Abstract: A shuttleless loom has a pair of inserters each having a head provided with a respective weft-yarn gripper and movable from respective sides of a warp therethrough to an advanced position in a central warp region with a weft yarn held in the gripper of a one of the inserters and a mechanism effective on the grippers in the central region to open the gripper of the one inserter and thereby transfer the yarn held thereby to the gripper of the other inserter so that the other inserter can pull the weft yarn the rest of the way through the warp. A support and guide system for the inserters has respective guide and support elements in the central region for the inserters laterally and longitudinally engaging same and forming at least one support surface positioned underneath the head of the respective inserter, and respective deflectors on the elements for spreading the warp at the support surfaces so that the warp does not come between the heads and the respective support surfaces.

Abstract: A weft filament is inserted in a loom by a mechanical shuttle from a feed side as a pick in a weft direction into a shed formed between groups of warp filaments extending and generally traveling in a warp direction. A deweaving system has a loosening nozzle for directing a jet of air against the defective pick in the warp direction for loosening the defective pick from the warp and at least one stripper nozzle situated between the groups of warp filaments for blowing the separated-out defective pick out of the warp against the weft direction to the feed side. A sensor is provided on the feed side for monitoring the pressure of the defective pick outside the shed on the feed side and a controller is connected to the stripping and loosener for, on detection of a defective pick, sequentially operating the loosening and stripper and then restarting the loom.

Abstract: A shuttleless loom has an injection nozzle that is movable limitedly in the warp direction to one side of the warp and that has a filament-receiving upstream end and a filament-ejecting downstream end from which a weft filament is project in the weft direction through the warp. Separate generally stationary first and second yarn supplies to one side of the warp are associated with respective telescoping feed nozzles to the one side of the warp and each having a generally stationary upstream end and a downstream end displaceable between an advanced position relatively close to the injection nozzle and a retracted position relatively far from the injection nozzle.

Abstract: In a loom a weft filament is fed from a supply and inserted in a weft direction through a warp so as to project from a downstream edge of the warp and the presence of the filament is detected by a sensor at the downstream edge. If no presence is detected, a deweaving device is operated that in a deweaving step strips the filament from the warp and ejects it therefrom past the sensor. A controller is connected to the sensor and loom for shutting down the loom when the sensor detects that no filament is ejected by the deweaver during and immediately after the deweaving step, shutting down the loom when the sensor detects a filament immediately after the deweaving step, and restarting the loom when the sensor detects a filament during but not immediately after the deweaving step.

Abstract: A weft filament is inserted as a pick in a weft direction into a shed formed between groups of warp filaments extending and generally traveling in a warp direction, and is beaten into the warp filaments by a comb to form a woven textile. A defective pick is removed from the warp filaments by a system comprising at least one stripping nozzle directed generally upstream in the warp direction and connected to a supply that feeds compressed gas to the nozzle so the gas is expelled therefrom as a jet directed generally upstream in the warp direction over the defective pick to dislodge same from the warp filaments. The defective pick is then withdrawn in the weft direction from the shed after it is dislodged from the warp filaments by the nozzle.

Abstract: In a shuttleless loom a weft filament is inserted pneumatically in a weft direction through a warp shed by a nozzle on one side of the shed and is caught by a pneumatic aspirator aligned in the direction on the other side of the shed from the nozzle. A mechanical brake aligned in the direction on the other side of the loom with the aspirator, either immediately upstream or downstream therefrom, mechanically engages and holds the yarn after same has been caught by the aspirator. This brake can be formed by a tube with an internal brake element defining a nonstraight passage or can be a pinch brake to one side of a guide arrangement that pushes the filament laterally into the pinch brake once the filament is all the way through the aspirator and some tension is applied upstream in the filament.

Abstract: This pneumatic supply device is designed for shuttle-free weaving machines with the picking of one or more weft threads (1, 2) by elements such as picking nozzles (5, 6) and nozzle relays (10), supplied with compressed air in accordance with predetermined sequences. A robot (25) connected to a picking sequence program support (26) drives, on one hand, electrovalves (12, 16) disposed in the compressed air inlets (13, 17) to the picking elements (5, 6, 10) and, on the other hand, switching members (20, 21) enabling these picking elements (5, 6, 10) to be supplied at at least two different pressures (P1, P2; p1, p2) selected as a function of the characteristics of the weft threads (1, 2) to be inserted. The switching members (20, 21) are, for example, proportional pressure reducers enabling the control of the air pressure in a tank (18, 22).

