Abstract: Via a textile guide system for flat textile goods, the textile goods are fed by a continuous conveyor to processing stations and the textile web is fed between conveyor elements of the continuous conveyor and a stationary support whereby means is provided to press the textile web against the stationary support and whereby each pressing member has a vertical guide means in which a housing-fixed holding pin engages and apart from the guide means at least one pressing spring means is provided whereby the noise formation is largely suppressed. The vertical guide means is close to the oncoming end of the pressing member approached by the conveyor and the pressing spring means is arranged close to the downstream end of the pressing means.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a pillow or blanket case from a textile strip has a vertically movable gripper engageable with one of the end edges of the strip, a support surface generally below the movable gripper, a conveyor defining a horizontal transport direction opening at an upstream end generally at the support surface, and a vertically and horizontally movable plate above the support surface. Respective actuators connected to the gripper and plate are operated by a controller also connected to conveyor for, after securing the one end edge in the gripper with the other end edge secured underneath the plate and with the strip extending from the movable gripper between the plate and the support surface, first pressing the plate downward against the support surface and thereby pressing the other end edge down against a central region of the strip. Then the plate is pushed into the upstream end of the conveyor to form a fold in the central region and press this fold into the conveyor.

Abstract: To implement a process for operating a device for making labels from strip material with a roll (1) of strip material, a feed device (2, 3) for the strip material, clamping tongs (16) to take the end of the strip from the feed device, a folding sheet (23) which inserts the strip between the jaws of positioning tongs (8) which transfer it to a processing device, and a separating device (7) to separate the strip from the strip material, by means of which strips of different lengths can be simply folded and processed, it is proposed that the movement cycles of the components of the device are controlled in such a way that, after the end of the strip has been transferred to the clamping device, first of all the folding device advances towards the positioning device, then the separating device (7) separates the strip from the strip material upstream of the feed device (2, 3) and either the positioning device closes and secures the folded strip while the folding device returns to the initial position, or after the

Abstract: A piece of textile goods is selvedged along an edge extending between ends of the piece by gripping a strip of the piece offset from the edge and displacing it parallel to the edge at a constant travel speed such that successive portions of the edge pass through a plurality of folding stations followed by a sewing station. The edge is folded over as it passes through the folding stations and the folded-over edge is stitched together in the sewing station. The portions are gripped in each station upstream of the sewing station as they pass through. To eliminate an out-of-square condition the gripped portion is advanced when it is adjacent one end of the goods at a speed that is greater than the constant travel speed, the gripped portion is advanced when it is adjacent the other end of the goods at a speed which is less than the constant travel speed, and the gripped portion is advanced when it is offset the ends of the goods at a speed which is substantially equal to the constant travel speed.

Abstract: A fabric conveyor system for a textile web includes a plurality of guiding rollers pressing against one side of the web, a toothed driven belt pressed against the opposite side the web, and a plurality of pressure pads supporting a toothed side of the driven belt turned away from the opposite side of the web and formed with respective flank portions each providing an unsupported run for a maximum of one tooth.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes two machine halves spaced from one another and each provided with respective tongues capable of displacing pieces of the material web previously cut into pieces on a conveyor, the conveyor being provided with guide rails, one of the rails being formed with a starting portion inclined along and transverse to a travel direction of the conveyor, so that each of the pieces of the web received by the conveyor is delivered to a sewing machine with respective longitudinal edges bent upwardly with respect to a main portion of the web, preventing thereby unraveling the weft upon cutting the web by inherent gravity forces.

Abstract: An automatic bobbin-winding machine, in particular for lockstitch machines, comprises a changing head (27) with pneumatically driven gripping levers (30,31) for removing the lower part (35) of the bobbin case holder from the sewing machine. The changing head (27) can pivot or oscillate about various axes (39,40,41) and move on a carriage (26). It cooperates with a magazine (22) arranged alongside the axis (39). A second changing head (27') which can pick up empty and full bobbins (2) alternately may also be arranged on the carriage (26).

Abstract: A device for applying fabric webs includes upper and lower runners each formed with a respective edge facing a pile edge of the web and provided with respective first, second and third segments which are differently shaped and provide aligning of the edge and a seam during hemming and sewing operations.

Abstract: A pile-detecting apparatus is used in a machine wherein a pile fabric is deflected over a smooth surface of a roll to detect the edge between the pile-free portion of the fabric and the portion with the pile, which edge runs parallel to the displacement direction of the fabric over the roll. The apparatus has a support plate, a frame carrying the plate, a plurality of rollers mounted on the frame and riding on the surface of the deflecting roll, and at least one light source on the plate for generating light beams and directing same tangentially of the surface. Respective detectors on the plate receive the respective light beams.

Abstract: In order to provide a device for the lateral scanning of napless areas of fabric webs which operates automatically with great accuracy and reliability even at high web speeds while being of relatively simple construction, it is proposed to cause the fabric web (7) to pass over a guide roller (11) and to cause the napless areas (9, 12) of the fabric web (7) to be scanned by means of photodetectors (2-6) consisting of transmitters and receivers, in which the scanning beams are directed tangentially to the guide roller (11) and thus to the fabric web (7) at its deflection point.

