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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7536760 | Rotary cutting apparatus In a rotary cutting apparatus, including a rotary blade having a cutting blade on the outer circumference and rotating radially in one direction; a housing for accommodating the rotary blade; and a fixed blade in the form of a plate attached to the housing along the... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7284305 | Apparatus and process for automatically cutting textile web with reduced wrinkling The present invention generally relates to an apparatus and process for automatically cutting a textile web with reduced wrinkling. The process includes passing the textile web across a first guide roller having a first guide surface directing the textile web to the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 6739024 | Method and device for producing a structured, voluminous non-woven web or film The invention relates to a method for producing a structured, voluminous non-woven web or velourised film from a thermoplastic by producing an unstructured web and subsequently processing this web using a pair of rollers (10a, 10b). The p... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6634068 | Apparatus for preparing a fabric for seaming An integrated cutter for preparing the edges of a fabric for seaming includes a hooked needle which oscillates vertically in a guide bushing located close to the plane of the fabric between a retracted position where the head of the needle is not exposed ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6505388 | Apparatus and methods for carving and separating carpet A design is formed in a carpet secured to a table with a carriage controlled and moved over the table by a computer. A carver is mounted to the carriage and is computer-controlled to carve a design into the secured carpet. Also, a separator is mounted to ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6430787 | Apparatus and method for carving and separating carpet A design is formed in a carpet secured to a table with a carriage controlled and moved over the table by a computer. A carver is mounted to the carriage and is computer-controlled to carve a design into the secured carpet. Also, a separator is mounted to ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6195853 | Shearing device A device for shearing fibers from fabrics comprising a housing and a pair of shearing machines disposed therein. Each shearing machine having a case and a pair of blades, an outer blade and an inner blade secured onto the case. Each blade having a row of ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5979278 | Method for cutting piled fabric A method for cutting piled fabric is provided. The method includes the steps of bending the pile elements downward towards the fabric base along a line to be cut and thereafter cutting through the bent piling elements and fabric base to form a two-sided c... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5815896 | Method and apparatus to provide improved and more efficient napping of fabrics made from spun yarns A method and apparatus for loosening, cutting, and abrading a web of textile fabric having spun yarns containing wrapper fibers. The textile fabric web is directed under high tension around pairs of rotatable, small diameter tubes coated with abrasive par... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5752300 | Method and apparatus to loosen and cut the wrapper fibers of spun yarns in woven fabric A method and apparatus for loosening, cutting, and abrading a web of textile fabric having spun yarns containing wrapper fibers. The textile fabric web is directed under high tension around a rotatable, small diameter tube coated with abrasive particles. ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5605266 | Device for aligning material webs A device for aligning material webs which in a longitudinal direction have alternating regions of differing thickness, has a top and a bottom aligning rail, which are disposed substantially at right angles to the material web and opposite one another with... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5578359 | Magnetic shielding garment for electro-biologic measurements An electromagnetic shielding garment comprising amorphous alloy strips or strands woven together. The woven material or sheet can be reenforced by bonding it to a flexible material such as plastic. This garment is effective in shielding a patient from ext... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5442841 | Hoisery trimming apparatus A hosiery trimming apparatus for trimming and removing loose yarn ends from articles of hosiery which comprises a frame carrying a bidirectional conveyor on which is received single or pairs of hosiery articles having loose yarn ends. The articles are mov... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5373613 | Tenter frame with pinned roll transfer means The invention relates to a tenter frame for treating web materials such as woven or knitted fabrics, film or the like, to apparatus for removing a web from a tenter while controlling the web and to a process for removal of a web from a tenter. A pair of e... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5285558 | Pile carpet beveler-trimmer apparatus A heavy, roller-mounted base plate has thereon a conventional pile carpet trimmer having a shearing head disposed to be swung into and out of a pile access opening in the base plate either to trim the pile of a carpet by sliding the plate on top of the pi... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5197643 | Textile ripping machine An apparatus device for ripping woven textile goods has a table having an upper surface, near and far longitudinal edges, and a transversely elongated slot extending between the edges and having transversely spaced near and far slot ends, the goods normal... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5016328 | Carpet patterning machine and method Apparatus and method to sculpture a pile fabric from a predetermined pattern by controlling the movement of the cutter by a pantograph system which employs rotary mounted carriers. The cutter arrangement employs an arrangement where the individual pile fi... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4837066 | Foldable rigidified textile panels A carpeting material of nonwoven synthetic thermoplastic resin fibers, capable of being folded so as to fit onto sharply irregular surfaces such as car trunk liners, made by the process of needle-looming a nonwoven carpeting material having higher and low... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4711751 | Process and apparatus for stretching tubular extruded plastic material A process of stretching tubular nets or plates made of extruded plastic material according to one or two directions at right angles to each other and an equipment for carrying out the same wherein said process consists in dipping the tubular net or plate ... | 12/08/1987 |
