Abstract: A loom capable of weaving an ultra-high density textile includes: multiple heddles which make some warps of multiple warps separated from other warps; a weft guiding portion making wefts pass through an opening; a reed pressing the wefts passing through the opening towards a fell so as to form a textile; a feeding roller which feeds the warps to the heddles at a position that deviates and staggers from an imaginary plane passing through the center of the moving range of the heddles and the fell; a delivery loom beam delivering the warps to the feeding roller; and a textile winding loom beam winding the textile, when the heddles is at the center, the tension of the warps being set as 0.32 cN/dTex or more and 0.38 cN/dTex or less.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shuttle for a weaving machine, of which the shuttle is designed to be alternately transferred from one side of a weave to the other while machine-side guiding elements are constantly intervening, with a left-hand connecting element and a right-hand connecting element for connecting the shuttle to the corresponding transfer element and to a filling (weft) bobbin. The filling bobbin is embodied to be rotationally positively drivable, with a drive that is designed for at least two impingements upon the filling bobbin, namely for either accelerating or for decelerating the dispensing of filling (weft) thread. The invention further relates to a weaving process in which such a shuttle is used.

Abstract: A method for insertion of a weft thread (2, 3, 4) on a weaving loom whereby insertion parameter is determined and in which on the one hand at least one control parameter for an insertion is adapted or, on the other hand, at least one control parameter for a weaving cycle is adapted. A weaving loom with control devices (41,42) and a selection device (43) for the application of a method as stated above.

Abstract: In order to deflect a warp thread sheet (2) in a weaving machine, a deflecting device (18)is provided which is guided in guides (26) that also guide heald frames (13, 14, 15, 16). The deflecting device positions a segment (46) of the warp thread sheet (2) that starts at a beatup line (7) of the fabric (8) between the beatup line and the heald frames.

Abstract: A weaving machine is constructed to use a magnetic traction device to reciprocate the shuttle in moving weft threads over warp threads at a high speed without producing noise and preventing direct contact between parts.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for correcting an irregularity during the insertion of a weft yarn into a weaving rotor of a series shed weaving machine involves drawing a length of weft yarn from a supply unit and delivering the weft yarn to the weaving machine in synchronicity with the weaving cycle. The length of weft yarn is inserted into a weft yarn conveyor apparatus and wound around a conveyor roller. A sensor is positioned between the supply unit and the conveyor apparatus to detect a weft yarn interruption, e.g., as a result of a weft yarn breakage or the yarn running out of spool. When the interruption is detected, the conveyor roller continues to deliver weft yarn stored in the storage apparatus until a complete weft yarn insertion into the weaving machine has taken place (i.e., weft yarn having a single loom width). The weft yarn is then cut at the insertion side of the weaving machine and the weaving machine is stopped.

Abstract: A circular loom comprises weft ribbon shuttle assemblies and a control system for detecting the position of one of the shuttle assemblies at spaced points about the periphery of the loom, and then presetting warp ribbon-setting air cylinders in advance of each of the shuttle assemblies for subsequent passage of the shuttle assemblies through the resultant warp sheds without engaging the warp ribbons. Electrical brakes control warp and weft tension in a uniform manner. The shuttle assemblies are driven by a gearing from a motor mounted independently of the shuttle assemblies. In a fabric-forming position, each weft ribbon slides transversely under a fabric-forming ring with the longitudinally moving warp shed and into the plane of the formed fabric in engagement with an annular inner surface of the ring, essentially without any twist about a transverse axis of the weft.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for integral fill yarn insertion and beatup is provided. A modified rapier contains a channel for holding fill yarn. The channel is covered with a flexible and inflatable boot, and an inflating apparatus for this boot is also attached. Fill yarn is inserted into the channel, and the rapier is extended into a shed formed by warp yarn. Next, the rapier is pushed into the fell of the fabric, and the flexible and inflatable cover inflated, which both pushes the yarn into the fell of the fabric and performs beatup. The rapier is withdrawn and the shed closed to complete one step of the weaving process.

Abstract: A system for instantaneously detecting breakage of a weft yarn within the shed of a multiphase loom comprising a series of closed-loop induction coils which extend in succession along the entire weaving zone to cooperate with the rotating shuttle weft yarn packages, which are provided with at least one off-centered magnetic element.

Abstract: To provide for accurately timed injection of selected lengths of weft threads to shuttles moving, in sequence, in front of injectors (85, 545), a continuously rotating measuring drum (32) has the weft thread (51, 180) passing in front thereof, the weft thread being clamped against the measuring roller by a pressure roller (35) or a selected one of a plurality of pressure rollers (511), the operating mechanism being coupled to and driven by the main drive (21, 22, 23, 24) of the weaving loom so that exact synchronism of movement of the shuttle in front of the injectors is ensured as the thread is being delivered.

Abstract: To provide for positive guidance of shuttles in a multi-system traveling shed weaving loom, in which the shuttles move continuous, endless loop path, having a straight portion (15a) and two essentially semi-circular curved return path portions (15b), the curved return path portions are defined by a pair of guide strips or rails (32, 42) spaced from each other by a sufficient distance to accomodate the shuttles therebetween as they travel in the curved path, the inner guide strip (32) being formed of non-magnetic material. The shuttles carry permanent magnets (36) and travelers (16) carry, on a leaf spring (30), drive elements (25) having permanent magnets (26) interacting with the magnets (36) on the shuttles, the drive elements being pressed against the inner surface of the non-magnetic guide strip in the curved portion (15b) of the path and against a guide reed leaf (10) in the straight portion of the path.

Abstract: To introduce weft threads (31) or picks of finite length into a storage shuttle (1), the shuttle is formed with a longitudinal recess (4) which is divided into two chambers (11, 12) by a longitudinally extending separating wall (8) leaving a gap (10) between the bottom edge of the separating wall and the bottom wall (6) of the recess (4). Bristles or hairs extend preferably from both sides of the separating wall (8) towards the opposite wall (5, 5') defining the recess (4). A weft thread injector (2) is positioned to engage into the first chamber (11) to pneumatically inject the weft thread into the first chamber, to be retained in undulating or zig-zag pattern in the first chamber. Air is deflected by 180.degree. around the gap (10) and exhausted at an exhaust opening (14) leading from the second chamber (12). Preferably, a thread brake (19) is located at the trailing end of the shuttle, in the direction of relative movement between the shuttle and the injector to clamp the end of the injected weft thread.

Abstract: To compensate for difference in path length between a warp thread guide element and a reference position, for example adjacent a take-up beam (3) beyond the shed (8), a plurality of guide elements (34) are located between a run-on guide rod (31) and the shed forming heddles (7), the guide elements being controlled to move in synchronism with the heddles in a direction essentially along a central plane (8a) of the shed to compensate for lateral deflection of the threads as the shuttle moves through the shed, and the shed is closed after the shuttle (9) has passed therethrough. The thread guide elements (37) preferably are U-shaped structures, retaining a plurality of transverse rods (39), and deflected by a cam shaft (42, 47) in synchronism with shuttle movement and movement of the heddles.

Abstract: To decrease noise as magnetically moved shuttles engage a guide reed (10) located behind a shed (8), while being moved by magnetic shuttle moving elements (16) to move the shuttles (9) by magnetic coupling therewith, the shuttle moving elements (16) include plungers to push the shuttles away from the shuttle moving elements after they have passed through a curved path, adhered to the shuttle moving elements, the plungers being controlled in their pushing movement by engagement with a guide or control cam (37) on which the plungers ride up as the shuttle moving elements move past the cam. Preferably, essentially wedge-shaped run-on and run-off ramps are also provided at terminal ends of the guide reed.