Abstract: This device designed for weaving machines enabling a weft selection, comprises for each prefeed and measurement device (1), an electric drive motor (8) having a controlled angular position, such as a "step" motor. The angular position of the main shaft (14) of the weaving machine, detected by means of a coder wheel (24), is converted into pulses (D) which are supplied by a "switching system" (15) which may be switched from the weft selection control (16) to the electronic power circuit (17) associated with the motor (8) of the prefeed device (1) selected. It is therefore possible to drive the shaft (5) of the selected prefeed device through a predetermined number of rotations synchronously with the rotation of the main shaft (14) of the weaving machine.

Abstract: The loom reed (5) is formed of dents (9) defining a channel through which the weft is inserted and is drawn and guided by air jets produced by relay nozzles (3). To form the insertion channel, each dent (9) has a triangular projecting front part formed with a recess (6) opening towards the exterior at its top via an escape slit (7) slightly inclined relative to the longitudinal direction of the dent (9). The recess (6) has an offset (d) towards the front relative to the front straight edge of the dent (9). This feature is suitable for weaving threads with non-twisted, non-interlaced filaments, and enables beating-up to occur near the temples (8) after the weft thread has easily been extracted from the insertion channel via the slit (7).

Abstract: A sequential cleaning device for a loom ensures sequential cleaning by blowing compressed air or possibly by suction, at various points of a loom. The device comprises, upstream of a utilization circuit leading to various points to be cleaned, a pneumatic control circuit connected to a compressed air inlet. The circuit comprises, in a main pneumatic line a first distributor which is normally closed, and controlled mechanically and a second distributor which is normally open and controlled pneumatically. Controlling the opening of the first distributor may be effected by a rotary member forming a cam of the loom. Controlling the closure of the second distributor is ensured by a branch supply line in which pneumatic delay means are incorporated.

Abstract: A distributing unit synchronized with the shed-forming operation of a jet loom is positively coupled with a rocker arm carrying two insertion nozzles which are respectively aligned with the shed during alternate operating cycles, this unit temporarliy admitting high-pressure air to the currently aligned nozzle and to an associated thread clamp for the release of a weft yarn engaged thereby. The distributing unit comprises two interconnected outer disks bracketing an inner disk on a fixed axle on which the outer disks are held substantially immovable by a friction brake; the inner disk is limitedly rotatable by a cam-operated lever swingable about that axle and, in each of two working positions, connects two inlets for high-pressure air on one outer disk to respective outlets on the other outer disk leading to the currently aligned nozzle and to the associated thread clamp.

Abstract: A flow distributor for a fluid circuit is especially applicable for use in a shuttleless loom with pneumatic insertion of the weft and comprises a body of revolution, produced from two parts assembled coaxially and forming therebetween an annular inner chamber defined by a conical wall and by a frusto-conical wall. The annular chamber connects a tubular mouthpiece for the inlet of fluid disposed on the central axis body with a plurality of outlet holes provided concentrically and at regular angular intervals around the central axis and able to receive screw-threaded couplings. This flow distributor is especially used for supplying compressed air to groups of relay nozzles on a shuttleless loom.

Abstract: A weft predelivery and measuring device for a shuttleless loom and particularly for such a loom with a lateral weft reserve and weft insertion by means of a pneumatic or hydraulic fluid has a tubular member integral with a rotary shaft through which an axial channel passes, facilitating the passage of the weft yarn into a tubular member for winding around a drum of adjustable peripheral dimensions. This drum is prevented from rotating by means of permanent magnets. In order to retain a predetermined number of turns of weft yarn around the drum and in order to release these turns periodically, a wheel is provided which on its periphery has equi-angularly spaced claws and which is supported by a spindle continuously rotatable by a worm and a worm gear driven from the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A thread clamp, designed for periodically retaining a weft yarn in a loom of the shuttleless type, comprises a housing with a stationary insert having front and rear recesses spanned by respective membranes defining therewith two chambers of variable volume, the membranes being interconnected by a stem passing with clearance through a passage in the insert. One end of the stem, projecting beyond the front membrane, carries a movable jaw normally held against a confronting fixed jaw by a biasing spring disposed in the front compartment. The rear chamber, whose membrane is of larger effective diameter than that of the front chamber, can be expanded by the admission of air under pressure through one or more passages in the insert, the difference in membrane area being sufficient to let the resulting pressure differential in the two chambers overcome the force of the biasing spring to separate the movable jaw from the fixed jaw.

