Abstract: A wrappable, woven sleeve includes a wall having opposite edges extending lengthwise between opposite ends, with the opposite edges being wrappable into overlapping relation to bound a central cavity. The wall has a plurality of layers extending from one edge to the opposite edge and from one end to the opposite end in overlying relation with one another. Each of the layers include warp yarns and fill yarns woven together. The wrapped wall has a radially outermost layer and a radially innermost layer. The radially outermost layer has at least one of a first tightness and/or first width and the radially innermost layer has at least one of a second tightness and/or second width, with the first tightness and first width being greater than the second tightness and second width.

Abstract: An apparatus for making string art. The apparatus comprising a base structure having a surface with a plurality of pre-formed protruding members arranged in a predetermined pattern. The plurality of pre-formed protruding members has a top end configured to hold a string.

Abstract: A seamless double-woven fabric for filling down includes a first fabric layer including first warps and first wefts, a second fabric layer including second warps and second wefts, and a coupling part to partition a down filling part formed between the first and second fabric layers into down filling spaces. The first warp and the second warp are formed so as to be crossed to each other one time or at least two times through a coupling weft. If the number of the coupling wefts is 2n, wherein n is an integer of 1 or more, the first and second fabric layers are arranged to be crossed about the coupling part. If the number of the coupling wefts is 2n+1, wherein n is an integer of 0 or more, the first and second fabric layers are arranged not to be crossed.

Abstract: A hooded garment can include a torso section extending from a waist region to a neck region, where the torso section includes a chest region and a back region. The hooded garment includes a hood extending upward from the neck region and having a front opening, a right sleeve extending from a right shoulder region of the right torso region and having a first wrist opening, and a left sleeve extending from a left shoulder region of the left torso region and having a second wrist opening.

Abstract: A woven geotextile fabric utilizes a plurality of yarns including machine direction field yarns, cross machine direction field yarns, machine direction rib yarns, and cross machine direction rib yarns. The plurality of yarns is integrally woven together. The machine direction rib yarns and the cross machine direction rib yarns cooperatively define an integrated geotextile grid integrally within the woven geotextile fabric. The machine direction field yarns and the cross machine direction field yarns cooperatively define fabric areas in a field of the integrated geotextile grid generally between the machine direction rib yarns and the cross machine direction rib yarns.

Abstract: A modular shroud system includes a shroud configured to be coupled to a helmet. The modular shroud system further includes a plate configured to be detachably coupled to the shroud. The plate may be configured to be detached from the shroud while the shroud is coupled to the helmet.

Abstract: A removable face mask, which includes a face mask body and a supporting body, and further includes a fastener, wherein the fastener is rotated so that a buckling portion is passed through a hole on the face mask body and embedded into a hole on the supporting body, and the face mask body and the supporting body are connected in a snap-in manner, which simplifies the structure and provides the advantages of convenience in disassembly and use.

Abstract: A woven geosynthetic fabric having a weft direction and a warp direction, includes weft yarns woven in the weft direction and warp yarns woven in the warp direction interweaving the weft yarns to form a fabric having comparable modulus; the warp yarns including a high modulus monofilament yarn having a tenacity of at least 0.75 g/denier at 1% strain, at least 1.5 g/denier at 2% strain, and at least 3.75 g/denier at 5% strain as determined in accordance with ASTM International Standard 4595.

Abstract: A method and a system disclosed include drawing each of multiple synthetic yarns from a corresponding supply package to form an oriented yarn. Filaments within the oriented yarn are twisted and detwisted to provide texture thereto, to provide a low stability interlacing during weaving, and to intermingle the filaments, and a uniform air pressure is applied to the oriented yarn to provide a counter-twist. Also, a multi-pick yarn package is formed based on winding all formed oriented yarns, which serve as weft yarns forming adjacent substantially parallel yarns wound together, onto a spool. These weft yarns are simultaneously inserted in a single pick insertion event of a loom apparatus, and conveyed across a warp shed of the loom apparatus through a set of warp yarns. The set of warp yarns and the conveyed weft yarns are interlaced to produce an incremental length of a woven textile fabric.

Abstract: A circular loom for weaving a weaving core along a weaving axis with at least one shuttle, which comprises a weft thread spool and is movable along a circular orbit path around the weaving core. The orbit path is formed of first track segments arranged one after the other along its circumference and at least one movably arranged or designed guide device is provided, which guides at least one warp thread provided from a warp thread spool on a warp spool device and on which at least a first track segment of the orbit path and at least a second track segment alternatively assignable to the orbit path are arranged and guided, where in the guided absence of the first and second track segment from the orbit path the guided warp thread, crossing the track plane, passes through the orbit path.

Abstract: A base fabric, having a coefficient of variation CV1 (100×standard deviation/average value) of 3.0% or less in a length direction of a weft-direction disintegrated yarn strength and a coefficient of variation CV2 (100×standard deviation/average value) of 4.0 or less in a length direction of a weft-direction disintegrated yarn elongation.

