Abstract: In order to produce a plurality of fabric strips (22) from a fabric (20) during the manufacturing process thereof, a method is proposed which utilizes the steps of: inserting weft threads (24) into the open warp thread shed, laying of a plurality of cover threads (30, 34) in a zigzag shape by a plurality of feed needles (32, 36), cutting the fabric (20) in the drawing-off direction into a plurality of woven strips (22), and pulling off the warp threads (60) that are located between the cutting-side laying points of the cover threads and the cutting device. This method can be implemented in a particularly advantageous manner if, in addition to the cover thread (30, 34) introduced in zigzag manner, a further cover thread (70) is introduced at each fabric edge (26) by a further feed needle in such manner that it is connected to the zigzag thread whereby the zigzag thread is prevented from fraying.

Abstract: A seat belt structure for a center seat of a vehicle is disclosed. The seat belt structure includes a safety belt webbing mounted to a first side of the seat portion and extending to a first end of the back portion and a buckle mounted to a second side of the seat portion. A tongue is movably connected to the safety belt webbing and is adapted to couple with the buckle to restraint an occupant of the central seat. The seat belt structure also includes a grab structure adapted to be held by the occupant. The safety belt webbing defines a lap belt portion adapted to traverse a lap of the occupant, and a shoulder belt portion adapted to extend diagonally across an upper torso of the occupant, when the tongue is engaged with the buckle. The grab structure is engaged with the lap belt portion.

Abstract: A method of weaving a spiral-shaped textile includes inserting in the vicinity of the fell of the textile a finger adjacent to a first intermediate warp fiber between a first edge and a second edge; forming a loop around the finger with the weft fiber; wrapping weft fiber around the first intermediate warp fiber between the first edge and the second edge of the textile to secure the weft fiber in a radial direction between the first edge and the second edge of the textile; extending the weft fiber to the first edge of the textile; securing the weft fiber using a knitting system on the first edge of the textile; and removing the finger from the textile.

Abstract: A weaving machine starts-up in slow speed operation during a first weaving cycle following the machine start. To help avoid weft breaks, a method is provided to hold a weft thread inserted into the loom shed during the first weaving cycle. A sensor monitors the weft insertion. The inserted weft thread is held by binding threads at a location downstream from an inlet side of the loom shed, before the weft thread is bound by the warp threads. The binding of the weft thread by the binding threads is carried out dependent on a signal of the sensor.

Abstract: Belts and methods of their manufacturing are provided. In one aspect, belts are manufactured by the steps of weaving the belt from a plurality of warp yarns and at least one weft yarn, the belt having a central region and two opposed edges. The warp yarns in the central region have a predetermined shrinkage characteristic. The belts also have at least one edge region between the central region and an edge of the belt has a predetermined number of warp yarns, each having a lesser shrinkage characteristic than the warp yarns of the central region. The method further includes the steps of passing the weft yarn across the warp yarns to effect a weaving in the central region of the belt. Further in the edge region, looping the weft yarn, on each pass, around a selected warp yarn, so that on a plurality of successive passes the weft yarn is looped around each of the warp yarns in the edge region. Subsequently, the yarns in the belt are shrunk.

Abstract: A sunshade comprises a canopy including a first gore piece and a second gore piece. The first gore piece has a first edge and the second gore piece has a second edge. The first edge of the first gore piece and the second edge of the second gore piece are adjacent to each other without being sewn together, thereby defining a passage. A mesh is sewn to and thus covers each passage, allowing wind to pass through the mesh. When the sunshade is subject to a wind flowing upward from an underside of the canopy, at least a portion of the wind passes through the mesh, thereby reducing the force exerting on the canopy.

Abstract: A weft controlling device for using weft as warp in a strap weaving machine has motors mounted on an assembly board and controlling rods each movably connected to a corresponding one of the motors by a controlling thread and each controlling rod having a weft hole in a distal end thereof so as to allow weft to pass through the weft hole. Springs are each mounted around a corresponding one of the controlling rods to provide a recovery force to the corresponding controlling rod. The movement of the controlling rods by the motors is able to drive the weft to a specific position for selection by the strap weaving machine.

