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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8146621 | Metal heald frame and heald shaft for a loom A heddle shaft (1) with heddles (3) that are supported with little play or free of play has at least one heddle support rail (7), which is supported movably for elastically tensing the heddles (3) as a whole, or has at least one movably s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7984732 | Heald frame A heald frame has a frame stave, a carrier rod provided along the frame stave and a heald made of a resin material. A plurality of healds are supported by the carrier rod and arranged in a row. A magnet having N and S poles is provided in each heald and the healds a... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7806146 | Device for controlling the transverse movement of the warp threads of a textile weaving machine In order to solve the problem of not having enough space available for a large number of components and keeping the deflection of the electric motor small in a device for controlling the transverse movement of the warp threads of a textile weaving machine, particula... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7784499 | Shaft connecting device for a heald shaft A shaft connecting device (18) having a thrust rod (8) and a lateral support (4) that fit into each other with minimal transverse play. In addition, the shaft connecting device (18) has a clamping device (16) with a stop arrangemen... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7779869 | Profile rod and carrier rod for a heald shaft A profile rod (15) preferably consisting of an extruded aluminum profile has lateral walls (18, 19) that have two snap-in zones (25, 26) that project toward each other and extend parallel to each other over the entire length of the profile rod (... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7730910 | Shed-forming device incorporating electric motor units and weaving loom equipped with such a device A weaving loom having self-contained assemblies that operate pulling systems for controlling heddle frames wherein each assembly includes at least one electric motor housed in a casing and at least one motor control unit having an electrical circuit for controlling ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7726347 | Dividable two-part heald shaft The heald shaft (1) for weaving machines is divided into a machine-resident frame part (14) and a removable frame part (15). While the removable frame part (15) supports a heald mounting rail (30) that must be released from said fr... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7594522 | Shaft transmission for a weaving machine A shaft transmission (3) for a weaving machine comprises a shaft arrangement (8) that supports, on one end, a crown wheel (10) in order to drive the shaft arrangement (8), which is supported by two bearing arrangements (12, 13), be... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7594521 | Device for driving a weaving frame in a weaving machine and a weaving machine provided with one or several such devices A device for driving a weaving frame in a weaving machine, comprising a drive with a motor (4) or a geared motor (4, 7), provided with a bearing (10) on its output shaft (9), with an eccentric-shaft (2) and with a driving rod (8... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7493920 | Shed forming device and weaving machine provided with such a shed forming device A shed forming device positions warp yarns in order to form a shed in accordance with a pattern to be woven, before inserting a weft through this shed. The positioning of the warp yarns is one potential cause of an increase or a decrease of potential energy in the s... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7493919 | Weaving loom with motor-driven frames A control mechanism of a heald frame in weaving looms is disclosed, of the type comprising a frame hinged to an articulated linkage capable of converting the substantially rectilinear motion of a control bar into a vertical motion of the frame, characterised in that... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7475708 | Shaft drive for heald shafts of weaving machines A new shaft drive provides for a switch-on and switch-off of individual heald shafts even at high working speeds. For this purpose switching pawls are provided which couple an eccentric with permanently revolving and/or back-and-forth oscillating disks. Measures for... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7464729 | Jacquard machine A Jacquard machine, having at least two knife grids (5, 6)moving up and down in opposition on either side of the Jacquard machine, the Jacquard machine having a single-sided drive (1) for driving at least one driving lever (2,3) which is provide... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7341077 | Method for operating a loom A loom having a first drive motor (10), which for instance drives a batten (13), and having at least one second drive motor (44), which drives a dobby (46), is provided with a control and regulating device (48), which forms a rotat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337809 | Method and device for weaving fabrics provided with zones with floating pile across several weft yarns While weaving fabrics (501, 502, 601, 602) on a weaving machine, in successive weft insertion cycles two weft yarns (505, 506, 605, 606) are simultaneously inserted at different weft insertion levels between pile warp yarns (520, 530, 620, 630) ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7320343 | Loom The invention relates to a loom comprising a warp thread tensioning device and a shedding device (12), which comprises pre-tensioned warp threads (4) in a first shedding position (F1). The loom also comprises a lifting device (38), wh... