Textiles: weaving inventions 08/06

20060185752 - Weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths: A weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths includes a leno apparatus with leno elements (5, 5′, 7, 7′, 8, 8′) for the forming of a shed (6) as well as additionally a cleaning apparatus with a plurality of nozzles (10.1, 10.2, 11, 13) for the removal of contaminations...

20060185753 - Papermaker's forming fabric with machine direction stitching yarns that form machine side knuckles: A papermaking fabric includes a series of repeat units, each of the repeat units including: a first set of top machine direction (MD) yarns; a second set of top MD yarns; a set of top cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven with the first and second sets of top MD...

20060180229 - Woven sheeting with spun yarns and synthetic filament yarns: Sheeting (10) is woven with warp ends (En) and fill picks (Pn), at least one of which (Ex and/or Px) is a spun yarn (C) and at least one of which (Ey and/or Py, with x≠y) is a synthetic filament yarn (F), or a first plurality of which (ES1 and/or...

20060174963 - Elastic material having variable modulus of elasticity: An elastic material includes a plurality of zones. Each of the zones has a particular modulus of elasticity associated with it and the distribution of the zones throughout the elastic material causes the material to have a variation of modulus of elasticity along a particular direction in the material. The...

20060169345 - 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), which can be driven in an oscillating manner, and followers (40) for the...

20060169346 - Multiple contour binders in triple layer fabrics: A multi-layer fabric which may be utilized in a papermaking process. Such fabric has a first layer of machine direction (MD) yarns, a second layer of MD yarns and a first system of cross-direction (CD) yarns having first binder yarns weaving a first contour pattern and second binder yarns weaving...

20060169347 - 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 threads are bound-off by means of the leno warp...