Comber Boards Patents (Class 139/86)
  • Publication number: 20150114511
    Abstract: A jacquard type loom for making a fabric by weaving plural warp yarns with plural weft yarns, the fabric including a determined number of columns of warp yarns per unit length and a determined number of layers of weft yarns. The loom includes a comber board including plural holes passing a corresponding number of control cords, each control cord including an heddle eye through which a warp yarn passes. The holes are distributed in a determined number of columns extending parallel to the warp yarn direction and a determined number of rows per column extending in a direction perpendicular to the warp yarn direction. The comber board includes a number of columns of holes per unit length smaller than the number of warp columns in the same unit length in the fabric, and a number of rows of holes greater than the number of warp layers in the fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicants: SNECMA, ALBANY ENGINEERED COMPOSITES
    Inventors: Bruno Jacques Gerard Dambrine, Dominique Coupe, Ken Ouellette, Jonathan Goering
  • Patent number: 7464729
    Abstract: A Jacquard machine, having at least two knife grids (5, 6)moving up and down in opposition on either side of the Jacquard machine, the Jacquard machine having a single-sided drive (1) for driving at least one driving lever (2,3) which is provided for driving the motion of the knife grids (5, 6) on either side of the Jacquard machine, and one traversing rocking shaft (24) being provided to transmit the motion of the driving lever (2 and 3 respectively) to the knife grids (5,6) of one of the sides of the Jacquard machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: N.V. Michel Van de Wiele
    Inventors: Bram Vanderjeugt, Matthew Theobald, James Anthony Graham
  • Patent number: 7168455
    Abstract: A member for guiding harness cords of a Jacquard loom harness wherein the member is substantially planar and is provided with holes defining passages for the cords. At least one of these passages extends in a direction that is oblique with respect to a principal plane of the member. This arrangement makes it possible to reduce frictional forces undergone by the harness cords, particularly at the upper and lower edges of the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Staubli Lyon
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Froment
  • Patent number: 7025094
    Abstract: On the one hand, the invention relates to a device for exerting a return force on at least one harness element of the harness of a Jacquard weaving machine, comprising at least one return spring (2) provided with means of attachment (1) for attaching the return spring (2) to retaining means (4) being immovably provided, said means of attachment (1) being provided with a positioning opening (6) for positioning the means of attachment (1) with respect to the retaining means (4), and a fixing opening (7) for fixing the means of attachment (1) to the retaining means (4), a spring connection (8) being provided between the positioning opening (6) and the fixing opening (7), in such a manner that the means of attachment (1) are able to move from positioning opening (6) to the fixing opening (7) with respect to the retaining means (4), but after having been fixed will be unable to move back from the fixing opening (7) to the positioning opening (6) with respect to the retaining means during operation or transport of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: N.V. Michel Van de Wiele
    Inventors: Bram Vanderjeugt, Yvan Lauwereys
  • Patent number: 6886223
    Abstract: The invention provides a cord tying-up connecting device including a first component (1) having a groove. One end of first component (1) includes an insertion end for insertion of a heald into the groove, while the other end includes a cam for connection with second component (2). Second component (2) is formed by a hollow body including a bilaterally coincident cam which engages with the cam for first component (1). A third component (3) includes a through-with hole and a shoulder for engagement with second component (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Textilma AG
    Inventors: Jan Lemfeld, Vaclav Kubica
  • Publication number: 20020185191
    Abstract: This invention relates to a member for guiding the harness cords of a weaving loom harness of Jacquard type, which is provided with holes for passage of the cords, said holes being made in two plates separated by a volume adapted to be supplied with gas under pressure. These holes constitute orifices for exit of the gas with respect to said volume. This member makes it possible to cool the harness cords and to clean the holes through which the harness cords pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Froment
  • Patent number: 6289937
    Abstract: A shed-forming apparatus for a weaving machine includes warp thread guiding healds reciprocated vertically between an upper shed position and a lower shed position; a lowering frame; and return springs attached to each heald and to the lowering frame to reset the healds into the lower shed position. The lowering frame supports a channel through which an air stream is forced. The return springs are coupled to the channel for exposing the return springs to a pressure of an air flow to prevent dust deposition and lint formation on the return springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: AGM Jactex AG
    Inventor: Mark Feer
  • Patent number: 5636663
    Abstract: A harness system for weaving looms wherein neck cords connected to an actuating mechanism for controlling the movement of at least one heddle are releasably connected to harness cords connected to the at least one heddle by way of collars having releasably engageable male and female portions. The harness cords pass through openings in a control member which is reciprocally moveable so as to move the collars relative to guides through which the neck cords extend from the actuating mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: S.A. des Etablissements Staubli
    Inventor: Jean-Jacques Lacroix
  • Patent number: 5375628
    Abstract: An adjustable harness guide for the Jacquard machine of a seam-weaving machine in which the harness cords are drawn back by tension springs which are secured in a grille. The harness cords are guided through a harness board and the weaving shed is located between the grille and the harness board. The grille and the harness board are adjustable in their angle position relative to the course of the harness cords. The grille and the harness board are connected by a rod linkage system so that they move synchronously. The grille and the harness board are each formed of two halves connected to each other by a hinge with the axis of the hinge running parallel to the warp threads of the seam-weaving shed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Novatech GmbH Siebe und Technologie fur Papier
    Inventor: Hans E. Hacker
  • Patent number: 4777986
    Abstract: A device applicable to weaving looms comprises a combination of an individual system of controlling each warp thread through an adjustable position on its support, and a series of guide boards arranged essentially parallel to each other and oriented essentially parallel to the warp threads, each board having several holes for the passage of a corresponding number of control threads for the warp threads, these boards being mounted on their support so as to make it possible to adjust their number and spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: J. Brochier Soieries
    Inventor: Jacques Brochier
  • Patent number: 4529011
    Abstract: In a weaving system in which the selection of the hooks is effected by rotation of their shanks so as to present their nose elements to the blades of the gripper frames or, on the contrary, to retract them, each hook comprises at its end a flat eyelet which, when it returns into its low rest position, engages in a depression with elliptic inlet in a bottom board and which tends to return it to the correct angular orientation corresponding to this position. In addition, to each eyelet is attached an elastic blade which passes through a slit in a guiding board and which acts in the manner of a return torsion spring to complete the effect of the depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Assignee: Societe Staubli-Verdol
    Inventors: Henri Magat, Pierre Mouterde
  • Patent number: 4057084
    Abstract: An improvement in a Jacquard-harness of a weaving machine in which the spacing of the heddles for adjusting the width of the material are adjustable. The harness is composed of a plurality of series arranged comber boards each having guide bores therein adapted to receive a harness cord therein. A connection is provided between a pair of such comber boards and consists of rigid, non-bending connecting rods each connected through a pivotal joint. A comber board is secured to a shaft which forms the pivotal joint. A portion of the bores in the comber boards lies on the axis of the shaft which also constitutes the central axis of the comber board. The remaining bores in the comber board are arranged in a mirror image manner symmetrical to the plane connecting the center lines of the comber boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Stauble Ltd.
    Inventor: Otto Mueller