US Patent 3,835,895, granted 17 September 1974 to Dario Bassi and assigned to Verdol S.A. of France, for an improved double-lift jacquard. Each hook has a single rotatable rod-like branch with two main beaks set 90° apart and a lower open-shed beak. When one beak is caught by a knife frame, the other turns to an ineffective lateral position, so the pushing period of the needles can be shorter. This allows more time for cylinder rotation and card selection on high-speed looms. The document has the abstract, four sheets of mechanical drawings (13 figures), a description of the mechanism and four claims.