Patents Examined by John J. Calvert
  • Method for controlling weft insertion in air jet type loom
    Patent number: 7055554
    Abstract: A method for controlling weft insertion in an air jet type loom, includes setting an upper limit and a lower limit with respect to the running property of a weft yarn to be inserted through a shed of warp yarns by way of a main nozzle and a plurality of groups of sub nozzles arrayed in the running direction of the weft yarn, and causing air jet end timings of the respective groups of sub nozzles to become later when the running property of a weft yarn is lower than the lower limit, and air jet start timings of the respective groups of sub nozzles to become sooner when the running property of a weft yarn is higher than the upper limit. This method enables stable weaving of high-quality fabric while minimizing air consumption by properly regulating both the air jet start timing and the air jet end timing of sub nozzles of the air jet type loom, considering variation in the running property of a weft yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Tsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mutsuo Fujitani
  • Sleeved glove with latching mechanism for aerodynamic position when cycling
    Patent number: 7055178
    Abstract: A cycling glove having a hand portion and a sleeve portion that incorporates an integrated latching mechanism situated just above the wrist and underneath the forearm. This latching mechanism has a housing fitted with a pivoting clamp element which, when the rider leans foward to bring the latching mechanism into engagement with the bar, partially encircles the handlebar and rotates with spring loading to provide, in combination with the housing, a clamping connection with the handlebar. To “click off” the handlebar, the rider simply withdraws one arm at a time, releasing the pressure on the clamping element which allows it to return to its at-rest position. The mounting surface of the handlebar is preferably provided with a thin handlebar sleeve for protection from abrasion arising as a result of repeated engagement and disengagement of the latching mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Inventor: Edward A. Gottlieb
  • Safety filtration apparel
    Patent number: 7051380
    Abstract: Safety apparel and/or non-apparel items that filter from the air one or more airborne particles and/or undesired gases to provide safety to a human and/or non-human from potentially unhealthy airborne particles. The apparel and/or non-apparel item at least partially includes a filter material. The filter material on the apparel and/or non-apparel item has a sufficient size to enable the human and/or non-human to cover the nose, eyes, and/or mouth of the human and/or non-human. The filter material filters at least one airborne particle and/or undesired gas by a mechanical mechanism, an electrical mechanism, and/or a chemical mechanism. The apparel and/or non-apparel item can include at least one visual and/or textural indicator on the apparel and/or non-apparel item to at least partially indicate the location of the filter material on the apparel and/or non-apparel item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Inventor: John R. Haaga
  • Wetsuit and wetsuit material
    Patent number: 7051375
    Abstract: A wetsuit is composed multiple panels sewn together in edge-to-edge relationship, each panel comprising a highly stretchable base fabric sandwiched between an outer and inner layer of synthetic rubber, the outer synthetic rubber layer is dense and tough, providing protection against damage by abrasion, while the inner synthetic rubber layer is thicker and less dense, providing the material with a good insulating ability. The outer layer is thinner than the inner layer to compensate for the higher elastic modulus of the denser outer layer, so that the layers stretch uniformly. A thin, colored, chloroprene adhesive coating is provided on the outside of the outer layer, and the outer layer is embossed with a mesh pattern. The seams are blind-stitched through the base fabric from the outside. Because the stretchable fabric is on the inside of the wetsuit material, the wetsuit dries rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Henderson Aquatics, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Polak, Allan G. Edmund
  • Weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths
    Patent number: 7051769
    Abstract: A weaving machine for the manufacture of leno cloths includes a leno apparatus with leno elements (5, 5?, 7, 7?, 8, 8?) for the forming of a shed (6) as well as additionally a cleaning apparatus with a plurality of nozzles (10.1, 10.2, 11, 13) for the removal of contaminations in the region of the leno apparatus and of the shed (6). Two of the nozzles (10.1, 10.2) are arranged above the shed, by means of which a compressed air flow (16.1–16.4) which is directed downwardly through the shed (6) from above is produced, and one of the nozzles (11) is arranged in the lower region of the leno elements, by means of which a compressed air flow (17) which is directed substantially horizontally towards the leno elements (5, 5?, 7, 7?, 8, 8?) is produced. In addition, a suction nozzle (13) by means of which a downwardly directed suction air flow (19) is produced is arranged beneath the shed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Sultex AG
    Inventor: Klaus Berktold
  • Embroidery simulation method and apparatus and program and recording medium
    Patent number: 7054709
    Abstract: A method for realizing embroidery simulation which can be used as an alternative sample to an actual object. A shade is added to a stitch not to brighten the center of the stitch and to darken the opposite ends thereof as shown at (a) but to brighten a stitch A close to a light source most and to darken a stitch B remote from the light source most as shown at (b). Assuming that the light source is not located on a two-dimensional plane where the stitch exists but a light beam enters obliquely from the upper space, variation of shade is also added in the widthwise direction of a yarn similarly to the longitudinal direction thereof in order to impart three-dimensional feeling thus attaining a simulation image having highly massive feeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Shima Seiki Manufacturing Limited
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Takeuchi
  • Safety mountaineering rope and manufacturing method therefor
    Patent number: 7047860
    Abstract: A mountaineering rope (7) with the diameter 10.1 mm to 10.8 mm characterized in that the core (8) made from such number of yarns being necessary for achieving required static strength and resistance to dynamic stress. A braiding (9) around the core (8) is made using a circular braiding machine with 44 carrier, and from yarn having linear density 1500 dtex to 6000 dtex on each carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Singing Rock, Ltd.