Abstract: A volumetric weaving approach employs a vertical aspect of woven warp and weft fibers to generate volumetric structures through formation of tie-downs. Tie downs define warp and weft fibers that take a vertical path or component extending perpendicular to a weave plane. Independently controlled heddles provide selective warp fibers control, and a two-dimensional creel that dispenses the warp fibers at differing feed rates allows manipulation of the fibers into three dimensional structures or portions. As a shuttle draws the weft fiber, different layers are raised and lowered to lend a vertical axis to the resulting volumetric structure. Interconnections between the portions include the use of the tie downs to connect multiple portions to define 3-dimensional panels of a finished article such as a shoe. A single pass defining all the interconnected portions of the shoe generates the fully formed shoe without subsequent cutting and seaming of different textile panels.

Abstract: A t-shirt apparel with integrated deep pockets includes a t-shirt body, at least one upper pocket, and a lower pocket. The t-shirt body includes a front panel and a rear panel as the front panel and the rear panel are perimetrically connected to each other. The at least one upper pocket includes an upper pocket body and an upper opening. The lower pocket includes a lower pocket body and a lower opening. The upper pocket body is internally integrated to a chest section of the front panel. The upper opening traverses into the upper pocket body through the chest section. The lower pocket body is internally integrated to a waist section of the front panel. The lower opening traverses into the lower pocket body through the waist section.

Abstract: A protective sports helmet that includes a chin strap system that allows for rapid, one-handed adjustment of a chin strap assembly by the player while he/she is wearing the helmet is provided. The chin strap assembly includes a protective chin cup and a pair of straps extending from opposed sides of the chin cup and having a plurality of securing elements. The assembly also includes a pair of adjustable connectors affixed to the helmet and that include a central opening that receives an extent of the strap and a lever that engages a portion of the securing elements. The adjustable connector allows movement of the strap in a first direction, and prevents movement of the strap in a second direction when the lever is engaged with at least one of the securing elements. The adjustable connector allows movement of the strap in both the first and second directions when the lever is not engaged with the securing elements.

Abstract: A weft thread cutting device for shuttleless looms is placed between a fabric edge, a comb and a warp mouth, on one side, and a weft thread selector, on the other side. Weft threads, coming from a plurality of eyelets, join at a vertex located at the fabric edge and at the beating line of the comb. The weft thread cutting device has a rotating disk with a cutting edge, configured to cut the weft threads by a motor which keeps the rotating disk in rotation, and a step control motor, which, through a rotating shaft provided with an eccentric, controls motion of a hinged lever swinging with respect to a longitudinal axis of the step control motor. The hinged lever is shaped, at one end, in the form of two arms, respectively resting on the surfaces of two elastic plates, and is connected, at the other end, to the eccentric.

Abstract: The undergarment may include a multi-panel front construction in order to minimize the prominence of breast buds, nipples, and even mature breast tissue without sports bra-like compression. The garments are uniquely designed to maximize comfort with their super-soft external material and to maximize self-esteem with their unique inner front panel. The interior front panel is constructed from a different material than the external layers.

Abstract: An improved glove has both anatomically correlating stress relief zones and/or reinforced zones to add support in areas opposite the stress relief zones to keep bunching or slipping of the glove from interfering with the bending of the user's joints. The glove may have corrugated relief zones over some or all of the joints and knuckles of the hand, wherein the relief zones are formed of peaks and valleys. A relief zone can also be provided over the webbing between the thumb and the palm. The vertical or longitudinal relief zones provide for improved glove quality while keeping manufacturing difficulty and costs at a minimum.

Abstract: A pocket fabric and a method for producing such a fabric, include elastic warp threads and elastic weft threads, and include one or more pockets having at least two stacked layers of fabric in which the warp threads result from the division of the warp threads of a single warp. The at least two layers of fabric are connected to one another by one or more woven joining areas in which the warp thread or threads result from joining the layers of fabric into a single warp, one or more of the at least two layers of fabric including a plurality of weaves with different elasticities, the weaves defining areas having different elasticities in the woven pocket fabric. A garment made of the fabric or including the fabric is also disclosed.

Abstract: A woven panel is provided that utilizes “grip” yarns in the weft direction in a first area to increase the coefficient of friction of the woven panel. The grip yarns are interlaced with a plurality of non-grip yarns to form a repeating pattern of floats on the woven panel, that when sewn into a garment, provide additional traction and friction for securing the garment to a wearer's body.

Abstract: Flame resistant fabrics that have incorporated into them high tenacity long staple yarns formed of long staple fibers. Such high tenacity long staple yarns are less expensive than continuous filament yarns and increase the strength of fabrics that incorporate them as compared to fabrics formed of only spun yarns formed of short staple fibers.