Textiles: weaving inventions 07/08

20080178958 - Papermaker's forming fabric with cross-direction yarn stitching and ratio of top machined direction yarns to bottom machine direction yarns of less than 1: A triple layer papermaker's fabric includes: a set of top MD yarns; a set of top CMD yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns to form a top fabric layer; a set of bottom MD yarns; a set of bottom CMD yarns interwoven with the bottom MD yarns to form... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080178959 - Catching apparatus and method for a rapier weaving machine: A catching device (1) for holding an inserted weft thread in a rapier weaving machine having at least one rapier (6), which is movable along a rapier track (6a), includes a holding channel (5) which can be mounted in a stationary manner on the rapier weaving machine in order to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080178960 - Shed-forming device incorporating electric motor units and weaving loom equipped with such a device: The invention relates to a shed-forming device for a weaving loom equipped with several heald shafts or heddle frames and comprising a pulling system connected, for each heddle frame, to a self-contained assembly intended to operate the pulling system and comprising at least one electric motor unit housed in a... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080173368 - Hand loom: A loom that includes a first elongated beam having upper and lower surfaces; a second elongated beam having upper and lower surfaces parallel to and spaced from the first beam; a first transverse roller having a first longitudinal axis rotatably mounted on and extending between the first and second beams;... Agent: Salter & Michaelson The Heritage Building

20080173369 - Paper machine fabric with trapezoidal shaped filaments: A fabric for use on a paper machine includes a plurality of filaments woven together. At least a portion of the filaments have a generally flat machine side base, a generally flat web side face, and a pair of generally flat side walls extending between the base and the face.... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.c.

20080169039 - Low permeability fabric: A tubular stuffer element for a plurality of coiled monofilaments interweaved and interconnected with pintels and having open spaces therebetween to form a fabric which is heat set. Tubular stuffer elements are inserted in the space between the coiled monofilaments. The glass transition temperature Tg of the material for the... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20080169040 - Machine side layer weave design for composite forming fabrics: A machine side layer weave design for use in woven composite fabrics, particularly papermakers forming fabrics having differing weave designs on each planar surface is provided. The composite fabric is comprised of two sets of weft yarns interwoven with at least one system of warp yarns. A first set of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept Aj

20080169041 - Method of knitting tubular knitted fabric having stripe pattern, and tubular knitted fabric having stripe pattern: In a tubular knitted fabric with a stripe pattern knitted by a flat knitting machine, to cause cross-over yarns to appear inside the tubular knitted fabric so as to eliminate cutting operation of the cross-over yarns. For each knitting of a plurality of courses, a first knitted fabric portion and... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080163952 - Weave with visual color variation: The present invention relates to a weave with a visual color variation, which is interlaced by a plurality of longitudinal yarns and a plurality of latitudinal yarns. One of the longitudinal yarns and latitudinal yarns includes at least one protruding yarn and two color yarns with different colors. The protruding... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080163953 - Tubular fabric and method of making the same: The present invention relates to a tubular fabric for receiving an underwire in a garment such as a bra. The tubular fabric is formed by arranging a fusible yarn, such as Grillon™, and melting said yarn to form a barrier, which exhibits excellent resistance to penetration by underwires. Preferably the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080156390 - Jet-weaving machine, particularly an air jet-weaving machine, with a clamping device in the mixing tube: The invention relates to a jet-weaving machine, particularly an air jet-weaving machine, which comprises a main discharge nozzle (1) with a mixing tube (2) for introducing a weft thread (3) into a shed by means of a conveying fluid discharged from the main discharge nozzle (1), and comprises a clamping... Agent: Fasse Patent Attorneys, P.a.