    Inventor: Radek Faborsky
  • Elastic material having variable modulus of elasticity
    Patent number: 7048013
    Abstract: An elastic material includes a plurality of zones. Each of the zones has a particular modulus of elasticity associated with it and the distribution of the zones throughout the elastic material causes the material to have a variation of modulus of elasticity along a particular direction in the material. The elastic material includes a weft, which includes a relatively inelastic component, and a warp, which includes the relatively inelastic component together with the relatively elastic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Maidenform, Inc.
    Inventor: Catherine Shannon
  • Printing press cylinder flexible jacket covering
    Patent number: 7048011
    Abstract: A flexible jacket covering for a printing press transfer cylinder having a low density selvage for attaching one edge of the jacket to a hook and loop attachment strip on the transfer cylinder. The covering is cut from fabric woven on a shuttleless loom. The fabric has a reduced density selvage formed by reducing the density of warp threads in the selvage is no more than the warp thread density in the body of the covering fabric and preferably to about half the warp thread density in the body of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Printing Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard W. DeMoore, James A. Elliott
  • Paired warp triple layer forming fabrics with optimum sheet building characteristics
    Patent number: 7048012
    Abstract: A papermaker's fabric, usable in the forming section of a paper machine, having two layers of cross-machine-direction (CD) yarns. Interwoven with the CD yarns is a system of MD yarns. At least some of the MD yarns are grouped into alternating pairs comprising a crossing pair having a first MD yarn and a second MD yarn and a second pair having a third MD yarn and a fourth MD yarn. The first MD yarn and the second MD yarn combine to weave each CD yarn in the first layer and cross between the first layer and the second layer. The left and right warp yarns in the pairs are aligned in such a way that like adjacent yarns from adjacent pairs have MD cell lengths greater than or less than the MD cell lengths from non-like adjacent yarns from adjacent pairs. The third MD yarn is interwoven with the first layer of CD yarns and the fourth MD yarn is interwoven with the second layer of CD yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Albany International Corp.
    Inventors: Chad A. Martin, Scott Quigley
  • Corner turning assist device for a sewing machine
    Patent number: 7047895
    Abstract: A corner turning assist device for a sewing machine includes at least one sensor and at least one rotating mechanism engaging the workpiece from the underside of the same. The at least one sensor(s) provides signaling to a motor and the at least one rotating mechanism to indicate when the workpiece has reached a point for pivoting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Galkin Automated Products Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Block, Michael Lydick, Lewis Doom
  • Method and device for opening a gripper clip of a mechanical-loom gripper
    Patent number: 7044174
    Abstract: A stop element (24) is used to open a gripper clamp (20) of a weaving machine (3) and is associated to the gripper clamp's stop piece (21) and the stop element during the slow mode operation of the weaving machine is transversely moved into the path of the gripper clamp's stop piece (21) after the clamp already has moved into the vicinity of the stop element (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Picanol N.V.