Abstract: System of detection of a shed closed to passage of a shuttle in a multi-phase weaving textile loom. This invention is comprised of the following: sensitive control bars made elastically movable along the vertical direction, with a stroke at least equalling the vertical shift necessary for the shuttle roller to disengage from the corresponding thrust roller of the dragging chain of the same shuttle; two adjoining sensitive control blades, both are on the rotary-reed facing divergent side wall of each shuttle; the outward blade is fixed and rigid while the longer inward blade is rotatable around a vertical axis; and upon detection of a persistent entanglement by the control blades, a lever pin, kept in a retracted position by a retainer hook, is freed by movement of the retainer hook such that the lever pin springs outwards to protrude from the shuttle plane, pressing upon a sensitive control bar, generating a stop loom signal.

Abstract: A wavy shed forming arrangement for rectilinear weaving looms it consists of a wobbling non-rotating element driven about a driving axis and connected by connections to be reciprocated which are fixed to the lifters on which the warp threads are suspended.

Abstract: A heald control system for a multi-phase or travelling wave shedding loom in which each heald is upperly connected elastically, by way of an elastic traction element, to a single support plate which is removably locked to the fixed part of the loom, and the healds of each section are lowerly locked to a single connection block which is connected by a spring catch connector to a flexible element, which is itself connected to the end of a cam-controlled operating lever.

Abstract: In a circular loom a reed and at least one shuttle are arranged between an upper and a lower running ring of a machine frame. A rotor driving the shuttle, a harness arranged in a concentric circle about the rotor for shedding the warp threads, and tensioning means for the warp threads also are provided. A wave-like extending groove is provided in the outer side of the rotor and catch elements engage therein. The catch elements are connected with flexible bands or cords carrying thread guiding organs arranged at a distance from one another. The bands or cords are deflected at least about upper deflection pulleys, the thread guiding organs coming to lie on opposite sides of the deflection pulley and the upper deflection pulley being at the height of the upper running ring.

Abstract: A weaving machine has a continuous line of heddles 9 defining a shed and undulating means 8 for traversing the shed along the line as a wave 12, 13 and moving a weft-inserting means 15 in synchronism therewith from the inlet 17 to the outlet 18 ends of the line. The inserting means 15 are traversed from the outlet to the inlet ends by means (e.g. a driven chain 26) which carries them through loading stations 25 where they receive sufficient thread for one weft pass.

Abstract: A method for the pneumatic insertion of the weft thread (24, 24a) into the shuttles (9) of a multi-feed weaving loom. The weft thread (24, 24a), of a respectively predetermined length, is inserted by means of an air flow in an injector (23) into the weft thread magazine (29) of a shuttle (9) traveling in a continuous movement past the injector (23).In order to be able to supply the shuttles (9) rapidly with the particular weft thread required for the fabric panel width in a multi-feed weaving loom, without thereby causing an impermissible strain on the weft thread or being required to extend the length of the weft thread magazine (29) of the shuttles (9), the injector (23) is moved conjointly with the shuttle, e.g. by a gear coupling (34-38) beginning at a start position (I) but, at a slower speed than the shuttle and over shorter distance during the insertion of the thread (24, 24a) into the weft thread magazine (29).

Abstract: The invention relates to a weaving loom with waving shed heddle frames which when built in accordance with the invention insures that the heddles do not have lateral displacement when the frames are operated by controls respectively acting on both sides of the frames so that the motions of the respective sides differ from each other in their pattern. The bars of the frames are pivotably connected to the supports of these frames. These supports slide in stationary guides which restrict the lateral motion of the frames.

Abstract: An apparatus for beating-up weft thread to be used in traveling wave shedding looms comprises a stationary reed for dividing warp threads and a rotary shaft having plates secured thereto and forming combs arranged helically along the shaft. The plates of at least one comb are made and arranged relative to plates of other combs in such a manner that planes of revolution of at least a portion of each plate of the comb, during rotation of the shaft, are displaced along the shaft away from the plane of revolution of plates of other combs. This arrangement of plates enables the maintenance of warp threads in the position set-up by the dividing reed, thereby improving quality of cloth being manufactured.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for gripping a weft thread. This apparatus comprises an element for braking a weft thread, representing a tire placed on the periphery of a disk and a gripping block partially embracing the tire, the latter being fabricated from a material with a coefficient of friction against the thread exceeding that of the material of the gripping block.

