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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6925196 | Method and system for product selection A method and system for guiding consumers through a sophisticated evaluation process for selecting a product that satisfies desired aesthetic and physical objectives. An embodiment of the method and system enables a consumer from his/her home to select a fabric by s... | 08/02/2005 |
| 5860454 | Electromagnetically-operating Jacquard control device An electromagnetically-operating Jacquard control device has an electromagnet (1) with a magnetic core (3), an armature (8) and a limit stop (14) for each controlling element (16) to be controlled. The limit stop can optionally be brought into the movemen... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5791381 | Process for determining the arrangement and the step sequence of heald shafts of a heald loom A process for determining the arrangement and step sequence of heald shafts of a heald loom for weaving a fabric including a backing fabric having a fabric pattern and an ornamental design. The ornamental design of the fabric is plotted and/or displayed b... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5735315 | Wire loom dobby Attached to a dobby for use in a loom is an actuator which is, in turn, attached to a first finger and a second finger to move them in unison in a cycle. The first and second fingers control the position of an upper hook and a lower hook. These hooks, whe... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5365979 | Dobby for electromagnetically controlling a heald frame A dobby comprises first and second hooks relatively moved in the direction of approaching and leaving each other, a lever for selectively forcing the second hook to be engaged with the first hook, and a pusher for selectively providing the force to the le... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5103873 | Mechanism for controlling griffe frame movement A mechanism for controlling the movement of the griffe frames of shed-forming device in a weaving loom which includes a pair of levers which are pivotally mounted to the loom frame work and to one of the griffe frames in such a manner as to define a shift... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5018556 | Dobby loom with a magnetically operated hook selector A dobby loom provided with up-and-down movement instruction apparatus which is controlled to two positions, operation and non-operation positions, by programmed magnetically-driven apparatus and wherein the instruction apparatus decides up-and-down moveme... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4903738 | Jacquard emulator A Jacquard emulator for operating the pins of a Jacquard mechanism as is used in the textile industry. The emulator has a number of disks mounted on the shafts of respective stepper motors. The disks have a number of holes therein so that when the disks a... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4777988 | Reading device for dobby A reading device for use in a dobby having a peg cylinder connected to a heddle frame for operation thereof comprises a first bracket, a second bracket, a means for permitting physical contact between the first and second brackets and device to oscillate ... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4766936 | Card switching apparatus for dobby A card switching apparatus for a dobby comprises a bracket mounted for rocking motion around a shaft, a cylinder supported on said bracket and having a rotary shaft, a gear securely mounted on said rotary shaft of said cylinder, an input power shaft, anot... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4685492 | Reading device in dobby machine In a reading device for a dobby machine, the reading levers and retaining hooks are pivotally mounted on separate axes. Each reading lever rotates a retaining hook so that the angular velocity of the retaining hook decreases as the retaining hook pivots f... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4566499 | Jacquard mechanism An electronic jacquard mechanism for controlling shedding motion of warps by selectively holding dropper needles by means of solenoids in accordance with command signals generated from a computer. Movable cores of the solenoids are directly fixed on one e... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4552184 | Method and apparatus for controlling a rotation dobby A dobby includes a needle mechanism having a reading needle, the head of which, during reading of a nonperforated location on a pattern card, engages a pawl and, during reading of a hole in the card, releases the pawl to permit the pawl, under the force o... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4542770 | Command device for dobby A command device for a dobby machine, which device includes a pattern card having a plurality of perforations bored in a pattern corresponding to a desired fabric and driven in one direction and a feeler needle suspended from a horizontal needle and displ... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4527597 | Dobby Dobby for a weaving loom in which control of the operative and non-operative positions of retaining hooks or hook arms which are engaged with and disengaged from hooks of heald frame-driving levers to actuate desired heald frame is electrically performed ... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4489763 | Leveling device of dobby machine This invention relates to a leveling device in which a shaft (7) of a card cylinder (6) is supported by a bearing of a card cylinder bracket, base portion of the card cylinder bracket is pivotally attached to a machine frame, and the card cylinder bracket... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4474221 | Positive dobby machine A positive dobby machine characterized in that return knives (16a), (16b) move in parallel and have pressure receiving planes (18a), (18b) perpendicular to the moving direction, first pressure receiving planes (7a), (7b) which can be contacted in surface ... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4471814 | Loom dobby reading unit The invention provides improvements in the members of a loom dobby reading unit, which enable the reading unit and control unit to be structurally separated. For this purpose, the reading unit rockers act on the control unit by simple bearing and thrust c... