Patent · 14 pages
US Patent 1,720,151, granted July 9, 1929 to Claude S\u00e9ry of Aix-en-Provence, France, for a circular weaving loom with radially arranged warp threads. Rotating shuttles ride on a circular plate and are driven through the upper warp shed by rounded pulleys. The patent also describes an electric weft-break stop motion and a mechanism that cuts and folds the weft ends to form selvedges on flat fabric. It includes eight sheets of drawings, a description of the figures and 20 claims; the loom is described as set up for plain (calico) weave and for tubular fabrics, including weaving a covering directly onto a cable.