Patents Represented by Attorney Donald D. Denton
  • Patent number: 4130143
    Abstract: A band-gripper loom having band guide rollers supported on a housing surrounding the band wheel to prevent the insertion band from lifting off the band wheel, with each band guide roller supported on the inner race of ball bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd
    Inventor: Viktor Smutny
  • Patent number: 4121686
    Abstract: This invention covers a hollow, sound-dampened structure capable of reducing propagation of high frequency sound waves, in which a hollow, walled structure is covered with sound-transmission barrier material and an outer wrapping of a thin flexible plastic material capable of maintaining the sound-transmission barrier material adjacent to the outer surface of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Inventor: Moreau A. Keller, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4120328
    Abstract: A shuttle construction for weaving machines, having resin-impregnated fabric cover surrounding the center piece which forms walls of the shuttle that come together and overlap in the region of the tips of the shuttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Louis Rosenast
  • Patent number: 4116243
    Abstract: A jet loom having straight and recessed reed teeth with the rearmost region of the recesses laying in a plane defined by the front side of the straight reed teeth, with the recesses forming a channel for fluid insertion of weft threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Alfons Vettiger
  • Patent number: 4112981
    Abstract: Device for pile fabric looms for feeding pile warp yarns, having a warp beam, a feed roller for removing the pile warp yarns from the pile warp beam, and a guide roller for the pile warp yarns arranged between the pile warp beam and the shed-forming mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Erhard Freisler
  • Patent number: 4112983
    Abstract: A gripper weaving machine having flexible weft inserting or picking bands formed from plastics material reinforced with carbon fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd
    Inventors: Fredy Oderbolz, Paul Bebie
  • Patent number: 4108213
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a fabric selvedge in which two pairs of selvedge threads are looped into one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd
    Inventor: Peter Guttinger
  • Patent number: 4100942
    Abstract: A drive, control, and monitoring device for looms in which there is a drive motor connected to the power line, a flywheel operatively connected with the drive motor, an electromagnetic brake and clutch unit arranged between the flywheel and the crankshaft of the loom, and a means for controlling and monitoring the weaving process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Rudolf Tschudi
  • Patent number: 4081000
    Abstract: An arrangement for fluid jet insertion of weft threads into the shed of a weaving machine, which arrangement is formed from a main duct having a fluid conveying duct and a transporting duct with their axes forming an obtuse angle with one another, and a thread conveying duct which opens into the main duct with its axis in substantial alignment with the axis of the transporting duct, and the main duct having a narrowed cross-section in the region where the thread conveying duct enters into it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Hans Peter Wollenmann
  • Patent number: 4076050
    Abstract: A shed forming device on an undulated shed loom in which heddles are arranged along flexible cables and held by them, and the cables during the operation of the loom carry out an undulantly advancing movement for the production of which drive points spaced apart from each other are provided on each cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd
    Inventor: Edgar Strauss
  • Patent number: 4071051
    Abstract: A filling-thread clamping device in the form of a tong-like thread gripper which is displaceable back and forth along a line lying in the central plane of the warp threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Edgar Strauss
  • Patent number: 4071055
    Abstract: An inserting carrier for looms with removal of a filling yarn from stationary bobbins having a filling yarn clamping tongue which is swingable perpendicular to a central plane of the warp yarn and supported on the bottom surface of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1978
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Haltmeier, Erhard Freisler, Willy Rohr
  • Patent number: 4062382
    Abstract: An extending carrier for looms having a hook with a clamping tongue swingable perpendicular to the plane of the hook and having a control surface on the tongue having a deflection edge positioned on the side surface of the carrier which faces the point of formation of the shed of the loom, the point of the structural part which bears the deflection edge extending into the mouth of the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1977
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventors: Willy Rohr, Lothar Kohler
  • Patent number: 4050481
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an undulated shed-type loom for transporting shuttles filled with filling thread through sheds by means of electromagnetic fields acting on the shuttles and having means for beating up the filling threads introduced against the fell of the cloth, the beating-up of the filling threads taking place synchronously with the transportation of the shuttles over the width of the loom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Walter Muller
  • Patent number: 4050480
    Abstract: An apparatus for selective movement of individual lamella shaped heddles for the formation of a shed on a loom in which the heddles are positioned between flat guide elements with each heddle being selectively movable to one of two predetermined different positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Alois Steiner
  • Patent number: 4046224
    Abstract: Apparatus for lubricating and cooling the gripper band on a shuttleless loom in which a roller containing lubricant is resiliently biased against one side of the gripper band and driven by the movement of the gripper band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Viktor Smutny
  • Patent number: 4031926
    Abstract: The present invention covers a loom having means for introducing the filling threads by fluid with the means for introducing the filling threads having a comb of parallel channel forming blades to form a guide channel for the fluid, the channel forming blades arranged on the side of the reed facing the fell of the cloth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventors: Hans Zollinger, Rolf Honegger
  • Patent number: 4009737
    Abstract: A filling thread stop motion device for a loom which, upon failure of delivery of a filling thread during the weaving operation, the device shuts down the loom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1977
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventors: Willy Rohr, Viktor Smutny
  • Patent number: 4002189
    Abstract: The present invention covers an apparatus for selecting shuttles having weft windings therein of different filling yarn types for preprogrammed weft insertions on a wave-type or corrugated shed loom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1977
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventors: Alois Steiner, Edgar Strauss
  • Patent number: 3998248
    Abstract: A weft band with carrier for looper looms in which the weft band has a material recess or recesses in the area of the connection of the weft band to the looper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1974
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Erwin Weidmann