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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6901970 | Automatic heddling apparatus and method for automatically heddling An automatic heddling method and a related automatic heddling apparatus 100, by which a plurality of heddles 2 removed from a plurality of heddle frames 1 are integrally collected in such a manner that flat faces 11 of the heddles 2 | 06/07/2005 |
| 6397443 | Harness strand or lamella feeding system A device feeds harness elements to a separation station of a drawing-in machine. The device includes at least one feed rail. The harness elements are arranged on the one feed rail. The feed rail has an inclination relative to a horizontal to generate a sl... | 06/04/2002 |
| 5826315 | Flat heald/dropper-drawing/separating method and apparatus A flat heald drawing method and apparatus that draws an arbitrary flat heald out of a number of stacked flat healds. To the method a drawing pin of a magnetic head is inserted into a guide hole of a front-side ring portion of the lowermost flat heald whil... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5448811 | Drop-wire separation device for warp drawing-in machines A separation device for a warp drawing-in machine contains a dividing-off member for dividing off the foremost dropwire of a drop-wire stack. This dividing-off member includes a separating device and a transport device. The separating device subjects to p... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5184380 | Method and apparatus for singularizing healds for warp thread drawing-in machine A heald singularizing system includes a selecting member (21) for the healds (LI) fed in the form of a stack (LS). The selecting member (21) separates the front-most heald (LI1) from the stack and makes it available for the drawing-in of the warp threads.... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5174000 | Apparatus for singularizing drop-wires in warp-thread drawing-in machines A drawing-in machine for threading weaving machine harnesses is provided with apparatus for separating one at a time the drop-wires to be threaded from a stack of drop-wires. The stack of drop-wires is moved toward a stop located adjacent a slit. A select... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5153972 | Method and device for the selection of the loops of heddles in an automatic heddling machine To bring about selection of the loops of heddles of the flat type with open heads, individually from the packet of loops hanging on a track whose horizontal guides pass through both heads, upper and lower, of the loops, use is made of: a binary track whic... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5111560 | Automatic warp threading apparatus The technical field of the present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically threading a warp through the eye of a heddle. In a conventional automatic warp threading apparatus, a drawing-in needle equipped with a hook is delivered out through th... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5084950 | Thread drawing-in head with clamp for drawing device A thread drawing-in head for a drawing device in which at least two heads, each having a warp thread guide passage, are disposed in series such that the passages can align in series, to clamp a heald therebetween in such a manner that a hole of the heald ... | 02/04/1992 |
| 4989301 | Drawing device The drawing device inserts a warp into a heald hole of a heald and between reed dents of a reed. The device comprises an air guide including an air passage having an entrance and an exit, an air stream generating mechanism operationally connected with the... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4916785 | Heddle magazine A heddle magazine comprising a pair of first magazine bars having carried thereon a plurality of heddles which form a first heddle group; a pair of second magazine bars disposed in parallel relationship to the first magazine bars and having carried thereo... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4891871 | Heddle transferring apparatus A heddle transferring apparatus comprising: a heddle magazine having upper and lower magazine bars which have a plurality of heddles supported thereon; a heddle bar supporting rack having a plurality of upper and lower heddle bars supported thereon; means... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4723346 | Apparatus for threading heddles An apparatus for passing a thread through a member formed with an opening, comprising; a first member formed with a passageway passing therethrough movable in an axial direction; the first member comprising upper and lower parts which are movable toward a... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4543696 | Device for separating and delivering individual heddles or drop wires to a draw-in position The invention relates to a device for individually separating heddles arrayed in a pack on slide rails. It is assumed that the heddles are of a magnetizable material. One magnetic plate is mounted at each of the opposite sides of the pack, these plates be... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4520539 | Device for separating and delivering individual heddles to a draw-in position The invention concerns a device for individually separating heddles bunched into packs and arranged on heddle slide rails, the lifting of individual heddles from the pack being implemented by suction nozzles and the heddles being moved into position for d... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4170676 | Process, apparatus and resulting three-layer needled nonwoven fabric Process and apparatus for producing and the resulting nonwoven fabric adaptable for use as blankets and the like is characterized by increased production speed resulting in a more economical fabric, as follows. A bottom layer of at least one carded web is... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4038729 | Heddle selecting and positioning apparatus A heddle selecting and positioning apparatus for a warp drawing-in machine has a rotatable selector for alternately releasing front and rear duplex heddles and has a positioning mechanism for transporting a selected heddle to a threading position and hold... | 08/02/1977 |