Abstract: A crosscutting device for webs of material, particularly textile webs includes a web feed with a web buffer arranged on a common frame with the cutting station, a cutting station with a rotating disk cutter, driven transport nippers and a tray for stacking the cut material, the rotating disk cutter being automatically moved back and forth across the web by means of a disengageable belt in one of the operating modes and in a second operating mode the disk cutter being movable manually across the web and at the same time also in the running direction of the web.

Abstract: A piece of pile-type textile goods having a longitudinal pile-free edge strip of predetermined width is selvedged by moving the goods longitudinally in a transport direction sequentially through four folding stations and then through a stitching station. In the first folding station the outer two-thirds of the edge strip are folded up into a vertical position while the inner third of the edge strip is maintained flat and horizontal so that the edge strip is basically of L-section. Then in the second folding station the outer third of the edge strip is folded inward to a horizontal position while maintaining the inner third flat and horizontal and the middle third upright so that the edge strip is basically of C-section. In the third folding station the outer third of the edge strip is folded down to a vertical position next to and continuous with the middle third while the inner third is maintained flat and horizontal and the middle third upright.

Abstract: A succession of web workpieces are first positioned at a loading station one after the other flat on an upstream input conveyor and then are transported by the conveyor in a transport direction through a treatment station where the workpieces are acted upon to a downstream output table. The workpieces are then gripped one at a time, and then lifted off the output table and displaced laterally of the transport direction to a return conveyor extending in the transport direction. These workpieces are then moved by the return conveyor opposite the transport direction to the loading station.

Abstract: A leading edge of a web is fed to an upstream cutting station and is gripped at the cutting station with an upstream clamp which is then advanced downstream away from the cutting station to a middle station and is arrested in the middle station where the leading edge of the web is gripped with a downstream clamp and released from the upstream clamp. The leading edge held by the downstream clamp is then moved downstream to a holding station and the opened upstream clamp is moved along the web to a position slightly upstream of the upstream cutting station. The web is then gripped immediately downstream of the upstream cutting station with an upstream clamping conveyor and immediately upstream of the downstream holding station with a downstream clamping conveyor, and is gripped immediately upstream of the upstream cutting station with the upstream clamp.

Abstract: Pieces are cut off the end of a long web by first impaling the leading end of the web on a crosswise circulating needle bar that is then moved downstream from a cutting to a holding section. Then at the cutting station another such circulating needle bar and a noncirculating needle bar are poked through the web, with the noncirculating bar being downstream (relative to the displacement direction of the web) of the circulating bar. Then the web is cut across between the two upstream bars and the noncirculating bar and the downstream circulating bar are dropped down to transfer the piece thus cut from themselves to a transverse needle-chain conveyor. Then the circulating bar is moved back from the downstream holding station to the upstream cutting station while the second circulating bar pulls another piece of the web downstream across above the transverse conveyor.

Abstract: A conveyor gripper for a substantially flat object, especially a textile web, has two gripping plates forming gripper tongs held in a gripping body. A pressing force which is constant over the entire length of the gripping plates is generated by at least one pressurizable air tube. A plurality of compressable springs distributed over the length of the gripping plates and can act against the pressing force of the air tubes. Also a plurality of safety straps can be located on the gripper body to prevent the spreading out of the gripper body.

Abstract: A process for continuous cutting of a pile fabric web, having at least one comparatively narrow loopless or napless zone running lengthwise thereon between napped or looped surfaces, lengthwise in the exact center of one of the loopless or napless zones. The fabric web is fed lengthwise along a transport path to the motorized cutting device. The position of the cutting device transverse to the feed direction of the fabric is adjusted automatically so that the loopless and napless zone is cut lengthwise along its exact center by coupling the device with a sensor shoe or slider which senses, e.g. by direct contact, the edges of the pile adjoining this zone.

Abstract: A device for tensioning and aligning a fabric includes a support member to which a plurality of tensioning segments are connected such that each of the segments in automatically lifted when a longitudinal hem of the fabric passes thereunder. The support member is provided with a guide plate at each vertical end which guide plates face each other and project into associated slots provided at the vertical ends of the segments with a play so as to allow a limited vertical movement as well as a limited horizontal movement of the segments along the guide plates. Each of the segments has a main body which is provided with a finger-like step-shaped extension so as to define a projection facing the fabric and a space which embraces the respective edge of a nap zone with a certain clearance.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for automatically producing a fabric with aligned nap zone and napless zone includes a conveyor along which the fabric is transported in such a manner that its nap zone is located at one side of a press pad and the napless zone is located under and at the other side of the press pad. A clamping device can be lowered on the napless zone to pull the latter transversely to the conveying direction of the fabric so that the edge of the nap zone is forced towards the press pad and to be aligned parallel thereto. Through cutting the napless zone in conveying direction after the nap zone is urged to lie against the press pad parallel to the edge of the nap zone an exact alignment of the napless zone to the nap zone is achieved.

Abstract: An arrangement for folding and reinforcing an edge portion of a fabric includes at least two pairs of press rolls and a folding unit therebetween. The folding unit is provided with a conveyor whose upper extension projects beyond the plane along which the fabric is forwarded. Thus, the edge portion will be lifted when engaged by this conveyor while the remaining portion of the fabric is downwardly pressed by a stationary press pad. Cooperating with this conveyor is a further conveyor which has a section inwardly directed toward the edge portion so that once the edge portion is lifted by the one conveyor, the other conveyor will fold the edge portion through the inward motion.