Patent ID: 7134457
Filing Date: 2006-11-14
Classification: D03C,D03D,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method of stringing a loom, the loom having at least seven actuators: a number 1, number 2, number 3, number 4, number 5, and number 6 Braille cell actuators ordered to match the order of the six keys of a Perkins Brailler that create the raised dots of a Braille cell, and at least a first non-Braille cell actuator, each of the at least seven actuators connected to a separate harness, and each harness connected to at least one heddle, the method comprising: threading at least a first thread through the at least one heddle connected to the number 1 Braille cell actuator, thereby creating a first number 1 Braille cell warp thread; threading at least a second warp thread through the at least one heddle connected to the number 2 Braille cell actuator, thereby creating a first number 2 Braille cell warp thread; threading at least a third thread through the at least one heddle connected to the number 3 Braille cell actuator, thereby creating a first number 3 Braille cell warp thread; threading at least a fourth thread through the at least one heddle connected to the number 4 Braille cell actuator, thereby creating a first number 4 Braille cell warp thread; threading at least a fifth thread through the at least one heddle connected to the number 5 Braille cell actuator, thereby creating a first number 5 Braille cell warp thread; threading at least a sixth thread through the at least one heddle connected to the number 6 Braille cell actuator, thereby creating a first number 6 Braille cell warp thread; and threading a seventh thread through a heddle connected to the first non-Braille cell actuator, thereby creating the first non-Braille cell warp thread, and wherein each of the first number 1 through number 6 Braille cell warp threads has a different color and the first number 1 through number 6 Braille cell warp threads are disposed in numerical order from left to right on the loom and as consecutive warp threads, and the first non-Braille cell warp thread is disposed to the right of and adjacent to the first number 6 Braille cell warp thread; and threading at least seven additional warp threads, such that the number 1 Braille cell actuator, when moved, separates the first number 1 Braille cell warp thread, and at least one of the at least seven additional warp threads a whole multiple of seven away from the first number 1 Braille cell warp thread, from the remainder of the warp threads; the number 2 Braille cell actuator, when moved, separates the first number 2 Braille cell warn thread, and at least one of the at least seven additional warp threads a whole multiple of seven away from the first number 2 Braille cell warp thread, from the remainder of the warn threads; the number 3 Braille cell actuator, when moved, separates the first number 3 Braille cell warp thread, and at least one of the at least seven additional warp threads a whole multiple of seven away from the first number 3 Braille cell warp thread, from the remainder of the warn threads; the number 4 Braille cell actuator, when moved, separates the first number 4 Braille cell warp thread and at least one of the at least seven additional warp threads, a whole multiple of seven away from the first number 4 Braille cell warp thread, from the remainder of the warp threads; the number 5 Braille cell actuator, when moved, separates the first number 5 Braille cell warn thread, and at least one of the at least seven additional warp threads a whole multiple of seven away from the first number 5 Braille cell warn thread, from the remainder of the warn threads; the number 6 Braille cell actuator, when moved, separates the first number 6 Braille cell warn thread, and at least one of the at least seven additional warp threads a whole multiple of seven away from the first number 6 Braille cell warp thread, from the remainder of the warp threads; and the first non-Braille cell actuator, when moved, separates the first non-Braille cell warp thread, and at least one of the at least seven additional warp threads a whole multiple of seven away from the first non-Braille cell warp thread, from the remainder of the warn threads.