Abstract: A travelling wave shedding loom has a plurality of devices for winding and loading shuttle bobbins. One such device is provided for each shuttle, and the respective devices move with their associated shuttles around a continuous path within the loom.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of and apparatus for supplying weft thread carriers. In this method a thread is wound in the form of coils onto a spool of a carrier whereupon the carriers along with the thread are admitted into a weaving zone whereby an elongated section of the thread is formed to be sequentially separated from the coils, with the elongated section being thereafter pulled in a direction opposite to that of feed and, while being pulled the elongated section is arranged on a straight line connecting a thread guide and a braking point which, to compensate for the length of the pulled portion of the straight section, is moved away from the thread guide by a distance equal to this length.

Abstract: A weaving machine of the non-reciprocating continuous type comprises weft carriers which are advanced along the weft direction by impulses imparted by a series of rocking sinkers arranged along the weft direction. The impulses are applied by pivotal movement of successive sinkers in one direction, and during movement of each sinker in the reverse direction the sinker acts to beat-up the deposited weft. Pivotal movement of the sinkers is effected by an endless sinker control track which is driven continuously by an endless chain.

Abstract: In the proposed apparatus for winding a weft thread onto spools of carriers, there is provided a disk rotatable in the horizontal plane on which are mounted constantly meshed satellite gears and winding members rotated by these satellite gears which engage, in a zone of winding of the weft thread, a stationary toothed sector arranged coaxially with the rotatable disk. In addition, provided in the apparatus are also a device for retaining the winding members in a preset position after the satellite gears disengage from the toothed sector and a device for gradual starting of the winding members and for stopping them in a predetermined position which precludes impacts and breakage of teeth at the engagement of the satellite gears with the toothed sector. This arrangement makes it possible to increase the speed of winding of the weft thread onto the spools of the carriers and to wind a required amount of the weft thread onto the spools of the carriers.

Abstract: The invention provides a loom shuttle and beat-up device including rotary means for driving the shuttle and beat-up. In one case the same rotary element serves to drive the shuttle and beat-up the weft, in an alternative two elements are used, one to drive the shuttle and the other to beat-up the weft.

Abstract: A loom shuttle having a yarn receiving chamber including yarn restraining elements in the chamber, the yarn restraining elements are so arranged as to enable yarn to be loaded without restraint and to apply restraint to the yarn as it is being withdrawn thus to prevent entanglement of the yarn during withdrawal.

Abstract: The proposed weft-thread gripping mechanism includes gripping members elastically tightened together and installed at the side of exit of weft thread carriers from a travelling-wave shed. The gripping members, one of which is movable relative to the other one, are mounted on a shaft of a disk-type beat-up motion so as to be rotatable therewith and displaceable, after gripping the weft thread, lengthwise the shaft axis in the direction from the travelling-wave shed. Located on the shaft of the disk-type beat-up motion is a stationary stop cooperating with the movable gripping member at the moment of the closest approach of the gripping members to the travelling-wave shed for a gap to be formed therebetween a weft thread passes through. This makes it possible to keep taut the weft thread advanced to the fell of the cloth till the end of the process of the cloth formation.

Abstract: The apparatus relates to travelling-wave looms, wherein weft thread carriers are conveyed along a closed trajectory of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,835,893. The apparatus includes a rotatable disk carrying rotatable winding members, lower grips for the end of the weft thread, a package holder and upper grips for the weft thread. Above the disk, beneath the upper grip for the weft thread, a mechanism for conveying the weft thread in a direction opposite to the downward movement thereof in the process of threading is mounted. This mechanism comprises a rod located in the zone wherein the carriers initially encounter the winding members. The weft thread is conveyed upwardly through the disk when a length of the thread defined between the upper grip and the thread guide provided in the disk encounters the rod during coordinated rotation of the disk with the weft thread carriers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of and apparatus for threading the weft thread carriers and may be most effectively used on travelling-wave looms. In this method, the weft thread is introduced into a thread tensioner while the last coil thereof is being wound with gripping before a straight section is formed, after which the thread is shifted by being unwound from a bobbin in the direction of feed, with the carrier admitted into the looming-up zone at this time, this shifting being maintained up to the moment of separation of the straight section from the coils. In an apparatus for realizing this method, there is provided a stationary cam for jaws located in a central angle of a disk within a sector limited by a region of divergence of mechanical trajectories of the disk and a conveyer and a region corresponding to the last turn of the threadguide around its axis which is close to the axis of rotation of the disk and shifted relative to the axis of symmetry of the carrier spool.