Abstract: A weft brake for a loom, especially for one of the shuttleless type, comprises a stationary blade and a movable blade cantilevered in overlapping positions on respective posts rising from a supporting plate, the free end of the movable blade being spring-biased toward the stationary blade for clamping a weft thread therebetween but being periodically deflected away therefrom for releasing the weft thread to facilitate its transportation through the shed of the associated warp threads. The weft thread passes between the stationary blade and a leaf spring forming an intermediate blade, inserted between the two other blades of the brake and cantilevered on the same post as the movable blade, so as to be frictionally restrained by the elasticity of that intermediate blade in the unclamping position of the movable blade.

Abstract: The weft insertion nozzle is mounted on an extension of the sley sole, and the nozzle is pivotable about an axis perpendicular to the sley sole. The nozzle is connected to a fixed point of the loom by means of a retractable connecting-rod. Due to the action of this connecting-rod, the nozzle is in a position parallel to the sley sole during insertion of a pick of weft into the shed, but forms an angle with sley sole in the beating-up position of the sley, at which the weft is cut by scissors. A pneumatic jack supported by the sley sole can also cause the weft insertion nozzle to pivot by retracting the connecting-rod, in order to deflect the weft by directing the weft from the nozzle into a suction mouthpiece so as to prevent insertion of a pick into the shed when a fault is detected causing the stoppage of the machine.

Abstract: A apparatus for measuring tension in a strand such as a belt is provided with an elongated housing having a pair of opposite longitudinal ends and respective structures at the ends having structure edges facing transversely in the same direction and generally defining a plane. A two-arm lever is pivoted on the housing between the ends thereof and has an abutment arm extending transversely between the plates and a measuring arm extending generally longitudinally of the housing and having an arm edge lying between the structure edges and facing transversely opposite to the structure edges. A pivot supports the lever on the housing for angular motion about an axis transverse to the housing between two end positions with the arm edge lying on opposite sides of the plane. A spring is braced between the abutment arm and one of the housing ends for urging the lever into the end portion with the arm edge between the plane and the housing.

Abstract: In a shuttle-less loom in which a pick of weft is inserted into the shed of warp yarns by a jet of compressed air from an insertion nozzle to one side of the shed, a plurality of spaced auxiliary nozzles are provided along the weft path through the shed. Each auxiliary nozzle has a horizontal slot directly below the weft path, and a vertical slot at one or both ends of the horizontal slot adjacent the respective lower end of the vertical slot. The slots face in the direction in which the weft travels and are supplied with compressed air to provide a lower substantially horizontal flat jet of air from the horizontal slot and one or two lateral jets from the respective vertical slot, so that the air jets serve to guide, support and augment the propulsion of the weft.

Abstract: A weaving loom is equipped with a system for controlling oscillation of a warp yarn support roller in which a first rotary cam actuates an oscillating first lever connected to a first arm integral with a first shaft on which the roller is mounted. The first shaft rests, through the intermediary of raising members, in bearings supported by second levers pivoting about a fixed pivot and connected, through the intermediary of pivoted connecting rods, to the third and fourth levers which are keyed to a second shaft and subject to urging by at least one spring. The system includes a fifth lever keyed to the second shaft and a second rotary cam actuating an oscillating sixth lever pivotably connected to a second arm which is alongside the fifth lever and is freely mounted on the second shaft. A fixed first hook is mounted on the second arm and a pivotable second hook is mounted on the fifth lever. An electromagnet holds the second hook clear of the first hook except when the loom is being started.

Abstract: A loom has a winding system comprising a tension roller and a storage roller connected by means of an endless chain whereby the storage roller is driven by the tension roller with the interposition of a friction mechanism.A follower roller, in contact with the periphery of the roll of fabric wound around the storage roller, causes a rotary cam to rotate such that the movement of the latter is linked with the variation in diameter of the roll of fabric. Bearing against the profile of the cam is one end of an oscillating lever, the other end of which acts on the friction mechanism in order to modify the driving torque of the storage roller by the chain according to the diameter of the roll of fabric.The fabric tension regulating device can be applied to conventional looms and shuttleless looms.