Abstract: The invention relates to a thread control device for a textile machine, in particular, for a shedding device, with at least one thread guide body (31) which may be displaced in one displacement direction by means of a positive drive (35) and in the opposite direction by means of a non-positive, pneumnatic return device (36). Me return device (36) thus comprises a cylinder/piston unit (64,54), the cylinder chamber of which (52) is connected to a compressed gas source (60) by means of a valve (56).

Abstract: A gripper loom with at least one filling thread insertion device, including a perforated flexible insertion band, which carries a gripper head at one end and which is advanced into and again retracted from a shed by an alternatingly driven drive wheel. The drive wheel has teeth distributed across the circumference which engage into perforations of the insertion band. Furthermore, a guide member is assigned to the drive wheel near the gripper head so as to prevent the insertion band from lifting off the circumference of the drive wheel, and an end of the band facing away from the gripper head is fastened at a rotary guidance apparatus arranged with respect to the drive wheel so that the band end describes an at least approximate circular guide path during an entire reciprocating motion, the radius of the path being larger than the radius of the drive wheel.

Abstract: In a ribbon-weaving loom, in which at least two ribbons are being woven simultaneously and must be withdrawn in substantial parallelism, at least one withdrawing roller is provided for each of these ribbons and so located that the respective ribbon is trained about it with the roller being located beneath the ribbon. A drive arrangement is provided for driving the respective rollers.