Abstract: The present invention relates to a package-lifting system in an unwinding or twisting machine, which comprises two wheels around which is tensioned a metal ribbon fixed to the periphery of each wheel. The first wheel is angularly fastened to a first fixed shaft, while the second wheel, which is connected a stirrup between the arms of which a package is placed, is mounted to rotate freely on a second shaft. The latter shaft is borne by one of the ends of an arm of which the other end is articulated about the first shaft. The invention is particularly applicable to the textile industry.

Abstract: For use on a loom having a pattern selector, a plurality of heddle raising units, each comprising a pulley supported on a shaft and having a funicular cording member wound on the pulley and supporting a heddle, the shaft supporting two annular driving members on which the pulley is journaled, and the unit having means for rotating one annular member in one direction and the other annular member in the opposite direction synchronously with the cycle of the loom, and the pattern selector controlling a device for selectively coupling the pulley to the one of the annular members whose rotation is in the correct direction to wind the funicular member on the pulley to raise the attached heddle.