Abstract: To improve performance and to overcome dangerous problems of overheating in projectile looms, the loom brake has a cooler for dissipating the heat of braking and for reducing local temperature peaks. A coolant is guided in a flow into the vicinity of the braking surfaces. Appropriate cooling facilities can have air nozzles aimed at the braking surface, a liquid circuit supplying coolant to ducts within the brake shoes or tubes in heat-conductive contact with the brake shoes or heat pipes.

Abstract: A gripper transportation system for a shuttleless loom, in which in the guide for the flexible tape, in a position in close proximity to the control sprocket, there is provided a transverse slot through which a solid stick of porous synthetic material impregnated with lubricating grease and/or oil passes and is urged against said tape by a spring of adjustable tension.

Abstract: A papermakers fabric in which a plurality of load control yarns are provided within the interior of the fabric. The load control yarns are not crimped during fabric manufacture, pass through the fabric in the machine direction, and are made from yarns containing Kevlar or similar low stretch, high strength type yarns and protected from abrasion, heat, and hydrolysis.

Abstract: An improved weaving loom provides for mounting of the shuttle box assemblies and shuttle picking apparatus at any of a plurality of positions along the shuttle raceway to enable the loom to be configured to have a weaving width substantially narrower than the total width of the loom raceway.

Abstract: Device for forming a selvedge or selvedges on woven cloth, consisting essentially of two arms (1, 2) whose ends move to-and-fro in opposite directions, where the first arm (1) has at its end (3) a rotatable thread guide block (5) for the crossing thread or threads, and where the second arm (2) has at least one needle-shaped thread guide (6, 6A, 6B) for the needle thread or threads (27, 27A, 27B) so that the needle thread or threads can be moved up and down in front of the rotatable thread guide block (5) as a result of the motion of the arms (1, 2).

Abstract: A device for removing waste products from weaving machines consists essentially of two air-moving parts: a first part 9 which travels along the machine or machines to be cleaned; and a second part 10 which is mounted on the machine or machines concerned, so that the first and second parts can operate together. The parts 9, 10 establish a moving air stream or streams such that waste products are transported away from the weaving machine by the air stream(s). A single one of the parts can be moveable along different weaving machines while the other part is fixed on the weaving machines.

Abstract: In a drainage belt for presses in the wet section of a paper machine, which belt includes a porous support belt (3,4) in the form of a screen webbing and a finely porous cover layer (1,2) on the side of the support belt (3,4) facing the paper web, the cover layer (1,2) is formed by a shape-retaining single-plane screen webbing which forms drainage channels.

Abstract: The wheel body of a tape wheel possesses two outer half shells which are fastened to the wheel hub. The two outer half shells are arranged in conically inclined relationship to one another with respect to a connecting plane and form a wheel rim by means of annular wall parts. Within the wheel body there may be located an inner stiffening shell which diagonally extends toward the exterior from one flange of the wheel hub to a free end of the other outer half shell. The inner stiffening shell abuts against the annular wall parts by means of an annular shell portion. The transverse or axial stiffness or rigidity of the wheel body and thus of the entire tape wheel is increased in a particularly advantageous manner.

Abstract: The pacing motion which is adapted to be stepped on in respect of individual wefts has a sliding wedge with a return spring. The wedge is displaceable on an output shaft into a groove of an input shaft in both directions of rotation. The motion also includes a locking lever actuatable off-load by a control signal. The lever locks and unlocks a release lever which is driven by a drive element and actuates the wedge. A transmission with a delay feature or a resilient damping insert can be used as an impact-reducing element to absorb some of the impact of the wedge in the groove. Freely actuatable electromagnets can be used both as actuating elements and as the drive element.

Abstract: A warp is prepared including a stationary thread, a crossing thread and an auxiliary thread, the latter two of which are laterally interlaced at a sliding connection and subject to being alternately tensioned and released for causing the crossing thread to cross across the stationary thread, and cross back, as conventional loom equipment is manipulated to create a succession of sheds into which wefts are inserted to weave a cross-woven textile fabric. As the weaving is being accomplished, a separating element is provided to prevent the sliding connection of the crossing and auxiliary threads from sliding so far towards the reed as to become incorporated in the fabric. The stationary or auxiliary thread may actually be constituted by a metal or other non-textile element, which is pulled out of the fabric as the fabric, having been woven, is moved downstream on the loom.