Abstract: A method of driving shuttles through sheds formed by warp yarns of a wave-type loom in which a transport edge of the shuttles is lubricated before entrance into the warp yarns, and a wave-shed loom for carrying out the method of driving the shuttles.

Abstract: A weaving machine of the non-reciprocating continuous type comprises a selection control system for the heald loops. The control system has sliding selectors which are linked to the loops and which are operated by selector controls mounted on carriages. The carriages are driven in synchronism with the operation of the weft carriers of the machine.

Abstract: A loom in which each warp yarn passes through a retraction region and a shedding region, and in which means are provided for creating gaseous fluid flow along each warp yarn so that the yarns, or those that are not otherwise restrained, are moved to form a loop in the shedding region, the loops, or selected ones of them, being separated from the warp yarn sheet by gaseous fluid flow to form a shed, and means are provided for mechanically displacing portions of the yarns in the retraction region to move the yarns longitudinally into a path of predetermined length so as to draw the yarns into tension in the shedding region to close the shed. The means for drawing the yarns into tension may also be employed to draw the fell of the woven fabric against a fixed reed to beat up the inserted weft yarn.

Abstract: A mechanism of a travelling-wave loom comprises a rotary reed and a separating grate composed of pivoted and stationary portions forming a channel for the weft thread carriers to be partially accommodated therein. Each of the portions is formed by plates, the pivoted portion having a plurality of strips swivelled to the stationary portion. Attached to each strip are plates of the pivoted portion. Near the strips there are installed devices adapted to cooperate therewith and to accomplish coupling thereof with the stop motion of the loom. This makes it possible to minimize the probability of damage to the plates of the separating grate and to improve the reliability of operation of the loom.

Abstract: A method of and a device for stopping the movement of a weft-carrier or shuttle when an obstruction is in the shed of a loom without damaging the loom or fabric being woven. The device includes a power operated shuttle drive mechanism adapted to engage the shuttle to move the shuttle through a shed, and a sensitive section adapted to be responsive to forces produced by an obstruction in the shed. When such forces exceed a predetermined value, the sensitive section actuates a transducer to stop the supply of power to shuttle drive mechanism and reduces to zero the forces being applied to the shuttle by its drive mechanism.

Abstract: Winding device for the filling-yarn bobbins of shuttles of a multi-shed loom having a filling station, which device has a yarn guide rotating on a circular path and conducting a filling yarn, as well as first means for the successive movement of the empty bobbins into the plane of the circle defined by the rotation of the yarn guide.

Abstract: The invention relates to weaving mechanisms and can be used to advantage in wave-type shedding looms. The mechanism includes a plurality of toothed discs mounted in a staggered fashion on a shaft and defining a helical surface having a portion of a varying radius diminishing axially in the direction of the advancing motion of the helical surface. Underlying the discs are support rollers with lugs defining a helical surface engaging the helical surface defined by the valleys of the discs and likewise having a portion of a varying radius, engaging the corresponding portion of the helical surface defined by the valleys. Such an embodiment simplifies the structure of the mechanism and obviates the need in a drive of the support rollers.

Abstract: An improved shed forming device having two-part heald holders the parts of which are secured together by a quickly detachable connecting means. The means connecting the two portions of the holder is made as a locking means in which the extremity of one portion of the holder is inserted or telescoped into the other portion and is held in the inserted position by a selectively releasable pawl. With the heald holders of the invention, warp threads may be drawn into the healds, when changing the weaving design or the number of healds in the individual holders, outside and away from the loom; thus reducing the idle time of the loom to a minimum. With the locking means there is preferably provided means for unlocking the pawl and for shifting the two portions of the holder relative to each other.The device of the invention may incorporate a cursor running or guide means extending across the loom, the cursor selectively locking the two portions of successive holders together or unlocking them from each other.

