Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 18
Claim 1
Independent Claim
24 words
A machine as claimed in claim 1, and means for conveying said cross mesh between two foils and receiving said mesh between said foils.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
42 words
A machine as claimed in claim 1, and a drive connection between said rotatable support means and said chains providing an advancement of number of pins of each chain per revolution of said support means equal to the number of thread carriers.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
139 words
A machine as claimed in claim 3, cover devices over said chains in the vicinity of said thread guides, said devices respectively having openings and thread guide means immediately below said openings for guiding thread passing from sad rotating thread guides through said openings and onto said pins. A machine as claimed in claim 1, means for driving said chains at a velocity of said chains according to the equation: VK a X n X T X F wherein vK represents the pin chain velocity in meters/minute, a the number of thread depositing devices, n the number of revolutions of the thread guide for all thread depositing devices in r.p.m. T distance between the chain pins in meter, and F the number of thread carriers per thread depositing device which is always the same for all thread depositing devices.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
59 words
A machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said cover device over one chain has an opening of a length sufficient to lay thread along as many pins as there are thread supply carriers and said cover device over the other chain has an opening of a length sufficient to lay said thread about one pin per rotatable support.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
37 words
A machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said cover devices each have an opening of a length sufficient to lay said thread along as many pins on each respective chain as there are rotatable support means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
125 words
A machine for laying cross threads across longitudinal threads to provide a cross mesh for sheet or foil reinforcement which comprises rotatable support means providing thread supply carriers and rotating thread guides, two parallel chains having projecting, thread wrapping pins, said pins travelling into the vicinity of said thread guides, and means for placing said threads from said thread guides onto said pins in a predetermined pattern to lay said cross threads across said longitudinal threads, said pin chains being inclined to vertical relative to the plane of rotation of said rotatable support means, and means for changing the direction of said pins adjacent said rotatable support means to position the pins of the pin chains in the plane of rotation of said thread guides.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
65 words
A machine as claimed in claim 8, wherein one of said chains is in the plane of rotation of the thread guide on the side wherein the chain and thread guide move in the same direction and the other of the chains is in said plane for a length providing a number of pins greater by one than the number of said thread supply carriers.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
23 words
A machine as claimed in claim 8, wherein each chain provides only one pin in the plane of rotation of said thread guides.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
23 words
A machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said chains travel beneath and parallel to the plane of rotation of said rotatable support.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
26 words
A machine as claimed in claim 8, and means for adjusting the chain sprockets in the vicinity of the plane of rotation of said thread guides.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
35 words
A machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the diameter of said pins is: D 1/2 (T-2d) wherein D is the pin diameter, d is the thread diameter and T is the distance between pins.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
37 words
A machine as claimed in claim 1, a pair of pressing rollers for pressing and uniting the cross-mesh and the foils or sheets, and a cross thread guiding device on each side of one of said rollers.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
25 words
A machine as claimed in claim 14, wherein said guiding device is a gear ring with a tooth pitch equal to the cross thread spacing.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
44 words
A machine as claimed in claim 14, wherein said guiding device is a gear ring mounted on opposite ends of one of said rollers, said gear rings having a tooth pitch evenly divisible into the spacing of the cross threads of the finished sheet.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
17 words
A machine as claimed in claim 15, wherein said gear ring has saw tooth shaped gear teeth.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
51 words
A machine as claimed in claim 14, wherein said guiding device is a ring on each end of one of said rollers, the peripheral surface of said ring being of a material of high coefficient of friction and adapted to engage the cross threads passing through said pair of pressing rollers.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
15 words
A machine as claimed in claim 18, wherein said ring is made of soft rubber.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
22 words
A machine as claimed in claim 15, characterized by a gear tooth root diameter slightly smaller to equal to the roller diameter.