Ribbed woven material
OwnerDavid Andrew Broadway, Jack R. Miller, Sr. +1inventors
InventorsDavid Andrew Broadway, Jack R. Miller, Sr., Cecil Curtiss Burdette, III
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Abstract
In some embodiments, the present invention includes ribbed woven materials, methods for increasing the abrasion resistance of a material, methods for providing an indication of wear, ropes configured to provide one or more alerts as a total breaking weight of a rope is approached, woven rope cover systems for rope-like materials, woven rope structures having ribs, and nonwoven ropes comprising strands including nonwoven strands of material that are configured in a rope construction and further comprising one or more woven rope cords displaced within the nonwoven rope construction.
Claims22
A ribbed woven material comprising:
- a. a plurality of warp threads;
- b. a plurality of weft threads, wherein the warp and weft threads are interwoven together;
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- c. at least one woven rope having a thickness which is greater than that of the warp threads or the weft threads, wherein the at least one woven rope is woven into the material in the warp direction or the warp direction and extends outwardly in a rib formation from the surface of the material.
A rope configured to provide an alert as a total breaking weight of a rope is approached, wherein the rope comprises a woven rope having indicator yarns displaced within the rope, wherein the indicator yarns have maximum load weights that are less than the total breaking weight of the entire rope.
A woven rope cover system for rope-like materials, wherein the rope cover comprises a plurality of interlacing individual fibers interlaced in a regular order, wherein the interlacing fibers are arranged to form a tubular shape having a hollow center configured to house a rope-like structure.
A nonwoven rope comprising strands comprising nonwoven strands of material that are configured in a rope construction and further comprising one or more woven rope cords displaced within the nonwoven rope construction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.