Abstract: An auxiliary device for a seam weaving machine for joining the ends of flat-woven fabrics by a woven seam couples each auxiliary warp thread to a tensioning string. The auxiliary device includes a barbed needle in a guide sleeve with the barbed needle having at one end a barb for seizing an auxiliary warp thread and holding it between the needle and the sleeve. The needle is connected at the other end to a tensioned string. A storage plate is provided having bores for receiving the coupling devices.

Abstract: A weft carrying gripper is configured to have a small, open sided profile and includes a weft thread gripping jaw portion that is pivotally mounted by a broad hinge pin in lever fashion to the body of the gripper such that the weft clamping element tends to tighten in the clamp closing direction if inadvertent contact occurs between the weft carrying gripper and the weft drawing gripper. Various clamping and thread guiding arrangements are described.

Abstract: A rotating dobby for weaving looms wherein the oscillating rods which are connected to the heddles are positively and instantaneously retained in a fixed position upon the disengagement of the coupling hooks by way of which the rods are normally engaged with a rotating drive disk.

Abstract: A faulty weft connected to the main jet nozzle of a loom is caught by a swingable hook pin and wound on a take-up drum arranged in front of the main jet nozzle. A cutter reciprocates into an opening provided in the path of the wound faulty weft to severe same from the weft supply. The faulty weft is removed by suction through an adjacent suction pipe.

Abstract: Protective clothing for preventing snow from penetrating between the glove and coat sleeve being worn on the hand and arm of an individual. The protective clothing can readily be placed on and removed form the arm of an individual by using the gloved hand of the other arm of the individual.

Abstract: The contact bar comprises an outer bar having a U-shaped cross-section and a plurality of bar portions located therein and separated therefrom by an insulating layer. The bar portions are insulated against each other by intermediate insulating layers in partition planes extending laterally as well as parallel to the longitudinal edge. The bar portions are produced suitably by a punching out of a bar such that they, when fitted into each other, will supplement themselves again to a bar such that a shorter bar portion cut proceeding from the upper longitudinal edge of a longer bar portion fits into the longer bar portion. The longer bar portion is at the side facing the end of the contact bar, at which only the connecting contact for a power source is located is considerably narrower than at the opposite side where the drop wires will contact the bar portion upon a yarn breakage.

Abstract: A woven multilayered textile fabric and attendant method wherein a plurality of layers of the fabric are formed of straight yarns, including a plurality of layers formed of warp yarns and a plurality of layers formed of filling yarns positioned in superposed relation on opposite sides of the layers of warp yarns and extending at right angles to the warp yarns, and binder yarns arranged in cooperating pairs with one binder yarn of each pair extending over certain superposed filling yarns and under certain other superposed filling yarns, and the other binder yarn of each pair being woven oppositely under said certain superposed filling yarns and over said certain other superposed filling yarns.

Abstract: The weft yarn leaving a drum of a weft yarn store of a loom is monitored by a monitor device disposed between the drum and a yarn eye in the zone of the yarn balloon. The monitor device includes a ring with an internal surface across which the yarn balloon slides during take-off. At least one light transmitter is mounted in the ring to emit a light beam across the path of the yarn and at least one transmitter is also mounted in the ring to receive the light beam for sensing when the yarn passes through the beam.

Abstract: The yarn selector comprises a number of yarn regulators each adapted to be selectively adjusted by way of a driving member between a standby position and a transfer position in dependence upon an actuator in which transfer position, a weft yarn is presented to a picking element for a subsequent pick. The driving members are selectively engageable with and disengageable from a driver oscillated at the cadence of the picking fequency. Each driving member is adapted to be locked, with the actuator in an active state by way of a ever-arm in an operative position corresponding to the transfer position of the yarn regulator, and to be disengaged from the lever arm with the actuator in a passive state. The particular yarn regulator concerned remains, if the same weft yarn is required for the next pick, in the transfer position after yarn transfer and is returned to the standby position only before a weft yarn change.

Abstract: To provide for accurately timed injection of selected lengths of weft threads to shuttles moving, in sequence, in front of injectors (85, 545), a continuously rotating measuring drum (32) has the weft thread (51, 180) passing in front thereof, the weft thread being clamped against the measuring roller by a pressure roller (35) or a selected one of a plurality of pressure rollers (511), the operating mechanism being coupled to and driven by the main drive (21, 22, 23, 24) of the weaving loom so that exact synchronism of movement of the shuttle in front of the injectors is ensured as the thread is being delivered.