Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7131464 | Apparatus to facilitate weaving around a cylindrical object An apparatus for weaving patterns comprising pattern threads and wrapping threads around an object having a central axis comprising an elongated slide tube and at least two side wheel assemblies, one of said side wheel assemblies mounted on said slide tube and the o... | 11/07/2006 |
| 6953067 | Method for deflecting a warp thread during weaving and a weaving machine In order to deflect a warp thread sheet (2) in a weaving machine, a deflecting device (18)is provided which is guided in guides (26) that also guide heald frames (13, 14, 15, 16). The deflecting device positions a segment (46) of t... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6408893 | Tubular bag with ventilation bands and method of making A specialty bag is formed from a circular loom adapted with a unique mechanism of the current invention such that the resulting woven tubular sheet contains at least one venting band extending along the length of the tubular sheet. The tubular sheet is th... | 06/25/2002 |
| 5787938 | Fabric draw-off device in a circular loom A device for drawing-off a fabric in a circular loom where the circular loom has a drive motor for driving a main shaft and a weft monitoring assembly for detecting a fault in a weft. The device has a separate motor for driving the fabric draw-off rollers... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5783278 | Reinforcing woven fabric and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same This invention provides a reinforcing woven fabric using as weaving threads flat and substantially nontwisted multifilaments of reinforcing fiber having less than 0.5 wt. % of sizing agent provided thereto and a binding property of 400-800 mm in hook drop... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5771944 | Circular weaving loom with transverse heddle shifting apparatus A loom includes a machine bed and a heddle unit which is disposed movably on the machine bed and which consists of a first heddle and a second heddle respectively adapted to carry an adjacent pair of warps thereon so as to form a shed between the warps. T... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5409044 | Circular loom having improved shuttle retention A circular loom includes an endless raceway assembly and a shuttle sliding along the raceway assembly. The raceway assembly includes an upper ring plate, a lower ring plate, and a rod mechanism interposed between the upper and lower ring plates. The rod m... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5390707 | Method and a machine for making hollow reinforcing members A method and a machine for making a hollow fiber reinforcing member using a mandrel. A plurality of flexible rods are distributed around the periphery of the mandrel. Each rod is provided at one extremity with a respective curved end so that at least the ... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5288545 | Tinting and insulating screen lined with hydrophilic textile threads A dense and stable shading and insulating screen (1) can be pulled away sideways and rolled up, provided it has a double weave. Fabric fibers which both as weft (6) and warp elements (5) hold together tightly both weft (3) and warp strips (2) in a stable ... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5178193 | Manufacturing a long bias cloth from a circular loom by spiral cutting Continuous production of a long bias cloth is accomplished by manufacturing a tubular fabric on a circular loom having a circular frame, reeds arranged on the frame and a shuttle for a weft rotatable along the frame. The fabric is removed from the loom un... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5144732 | PE/PP bag weaving machine without a power lubrication and cooling system A polyethylene/polypropylene bag weaving machine includes a cooling system which eliminates the need for power lubrication. Ribbons being fed to the machine pass over a sponge located in a water tank, thereby moistening the ribbons and ensuring that they ... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5099891 | Shed-forming mechanism for a circular loom In a circular loom provided with a main drive shaft, a plurality of healds are arranged in a ring-shaped alignment coaxially around the main drive shaft. An annular reed member is stationarily located inside the ring-shaped alignment of the healds and coa... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5070914 | Triaxial fabric of interlaced oblique yarns A triaxial textile fabric for use as a reinforcing textile fabric for a composite material wherein the modulus of elasticity is made isotropic and which can be readily deformed into a three-dimensional configuration without causing special changes in orie... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5056567 | Mechanism for guiding shuttles in a circular loom A mechanism for guiding a shuttle in a circular loom having shuttles provided with a plurality of rotatable supporting wheels moved along a circular running passage. Wefts taken out from each shuttle are inserted into successive sheds of warps created imm... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4938270 | Spherical cloth weaving machine with shuttle chucks A spherical cloth weaving machine in which radially stretched warp yarn and circumferentially running weft yarns are woven into a desired spherical shape, the machine being constructed with a mechanism for moving the warp yarns alternately by shuttle chuc... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4846229 | Circular loom In a circular loom, displacement means engage on the inner partial heald (7) of a partial heald pair (6, 7) after each shedding motion in order to bring about the instantaneous lateral relative counter-displacement of the partial healds for the reciprocal... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4834144 | Weaving apparatus using radial and continuous circumferential threads A machine for weaving fibers of glass, Kevlar, carbon and the like including a rotary assembly with two plates defining therebetween a weaving chamber. The lower plate has sliding fingers at its periphery and the upper plate has fixed fingers in line with... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4821778 | Circular loom In a circular loom having a machine frame and a lower and an upper circular-ring-shaped running race arranged in the machine frame for guiding a shuttle, the running rollers of the same are fitted in between inclined guiding surfaces of the upper and lowe... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4815504 | Multi-system weaving loom To compensate for difference in path length between a warp thread guide element and a reference position, for example adjacent a take-up beam (3) beyond the shed (8), a plurality of guide elements (34) are located between a run-on guide rod (31) and the s... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4796674 | Shed-forming apparatus for doup weave A shed-forming apparatus for doup weaves comprises for each warp thread pair a plate adapted to be pivoted back and forth and comprising on one side of its pivoting axis a bore for the passage of the stationary warp thread and on the opposite side of its ... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4739804 | Shed-forming arrangement for rectilinear weaving looms with wavy shed A wavy shed forming arrangement for rectilinear weaving looms it consists of a wobbling non-rotating element driven about a driving axis and connected by connections to be reciprocated which are fixed to the lifters on which the warp threads are suspended... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4735236 | Multiple yarn insertion device A circular loom which holds multiple longitudinal threads is able to weave them into a three-dimensional fabric using a filament insertion device which supplies it with multiple circumferential threads and a supply of weaver thread. One version of the fil... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4658862 | Driving arrangement for a circular loom A driving arrangement for a circular loom has at least one electromagnetic coupling which is capable of being actuated by a stop impulse synchronous with the stop signal of the weft thread supervisor, is disposed between the driving motor of the circular ... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4619293 | Circular loom In the circular reed of the circular loom, a plurality of weaving shuttles circulate. Each weaving shuttle has rollers arranged in pairs at its top edge and its bottom edge. The rollers operate together with the corresponding gliding surfaces on the upper... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4574846 | Arrangement for tension control and supervision of individual warp threads on a loom, particularly a circular loom The arrangement comprises a two-armed movable lever, which is swivel-supported on the loom and which is held by a warp thread, found in a stretched state and guided through a yarn guiding eyelet on the one movable lever arm, countering the effect of a spr... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4509562 | Circular loom A circular loom comprises a machine frame including an upper and a lower running race. Between the running races, a reed and at least one shuttle are arranged. The shuttle is guided in the running races by running rollers arranged on its front and rear en... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4462431 | Method and apparatus for forming Z-shaped folds in a tubular film and for inserting the latter into a woven tubing Z-shaped folds are formed in a tubular film and the latter is inserted into a woven tubing as the latter is woven and collapsed in a circular loom. The tubular film is squeezed between pairs of pinch rollers and is then inflated to form a bubble, which is... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4424836 | Warp tension regulating and warp feed apparatus in circular loom In a circular loom in which at least one shuttle is continuously travelled in one direction along an annular guide member and a plurality of shed forming mechanisms arranged annularly and coaxially with the guide member are sequentially opened prior to ar... | 01/10/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4355666 | Shuttle propelling mechanism in circular loom In a circular loom in which at least one shuttle is continuously travelled in one direction along an annular shuttle guide means, and a plurality of shed forming mechanisms arranged annularly and coaxially with the guide means are sequentially opened prio... | 10/26/1982 |
