Abstract: A wire rope is disclosed, which has at most 18 outer strands and an independent wire rope core, with the strands of the core being laid in the opposite direction to the outer strands of the rope, and a nylon jacket is provided between the core and the outer strands of the wire rope.

Abstract: A flexible hook fastener member having a hook density of 80 to 200 per cm2 and causing little damage to cooperating loop fastening elements. The loops for forming hook fastening elements are produced by thin monofilaments having a fineness of 100 to 200 deniers. The monofilament for forming the hook fastening elements are in reverse phase relation to the adjacent ground warps with respect to the ground wefts.

Abstract: A reed assembly for leno weaving, the reed assembly including upper and lower reed frame members between which a plurality of dent fingers extend, each pair of neighbouring dent fingers being spaced apart to define a dent space for a crossing-over warp yarn, a yarn guide finger co-operating with each dent space for guiding a crossed-over warp yarn therethrough, each yarn guide finger extending from one of the frame members and having a terminal end spaced from the other frame member so as to divide the co-operating dent space into a pair of cross-over dent spaces extending between said terminal end and said one frame member and being defined between facing sides of the guide finger and the pair of neighbouring dent fingers and cross-over transfer region extending between said terminal end and said other frame member and being located between opposed faces of the pair of neighbouring dent fingers.

Abstract: A wire rope sling made of wire rope having a core and multiple strands of wire helically laid around the core and cut from a predetermined length. Approximately half of the strands of wire are separated from the core and the remaining strands of wire, shifted, relative to the core, a predetermined distance and rewoven with the core and remaining strands of wire into a continuous loop. A splicing sleeve surrounds first and second ends of the approximately half of the strands and a continuous section of the core and remaining strands in a tightly engaged manner and another splicing sleeve surrounds first and second ends of the core and the remaining strands and a continuous section of the approximately half of the strands in a tightly engaged manner.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming a leno weave from a leno thread and a ground thread. The apparatus includes a reed for guiding the leno thread and the ground thread, and a needle bar with ground thread needles for guiding the ground thread. The needle bar also includes a movably mounted leno thread displacing apparatus, with the needle bar and the leno thread displacing apparatus being arranged ahead of the reed. The leno thread displacing apparatus includes a laying element that is displaceably mounted in a displacement direction that extends substantially parallel to the direction of extent for the reed. The laying element includes guiding apparatus for guiding the leno thread. The leno thread displacing apparatus is movably mounted in a direction of movement that extends transversely to the direction of extent of the reed, in particular, in a substantially vertically extending direction, in order to move the leno thread both in the displacement direction and in the direction of movement.

Abstract: A hook selection device for a shed-forming device for a weaving machine, in particular for a jacquard machine, has a number of hooks (3), (4) that can be moved up and down by a lifting means (1), (2). For each hook, there is a selection element with which the hook can be selected for being held by a holding element (5), (6) at a selection height. A resetting device (7) exerts a downward directed resetting force on the hook (3), (4), only during the movement on a path of the hook. The resetting device (7) is provided to transmit the resetting force to a contact part (8) of the hook that is lower than the top hook extremity, while each resetting device comprises a pressure device (10), which can be moved upward by a hook (3), (4) against a downward directed spring pressure.

Abstract: The laying rail (10) for a series shed weaving machine (1) comprises a plurality of cut-outs (10a) which are arranged with spacing for guiding warp threads (3), with each cut-out (10a) comprising two end sections (10b, 10d) and a guide section (10c) which lies between them, and with the cut-out (10a) having a greater width in the region of the two end sections (10b, 10d) than at the guide section (10c).

Abstract: A paper machine clothing, in particular a dryer fabric having a paper side provided for the support of a paper web and a machine side facing away therefrom, the paper machine clothing having a fabric made of longitudinal and transverse threads, the transverse threads including a paper-side thread system made up of flat transverse threads and a machine-side thread system made up of round transverse threads arranged such that at least two round transverse threads on the machine side lie in contact with at least some of the flat transverse threats, and such that one flat transverse thread and its round transverse threads lying in contact with it are together engaged by at least some of the longitudinal threads.

Abstract: An on-machine-seamable papermaker's fabric, which may be produced by modified endless weaving, includes machine-direction (MD) and cross-machine-direction (CD) yarns. When so produced, the MD yarns weave continuously back and forth between the two widthwise edges of the fabric, each time forming a seaming loop at one of the two widthwise edges. Interwoven with at least one of the two sides, top and bottom, of the seaming loops at one or both widthwise edges are at least two additional CD yarns. The additional CD yarns interweave with the top and/or bottom of the seaming loops in a leno weave, which keeps the seaming loops in a common position vertically relative to the plane of the papermakers fabric, locks the seaming loops into a desired position and orientation with their planes perpendicular to that of the papermaker's fabric.

Abstract: A plant fiber shade is composed of multiple twisted slats (10), multiple single strand slats (20), multiple braided slats (30), and multiple weaving threads (40). The slats (10, 20, and 30) are made of plant fibers from different kinds of plants to make the plant fiber shade light, soft and attractive. Additionally, at least two slats (10, 20, and 30) are selectively chosen and arranged in sequence to increase variety of appearances of the plant fiber shade.