Abstract: The invention relates to a woven belt, in particular for motor vehicle safety systems, which is found with a monofilament and a multifilament weft thread, both forming the central portion while only one forms the marginal portions.

Abstract: Three-dimensional thick fabrics are made from a laminate of fabric plies by first inserting pointed rods through the laminate to form rows of holes after which needles are reciprocated through the different holes to pull loops of various yarns through the holes. The loops of yarns in adjacent holes are interlocked to hold the plies together. A guide releasably clamped to each yarn controls tension in the yarn while a doffing point is employed to insure that the needle passes through a loop just formed when penetrating the next hole to insure interlock of the loops. Hollow circular objects are formed by winding a length of fabric a selected number of times around a form, following which the pointed rods are used to form holes in the resulting laminate with the needles and yarns being used to form the interlocking loops through the thickness of the laminate.

Abstract: A process for making a woven ribbon having stitched selvages on a ribbon loom by moving a single weft inserting member crosswise in two directions. The weft inserting member inserts a first auxiliary thread along each selvage and alternately drives a second auxiliary thread in the opposite direction outside the selvage.

Abstract: In the method for the production of a fabric, particularly tape fabric, two weft thread loops formed from different weft threads are laid into a shed formed of warp threads and bound off without use of an auxiliary thread. This is made possible thereby, that at least one weft thread is guided into the shed through a tooth gap of the reed.

Abstract: Method and device on a loom for the manufacture of a woven fabric, wherein weft thread loops are formed by a weft thread in a shed formed of warp threads. Through feeding the weft thread in within the warp width and out to both sides over the outermost warp threads while forming loops, a woven fabric is obtained with like fabric edges which can no longer be distinguished optically.

Abstract: A heat adhesive tape comprising a tape main body of heat-resistant woven or knitted fabric and a heat adhesive thread of thermoplastic resin provided at each side of the main body on one surface thereof. To form a finished hem on trousers, skirts or the like, the tape is placed on the main body of the hem portion and on a folded-back portion of the hem portion and then heat-pressed as by ironing. The heat adhesive thread is woven or knitted into the main body zigzag in a staggered or wavy form or in the form of a series of turns and is thereby made almost free of shrinkage longitudinally of the tape when heat-pressed. A thermoplastic resin thread meltable at a lower temperature than the adhesive thread and fastening the thread to the main body at its furrow portions melts before the adhesive thread during heat pressing so as not to permit the adhesive thread to exert a shrinkage force on the main body also widthwise thereof when the tape is heat-pressed.

Abstract: The ribbon-type fabric is provided with weft-yarn loops inserted at both sides of the run of the warp yarn, the weft-yarn loops being held together at the two edges of the ribbon-type fabric by at least one auxiliary yarn. In order to avoid that the joints of the weft-yarn loops are visible to the exterior, the auxiliary yarn will run parallel to the weft-yarn loops over at least a part of the width of the ribbon-type fabric. The auxiliary yarn is tied-off in itself or by means of an additional auxiliary yarn.

Abstract: A shuttleless weaving machine, especially a ribbon loom, comprising at least one filling thread-insertion element and at least one to-and-fro driven knitting needle moving along the selvage or cloth edge which is situated opposite the filling thread-insertion element for the formation of a knitted edge by tying the inserted filling threads and/or auxiliary threads. There is further provided a deflection element operatively associated with the knitting needle for the introduction of filling threads or auxiliary threads, respectively, into the knitting region or zone of a hook of the knitting needle. The deflection element is driven so as to move back-and-forth and by means of an actuation element driven in cycle with the machine can be brought, transversely to its direction of movement, from a rest position into a knitting position where the deflection element deflects filling thread or auxiliary thread, respectively, to the knitting region of the knitting needle hook.

Abstract: To insert an effect thread into a fabric being woven a warp is opened and an effect thread is inserted from one side into the open warp. It is then engaged from the open side of the warp and retained until such time as it can no longer be withdrawn from the warp due to its own tension.