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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7168454 | Harness device for a weaving machine A harness device for a weaving machine is made with partial apertured boards of synthetic material that can be manufactured by injection moulding. Each small partial apertured board has threading openings for pulling through harness cords, provisions to carry connec... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7025094 | Device for attaching return springs in a harness of a Jacquard weaving machine On the one hand, the invention relates to a device for exerting a return force on at least one harness element of the harness of a Jacquard weaving machine, comprising at least one return spring (2) provided with means of attachment (1) for attaching t... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6945282 | Method and device for forming a shed in a weaving machine A shed-forming device and a method for using it are provided for creating a shed of warp yarns in a weaving machine. The shed-forming device includes a plurality of yarn separating elements operably disposed to one another within the weaving machine. The yarn separa... | 09/20/2005 |
| 5947165 | Textile machine with driven thread guiding member The thread processing device (8) of a textile machine has at least one thread guiding device that moves a thread (4) back and forth between at least two positions (12, 14) by means of a thread guiding member (30, 32, 34). The thread guiding member may be ... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5839482 | Electro-pneumatic loom shedding system A manual loom can be complemented by a device which makes possible computer-controlled weaving even in such simple looms. The device comprises a PC, a printed board control and a module block having air cylinders with appurtenant pistons which bear the we... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5826625 | Heald frame linear drive arrangement An arrangement comprises heald frames, linear drives and coupling apparatus that are collected together in groups. The linear drives of each group are arranged in a staggered fashion and form a drive unit. The coupling apparatus are executed in such a man... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5762112 | Shedding device having piston-cylinder system A shedding device for looms includes healds each having a first end and a second end; and a piston-cylinder system for guiding warps in the healds by moving the healds between a top shed position and a lower shed position. The piston cylinder system inclu... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5647403 | Jacquard loom latch control mechanism A method and apparatus utilizing an elongate, flexible member operatively attached to rods that move up and down, on a Jacquard loom. A latch control mechanism is provided for latching said elongate, flexible member in a fixed position by applying pressur... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5494080 | Arcuate heddle and shedding system employing an arcuate heddle A shedding system having a plurality of heddles supported by and connected to top ends of piston rods of pneumatic cylinders. The heddle employed by the shedding system is elongated in one direction, and has an arcuate portion which forms an arc about a l... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5390709 | Fabric forming machine including pneumatic shedding apparatus and method A shedding apparatus for being fitted onto a fabric-forming machine such as a loom for controlling the up and down movement of warp-carrying heddles to form a filling insertion zone. The shedding apparatus includes a computer for storing pattern informati... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5360038 | Seam weaving method using a shedding system with pneumatically operated heddles A shedding device and a method for joining the ends of a fabric into an endless belt of fabric, or, alternatively, joining the ends of separate pieces of fabric into a single piece of fabric. The shedding device employs a plurality of heddles supported at... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5200904 | Computer aided design system A computer aided system suitable for use in the design of woven portions of fabric, which system has a computer programmed to display weaving patterns defined by different user-defined selections of each of a plurality of weaving pattern variables. Signal... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4858654 | Pulley-block drive open shed jacquard machine A pulley-block drive of an open shed Jacquard mechanism is sectionally controlled by a movable suspension apparatus. Pulley bands or harness cords are attached to one of the ends of the movable suspension apparatus. The movable suspension apparatus is sus... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4195671 | Apparatus for use in a weaving process Apparatus for the individual control of the raising and lowering movement of warp yarns on a fabric weaving loom, in which the warp yarns are passed through guide eyes, these eyes being mounted on the piston rods of fluid pressure operated piston and cyli... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4173990 | Temporary fabric and method and apparatus for weaving same A plurality of generally parallel, side-by-side warp tows of carbonaceous precursor material are interwoven with fill yarns forming a fabric of low density cross weave to facilitate handling of the warp tows for oxidation, carbonization and other processi... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4143685 | Weaving looms A loom in which each warp yarn passes through a retraction region and a shedding region, and in which means are provided for creating gaseous fluid flow along each warp yarn so that the yarns, or those that are not otherwise restrained, are moved to form ... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4125135 | Device for exerting back-pull on the heddles of Jacquard looms This relates to a device for exerting a back-pull on the heddles of Jacquard looms. In such looms the upper end of each heddle is connected to a patterning machine and it is necessary that the lower end of the heddle be connected to a pulling device which... | 11/14/1978 |
