Method of making a woven zipper
AssigneeWilliam Prym-Werke KG
InventorsFriedrich Glindmeyer, Wilhelm Friedrich Hennenberg, Karl Limpens
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Abstract
A method of making a woven zipper is disclosed, and an apparatus for carrying out the method. A zipper tape is woven from warp threads and weft threads. A coil-forming filament is advanced longitudinally of the weft threads and additionally is made to perform a movement about the surface of an imaginary cone whose base extends transverse to the longitudinal advancement of the filament. Cover threads, extending lengthwise of the weft threads are stepwise moved to the vicinity of the imaginary surface and held until the filament has passed them; thereupon, they are moved through the surface to the interior of the cone and a binding thread is passed behind them in longitudinal direction of the weft threads.
Claims7
A method of making a woven zipper, comprising the steps of weaving a zipper tape from warp threads and weft threads;
- during weaving of said zipper tape alternately opening and closing a shed composed of cover warp threads which extend longitudinally of said warp threads;
- advancing in a path extending in longitudinal direction of said weft threads a coil-forming filament which in the region of said shed additionally performs a movement about an imaginary conical surface which surrounds said path;
- moving said cover warp threads to the exterior vicinity of said imaginary conical surface and holding them in position until said filament has moved past them along said imaginary conical surface;
- shifting said cover warp threads through said imaginary conical surface inwardly thereof after said filament has moved past them;
- and inserting a binding thread transverse to said cover warp threads into a subsequently formed shed which is located in a plane behind some of said cover warp threads.
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