US 12,392,061 B2
Manufacturing woven textile products
Brian J. Gormley, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher P. Meadows, Richmond, CA (US); Daniel J. Blachinsky, Squamish (CA); Ian L. Fong, San Francisco, CA (US); Nicholas L. H. Fleming, Oakland, CA (US); Miles C. D. Pekala, San Francisco, CA (US); John R. Prescott, San Francisco, CA (US); Kevin P. Martin, San Francisco, CA (US); Elizabeth Esponnette, Berkeley, CA (US); and Diego Vasquez, Antioch, CA (US)
Assigned to UNSPUN, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Appl. No. 18/834,098
Filed by UNSPUN, INC, San Francisco, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 31, 2023, PCT No. PCT/US2023/011970
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 29, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/147164, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 3, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/304,944, filed on Jan. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0129528 A1, Apr. 24, 2025
Int. Cl. D03D 37/00 (2006.01); D03C 3/20 (2006.01); D03D 3/02 (2006.01); D03D 49/00 (2006.01)
CPC D03D 37/00 (2013.01) [D03C 3/205 (2013.01); D03D 3/02 (2013.01); D10B 2403/0333 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A circular loom for continuously weaving fabric with varying diameter, the loom comprising;
a variable diameter weaving ring;
a set of independently actuated heddles each configured to control a shed of a warp line;
at least one shuttle including a weft insertion arm, wherein the weft insertion arm is configured to adjust with a changing diameter of the weaving ring; and
a control system for controlling actions of the weft insertion arm, the set of independently actuated heddles, the weaving ring, and the at least one shuttle in response to the changing diameter of the weaving ring, wherein the control system electronically synchronizes the actions of the heddles, the weaving ring, and the at least one shuttle.