Patents by Inventor Walter Lindenmuller

Walter Lindenmuller has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5458163
    Abstract: A weft thread or weft threads are selected from a plurality of weft thread supply spools in a shuttleless loom for presenting the selected weft thread or weft threads to the gripper of the gripper rod. In order to equip each loom with the required number of weft selector and needle moving devices and in order to make these devices exchangeable, the individual selector and needle moving devices are constructed as insert cassettes which are exchangeable against one another as desired. For this purpose the exchangeable cassette which is equipped with an electric drive motor and preferably also with a control for the electric drive motor, is combined with a carrier and guide mechanism for supporting the cassette and guiding the respective weft presenting needle. Each cassette comprises at least one weft presenting needle and each cassette is individually connected in a releasable manner to the carrier and guide mechanism and independently of all other cassettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Walter Lindenmuller, Rainer Schuster
  • Patent number: 5394596
    Abstract: A carrier frame for transferring a loom harness into a loom is equipped for carrying additional loom components such as selvage spools, leno spools, and a warp stop motion unit. Such a carrier frame is constructed to be adjustable in its longitudinal direction that extends crosswise to a movement direction of a transport cart to which the carrier frame is attached by centering elements, one of which is position adjustable in its position to adjust the carrier frame to different weaving widths. Two longitudinal beam members (6A, 6B) held in a guide and coupling member are adjustable crosswise to the frame width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Walter Lindenmuller, Valentin Krumm, Rudolf Cresnik
  • Patent number: 4143684
    Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in the process for beating up and cutting off fillings inserted into the shed in shuttless weaving equipment provided with weft mixers, in particular in weaving machinery with filling insertion by means of grippers advancing into and retracting from the shed, the inserted filling being cut off on the insertion side outside the selvage, the improvement comprising that simultaneously with or following the beating up of the last inserted filling: (a) cutting off the previously inserted filling and seizing the free end, connected to a supply spool, by a holding system, (b) guiding the last inserted filling over the back of a scissor blade facing the shed to a catching hook mounted outside the scissors, (c) simultaneously with the back-motion of the shed, displacing the scissors transversely to the direction of the filling in an orthogonal plane and reopening them, the last inserted filling passing from the back of the scissor blade in front of the other scissor blade into
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Walter Lindenmuller, Erich Peter