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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7475570 | Textile machine with yarn feeding control A textile machine comprising a main shaft (10) to be driven in rotation, and a sensor (20) to detect at least one angular position (PA) of said shaft and generate a corresponding reference signal (SR); the machine (1) further comprises weaving m... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7289932 | Angular position, speed and direction encoding of a rotating member A spatial detection apparatus comprising a rotating member having a predetermined number of teeth angularly spaced about its circumference at predetermined distances to form a bit pattern; at least one sensor capable of detecting a rising edge and a falling edge of ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 6640591 | Apparatus and method for production of fabrics Using a control system, yarn ends unwound from at least one or more beams, small packages, or any or all combinations thereof may be directly fed to at least one or more knitting machines. The control system with its processing units in cooperation with v... | 11/04/2003 |
| 5566604 | Apparatus for extracting a flexible product from a machine for fabricating same A machine for producing braid or circular knit fabric has a withdrawal unit for the continuous product driven by a synchronous motor receiving its drive signal from a digital frequency converter. A pulse generator connected with the main motor of the mach... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5524461 | Control system for yarn feed gearbox A yarn feed gearbox control system for controlling the let-off speed of a yarn feed gearbox. The control system is adapted for use with a warp knitting machine having a main shaft and a gearbox operative to control the feed rate of yarn delivery from a ya... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5461881 | Arrangement for driving a warp beam An arrangement for driving a warp beam employs a stepless adjustable drive (7) whose coupling element (8) is displaced by a setting member (11). The setting member (11) is controlled-by a computer (10) which provides an input arrangement (17) for the take... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5375435 | Process and apparatus for controlling thread feed in a warp knitting machine A process or apparatus can control thread provision in a warp knitting machine by means of a computer (6). The computer operation involves pattern data (MD) supplied as a sequence of numbers. These numbers are provided to a recognition routine (ER), which... | 12/27/1994 |
| 4835990 | Pulling device for warp yarns in crochet galloon looms The device herein described comprises a pair of pulling rollers 3 which engage a manufactured article 4 produced by knitting members 5 acting upstream of the pulling rollers themselves, in order to interlace weft yarns with warp yarns 4a. A first driving ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4736602 | Warp knitting machine This invention relates to a warp knitting machine in which the knitting elements and each of the warp beams are driven by separate electric motors, powered from a common electrical network. An electric clutch is included in the drive connection between ea... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4673139 | Textile machinery yarn supply apparatus A yarn supply apparatus for yarn-using textile machinery has a rotatable yarn supply element (4) supplying yarn under slip free conditions at a predetermined tension, which is driven by a speed-controllable electric drive motor (6), the speed of which is ... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4662407 | Method and apparatus of controlling warp tension on a weaving loom An apparatus for maintaining the warp threads in a multi-beam loom at a constant tension includes tension sensors for each beam, and a microprocessor-based control circuit which provides individual speed control signals to the motors during each beam. The... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4605044 | Takeup motion control device for looms A takeup motion control device for a loom includes an input setting unit for producing functions of a repetitive period and a takeup speed, a function generator for storing the functions in relation to r.p.m. of the loom, an arithmetic control unit for su... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4487039 | Weft magazine arrangement for warp knitting machines In a weft thread magazine arrangement for a warp knitting machine there are provided a pair of transport arrangements positioned on each side of the machine. Also included is a carriage which lays threads in a continual manner from the transport arrangeme... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4430870 | Control arrangement for a rotatable winding arrangement In a control arrangement for the motor of a winding arrangement, such as a partial warp beam in a warp knitting machine, there is provided a controller. The controller controls the rate of rotation of the motors of the turning arrangements that influence ... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4387579 | Brake for a warp knitting machine A warp knitting machine has a main shaft driven by an electric motor which is powered by a main circuit. The machine has at least one supplemental, electrically driven arrangement for influencing the thread takeoff of the machine. This electrically driven... | 06/14/1983 |
| 3961500 | Yarn runner-length controller for knitting machines A yarn runner-length controller for warp beam knitting machines utilizes information of the yarn unwinding rate from a warp beam section and continuously compares this information to a signal related to the desired runner-length of the yarn. This continuo... | 06/08/1976 |
