Abstract: A knife carriage for face-to-face weaving machines has a supporting surface with interchangeable, adjustable sliding parts which direct the knife carriage in relation to a guiding section. A cutting instrument separates top and bottom fabrics from each other. The instrument has attachment(s) for a drive cord from a drive mechanism for the knife carriage. The sliding parts and the attachment(s) for the drive cord on the supporting surface have a device, which when tightened, makes the attachment line of the device coincide respectively with the contact line of the sliding parts with the supporting surface, and surface the contact surface of the attachment(s) with the supporting surface. The length of the supporting surface is smaller than the distance between the extremities of the sliding parts protruding in relation to the supporting surface in longitudinal direction of the knife carriage.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a fur-like pile fabric of two-layer construction formed of guard hair fibers and under-fur fibers and used as artificial fur and a method for the production thereof.This invention produces a pile fabric 1 possessing guard hair fibers 2 having sharpened leading terminals and under-fur fibers having a satisfactorily uniform length by a method that comprises preparing a pile knitted or woven fabric with a pile yarn obtained by mixing limited-length polyester type fibers for guard hair fibers of sharpened terminals with limited-length polyester type fibers more susceptible to the action of an alkali treating agent and used for under-fur fibers, imparting an alkali treating agent 6 of a specific viscosity to the hair-raised surface of the pile knitted or woven fabric, and thereafter heat-treating the alkali-treated fabric thereby shortening the under-fur fibers and sharpening the leading terminals of the under-fur fibers.

Abstract: An improved method for manufacturing an artificial fur from an intermediate pile cloth such as a double velvet weave fabric, a knitted pile fabric provided with two ground constructions and a connecting pile connecting these two ground constructions, and an intermediate pile cloth provided with looped pile projected upward from a ground construction fabric or knitted fabric or non-woven fabric. In the method of this invention, the continuity of the pile yarns of the intermediate pile cloth is broken by sliding separation, so as not to break at least a partial number of fibrous material which will become guard hair of the artificial fur.

Abstract: Velvet which has been woven in a double layer passes between a table and a rule before the pile threads are cut by a knife in order to separate the two layers. The rule is suspended from a reinforcement bar by means of two anchoring points located at a distance from the ends of the rule, thus reducing the deflection of the rule and achieving enhanced uniformity in the height of velvet pile threads.

Abstract: Method of severing fibrous material, comprising contacting the fibrous material with a moving cutting member constituted of particles of an abrasive material and a high polymeric binder.

Abstract: Apparatus for separating a cloth web, produced in a double plush weaving machine, into two pile cloth webs. Cutters move transversely of the cloth web in adaptation to the beating strokes of the reed of the weaving machine, with the cutters being arranged at fixed distances from one another on an endless holder running over non-displaceably mounted lateral reversing rollers. The cutters are guided in the cutting plane by a stationary guide.

Abstract: A device for cutting velvet bands on lappet looms, comprising at least one disk blade mounted on an oscillating arm and which can be brought segment by segment into an operative cutting position and a grinding device on the side of the cutting device.