Abstract: In a yarn storage feeder system of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,226,379 and having a yarn storage unit upon which a quantity of yarn is maintained from a yarn supply for intermittent withdrawal and delivery to yarn feeding and/or consuming means, such as a loom, and in which the yarn storage unit is driven by a low inductance DC motor such as a flat armature or pancake DC motor powered by a full wave rectified AC current, a significant improvement in motor operating efficiency, especially output torque, is achieved by incorporating an electrical choke in the circuit supplying such current to the DC motor.

Abstract: A precise, accurate and sensitive control method and system for actuating the stop motion mechanism of a weaving loom equipped with a weft yarn storage feeder unit is disclosed. The storage and feeder unit includes a device for applying tension to the weft yarn being delivered from a weft yarn supply to the storage and feeder device. The tension device is equipped with a switch which provides a first electrical signal when the weft yarn being supplied to the storage and feeder device becomes slack or interrupted. That switch is connected with the weft yarn storage and feeder unit motor circuit. The weft yarn storage and feeder unit may be intermittently driven as the need occurs for feeding a weft yarn length or pick into the loom.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system and method for correlating strand withdrawal speed from a strand supply package and utility means such as a shuttleless loom thereby reducing the possibility of supply package sloughs and strand breakage caused by conditions such as large changes in loading on an intermediate stationary drum type strand feeding and storage device. Thus, the loom operates to withdraw strand from the feeding device at a first average rate. A flyer withdraws strand from the supply package at a second rate which is slightly higher than the first average rate and wraps that strand onto the drum of the feeding device. Withdrawal of the strand by the flyer generates a balloon in the strand intermediate the strand supply and the flyer. Flyer drive speed is controlled by a feedback system which avoids changes in speed of the flyer except when occurrences of an overfill of strand on the drum occur.