Abstract: A connecting device for connecting a motion transmission element to a heddle frame in a weaving loom wherein the connection device includes a tenon member and mortise member which are cooperatively engaged with respect to one another. The tenon member includes a nut mounted to the transmission element, an anchoring block through which the transmission element extends and which cooperates with surfaces of the mortise member, a bush through which the transition element passes and which bush cooperates in rotation with the nut and which also includes a counter-nut for securing the bush against the anchoring block.

Abstract: A braiding-machine strand-guide arm has an outer end provided with a strand guide and an inner end formed as a pivot eye. The arm further has a body formed of spaced-apart outer layers of a hard material and a very low-density mass between the outer layers. The outer layers are formed of a plastic laminate reinforced with fibers of carbon, glass, boron, or metal. Whisker fibers can also be used as reinforcement. Preferably the laminate includes textile reinforcement. Alternately the hard material of the shell of the arm can be made of cast metal. The low-density mass is normally a solid material. It is a foamed plastic, typically a light polyurethane foam.

Abstract: An electronic jacquard including a plurality of elongate heald hooks (1a, 1b) movable longitudinally between upper and lower shed positions and a plurality of electrically operable selection devices (50) for co-operation with the heald hooks (1a, 1b) for selectively retaining the heald hooks (1a, 1b) at one of said shed positions, each selection device including a latch (4a, 4b) movable between a latched position and a non-latched position, the latch (4a, 4b) when at said latched position being capable of latching engagement with the heald hook (1a, 1b) in order to retain it at said shed position, and an ultrasonic cyclic motor (55), preferably a piezo-electric motor, drivingly arranged to move the latch (4a, 4b) from its non-latched position to its latched position.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to employ rotating brushes to remove the lint, size, trimer, dirt, etc. from the reed of a weaving machine in an efficient manner without removing the reed from the weaving machine, without disengaging the warp yarn sheet, and without significantly reducing the tension on the warp yarn sheet. The apparatus is particularly effective on air jet weaving machines, on which the apparatus simultaneously cleans the reed and the auxiliary air nozzles. The apparatus has a pair of reed guides and a clamping air cylinder that engage the reed; a plurality of wheels that deflect the warp yarn sheet in a downward direction, exposing the reed and auxiliary air nozzles for cleaning; and a drive motor and a winder drum mechanism that allow the cleaning apparatus to be readily moved across the loom. The apparatus has the desirable features of being efficient, portable, and economical, as one apparatus can be used to clean many weaving machines.

Abstract: A demountable subassembly is provided for a series of compacting units of adjacent spinning stations. The subassembly includes a transverse tube with a series of longitudinal suction slots and a suction manifold connectable to the tube in the region of a central opening thereof and having first locking seats on opposite sides of the manifold. Two stopper-like locking elements are mounted at the ends of the tube with each having a second locking seat and two tensioning units are provided to be locked along the tube on opposite sides of the manifold. Each tensioning unit includes a plurality of tensioners for a corresponding plurality of flexible filter loops circulating about the tube over the slots, and tabs at the ends of each tensioning unit for locking in a first locking seat of the manifold and in a second locking seat of one of the stopper-like elements.

Abstract: A method for the operation of a thread supplying apparatus of a weaving machine. The method include transmitting information about a required weft thread to subsequent weft insertions. The information is transmitted after every complete weaving machine cycle to the thread supplying apparatus and at the same time. Thus, the information about the required weft thread of at least one of the two subsequent weft insertions has already previously been transmitted.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing core yarn in which a drafted fiber bundle and a core fiber are supplied to a nozzle block and a hollow guide shaft, and in which vortex air currents are ejected from spinning nozzles, in the nozzle block, to make the fiber bundle wrap around the core fiber evenly and uniformly.

Abstract: A shedding device for a weaving machine whose heddles are connected to respective return springs and wherein the springs have casings surrounding them. A lip seal on an end of each casing surrounding a rod portion of the heddle forms a hermetic seal against the rod portion to prevent dust and fluff from collecting on the respective spring.

Abstract: A loom fitted with rapiers and including at least one rapier for one gripper, a guiding device (19, 20), guiding surface (31) associated with the top side of a guide element (17) of the gripper (7) and with the top side of a rapier (9) extending over more than one third the width of the guide element (17) and of the rapier (9). A fastener (35) of the gripper (7) is mounted to the side of the reed (6) in eccentrically offset manner to the guide element (17).

Abstract: A ground warp thread sheet and a pile warp thread sheet are supplied to a shed forming device. Two stop motions on separate planes respectively monitor the pile warp and the ground warp. The ground warp and the pile warp are deflected over a deflecting rod upstream from the shed forming device. The deflecting rod supports the ground warp and directs the pile warp to cross and interpenetrate through the ground warp before being deflected into the back shed. The vertices of the ground warp and pile warp back sheds are thus located on opposite sides of the deflecting rod. The pile warp crosses through the ground warp directly upstream from the deflecting rod, at a steep angle, for example from 45 to 135 °.