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318456 | Modular weaving system with individual yarn control A modular weaving machine includes a loom chassis and a plurality of modular warp units. The warp units are each configured for supporting a plurality of removable bobbins thereon, the bobbins being pre-loadable with a plurality of warp threads. The loom chassis is ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7178558 | Modular weaving for short production runs A modular weaving machine includes a loom chassis and a plurality of modular warp units. The warp units are each configured for being pre-loaded with a plurality of warp threads. The loom chassis is configured to receivably support the warp units thereon, so that th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7143995 | Motorized cam actuator A motorized cam actuator for linear actuation of an apparatus. An actuating motor shaft is fitted with a bushing having first and second opposed flats and a threaded portion at an outer end thereof. With the motor mounted to a pedestal, the bushing is rotated on the... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140399 | Shaft drive system for power loom shafts A novel shaft gear for harmonious engagement and disengagement of individual heddle shafts and for deriving their motion from the rotary motion of a single input shaft has a coupling system with two input elements. While one of the input elements serves to drive the... | 11/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7059356 | Shed-forming device for a power loom A shed forming device (1) for a power loom has a plurality of heddle shafts, to which a drive mechanism with a plurality of servo motor groups (13, 14) is assigned. The servo motor groups are located below each of the heddle shafts (3 through | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057329 | Compact Jacquard selecting card using piezoelectric elements A compact electronic selection card applicable for use in Jacquard equipment, having a high-density array of selecting hooks which are individually positioned by piezoelectric actuator elements. Each piezoelectric element directly controls a selecting hook for engag... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7032624 | Low-vibration shedding system A novel rod linkage for driving a heddle shaft includes at least one strap (16), which for damping oscillation has a sandwich structure (37) oriented in the longitudinal direction (L) of the strap assembly (16). The sandwich structure includes a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7017619 | Shed forming device and weaving loom of the jacquard type equipped with such a device The shed forming device according to the invention for a weaving loom of Jacquard type comprises two series of knives actuated by a single input shaft animated by a continuous movement of rotation and extending between two plates which support oscillating shafts equ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7000647 | Device for attaching and guiding at least one tackle cord in a Jacquard machine and Jacquard machine provided with one or several similar devices The invention on the one hand relates to a device for attaching and guiding of at least one tackle cord (2) in a Jacquard machine, the device (1) being designed for being attached to a part (20) of the Jacquard machine and being designed for bei... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6955193 | Fire resistant textile material A fire resistant material comprising a woven faced fabric composed or fibers from meta-aramid, polyamideimide and mixtures thereof, the woven back fabric of low thermal shrinkage fibers selected from para-aramid, polyparaphenylene terephthalamide copolymer and mixtu... | 10/18/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6863091 | Method for controlling the shed in a loom with fluidic weft insertion The shed of a fluidic weaving loom is not changed simultaneously for all warp threads, but rather continuously starting at the weft entrance and continuing helically, so to speak, to the exit of the warp shed. This sequential shed closure takes place with a so-calle... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6581646 | Three-position-jacquard machine A three-position shed-forming device with a shed-forming element (10);(60,70) in connection with a warp yarn, two lifting devices (1),(2);(41),(42);(51),(52) with a different lifting height (h), (2h) which are movable up and down in phase, and a selection... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6546966 | Apparatus for making available a leno thread for a weaving machine The apparatus (1) for making available a leno thread (2a, 3a) for a weaving machine comprises a shaft (4) which is rotatably journalled about an axis of rotation (A). This apparatus has an active connection to a drive apparatus (5) in order to set the sha... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6494237 | Shed forming device for the textile industry The invention relates to a shed forming device without a harness for the textile industry, preferably a weaving device which contains a number of healds (4) with thread eyelets (5) for guiding the warp threads. The healds (4) are guided through boreholes ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6478055 | Pulleyless shed-forming device for a weaving machine A pulley-less shed-forming device for a weaving machine, such as a jacquard machine, has a number of shed-forming elements (1), such as hooks, to determine the positions of one or more warp yarns on a weaving machine. A lifting device (50), (51) moves the... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6470919 | Motive drive for warp selection A motive assembly for moving a plurality of warp yarns (32) in a loom between upper and lower shed positions, the motive assembly including a plurality of selectively controllable ultrasonic cyclic motors (10), each of which is drivingly connected to one ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6460577 | Electric motor drive mechanism for shed forming components of a loom The heald shafts of a power loom are driven by electric D.C. or A.C. motors which have an external rotor or an armature connected to the respective heald shaft through two articulated couplings, for example snap locks, and a push-pull rod. The motors rece... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6450208 | Woven material comprising tape-like warp and weft and an aid for producing the same The present invention concerns weaving. In particular, it is a woven material produced using tape-like warp and tape-like weft through the employment of a rotary type shedding means which also functions as a direct specific-weave patterning means and a pi... | 09/17/2002 |
