Textiles: weaving inventions 07/07

20070169830 - Controlled thread brake: A controlled thread brake for braking a weft thread (10) in a weaving machine is presented which comprises a brake band (3) and a brake body (2), with the thread brake (1) additionally comprising an electromagnet (6) and a rotatable or rocking lever (4) which can be moved by means... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070169831 - Weaving device: The invention relates to a weaving device comprising means for forming a shed consisting of warp yarns, with insertion means being disposed on one side or on both sides of the shed for inserting a weft yarn into the shed. The object of the invention is to provide a weaving... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070163667 - Seam press fabric: A press fabric includes a substantially flat inner sleeve having first and second ends; and an outer sleeve around the inner sleeve and comprising at least one machine direction yarn wound around the inner sleeve and defining first and second seam loops at the first and second ends of the... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070157987 - Machine direction yarn stitched triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics: Triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics having a set of top MD yarns that are interwoven exclusively with a set of top CMD yarns to form at least part of a top fabric layer and a set of bottom MD yarns that are interwoven exclusively with a set of bottom CMD... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070157988 - Papermaking screen: In that the longitudinal yarns (41 to 56) on the machine side within the machine-side pattern repeat bind two respective transverse yarns of the second type (25, 28; 31, 34; 37, 40), the division of the intersections for the longitudinal yams is improved, so that marks in the paper to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070157989 - Inserting rapier for a rapier weaving machine: An inserting rapier (1) for a rapier weaving machine with a thread clamp (4) for the firm clamping of a weft thread (3) is presented, with the inserting rapier also including a guiding or holding device (10) with a guiding or holding element (5) and a mass (6) which are... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070151617 - Different contour paired binders in multi-layer fabrics: A multi-layer fabric which may be utilized in a papermaking process. The fabric layers are bound together by plural pairs of weft binder yarns. Each binder yarn within a pair weaves a different contour pattern and combines with the other binder yarn in that pair to form a plain weave... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug