Pleating Type Patents (Class 26/21)
  • Patent number: 9752263
    Abstract: The machine (1) for the treatment of fabrics according to the invention comprises a treatment tank (3) arranged for containing the fabric or other material to be treated (TC) and a treatment liquid. The head losses that the treatment liquid undergoes along the different collecting ducts (37A, 37B) between the treatment tank (3) and the relative entry nozzle (370A, 370B) in the collector (39) mutually differ at most of ±10% of the losses themselves. The head losses that the treatment liquid undergoes between each entry nozzle (370A, 370B) in the collector (39) and the entry (410) in the chamber (41) of the pump impeller differ at most of ±10% between the various entry nozzles (370A, 370B). The level of liquid on the bottom of the tank (3) is more even, and it is thus possible to make the machine (30) work with very low bath levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: MCS OFFICINA MECCANICA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Emanuele Crotta
  • Patent number: 5937492
    Abstract: A machine for finishing fabrics in strand from including a container and at least one entrainment pipe associated with an air flow for entraining a strand of fabric. The entrainment pipe has a terminal portion radiused to the bottom wall of the container and provided with a cross-section progressively increasing in the direction of entrainment of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Flainox, S.r.l.
    Inventor: Giovanni Bozzo
  • Patent number: 5893933
    Abstract: There is disclosed a device for the continuous fulling of a material web (6) of textile woven fabrics and knitted fabrics with a guiding passage (15) through which the material web (6) can be guided through and accelerated by means of a fluid. At the end of the guiding passage (15), there is provided an impact surface (16, 17), against which the material web (6) can be flung by the fluid. Between the impact surface (16, 17) and the guiding passage (15) there are additionally provided guiding means (26, 26') by means of which the material web (6), which is broadly guided in the guiding passage, can be brought together to a material strand (25) before impinging on the impact surface (16, 17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: Solipat AG
    Inventor: Christian Strahm
  • Patent number: 5845355
    Abstract: A method and a device for fibrillating cellulose fibers contained in a fabric web (3) comprise the fabric web (3) being withdrawn from a fabric storage chamber (6), accelerated through a guide slot by means of liquid flowing at high speed and then flung against a rebound surface (13). The fabric web can be transported alternatingly in both directions through the guide slot (7) and flung onto the first rebound surface (13) and a second rebound surface (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Solipat AG
    Inventor: Christian Strahm
  • Patent number: 5678429
    Abstract: A machine for the wet and dry treatment of fabric in rope or open-width form of any type and weight has a treatment tank (10) within which the fabric to be treated is conveyed by a belt conveyor (11). The belt conveyor has an upper active conveying branch (15) and a lower return branch (16). The upper branch (15) of the conveyor is surrounded by an air transporter channel (22) with open ends and into which, in the vicinity of its entry end, a compressed air stream is fed to compress the fabric against the conveyor belt without the intervention of mechanical compression means the machine prevents the formation of creases in the fabric and allows treatment at a high effective rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Zonco Federico & Figlio S.n.c.
    Inventor: Maurizio Zonco
  • Patent number: 5356055
    Abstract: A method of pleating a garment, wherein an unfinished garment, prepared by sewing cloth parts together, is folded, rolled and twisted, and then attached to a holder. The holder holding the garment is placed in a heat-treatment apparatus, and the unfinished garment is heat-treated and pleated at the same time in the heat-treatment apparatus filled with saturated steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Miyake Design Jimusho d/b/a Miyake Design Studio
    Inventor: Naoki Takizawa
  • Patent number: 5309613
    Abstract: The material web (3) to be treated is supplied continuously to a first material web store (1) and stored there in sections, is removed therefrom by being pneumatically conveyed and is hurled compressively against a first impact surface (4). Thereafter, the material (3) compressed in this way is supplied to a second material web store (2) and stored there in sections. Then, the same procedure is carried out in the opposite direction of conveying from the second material web store (3) against a second impact surface (4') and thereafter to the first material web store (1), but with a smaller length advance of the material web, this alternating movement is repeated alternately, and the difference in advance between these length sections of material web moved to and fro is guided away continuously from the second material web store (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Solipat AG
    Inventor: Christian Strahm
  • Patent number: 5114056
