Abstract: A supplementary beater used with a handloom for constructing a fabric weave, and an associated method of use thereof. The handloom includes a warp beam, a harness for supporting and controlling warp threads, a reed defining a shed and disposed adjacent to the harness for supporting warp threads, and a shuttle for passing weft threads, one at a time, into the shed. The supplementary beater is adapted for manual insertion into the shed and for the purpose of providing an undulating weft pattern in the fabric weave.

Abstract: The invention concerns an improved yarn package and a method winding a package of high Young's modulus yarn. The package has a low normalized standard deviation in unwinding tension and hence is very suitable for converting into a range of yarn constructions and particularly medical products.

Abstract: Textile armour (2) comprising at least one textile section (4) and corresponding supporting means (6), wherein the arrangement is such that the or each textile section is fully extended.

Abstract: A loom includes a first fork, having a first interchangeable anchor point for a cord; a second fork, having a second interchangeable anchor point for the cord; and a base to retain the first fork and the second fork at generally perpendicular angles to the base. The first and second anchor points are positioned so as to provide an area for a user's hands to be inserted underneath the cord and between the forks to allow the hands to manipulate jewelry items into the cord. A tall fork and a short fork support the attachment points perpendicular to the base. The interchangeable anchor points are selectable between dowels and threaded warp bolts.

Abstract: A simple removable plastic heddle comprised of a single monolithic plastic body and a mating insertion tool.

Abstract: A spreader tool for the individual coupling and decoupling of heald shafts to or from the respective drive rods or shaft pulls of a heald loom is constructed to be inserted into a gap between two connecting spring sections from above the loom healds for spreading the connecting spring sections apart. The tool has two jaws that are normally biased into their closed position by a spring for insertion into the gap and are then spread apart by a cam drive or the like. The assembly and disassembly is thus greatly facilitated and the time previously required for this type of work has been substantially reduced.

Abstract: A method for repairing carbon fiber rapiers used in weaving machines which have been split longitudinally comprises grinding the rapier at the split to form a longitudinal groove in the body of the rapier along the split, filling the groove with a paste of ground glass fiber in epoxy resin, and grinding off any resin paste which extends beyond the original rapier configuration. A repaired rapier having a groove filled with a mixture of epoxy resin and ground glass.

Abstract: The weaving machine has a device which is movable in the weft direction and comprises a loosening element adapted to be moved transverse to the weft direction and a catching element movable perpendicular to the cloth plane. Thereby also weft portions may be removed which have already been cut off from the yarn supply as well as broken weft portions.

Abstract: A handtool (1,2) for threading e.g. a weft yarn in a pneumatic weaving machine has a conduit (8,9) issuing therefrom, the free end of which constituting a blowing nozzle (9). Adjacent to the nozzle aperture a guiding surface (3) for the yarn is provided. This tool may be used in difficultly accessible points of the yarn path through the machine. The yarn is presented to the guiding surface (3) of the tool whereafter it is carried along by the air jet of the blowing nozzle (9). In one embodiment the tool has a thread guiding eye (4) with a lateral release slot (5).

Abstract: A rug pointer for looping material-yarn through the apertures of backing in checkerboard pattern, and comprised generally of a manipulatable body with an adjustably extended probe and a retractile stop; the probe having a concaved notch at its lowermost terminal end adjustable to project a determined distance from the lowermost terminal end of the body; the stop having a stop shoulder and points depending therefrom in spaced relation to the probe to engage over a member of the backing to lock the yarn in position for the full extension of the loop being formed by projection of the probe with the lowermost terminal end of the body stopped against the back of the loop thus formed.