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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7438092 | Power loom, particularly an air jet power loom, for the production of a leno fabric with integral patterning A loom, especially an air jet loom for producing a leno cloth with integrated patterning includes a weaving reed and first and second shed forming devices. The first shed forming device includes a pivotable reed as a first guide arrangement for guiding and shedding ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7341076 | Woven fabric comprising leno weave bound metal A woven fabric in which warp elements are provided out of metal. The fabric further comprising at least a first set of substantially parallel binding elements present in warp direction of the fabric. This first set of binding elements bind the warp elements to the w... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7320342 | Weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths A weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths includes a leno apparatus with leno elements (5, 5′, 7, 7′, 8, 8′) for the forming of a shed (6) as well as additionally a cleaning apparatus with a plurality of nozzles (10.1, 10.2, 11, 13 | 01/22/2008 |
| 7287553 | Leno cloth as well as method and weaving machine for production thereof A leno cloth is prepared, which comprises at least ground warp threads 1, leno warp threads 3 and weft threads 2, and in which the weft threads 2 and the ground warp threads 1 are arranged essentially interspace free. The weft thre... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7225838 | Method for producing a fabric in plain weaves and leno weaves and a loom for carrying out the method A loom simultaneously forms a plain weave (16) and a gauze weave (15) in a textile (9) in one weaving cycle. To form the plain weave (16), the adjacent warp threads (1L,2L) that are used to form the upp... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7073537 | Loom for the production of a gauze material In a weaving machine for the production of a leno fabric including ground, leno, and weft threads, in which ground and leno threads form warps, the drive of the guide means (8) for the ground threads and/or of the guide means (7) for the leno threads (... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7051769 | Weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths A weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths includes a leno apparatus with leno elements (5, 5′, 7, 7′, 8, 8′) for the forming of a shed (6) as well as additionally a cleaning apparatus with a plurality of nozzles (10.1, 10.2, 11, 13 | 05/30/2006 |
| 6957671 | Device for creating a gauze fabric Apparatus for producing a leno fabric includes a plurality of juxtaposed stationary needles (1) each fitted with one guide eye for a single warp and in addition a device (13) fitted with a plurality of juxtaposed warp guide eyes, the device (13)... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6945281 | Weaving machine with a needle bar and an insertion element for warp threads The weaving machine comprises a needle bar (3) and an insertion-element (4) with which warp threads (13, 14) are guided and which are two components of a shed forming apparatus for the manufacture of leno cloths (1). The two components ar... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6945283 | Measuring apparatus for measuring the cloth tension in a weaving machine and a weaving machine with a measuring apparatus of this kind A measuring apparatus for the measurement of the cloth tension in weaving machines comprises a probe element and a guide part to which the probe element is connected in order to guide the probe element. The measuring apparatus furthermore comprises a holder to which... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6851456 | Weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths A weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths, has an element with ground needles, in particular a needle bar. The ground needles form a row in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the element. The side surfaces of the ground needles include an acute a... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6818571 | Mesh fabric The invention relatrs to a wide-meshed fabric (1) treated with bonding agents. The inventive mesh is made up of bundles (4) consisting of several warop threads (3) and bundloes (6) consisting of several weft threads (5) surrounding... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6814107 | Device for detecting breakage of leno threads on looms or on a loom more specifically provided with heald frames and with a device for detecting thread breakage The device for detecting breakage of leno threads in leno selvedge devices on looms, the leno selvedge forming device being provided with at least two arms for guiding at least two leno threads, the leno threads being twistable together by virtue of the rotation of ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6701971 | Low permeability side curtain airbag cushions having extremely low coating levels Coated inflatable fabrics, more particularly airbags to which very low add-on amounts of coating have been applied, are provided which exhibit extremely low air permeabilities. The inventive fabrics are primarily for use in automotive restraint cushions w... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6698458 | Low permeability airbag cushions having film coatings of extremely low thickness Coated inflatable fabrics, more particularly airbags to which very low add-on amounts of coating have been applied, are provided which exhibit extremely low air permeability. The inventive inflatable fabrics are primarily for use in automotive restraint c... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6510871 | Apparatus for the manufacture of leno fabrics The apparatus for the manufacture of leno fabrics (1) in a weaving machine comprises a needle bar (3) for ground threads (13), at least one insertion element (4) for leno threads (4) and means for the insertion of weft threads (12). A pivotal arrangement ... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6382262 | Apparatus for forming a leno weave Apparatus for forming a leno weave from a leno thread and a ground thread. The apparatus includes a reed for guiding the leno thread and the ground thread, and a needle bar with ground thread needles for guiding the ground thread. The needle bar also incl... