Abstract: In a multished weaving loom, the revolving comb is reliably supported by members in the form of a certain number of rollers or pads or combination roller-pads having a bladelike configuration, to be inserted in the interdisk gaps of the revolving comb so as to rest on the interdisk spreaders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to shedding mechanisms most advantageously used on wide travelling-wave looms. These mechanisms comprise systems of heddle shafts and cams rigidly secured on a drive shaft, imparting to the heddle shafts dephased motion and arranged in groups in a housing so that individual drive sections are formed, additional heddle shafts coupled with the cophasal main heddle shafts being installed therebetween. Such an arrangement enables the loom width to be more fully utilized, wide fabrics to be woven and the width of the fabric produced to be varied.

Abstract: A travelling-wave loom relates to the machine-building branch of the textile industry. This loom comprises a cloth-forming mechanism composed of a rotary reed and a separating grate with plates, and weft thread carriers propelled through the shed of the warp threads and partially accommodated in a tunnel of the separating grate. Each carrier has a groove on the side facing the plates of the separating grate, whereas each plate of this grate has a projection engaging the groove of the carrier. The ends of the projections of the plates are positioned as close as possible to the mechanical trajectory of the crests of the teeth of the reed disks so that with the disks rotating, the teeth thereof are clear of the tops of these projections.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an undulated shed-type loom for transporting shuttles filled with filling thread through sheds by means of electromagnetic fields acting on the shuttles and having means for beating up the filling threads introduced against the fell of the cloth, the beating-up of the filling threads taking place synchronously with the transportation of the shuttles over the width of the loom.

Abstract: An apparatus for selective movement of individual lamella shaped heddles for the formation of a shed on a loom in which the heddles are positioned between flat guide elements with each heddle being selectively movable to one of two predetermined different positions.

Abstract: The invention relates to weft or filling thread beat-up mechanisms and can be effectively utilized in travelling wave shedding looms. The beat-up mechanism includes a series of discs mounted on a shaft, each disc having teeth of different heights radial, increasing in the weft thread beat-up direction, each tooth having the merging point of its rear or trailing edge and its outer edge situated radially higher than the merging point of its leading or front edge and this outer edge, whereby the breakage of both warp and weft threads is significantly reduced.

Abstract: A travelling-wave loom comprises a rotary reed. The rotary reed includes a shaft with disks angularly offset relative to one another and provided with teeth of different radial lengths. The disks are mounted on the shaft in groups of at least two disks. In one disk of each group, in the direction of the reed rotation, at least one of the teeth is located relative to the corresponding tooth of the other disk of each group so that a helical line formed by the front edges of these teeth is of a step-like shape. Such an arrangement of the disks and the teeth thereof creates favorable conditions both for reliable engagement of the weft and for advancing the latter to the fell of the cloth for subsequent beating-up.

Abstract: A travelling-wave loom is provided with a pair of endless chains which respectively carry a plurality of weft inserters and a plurality of winding units for feeding weft threads from associated bobbins to the weft inserters. The chain carrying the winding unit is formed from a plurality of spaced rigid carrier members interconnected by standard links. Each carrier member has a groove for removably receiving the winding head, and when in position a spring-loaded pawl affixed to the carrier member releasably secures the winding head in the groove of such carrier member. Such chain also carries transversely spaced sets of rollers which are individually supported on opposite sides of an oval guide rail. One of the roller sets is spring-loaded to maintain the carrier member in firm contact with the guide surfaces.

Abstract: The drive includes actuators having respective heald frames secured to the upper ends thereof, the lower ends having mounted thereon followers permanently engaging moving cam plates controlling the reciprocation of the heald frames. A longitudinal groove is made in each one of the actuators, receiving therein a spring having its axis offset with respect to the vertical axis of a respective follower, in the direction of movement of the cam plates. The proposed structure of the drive reduces its dimensions and enhances the reliability of its performance.

Abstract: The present invention covers an apparatus for selecting shuttles having weft windings therein of different filling yarn types for preprogrammed weft insertions on a wave-type or corrugated shed loom.

Abstract: Shaft arrangement for the swinging of reed teeth in a wave-type loom in which at least one lubricating groove extends the length of the shaft that drives the swinging of the reed teeth.

Abstract: An arrangement for actuating laminas on a wave-type loom, in which the laminas are held individually by a coupling body which extends over the width of the loom, the driving of the laminas taking place by drive means arranged closely alongside each other over the width of the loom and act on the coupling body and are coupled with drive cams, the drive means being so dimensioned that the part acting on the coupling body is several times the thickness of a lamina.

Abstract: The present device covers the winding of bobbins with filling threads, which are to be introduced in a weaving shuttle into the shed of a loom, the device having a receiving station, a winding station, and a delivery station.

Abstract: A device for supporting a rotary reed on a shaft shed weaving machine in which a rotary reed having a radially projecting profile is supported in portions of its periphery by rotary roll bodies to provide relief of the loading on the summit area of the rotary reed profile.

Abstract: Method of and apparatus for compensating for weft tension in the region between a fabric selvedge and weft thread spooling units in traveling wave shedding looms wherein the spooling units follow an endless path of which one portion extends in common with another endless path followed by weft thread inserters containing a weft supply package, said weft tension compensation taking place after the respective weft thread spooling unit and the weft thread inserter have left each other and after the latter has entered a weaving shed as well as after the weft thread has been woven into the fabric fell, up to the instant at which the weft thread has been severed adjacent the fabric selvedge, the weft thread withdrawal from the spooling unit being blocked upstream the point of divergence of said respective paths of the weft thread spooling units and the weft thread inserters.

Abstract: A device for the filling of filling yarn bobbins on the shuttles of a traveling wave loom which has continuously rotating a conveying chain to move the shuttles having empty bobins thereon from the outlet edge to the inlet edge of the fabric during weaving, the shuttles being guided between slide rails with each bobbin provided with a small toothed wheel that meshes with a large toothed wheel to bring about the rotation of the bobbin for winding thereon a filling yarn.

Abstract: Method of and apparatus for continuous progressive beating up of weft in travelling-wave shedding looms with simultaneous picking of weft threads into the warp in which the weft in the shed is affected by a beating up force progressing in the weaving direction. The weft is first affected by a beating up force which is the resultant of a force acting in the direction of the weaving plane and another force acting in the direction towards the weaving plane, and then is affected by a beating up force acting in the direction of the weaving plane, while the beating up force continuously progresses in accordance with the travelling shed weaves along the whole warp width.

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: The present invention relates to a wave-type weaving machine with reed teeth which are arranged along an axis and are adapted to pivot about the said axis, abut with some play on cam-like guide surfaces and, on rotation of the guide surfaces, carry out pivoting movements about the said axis, the reed teeth beating-up the weft thread in one of the end positions of the said teeth.

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.