Patent ID: 11898282
Assignee: INCEPTUS MEDICAL, LLC
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D | IPC D

Claim 11:
12. A braiding system, comprising:
a drive unit including—
an outer assembly including outer slots;
an inner assembly coaxially aligned with the outer assembly, the inner assembly including inner slots;

a plurality of elongate members, wherein individual elongate members extend through and are constrained within individual inner and/or outer slots, and wherein the elongate members are each configured to receive one of a plurality of filaments;
a plurality of weights configured to be secured to corresponding ones of the filaments to tension the filaments, wherein the filaments and the weights are configured to move within the elongate members;
an outer drive mechanism configured to drive at least a subset of the elongate members from the outer slots to the inner slots; and
an inner drive mechanism configured to drive the subset of the elongate members from the inner slots to the outer slots.