Textiles: weaving inventions 06/09

20090159148 - Drying wire: A drying wire provided with an independent top fabric and bottom fabric. The bottom fabric is woven from longitudinal and cross direction monofilament yarns. The top fabric is woven from longitudinal yarns and shapeable cross direction yarns. The shapeable yarns make the structure of the top fabric denser and increase... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090159149 - Surface functional electro-textile with functionality modulation capability, methods for making the same, and applications incorporating the same: A surface functional electro-textile fabric incorporates energy-active, electrically conductive or optically conductive fibers and nonconductive fibers in a woven or knitted textile fabric. The weave or knit pattern is selected so as to form floats of the electrically conductive fibers on at least one surface of the electro-textile fabric. The... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090151806 - Methods, apparatus and articles for an air jet loom: In some embodiments, a method includes providing a first controller; providing a second controller; using the second controller to control a plurality of valves to provide a sequence of air jets that propel a weft thread across at least a portion of a weft insertion region of an air jet... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090145507 - Skin care goods and production method thereof: An object of the present invention is to prove a skin care goods that is low irritant to the skin and superior in wiping efficiency of the dirt in the sulucus cutis and pores of the skin. Thus, the present invention provides a skin care goods of a pile fabric,... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20090145508 - Method and needle webbing loom in order to weave a ribbon: The invention relates to a needle webbing machine which comprises two weft needles (2a, 2b) which work simultaneously and in opposite directions on both ribbon sides, in addition to knitting needles (28a, 28b) which are arranged on both ribbon sides. A yarn lifter (18a, 18b) which works individually and which... Agent: George Pappas

20090139600 - Method for manufacturing a machine felt, and machine felt: A method for manufacturing a machine felt. Firstly a tube having a longitudinal yarn layer is manufactured with a peripheral length double the length of the machine felt, and a width that corresponds to the width of the machine felt. The tube is compressed into a flattened tube with the... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20090139599 - Process for producing papermaker's and industrial fabric seam and seam produced by that method: The invention disclosed herein relates to the use of laser energy to weld or melt selected locations in papermachine clothing (“PMC”) and other industrial and engineered fabrics. The invention also relates to an improved seam for a papermaker or other industrial fabric that has properties such as strength, durability, openness,... Agent: Ronald R. Santucci, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090139601 - Functional elastic composite yarn, methods for making the same and articles incorporating the same: A functional elastic composite yarn comprises an elastic member that is surrounded by at least one functional covering filament(s). The functional covering filament has a length that is greater than the drafted length of the elastic member such that substantially all of an elongating stress imposed on the composite yarn... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP