Textiles: weaving inventions 08/07

20070199609 - Warped stitched papermaker's forming fabric with fewer effective top md yarns than bottom md yarns: A papermaking fabric includes a series of repeat units, each of the repeat units including: a set of top machine direction (MD) yarns; a set of top cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns; a set of bottom MD yarns; a set of bottom CMD yarns... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070181206 - Heald shaft comprising a heald support rod: In a heddle frame with an upper (10) and with a lower frame part (11) and with heddle bars (17, 18) attached to the frame parts, it is provided that the frame parts (10) are provided with a profiled rib (24) running in the longitudinal direction, and that the heddle... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070181207 - Dryer fabric seam: An industrial fabric is described which comprises a woven fabric body having opposing ends. The fabric repeating weave pattern includes at least two systems of vertically stacked machine direction warp yarns interwoven with at least one system of cross machine direction weft yarns. On each end of the fabric at... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070175534 - Single layer papermakers fabric: A single layer papermakers fabric comprises machine direction (MD) warp yarns interwoven with cross-machine direction (CD) weft yarns to a repeating weave pattern requiring N sheds in the loom, N being an integer and at least 4. Each warp yarn follows a path in the paper side surface comprising four... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept Aj

20070175535 - Orthogonal weaving for complex shape preforms: An orthogonal stitch-weave method and fiber architecture. The architecture allows near-net-shape composite preforms to be fabricated, thereby reducing costs associated with complex preform shapes and increasing desired strengths of the composite.... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC