# US 7,836,917 B1 · Weaving connectors for three dimensional textile products

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- Number: US 7,836,917 B1
- Document ID: US7836917B1
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B1
- Application number: 12/591,372
- Filed: 2009-11-18
- Granted: 2010-11-23
- Earliest claimed: 2009-11-18
- Assignees: Paradox, Inc.
- Inventors: Eva Faye Osborne
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7836917B1

## CPC

- D03D 11/02: Fabrics formed with pockets, tubes, loops, folds, tucks or flaps (fabrics consisting of a single tube D03D3/02)
- D03D 25/005: {Three-dimensional woven fabrics}
- Y10S 139/01: Bias fabric digest
- D03D: WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
- Y10S: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

## Abstract

Creating textile product by utilizing a three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system as the infrastructure for weaving simultaneous independent fabric layers in conjunction with weaving connectors between and among the layers.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A process for weaving textile product utilizing independent layers of fabrics woven with a plurality of warp yarn and fill yarn connectors created with a plurality of warp yarns positioned in vertically shifted arrays comprising the steps of:
a. weaving at least two mutually adjacent fabric layers formed in the x, y plane of a 3 dimensional coordinate system, and
b. weaving of mutually adjacent fabric layers simultaneously on the loom, and
c. placing each successive adjacent fabric layer in the z direction of the 3 dimensional coordinate system, and
d. shifting vertically, each successive fabric layer into a non-aligned array, and
e. interlacing a plurality of fill and warp yarns alternately between and among the adjacent fabrics layers, whereby a connection is formed between and among the fabric layers.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A process according to claim 1 wherein the connection occurs by interlacing a plurality of fill and warp yarns between and among the adjacent layers at the right and left sides of a shape that is open at opposing ends of the perimeter.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A process according to claim 1 wherein the connection occurs by interlacing a plurality of fill and warp yarns alternately between and among the adjacent layers along the machine direction and cross machine direction to form enclosed spaces on consecutive sides.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

A process according to claim 1 wherein the connection occurs by interlacing a plurality of fill and warp yarns alternately between and among successive adjacent layers whereby each successive layer is bound in an increasing or decreasing stepwise process such that the layers form successive pockets between the adjacent layers.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

A process according to claim 1 wherein the connection occurs by interlacing a plurality of fill and warp yarns among all layers along a line of weaving in a uni-direction in the machine or cross machine direction such that the joining creates a site whereby each section of a layer can extend into a different plane.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

A process according to claim 1 wherein the connection occurs by interlacing a plurality of fill and warp yarns between and among successive adjacent layers within the fabric width and forming a plurality of tangent angles between and among the layers which exhibit mitered sections permitting the joined layers to extend into different planes on any independent angle.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

A process according to claim 1 wherein the connection occurs by interlacing a plurality of fill and warp yarns between and among successive adjacent layers wherein at least two mutually adjacent layers are connected by interlacing the fill yarns alternately between and among the warp yarns within the machine direction and cross direction whereby the outside of one layer exposes only fill or warp yarns as floats and the opposing direction of yarn interlaces into the adjacent layer.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

A process according to claim 1 wherein the connection occurs by interlacing a plurality of fill and warp yarns alternately between and among the adjacent layers, and at the selvedge to form a multiple of the fabric width.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

A process according to claim 1 further comprising the step of folding adjacent fabric layers into complex layered product.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

A process according to claim 1 further comprising the step of turning the product inside to outside forming the final complex layered product.