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6315008 | Weaving loom for producing a leno fabric A warp thread control system for forming the loom shed as a first control section (1) and a second warp control section (16). The first section is equipped with at least one guide element (2) for guiding the leno threads (3) and a guide rod (4) carrying a... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6311737 | Method and weaving loom for producing a leno ground fabric A leno ground fabric is produced over the entire weaving width of a loom by using two heald frames each having a length corresponding to the weaving width. The heald frames are equipped with a multitude of lifting healds or heddles and with a multitude of... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6257283 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing textile articles with an underlying warp and an additional warp According to the invention, the manufacturing of a textile article comprises weaving an article with one or more wefts and at least one additional warp. The threads of the warp are moved orthogonally to those of the underlying warp before inserting the we... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6092559 | Device for controlling warp threads for the production of leno fabrics on a textile machine A device for controlling warp threads in weaving of leno fabrics on a weaving device, such as a loom, has a guide mechanism for stationary warp threads and rotating warp threads. The guide mechanism includes a system of reversibly movable needles with eye... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5979135 | Siding panel with fabric tape attachment An improved siding panel for covering an exterior portion of a structure includes a fabric attached to an edge thereof and a siding nail coupling the fabric to the exterior. The fabric is formed of monofilament polyester yarn, with the warp yarn woven int... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5921286 | Leno device with a thread guide eyelet A thread guide formed as a guide eyelet especially for a leno disk has an entrance with an opening angle () and an exit with an opening angle (ଲ). The entrance and exit are interconnected by a guide bore or hole (6) surrounded by a curved bor... | 07/13/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5524678 | Leno selvage device for a loom with a leno rotor driven by its own motor A leno selvage device for a loom has a leno rotor ring (7) which is directly driven by its own reversible electric motor, for example, through a power transmission such as a gear belt (6) running around a drive gear pulley (5). The controllable electric m... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5518039 | Leno selvage device having a leno rotor forming the rotor of an electric motor A leno device for tying weft threads in the selvage of a fabric is constructed as an electric motor in which the stator is connected to a mounting bracket and the rotor forms the leno rotor disk or ring. A very compact structure results that can be mounte... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5419375 | Independently driven selvedge forming leno weaving device A loom with a leno-weaving device which can act completely within the loom heddle frames, with the two links of the leno-weaving device slidably supported within a slide guide. The slide guide extends from within the heddle frames, and is located above th... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5394905 | Leno heald subassembly for cooperation with a main harness frame A heald assembly for leno weaving, the assembly including first and second heald frames each of which is adapted for slidable reception in heald guides of a weaving loom, at least one of the heald frames including a main frame and a sub-frame carrying a p... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5091247 | Woven geotextile grid Woven geotextile grid for earth reinforcement applications. The grid is formed of woven fabric which is coated with a suitable polyvinylchloride or other plastic coating. The fabric is formed of a plurality of spaced-apart pick yarn bundles which are inte... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5085253 | Leno weaving with stationary warp threads and shifting cross threads A leno or cross weaving texture is produced with a stationary warp thread and a cross warp thread which is alternately shifted from one side to the other of the stationary warp thread. The method of producing the leno weave includes the steps of providing... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5078183 | Flexible leno heddle system A loom-controlled leno or cross-weaving system, alone or in conjunction with tabby or ordinary weaving. The leno heddle is composed of two upright members, each connected to two flexible cross-members. Each upright member is connected to a separate, indep... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4894276 | Bonded glass fabric edge Feathered edges of fiberglass fabrics woven on a shuttleless or airjet loom are secured and prevented from ravelling by a glass yarn coated with a hot melt composition. The coated yarn is woven along the longitudinal edges of the fabric, typically in a le... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4862925 | Method for weaving a cross-woven textile fabric A warp is prepared including a stationary thread, a crossing thread and an auxiliary thread, the latter two of which are laterally interlaced at a sliding connection and subject to being alternately tensioned and released for causing the crossing thread t... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4850399 | Weaving loom with pneumatic weft thread injection To provide for accurately timed injection of selected lengths of weft threads to shuttles moving, in sequence, in front of injectors (85, 545), a continuously rotating measuring drum (32) has the weft thread (51, 180) passing in front thereof, the weft th... | 07/25/1989 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4392516 | Drive for loom easer bar An easer bar for controlling the tension of the warp threads in a loom controlled by a positive action dobby for weaving leno type fabrics is directly controlled by and connected to the dobby.... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4365652 | Crossing thread supply system for a weaving machine The crossing thread supply system has four bobbin pairs which are disposed on rotatable disk-shaped elements. Each bobbin pair is guided downwardly through a tube which rotates with a respective rotatable element in non-rotatable relative relation. The tu... | 12/28/1982 |
