ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,462, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ROJ S.R.L. (Biella, Italy).
"Weft feeder for weaving looms with spaced thread coils and adjustable-diameter drum" was invented by Riccardo Comotto (Biella, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weft feeder for weaving looms with spaced thread coils and adjustable-diameter drum formed of several fixed sectors, each provided with respective support shanks housed in respective seats formed in a static support disk, coaxial to a drive shaft of the weft feeder, and wherein the spacing of said spaced coils on the drum is caused by the oscillatory and tilting movement of several moving sectors, each ...