    Inventor: Patrick Strubbe
  • Apparatus and method for automatically orienting hosiery articles for closing toe ends thereof
    Patent number: 7044071
    Abstract: An apparatus for orienting sock blanks or the like so that the open toes of the blanks can be sewn closed includes a device for turning the sock inside out, a sock rotation device for grasping the sock and rotating it until sensors detect that the sock is in the proper orientation, a sock transfer device for taking the sock from the sock rotation device toward a sewing machine, and sock guiding and positioning mechanisms for feeding the sock into the in-feed nip of the sewing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: B.B. & S Knitting Consultants
    Inventors: Bob Jordan, Michael R. Wood
  • Microfiber towel with cotton base
    Patent number: 7044173
    Abstract: A terry fabric having increased static and dynamic absorbency includes a ground fabric having opposing first and second surfaces and woven from ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns, each of the ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns consisting of at least one cellulosic fiber; and terry warp yarns interwoven with the ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns to form terry loops extending from opposing surfaces of the ground fabric, the pile yarns consisting of microfiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Inventor: Scott Hugh Silver
  • Air spinning frame with reluctance motors
    Patent number: 7043894
    Abstract: For an air spinning frame, reluctance motors are provided for each spinning place to drive the pairs of rollers of the drafting unit, the drawing-off means, and the friction roller. Thereby, for the run-up of a spinning place, e.g., after a thread break, a specific frequency converter is provided. After reaching the stationary operating speed, a switch over onto a further frequency converter takes place, at which time, the corresponding reluctance motors of the other spinning places are driven in parallel. By the use of reluctance motors it can be done without a complex speed regulation means. A specific dimensioning of the reluctance motors permits a very fast run-up and a particularly good efficiency during the stationary operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventors: Oliver Wuest, Wolf Horst
  • Pressure garment
    Patent number: 7043329
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for making a pressure garment, comprising the steps of: defining 3D shape and pressure profile characteristics of a garment; specifying a knitting pattern for the garment; calculating yarn feed data for the knitting pattern to produce the defined shape and pressure profile characteristics; and, knitting the garment according to the knitting pattern and the yarn feed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: The University of Manchester
    Inventors: Tilak Dias, William Cooke, Anura Fernando, Dimuth Jayawarna, Najmal Hassan Chaudhury
  • Device for regulating the tension of a thread unwound from a bobbin of a bobbin-holder for a leno selvedge apparatus
    Patent number: 7040354
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a device for regulating the tension of a thread unwound from a bobbin of a bobbin-holder for a leno selvedge apparatus, said device comprising a brake drum for receiving the bobbin-holder, said brake drum having a brake means and the device being provided with a guide arm for the thread of the bobbin, the brake means (4) comprising a pivotable brake lever (10) having a brake shoe (4) resting against the brake drum (1), with the brake lever (10) having a guide arm (20) provided with an eye (21) for passage of the thread (6) unwound from the bobbin (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Kloecker-Entwicklungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Schwemmlein, Kurt Hockemeyer
  • Weave system of Jacquard type, weaving loom equipped with such a system and methods for assembly and dismantling of such a system
    Patent number: 7040352
    Abstract: A weave system comprises a plurality of electric rotary actuators each of which is adapted to drive a pulley for winding a cord element controlling the position of at least one heddle, and wherein a removable cover is provided to isolate and protect a group of pulleys mounted on adjacent actuators. The cover is provided with means for releasably retaining at least one pulley in a position allowing it to be assembled on a corresponding actuator or dismantled with respect thereto as the cover is moved toward or away from a mounting position over the corresponding actuator and which releases the at least one pulley to freely rotate within the cover when the cover is completely seated in mounted relationship with respect to the actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Staubli Faverges
    Inventors: Claude Dagois, Patrick Iltis
  • Channel plate adapter for an open-end rotor spinning arrangement
    Patent number: 7036301
    Abstract: A channel plate adapter 24 is provided for an open-end spinning arrangement 1 having a spinning rotor 3 which turns at a high number of revolutions inside a rotor housing 2 chargable with an underpressure. The channel plate adapter 24 is made of a plastic material, defines the orifice area of a fiber guide conduit and a center through-bore 26 for a yarn withdrawal nozzle 27, and is adapted to be exchangeably arranged in a receiver 22 of a fiber channel plate 10 for closing the rotor housing during a spinning operation. The channel plate adapter (24) has a unitary one-piece clip-on closure (37) at inlet area of the through-bore (26) for centering and fixing the yarn withdrawal nozzle (27) in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Saurer GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Heinz-Georg Wassenhoven
  • Cellulose absorbent
    Patent number: 7038104
    Abstract: An absorbent and method of making are provided according to the invention. The absorbent in one embodiment includes a fibrous cellulose component, a particulate cellulose component, and a binding agent. The fibrous cellulose component and the particulate cellulose component are intermixed and the binding agent binds the fibrous cellulose component and the particulate cellulose component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Inventors: Boyd R. Eifling, John H. Ebbers