Abstract: An auxiliary member or accessory serves to reduce or limit the length of a weaving reed for the purpose of adapting it to the desired weaving width, so that the same reed can be used for differing weaving widths. The auxiliary member or accessory can be a stretching device or a detection device for the inserted weft threads. A flange of the auxiliary member is inserted between two reed lamallae or dents and is fixed on the rear side of the read by means of a locking element.

Abstract: A loom having left and right warp beams and a common tension roller is provided with an electric or mechanical control system, which detects forces exerted on left and right supports of the tension roller by the warp threads of both warp beams, and produces a left control signal corresponding to a tension of the warp threads of the left warp beam and a right control signal corresponding to a tension of the warp threads of the right warp beam in accordance with the detected forces. The rotational speeds of the left and right warp beams are controlled individually in accordance with the left and right control signals, respectively.

Abstract: A weft yarn presenting device for shuttleless looms, especially air looms, feeding weft yarns of different colors, comprises a plurality of nozzles joined in a bundle and carried by a body mounted on two supports arranged at 90.degree. one from the other, and two actuators adapted to be operated simultaneously and imparting to said supports rectilinear movements in both senses, along two directions perpendicular to each other and to said body.

Abstract: The weft thread monitoring apparatus contains a detecting circuit incorporating the functions of a thread recognition circuit and a control circuit for controlling the intensity of a thread sensing or scanning beam which is affected by extraneous effects like outside light, the presence of fluff and other influences. A monitoring and controlling circuit defines monitoring and control intervals to differentiate between thread signals which are respectively correctly and incorrectly related to the operating cycle of the weaving machine and to possibly cut off the weaving machine. A sensing head can be simply mounted and dismantled at any desired location at the reed of the weaving machine so that different widths of the woven material or fabric can be manufactured using the same reed and the weft thread can be monitored. By periodic indication of the thread signal the correct run or operation of the weaving machine also can be monitored.

Abstract: A method for starting the operation of a loom always under a constant warp tension after the completion of the amendment of faults in the woven fabric such as miss-pick. A warp beam in the stationary loom is rotated by a commmand signal from a control unit in the normal or reverse direction so that the preset tension can be attained. As a result, a weaving bar which often occurs in the prior art just after the loom has restarted due to disturbance of gear ratio of the speed changer during the transient state can be avoided.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for selectively releasing a predetermined length of weft thread in shuttleless looms, wherein a separating wheel provided with a control on the periphery thereof, having unequal heights or angular spacings, displaces a winding of weft thread, having an insertion length and wound in a space between two controls, in the direction of withdrawal of the weft thread, along a supply drum comprised of segments and always releases at least one complete insertion length of weft thread into the warp shed at a time period determined by a weft thread releasing program.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the preparation and insertion of at least one type of weft yarn into the shed of a weaving machine. The said device comprises a yarn metering-delivering member feeding a storage chamber used for temporarily storing a length of weft yarn before its insertion into the shed. The introduction of the weft yarn into the storage chamber and its extraction to be thrown by means of rotating rollers are effected via a single guiding channel which comprises a zone situated between the throwing rollers and close to the gripping line, said zone overlapping laterally with respect to the rollers and comprising a continuous longitudinal slot.

Abstract: An improved anvil construction, for use in an ultrasonic apparatus for edge cutting and sealing moving lengths of at least partially thermoplastic material, particularly textile fabric having at least some thermoplastic fibers, and including a vibrating sonic horn cooperating with and vibrating against the anvil for such ultrasonic edge cutting and sealing as the material moves between the sonic horn and the anvil. The anvil includes a peaked cutting edge and first and second surfaces extending in respective opposite directions from the cutting edge and is characterized by being adjustable to positions for effecting clean and sharp edge cutting and desired amounts of edge sealing in the material while resisting wear on the anvil.

Abstract: This device has a stationary storage durm (2) onto which an intermediate yarn store is wound by a winding-on device (3) and from which the yarn (WY) is withdrawn spiralling around the withdrawal end of the storage drum. The device also has a plurality of yarn stopping devices (10) being arranged at angular intervals around the storage drum, said yarn stopping devices consisting of yarn stopping elements (14) and of actuator means (11) moving said stopping elements into and out of the path of the yarn being withdrawn, and an actuator control device (8) adjustable to desired yarn lengths to be withdrawn, said control device transmitting actuating signals to said plurality of yarn stopping devices.

Abstract: In a weft presenting device for weaving looms with continuous weft feed, the levers controlling the presenting needles are subjected, on one side, to the constant action of return springs towards the inoperative position of said needles and, on the other side, to the cyclic action of cam-controlled control rods towards the operative position of said needles, the levers being kept in this position by electromagnets energized by the selection devices forming the pattern of the fabric being woven, up to operating said needles.

Abstract: A drive assembly or gear unit is formed with a drive unit which is rotatably supported on a power output shaft between two bearing positions on the output shaft. The drive unit includes a pair of crankshafts which are offset relative to each other by 180.degree., with each of the crankshafts carrying planet wheels which mesh with a stationary sun gear. The crankshafts are formed with cranks which cooperate with the arms of a twin-armed rocker member which is rotatably affixed to the output shaft in order to apply driving force thereto.

Abstract: A method of controlling a motor-driven let-off motion in a loom including a system for controlling a let-off motion motor includes the steps of sampling a variation of warp tension during each revolution of a main shaft of the loom, effecting at least proportional and integral control modes on the average of sampled values, adding a proportional and integral output to a basic speed signal at a prescribed ratio, and applying a sum signal to the system for controlling the let-off motion motor.