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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7469723 | Process for manufacturing a heddle, heddle for shed-forming mechanism, and loom incorporating such a heddle This process includes steps consisting in manufacturing an eyelet for guiding a warp yarn, making, in a threadlike element, an opening for receiving the eyelet, and placing and immobilizing the eyelet in the opening. During manufacture of the eyelet at least two pro... | 12/30/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7322383 | Heald frame rod comprising a displaceable heald damping element A heald (heddle) shaft (1) comprises at least one shaft rod (2) on which a damping element (12)is supported on the shaft rod carrier body (15) to be movable in the longitudinal direction of a heald or heddle (8) mounted on a shaft ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7287554 | Heald, particularly for rapidly running weaving machines An improved heald consists of a flat material, such as tempered steel. It has closed (O-shaped) end eyelets (5, 6) which are one-piece parts of the heald body (4). An edge (10) which extends along the full length of the heald (1), is of e... | 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 |
| 7185679 | Heddle, especially lifting heddle The subject matter of the invention is a heddle (1), more specifically a lifting heddle as part of a leno selvedge device, the heddle comprising a head portion and a base portion with a closed or an open eyelet for mounting to a heddle frame or to a heddle ri... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7131465 | Removable plastic heddle with mating insertion tool for weaving apparatus A simple removable plastic heddle comprised of a single monolithic plastic body and a mating insertion tool. ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7066212 | Method for producing a woven and a heddle particularly for use thereby A method for producing tissue with the aid of a weaving loom comprising a stop bar, at least one shed and a heddle for carrying out the method. The inventive method is characterized in that warp thread guiding a filling yarn cooperates with a longitudinal heddle con... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7036532 | Spring dampened shedding device A shedding device in a jacquard loom, having a heddle with a retracting spring rigidly anchored in the loom or to the floor for urging the heddle to a lower shed forming position. To suppress the development of resonance in the spring, a core element is provided, wh... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6955191 | Device for forming a leno selvedge A device (1) for forming a leno selvedge, said device having two lifting healds (10, 20) and one half heald (30), the lifting healds (10, 20) having a securing element (13, 23; 14, 24) provided respectively at the upper and lower e... | 10/18/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6116291 | Half heald of a leno selvedge device with lifting healds Half heald of a leno selvedge with lifting healds, whereas the half heald has two arms that may be joined together on their upper end so as to form a head and that are provided on their lower end with a foot, whereas the foot is magnetically co-operating ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6102080 | Lifting heald A lifting heald assembly is used in a device which forms a leno selvedge on a fabric or hosiery. The heald assembly comprises two lifting healds and one half heald alternately taken along by the lifting healds. Each lifting heald has, in the area of one e... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6076250 | Process for producing a heald shaft for weaving shafts out of a metal hollow section The invention concerns a process for producing a heald shaft for weaving shafts out of a metal hollow section, the height of which diminishes towards the ends on both sides. A light-weight extruded metal section is selected and adjusted to the maximal hei... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5127444 | Method and apparatus for leno weaving a three dimensional fabric A weaving method and a leno heald system for producing a 3-dimensional woven fabric which includes a plurality of stacked single-ply webs (A1, A2, A3, A4) each comprising a weft yarn (2) which cross-bridges betw... | 07/07/1992 |
| 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 |
| 5040571 | Lifting heddle with adjustable sections A lifting heddle with a body which includes at least two separate sections joined by a link. The separate sections are adjustably joined so that the lifting heddle can be lengthened and shortened. The link can be provided as a U-shaped rail with openings ... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4987928 | Doup heddle with magnetic coupling part A twisting device for power looms comprises oppositely moving heddle supporting rails, two lifting heddles arranged on the heddle supporting rails for standing threads, a semi-heddle for turning threads controlled separately from the heddle supporting rai... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4572241 | Leno heddle device Lifting heddles A and B are disclosed as including interfitting heddle elements C and D of which C is a female heddle element and D is a male heddle element. C-shaped rod slots E and F are formed in the ends of heddle element D. Slots E, E' are formed in ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 3990481 | Leno heddles A wear resistant leno heddle is disclosed which has a doup and two lifting heddles. The lifting heddles are formed in one piece by moulding a plastic material. The moulding technique allows the lifting heddles to be formed with varying cross-sectional dim... | 11/09/1976 |