US Patent Issued to ARIANEGROUP on Aug. 11 for "Braiding machine with a reserve zone" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,935, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ARIANEGROUP SAS (Les Mureaux, France).

"Braiding machine with a reserve zone" was invented by Julien Bardy (Le Haillan, France), Xavier Legrand (Le Haillan, France) and Thomas Lievin (Le Haillan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braiding machine includes a plurality of yarn feed spindles connected to guide supports and movable along a guide path so as to participate in the braiding, all or some of the spindles being integral with a positioning element cooperating with a corresponding guide support and removable from the latter, a plurality of reserve supports located outside the guide pa...