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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7231943 | Device for a weaving machine A power weaving loom includes weft thread insertion and collecting bands (6, 7). Drive units drive the bands and cause leading parts of the bands to move towards and away from one another between sides of the weaving machine and an approximately half-width po... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7219702 | Pneumatically controllable weft thread clamp for a weaving machine This invention concerns a weft thread clamp with two jaws (1), (2) that can be moved to an opened and closed position, with at least one jaw (1) being directly moveable to the closed position via fluid pressure. The moveable jaw is preferably ( | 05/22/2007 |
| 7114530 | Receiving gripper for a rapier loom A receiving gripper for a rapier loom, wherein at least the moving part is made of a ceramic material. ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7077169 | Gripper for an Axminster gripper weaving machine A gripper for an Axminster weaving machine comprises at least two clamping parts (2,3) connected to one another and moving with respect to one another for clamping and releasing a pile yarn. The clamping parts (2,3) are interconnected by means of inter... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5662146 | Warp feeding apparatus and method for multifiber flat carbon yarns A method and apparatus for supplying twist free flat warp containing a plurality of carbon fibers to a plurality of wefts in a weaving loom, wherein the warp is transversely removed from a plurality of bobbins and twisted along a longitudinal travelling d... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5538049 | Weft feeding apparatus and method for multifiber flat carbon yarns A method and apparatus for supplying twist free flat weft containing a plurality of carbon fibers to a plurality of warps in a rapier weaving loom wherein the weft is transversely removed from a bobbin by draw-off rollers and intermittently supplied to th... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5114775 | Gripper rod for shuttleless looms and method for making the gripper rod A gripper rod for shuttleless looms has a toothed rack made of fiber reinforced composite material. The prepregs are stacked in such a way that the fiber orientation in one layer crosses the fiber orientation of at least one neighboring layer. A sufficien... | 05/19/1992 |
| 4949762 | Weft gripper for shuttleless loom A gripper loom comprises a filing thread insertion device with a gripper (2), which contains a clamp or clip (16) for a filling thread (8) that is releasable by an opener. An adjustment apparatus (28) is provided for setting up the spacing (X) of the open... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4947897 | Method for producing a fabric made from thermoplastic melt impregnated tow Formable twistless woven precursor fabrics, especially in satin or basket weave, made from warp and weft flat tape of fiber reinforced thermoplastics on a power driven loom. The weft tape is supplied in a twistless manner from a rotatable package that is ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4558722 | Apparatus for the constrained actuation of the clamping system of filling yarn inserting members in shuttleless weaving machines In a shuttleless weaving machine wherein the filling yarn is inserted from both sides of the shed by means of gripper systems provided with filling yarn clamping devices and advanced into and then retracted from the shed. The filling yarn is transferred f... | 12/17/1985 |