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4465109 | Loom dobby control units Improvements are made to members of a loom dobby control unit so as to allow structural separation between the reading unit and control unit. For this purpose, the reading unit rockers operate on the control unit by simple bearing and thrust contact with ... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4461325 | Electromagnetic device for controlling dobbies and other weaving systems The present invention relates to electromagnetic devices for controlling dobbies and other weaving systems, wherein the control unit which contains the electro-magnets is borne by an oscillating frame on which is mounted an equal number of selectors assoc... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4417604 | Method and dobby for synchronizing all heddle frames of a weaving machine A method and apparatus for synchronizing all heddle frames of a weaving machine which are operated by a punched-card-controlled dobby. The pattern card cylinder or the reading needles are moved to positions in which during a read, all the reading needles ... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4415007 | Apparatus for effecting back-and-forth movement of a guide synchronously with the intermittent rotary movement of a shaft An apparatus for controlling a dobby in which reading needles read a punch card and each needle influences the movement of a respective heddle frame. Two outer disks having annular toothed portions arranged on the axial facing sides thereof which face one... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4386631 | Negative double lift dobby machine In a negative double lift dobby machine, a balance lever 8 is pivotally attached to a jack-lever, and driving members 16, 17 disposed respectively in front of upper and lower ends of the balance lever 8 reciprocate in opposite phases with each other. Driv... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4385646 | Reading and lifting device for a control machine A reading and lifting device has a force amplifying bar which can be reciprocated vertically and is driven positively, and a reading needle is slidably supported therein. A pattern card with nonperforated and perforated points is provided below the force ... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4371006 | Reading and control device for a control machine A reading needle is slidingly supported in a force amplifying bar which is automatically moved up and down and the reading needle reads nonperforated and perforated points of a pattern card. In the case of a perforated point, a pivotal lock member biassed... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4326562 | Dobbies for forming the shed on weaving looms The present invention relates to dobbies of the type in which each double swinging lever is controlled by two pulling hooks cooperating with pulling knives with reciprocal movement. Each non-selected pulling hook in each pair is raised away from the assoc... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4187886 | Dobby for the formation of the shed on looms A dobby for the formation of the shed on weaving looms, of the type in which each of the double swinging levers coupled to the heddle frames of the loom is displaced alternately by two pivoted pulling hooks which are controlled on the one hand downwardly ... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4182380 | Dobbies for weaving looms A dobby for a weaving loom, of the type in which each dobby element associated with a heddle frame or group of heddle frames comprises an actuating lever actuated by a reciprocating movement, a double swinging lever pivoted thereon and of which the ends a... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4172476 | Reading arrangement for a dobby A dobby with a mechanical reading device for a control card having perforated and nonperforated portions therein according to a pattern. The reading needle of the reading device of the pattern card has yielding elements for the purpose of reducing the imp... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4172475 | Weaving machine simultaneously controlled by a Jacquard machine and a dobby A weaving machine comprising a dobby and a Jacquard machine as the control members, wherein the dobby is controlled from a single pattern card in the Jacquard machine. Harness cords connect the Jacquard hooks to the heddles and to a movably supported memb... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4154268 | Reading device, in particular for a shed-forming machine A method for controlling the heddle movement in a shed-forming machine and apparatus for performing the method. Reading needles are moved into and out of engagement with a pattern card having perforated and nonperforated portions therein actively cooperat... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4150698 | Patterning means A loom patterning mechanism including a continuously movable pattern information means and pattern sensing means associated with the information means and movable synchronously therewith over at least part of a loom cycle, the sensing means serving to ini... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4137951 | Apparatus for controlling actuating mechanism of loom dobby The present invention relates to apparatus for controlling the actuating mechanism of a loom dobby and may be most effectively used in looms wherein the heald shafts are raised and lowered by means of continuously-rotating dobbies. This apparatus includes... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4059131 | Jacquard selection system The jacquard selection system employs a slider between each multimorphous bending element and jacquard needle to absorb the stress imposed by the needle during a sensing operation. The sliders move within a guide in which they are spaced from the walls of... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4004135 | Jacquard card to magnetic tape archives storage and retrieval system A Jacquard card is placed in information-transfer relationship with an optical reader. Weave information, including an identification number and number of picks, is placed in a computer. The weave pattern is read row by row and pick by pick and stored on ... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3951176 | Hook connecting apparatus in a chain disc-type dobby machine In a chain disc-type compound dobby machine, flexible instruction receiving members are integrally fixed to supporting hooks for decreasing the weight and the moment of inertia of the moving parts so that the connecting and detaching action of the hooks m... | 04/20/1976 |