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming pleats in fabric includes a vertically movable head which can accommodate one centrally located rod, or alternatively, two spaced apart rods. One rod is used to form two pleats and the rod is movable towards a work surface to a position where the rod traps fabric between a work surface and the rod. Two gripping arms are laterally movable and grip the fabric and move towards the central rod. If three pleats are desired, the two spaced apart rods are used, and a vertically movable blade positioned below the work surface can be actuated, which moves the blade upwardly intermediate the two spaced apart rods, carrying the fabric with it, forming a first pleat. The same laterally movable arms can be actuated which grip the fabric and move it inwardly towards the central rod, to form the other two pleats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: MIM Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Ricky J. Frye
  • Patent number: 4773133
    Abstract: The method for relaxing knitted fabrics according to the invention uses humidity, heat and agitation of the fabric. Said agitation is caused by projecting the fast-advancing fabric against a rigid support on which the then nontensioned fabric piles up.The projection of the knitted fabric is obtained by driving said fabric by friction and without slipping, by means of a movable element of projection into the outlet zone from which the fabric is projected against a receiving zone of the support, which receiving zone is situated close to the outlet zone of the projecting element and substantially transversely to the direction of projection.The movable element of projection is a movable belt turning over two cylinders of which one at least is a driving cylinder, whose driving speed can reach 600 meters/minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignees: Institut Textile de France, Agence Nationale de Valorisation de la Recherche Anvar
    Inventors: Eugene Voisin, Philippe Aujard
  • Patent number: 4578085
    Abstract: An apparatus for the liquid flow treatment of fabrics in which a fabric is set in the form of an endless rope and the fabric and a treating liquid are circulated to effect the liquid flow treatment, the apparatus comprising a lateral cylindrical fabric reservoir tank for storing and delivering the fabric, which tank has an inclined rear portion so that the depth of the treating liquid is gradually increased in the direction of advance of the fabric, a header portion arranged above an inlet part of the tank and provided in the interior thereof with a fabric driving reel or roll for pulling up the fabric from the tank, a treating liquid jet nozzle connected to an outlet part of the header portion to generate a stream of the treating liquid, a fabric delivery tube extended from the jet nozzle to a fabric inlet part of the rear portion of the tank to deliver the fabric substantially linearly together with the treating liquid stream generated by the jet nozzle, a fabric-expanding plate which is arranged so that th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Hisaka Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 4468937
    Abstract: Internally of its tub, the machine provides a conduit fitted with fan-shaped delivery outlet. The fan portion of said delivery outlet terminates with an arcuate surface provided with slots along which the fabric being processed runs. The conduit has connected thereto a water supply pipe for the conveyance of air mixed with water on the fabric being processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Inventor: Attilio Bertoldi
  • Patent number: 4419871
    Abstract: In a fulling machine an introductory channel is provided between the paired resser and dragger rollers and the conventional pusher for the fulling plate, and a supplementary pusher unit is provided in the introductory channel having safety means to prevent overloads, the reciprocation of the supplementary pusher unit being properly synchronized with the reciprocation of the conventional pusher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Assignee: Zonco Federico & Figlio di Federico, Pietro e Placido Zonco S.n.c.
    Inventors: Placido Zonco, Maurizio Zonco
  • Patent number: 4161054
    Abstract: A textile material such as a fabric in an endless rope form is fed to a treatment enclosure, through which it is positively and continuously carried at a controlled speed lower than the speed at which it is fed into the enclosure, thereby causing the formation of folds in the textile material. Simultaneously, the folded textile material is continuously submitted to compression in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of its advancement through the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1979
    Inventor: Jose M. Serracant Clermont
  • Patent number: 4158298
    Abstract: A device is provided for the continuous treatment of relatively wide textile webs in a treatment medium, wherein the web and the treatment medium move through a trough having squeezing rollers associated therewith for intensifying the treatment of the web with the treatment medium and wherein a funnel-shaped diffuser is disposed at the entrance end of the trough for introducing the web of material into the trough. The device includes squeezing means which are disposed adjacent to the diffuser means and which include a pair of coacting, rotatable squeeze rollers which define therebetween a squeezing nip disposed beneath the surface of the treatment medium and through which the web passes prior to introduction into the diffuser. Deflection means are also provided which are disposed adjacent to the discharge end of the nip of the rollers for facilitating removal of the web from engagement with the circumferential surface of the rollers and for guiding the web into the trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1979
    Assignee: Artos Dr.-Ing. Meier-Windhorst KG (GmbH & Co.)
    Inventor: Gerhard W. Bahre