US Patent Issued to LINDAUER DORNIER on July 1 for "Loom and method for guiding a woven fabric in a loom" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,970, issued on July 1, was assigned to LINDAUER DORNIER GmbH (Lindau, Germany).

"Loom and method for guiding a woven fabric in a loom" was invented by Thomas Laukamp (Lindau, Germany), Nicolas Mega (Opfenbach, Germany) and Dirk Janicijevic (Lindau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weaving machine includes a shed forming device, a weft insertion device, and a weaving reed that beats up the weft threads at a beat up plane against an edge of the woven fabric. A guide device extends over a width of the woven fabric and is driven by a drive, the guide device being one or both of an upper guide unit that contacts a top surface of th...