, comprising conducting elements that can be electrically coupled to an electrical conductor of an insulated cable and form at least one contact for connection to a connector for an electri... | 01/18/2005 |
| 4915143 | Selectively feeding one of a plurality of weft threads to a gripper projectile An apparatus for the selective feeding of one of a plurality of weft threads (1) to a gripper projectile, which moves along a projectile path (2), includes a plurality of displaceable feeders (3) each having a feeder clamp (7) for retaining a respective w... | 04/10/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4756343 | Method and device for the insertion of weft yarns into the shed of a weaving machine A process for inserting weft lengths into the shed of a loom including a metering-delivering device that supplies a storage member for storing a predetermined length of yarns. The yarn length is caught between the outlet of the delivering device and the s... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4590973 | Loom and method of weaving The invention provides a novel loom and method for weaving fabrics in which at least the weft comprises stiff strands for example in the form of tapes or bands. The weft strand (41) is frictionally gripped at one side of the warp array (40) and intermitte... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4553570 | Process for the insertion in the form of a loop of a weft yarn in the shed of a weaving machine and weaving machine equipped with a device for carrying out this process The invention relates to a process for the insertion of a weft yarn in the shed of a weaving machine in which said weft yarn is drawn from a reserve located outside the shed to be inserted in the form of a loop of which one of the ends is fastened and the... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4544001 | Weft yarn into the shed of a weaving machine The invention relates to a device for the preparation and insertion of at least one type of weft yarn into the shed of a weaving machine. The said device comprises a yarn metering-delivering member feeding a storage chamber used for temporarily storing a ... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4509563 | Device for the insertion of a weft thread into the shed between two lines of warp thread in a weaving loom A device for the insertion of a weft thread into the shed of a weaving machine is equipped with a delivery system for depositing a pick of weft thread from a weft thread storage space into a thread collecting unit; an insertion mechanism, placed between t... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4479518 | Method and device for forming a filling-yarn reserve for looms A method and apparatus for forming a yarn reserve to feed picks to a loom in which a given length of filling yarn is accumulated in a storage chamber, and the filling yarn is retrieved and introduced into a shed by propelling means implemented by a single... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4241767 | Method and device for feeding weft wires A fill wire feeder for feeding weft wire to a wrap shed from a lay beam includes a weft wire feeding mechanism disposed outside of the wrap shed and mounted on one end of the lay beam. The mechanism includes two pairs of coacting rotatable rollers, the ni... | 12/30/1980 |
| 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 |
| 3948297 | Device for operating the weft needles in shuttle-less textile looms In shuttless textile looms, the reciprocating motion of the weft needle is obtained directly from the oscillation of the sley, without requiring auxiliary transmission units. The sley is connected to a mobile element at the end of which is disposed the we... | 04/06/1976 |
