Stops Patents (Class 84/686)
  • Patent number: 11713522
    Abstract: A fabric substrate having a warp direction and a fill direction is provided. The fabric substrate includes a plurality of warp yarns, a plurality of fill yarns. A portion of the plurality of the fill yarns form a hollow channel extending in the fill direction, and the hollow channel contains an encased fill yarn. As such, the encased fill yarn is protected from abrasion, bending, flexing, folding, compression, shrinkage, or expansion of the fabric substrate and remains undamaged after the fabric substrate is woven and subsequently handled or processed. In other embodiments, a hollow channel containing an encased yarn is formed in the warp direction, or hollow channels each containing an encased yarn are formed in both the fill direction and the warp direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Inman Mills
    Inventor: Thomas M. Ellis
  • Patent number: 7442869
    Abstract: The present invention consists in a method and electronic device used to reproduce the sound of church organ flue pipes, by taking advantage of the physical modeling technique of acoustic instruments; it being an audio-digital synthesis system based on digital signal processors, which contains a program of physical simulation of the generation of the sound of organ flue pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Viscount International S.p.A.
    Inventor: Carlo Zinato
  • Patent number: 5508472
    Abstract: Certain effects of pipe organ wind regulators and conductors, as well as certain effects of acoustic coupling of pipes within pipe organs are emulated in an electronic musical instrument. Digital signal processing is used to model the behavior of a pipe organ wind regulating and distributing system as a damped oscillator to which an input disturbance signal is applied. The disturbance signal is derived from the combined on or off state of notes associated with voice generators responsive to the model output. The output is further processed and used to control the absolute pitch of the voice generators. Response controllers regulate the response of the generators individually. By varying the response characteristic of each voice, the relative pitches of the voices diverge as more notes are played, achieving a psychoacoustic effect similar to the detuning produced by wind pressure variations and acoustic coupling among speaking pipes of a pipe organ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Rodgers Instrument Corporation
    Inventor: W. Lawrence Hawkins