Abstract: An improved technique for presetting the adjustment cams that move the heddles of a travelling wave loom between their upper and lower shed-forming positions as described. The succession of control cams or guiding members, which engage actuating butts on the lower ends of the successive heddle members in the weaving region of the loom, are carried by a first endless conveyor; the succession of guiding members includes spaced adjustment portions including a slider element having three superposed cam track junction portions. A control section in the form of a travelling endless program member resembling a second endless conveyor upstream of the weaving region is selectively coupled to a link which engages a roller supported on the slider of each adjustment portion of the succession of guiding members. The link is movable into three positions corresponding to the three positions of adjustment of each slider.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a closed stationary guideway incorporating a chain conveyer having means for propelling the weft-thread carriers. The closed stationary guideway has two curvilinear and two rectilinear portions. Above one of the curvilinear portions and above the rectilinear portions of the guideway, except for the part thereof disposed in a cloth forming zone, there is installed an additional guideway slidably engaging a guide surface made on the top side of the weft thread carriers. Located above the other curvilinear portion of the closed stationary guideway are movable retainers contacting surfaces of the weft thread carriers. Thus, the above structure reliably retains the weft thread carriers against vertical displacements and to use for propelling the weft thread carriers out of the shed the very same elements used for propelling them in the shed.

Abstract: A shed forming device on an undulated shed loom in which heddles are arranged along flexible cables and held by them, and the cables during the operation of the loom carry out an undulantly advancing movement for the production of which drive points spaced apart from each other are provided on each cable.

Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for charging weft thread carriers in wave-type shedding looms. The apparatus comprises a thread guide including a rod having an opening made in one end thereof for the passage of a thread, the other end being pivotally connected with a drive and said rod is mounted in a support disposed intermediate the ends of the rod and arranged so that during a charging operation the ends of the rod are driven through circular motions. The apparatus reduces the thread charging time and also reduces the thread breakage rate, owing to less mechanical action upon the thread.

Abstract: Each shuttle of a multiple-shuttle weaving machine is provided with at least one shuttle magnet. A drive unit acts upon each shuttle magnet to effect positive magnetic transport of the shuttle through the length of the shed, without physically contacting the shuttle. The shuttle monitoring device includes a magnetic-field-dependent resistor for each shuttle to be monitored. The magnetic-field-dependent resistor is moved in parallel to and in synchronism with the drive unit for the shuttle and moves in a region where the resistor is influenced by at least one pole of the shuttle magnet. A machine shut-off device is connected to the resistor and is operative for shutting off the drive units for the shuttles of the weaving machine in response to a resistance change of the magnetic-field-dependent resistor indicative of lack of proper shuttle movement.

Abstract: A loom with shed forming means including healds, of which at least the carrier parts are displaceably mounted in guiding grooves formed in a bed extending along the whole machine width, at least one control mechanism being assigned to said carrier parts of the healds, said control mechanism being movably mounted on a guideway parallel to said bed. The control mechanism includes a selecting mechanism and a resetting mechanism. The selecting mechanism is preferably formed by a selecting magnet with a guiding means therefor.The loom of the invention may be one with progressive shed forming, or one with single shed forming.

Abstract: In a shed-forming device for a loom which simultaneously weaves a number of fabric lengths and in which heald-moving cams are arranged along a helical path, the improvement of providing couples of matched levers which are not bound to each other, and wherein one lever is controlled by a cam and the other lever is controlled by a spring, so that said levers are kept in a contrasting or opposing relationship by the control mechanisms.

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 device for displacing the weft-carriers in a weaving loom which comprises an endless chain composed of discrete links, one of the links having a space in which a carriage with a carrier roller is arranged. The links are universally connected to one another so that they can be displaced on planes which are perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: A filling-thread clamping device in the form of a tong-like thread gripper which is displaceable back and forth along a line lying in the central plane of the warp threads.