Abstract: An improved arrangement of leno discs on axially opposite sides of the main fabric beat-up discs of a rotary reed is described. Three leno discs are provided in each set, with the channel between the innermost and intermediate ones of the discs in each leno set being established by an adjustable spacer to form the required warp-free zone between spaced bundles of the leno warp threads guided by the leno discs. The innermost disc of each set is identical in construction with the outermost disc, with the intermediate one of the discs differing from the other two only by exhibiting a peripheral warp-confining chamfer which is complementary to that of the other two discs. The chamfer of the intermediate disc is disposed on the reed shaft in axially opposed relation to the chamfer of the innermost disc.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for stabilizing the fabric within the weft beat-up area in multiple-shed weaving machines or wave weaving loom wherein the beat-up is effected by means of a rotary reed. Immediately after the weft has been beaten-up, the fabric passes through a stabilization slot, and after having passed therethrough, it changes the direction of its movement beyond the level of the weaving plane.

Abstract: Apparatus for stabilizing a fabric in the travelling-wave shedding looms in a zone thereof where the weft is beaten up by beating-up projections of the disc of a rotary reed. The apparatus comprises means forming a stabilization slot, and a deflection rail downstream of said means, the top portion of said deflection rail lying above the level of the weaving plane, the means forming the stabilization slot including an upper delimitation rail having a lower edge and fixed on a continuous crossbar along the weaving plane, and a lower rail, the upper delimitation rail being an elastic stabilizing strip secured at its upper edge to the crossbar.

Abstract: Method of and apparatus for eliminating a chain formation of wefts not transferred into the beat-up position in a travelling-wave shedding loom provided with a rotary reed consisting of discs having cutouts for engaging weft and displacing it to the fabric fell into the beat-up position. In said method the weft laid upstream of a foreign body interwoven in the weft transferring zone of the shed angle is severed.The weft inserter for carrying out such method comprises a rotationally supported bobbin having a weft length sufficient for a single pick, a spreading spring for spreading warp threads, directing means provided between the warp spreading spring and a weft guide, means for blocking the bobbin rotation formed with a ratchet wheel and a pawl controllable by deflecting the warp spreading spring, there being associated means for maintaining the pawl in engagement with the ratchet wheel, after return of the warp spreading spring into its starting position, until the loom stops.

Abstract: Method of and apparatus for eliminating a chain formation of wefts not transferred into the beat-up position of a travelling-wave shedding loom with weft inserters and a rotary reed comprising discs with cutouts for engaging weft and displacing it to the fabric fell. An interwoven but not transferred weft is introduced into the cutouts of the discs of the rotary reed; such cutouts corresponding to the next weft inserter, in lieu of the weft from said next weft inserter. The weft from the next weft inserter is introduced into the cutouts of the discs of the rotary reed, such cutouts corresponding to the next following weft inserter. Due to this phase-shift corresponding to the distance between two weft inserters following after each other, all the other wefts are successively directed into the cutouts of the discs of the rotary reed until the loom stops.