With Varying Means Patents (Class 139/80)
  • Patent number: 7806146
    Abstract: In order to solve the problem of not having enough space available for a large number of components and keeping the deflection of the electric motor small in a device for controlling the transverse movement of the warp threads of a textile weaving machine, particularly a textile weaving machine with single strand movements, the invention proposes to operatively connect the strands via power transmission elements having different lengths in a staggered or register-like way to an electric motor and to provide the electric motors with a ratio in relation to the strands such that the movement of the electric motors brings about a greater movement of the strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Textilma AG
    Inventor: Silvan Borer
  • Patent number: 7506668
    Abstract: A device for modulating a first rotational motion of an input shaft (2) to a second, different from the first, rotational motion of an output shaft (3)in textile machines has a fixed complementary cam (1) provided with at least two cam profiles (1 a, 1b). At least one cam follower (5) is linked to the input and the output shafts (2, 3) and is provided with at least two contact rollers (6a, 6b), each following a different cam profile (1a, 1b), because of which the cam followers (5)are performing a rocking motion. The cam profiles (1a, 1b)arc internal cam profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: N.V. Michel Van de Wiele
    Inventors: Bram Vanderjeugt, Matthew Theobald, James Anthony Graham
  • Patent number: 7481249
    Abstract: A reed drive of a loom includes a reed shaft connected to a reed. A conversion gearing having an input element and an output element is provided at each end of the reed shaft. The input elements are coupled to driven shafts of electromotive rotary drives to produce a common rotational motion with the same rotational speed as the driven shafts. The conversion gearings convert the rotating motion of their input elements into a reversible rotation of the output elements, and the output elements are coupled to the reed shaft in a rotationally fixed manner. Thus, the number of complete rotations of an input element is equal to the number of complete motion cycles of the reed shaft per unit of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Lindauer DORNIER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Valentin Krumm, Dietmar Von Zwehl, Michael Lehmann, Thomas Laukamp
  • Patent number: 7448415
    Abstract: A cam motion machine that includes several cams each defining at least one running track for a follower roller. Each cam is provided with a centering bore that permits mounting of the cam on a drive shaft, while elements are provided to apply a tightening force parallel to the drive shaft with a non-circular section. At least one washer-spacer, for which an internal edge is non-circular and designed to enable an axial displacement of the washer-spacer along the shaft, is fixed to rotate with the shaft and is in contact with at least one of the cams. The washer-spacer may be fixed to the cam by adherence and to the shaft by cooperation of shapes due to complementary projections provided on one of the shaft and the washer-spacer. It would be appreciate if the Examiner would indicate the acceptance of this amendment to the Abstract in the next office communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Staubli Faverges
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Pages, Bastien Tardy
  • Patent number: 6135161
    Abstract: A method for producing a fabric, by a loom equipped with healds, a reed and a back roller, characterized by using synthetic filament yarns as the warp yarns and the weft yarns to be supplied to the loom, using a drive system having a cam for the shedding and closing motions of the healds, and keeping the dwell angle of the healds in a range from 85 to 120 degrees. The back roller is equipped with a positive easing mechanism, and the easing quantity by the easing mechanism is adjusted in a range from about 5 to about 15 mm. Where the warp yarns positioned in the selvages of the fabric among the warp yarns are called selvage yarns and the warp yarns additionally added to the selvage yarns are called insert yarns, then the number of insert yarns per 10 selvage yarns is in a range of from 1 to 10, and one selvage yarn each and one insert yarn each are guided through each dent of the reed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Nakano, Tomomichi Fujiyama, Masao Seki, Kiyokazu Minami
  • Patent number: 4003406
    Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus wherein loom harnesses are operated by cams driven intermittently by respective drives rather than by cams fixed on a driven shaft. The harnesses are illustrated as being lowered by cams against yieldable resilient means tending to raise the harnesses, and the cams as being aligned with treadles carried longitudinally of the loom. Co-acting means are also provided for connecting respective chain drives at predetermined intervals to bearing members, rotatable on a fixed shaft, which carry cams fixed thereto as well as chain carrying sprockets rotatable thereon. The method contemplates operating the harnesses by timing the steps of rotating each cam in a predetermined sequence, and exerting a yielding force upon each cam tending to resist further rotation after the cam has turned on the fixed shaft through a predetermined arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1977
    Inventor: Edward E. Byrd