Abstract: Proposed is a belt webbing, more particularly for an automatic seat belt inflatable at least in part. The belt webbing includes a tubular fabric (6) applied to at least one flat side (top and/or bottom flat side) defined by side edges, extending longitudinally to the belt webbing which is folded (together) about folding edges oriented parallel to the longitudinal direction of the belt webbing (4) so that the belt webbing is substantially in contact with the corresponding flat side in each case. An outer side (16) faces away from the flat side and does not substantially protrude beyond the side edges (12) of the belt webbing (4). The fabric (6) is releasably connected to the belt webbing (4) in the region juxtaposing the side edges (12).

Abstract: The invention concerns an automatic device and method for producing a hollow body from blanks obtained from a web of material, in particular, a textile material. The hollow body is intended to be used for an airbag or as a cover for a seat or cushion. The device includes a main part (16) in the form of a plate which is self-enclosed in a ring-like manner, two side plates (18, 19) matching the sides of the main part (16), and one or two sewing devices (48, 59). Suction openings (24) connecting to a suction device can be used for securing the blanks to the inner walls of the main part and the side plates, or the blanks can be drawn in electrostatically. A moving device guides the two side plates (18, 19) from the exterior into a position inside the two inner edges (32) of the main part (16) and back out again after the blanks have been sewn. Two guides per automatic sewing device (48,49) can be provided in the vicinity of the edges of the main part or of the side plates.

Abstract: An air bag is described which can be made of a single blank (50) of textile material or plastic sheet. The blank can be composed of several parts, but is preferably in one piece. Parts of the blank can be folded along fold pleats (52a,-i) in mutually parallel planes closely adjacent to each other. The folding pleats pass completely across the blank. Two sections (54) of the blank have mirror-image shapes along one folding pleat. After folding in superimposed planes, the edges which are to be joined lie over one another, and can therefore be easily sewn up. If the inner folding pleats (52i) and outer folding pleats (52a) alternate in the blank, the blank can be folded into a shape in the manner of a closed umbrella, the inner fold pleats (52i) corresponding to the ribs of the umbrella, and the sections (54) connected by the outer fold pleats (52a) projecting outwards.

Abstract: Weaving belt material on a needle belt material loom with oppositely operating weft needles by insertion into a common shed. The heads of the oppositely inserted weft loops are secured by two rows of stitches arranged at the outer border of the belt material.

Abstract: A belt strap (1) for safety belts which is to have outer surfaces of as low friction as possible so that it can run through the safety belt system with as little friction as possible. The warp threads (3), which are woven into the belt strap, have filaments (5) of at least 15 dtex, particularly 17 dtex. The warp threads (3) are, in one embodiment, untwined and tangled at certain points with compressed air, whereby the tangled points (7) can be spaced from one another by 5 to 15 cm. In another embodiment the warp threads are twined only slightly, namely with 30 to 50 twists per meter thread length.

Abstract: The invention concerns an assembly of sets of tightly adjacent eye needles (12) for filling-yarn knitting machinery. One set each of eye needles (12) is anchored by injection-molding in supports (8,9) at mutually equidistant positions, the needles being mutually parallel by their main planes. Two supports (8,9) each with a set of eye needles (12) form one segment of eye needles. The heads (22) of the eye needles (12) of the first set (24) of needles alternatingly enter centrally between every two heads of the eye needles of the second set (25) of needles. The two sets of needles are fixed within the segments and are oblique in such a manner that a conceptual plane from one of the sets (24) of needles (plane (5) of the set) extending along the eye needles and through the heads of this set of needles intersects the plane (5') of the set of the other needle-set (25) in the region of the heads.

Abstract: The belting has a single layer woven central portion (24) and two tubular edge portions (21, 22) and is made on a needle belt weaving loom provided with a knitting needle (37). The belting serves preferably for safety belts in motor vehicles. One tubular edge portion (22) is closed by a row of stitching (28') whereby the row of stitching does not lie at the outer edge of the tubular edge portion (22) but should disappear into the fabric at the edge of the central portion (24). By means of the invention the rate of production should be increased, which results from manufacture with two simultaneously moving weft thread insertion needles (30, 34) which simultaneously at each pick insert two weft threads (31, 35). To anchor one weft thread at the outer edges of the edge parts a common shed for both weft thread insertion needles is formed at least on the insertion side by the two outer edge warp threads (1a, 2a).

Abstract: A belting with a single-layer central portion and two tubular edge portions is made on a needle ribbon weaving machine with one of the tubular edge portions woven as a single layer and then closed to form the tubular edge portion by exerting a pull on the weft thread; a knitting course maintains the tubular edge portion closed along its joint by means of a tuck thread and/or an interlocking thread which is buried in the fabric by feeding a greater length of tuck thread in the knitting course than usual or by laying in the interlocking thread into the head of the knitting needle from vertically above the knitting needle.