Textiles: weaving inventions 10/08

20080257442 - Slide fastener stringer and method of manufacturing the same: A slide fastener stringer easily manufactured by a series of manufacturing steps with molding fastener elements in a warp yarn exclusion area formed on one side edge of a fastener tape, wherein a fastener tape is produced by weaving with warp yarns and weft yarns of synthetic fiber yarn; plural... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080257443 - Method and apparatus for weaving tape-like warp and weft and material thereof: A novel method of weaving is described wherein warp and weft are supplied in the form of tapes, and not yarns. In at least one embodiment, the method, which is preferably carried out in vertical format, essentially includes feeding positively flat tensionless warp for shedding and taking-up; selecting, feeding positively... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080257442 - Slide fastener stringer and method of manufacturing the same: A slide fastener stringer easily manufactured by a series of manufacturing steps with molding fastener elements in a warp yarn exclusion area formed on one side edge of a fastener tape, wherein a fastener tape is produced by weaving with warp yarns and weft yarns of synthetic fiber yarn; plural... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080257443 - Method and apparatus for weaving tape-like warp and weft and material thereof: A novel method of weaving is described wherein warp and weft are supplied in the form of tapes, and not yarns. In at least one embodiment, the method, which is preferably carried out in vertical format, essentially includes feeding positively flat tensionless warp for shedding and taking-up; selecting, feeding positively... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080236698 - Heald support bar of bent sheet metal: The inventive heald support bar for heald shafts consists of a bent sheet metal element with unbent legs (8, 9), whereby, in the bending zones, the material thickness is reduced before or during the bending process. As a result of the compression occurring during the bending process, the material thickness... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20080236699 - Through air drying fabric: A through-air-drying (TAD) fabric for producing tissue paper and related products on a papermaking machine comprising a plurality of warp yarns interwoven with a plurality of weft yarns to produce warp and weft knuckles on a paper-side surface of the fabric, preferably to form an L-shaped knuckle pattern.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080236700 - Loom and a method for weaving single-web loop velvet: A single-web loom for loop velvet fabric comprises means for inserting weft yarns (2) in a shed (F1) formed by warp yarns. It further comprises individually controlled electric actuators (6), each suitable for bringing at least one warp yarn guide heddle into one of at least four positions (N1, N2,... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.