Abstract: The connecting rod (6) for two articulations with parallel axes and for transmitting the rocking movements of an output lever of a shedding device to a heald frame belonging to a weaving loom, comprises a first connecting tip connecting to a first articulation and secured to a longitudinal bar, a second connecting tip (62) connecting to a second articulation and including means for clamping the bar that are accessible from one side of the connecting rod, and means (64) for separating the tips along a longitudinal axis (X6) of the connecting rod. The separating means (64) comprise a bearing member (640) on an inclined surface (612; 630) whereof the normal is comprised in a plane (P6) perpendicular to the axes of the articulations and is inclined relative to the longitudinal axis (X6) of the connecting rod, while the bearing member (640) can be moved in a direction perpendicular to a plane (P34) containing the axes (X3, X4) of the articulations.

Abstract: Shed formation on a weaving machine (2), which is driven by a main motor (3), with a shedding device (4), which is driven by a shedding motor (5), wherein in each motion cycle (N) of the weaving machine (2), a loom shed (7) formed by warp threads (8) of the weaving machine (2) is opened and closed dependent on a weave pattern, and wherein the synchronicity of the two motors (3, 5) is controlled by signals (10) of a control device (9). During a partial number (Tn1, Tn2) of motion cycles (N), the synchronicity of the two motors (3, 5) is changed in such a manner so that plural shed closure angles (FSW) at which the loom shed (7) in the respective motion cycles (N) is closed, form an increasing or decreasing sequence.

Abstract: A weaving loom having self-contained assemblies that operate pulling systems for controlling heddle frames wherein each assembly includes at least one electric motor housed in a casing and at least one motor control unit having an electrical circuit for controlling electric power to the electric motor and wherein the self-contained assembly also includes a support on which the motor control unit is mounted and the support having at least one cooling duct extending there through. The self-contained assembly having damping elements providing a damping effect between the support and the electric motor.

Abstract: A control device (53) for a clutch assembly (11) of a dobby comprises a selecting finger (28) that is driven by an electromagnet (37). The selecting finger is rigidly connected to an armature (47) that has a curved armature section and a straight armature section. Together with an appropriately curved pole (45) of the magnetic circuit, the curved armature section forms an air gap (48) that is preferably not influenced by the pivot position of the selecting finger. The other pole (46) of the electromagnet (37) forms a preferably straight air gap (49), said air gap being variable and having a size that is a function of the pivot position of the selecting finger. Due to the existing lever ratios, the maximum width of the trapezoidal gap is substantially smaller than the path of the outer end of the selecting finger (28) between its two selection positions. The distance (A) between the pivot center (32) and the variable air gap (49) is substantially smaller than the length of the selecting finger (28).

Abstract: A new shaft drive provides for a switch-on and switch-off of individual heald shafts even at high working speeds. For this purpose switching pawls are provided which couple an eccentric with permanently revolving and/or back-and-forth oscillating disks. Measures for improving the controllability of such a clutch device are the control of the switching pawls by slot guides, associating bi-stabile biasing devices with the switching pawls and/or dividing the switching function into individual switching pawls (27a, 27b) which are associated individually with differently running disks (21, 22). Preferably, one of the two disks executes a continuous rotary motion, while the respective other disk performs only an oscillating motion which determines the heald shaft motion during the resting phases thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic dobby device (100) for controlling the motions of at least one weaving frame of a weaving machine, wherein the at least one weaving frame is connected to two rotors (1,2) by means of a rod and lever system, wherein each rotor (1,2) is mounted on a rotor shaft (5,6) by means of an eccentric bearing, and wherein each rotor (1,2) is individually selected to be connected or not to the rotor shaft (5,6) by means of one or several selection elements in accordance with the weaving pattern to be woven, in order to move between two possible positions that can be taken up by the rotor (1,2) with respect to the rotor shaft when the rotor (1,2) is disconnected from the rotor shaft (5,6) by the selection elements, wherein the said two rotors (1,2) each are eccentrically journalled on a different rotor shaft (5,6) and both rotor shafts (5,6) are rotating continuously and for rotating over a complete rotation require the same period of time, and in that the said weaving frame can take

Abstract: A shed forming device (1) for a power loom has a plurality of heddle shafts, to which a drive mechanism with a plurality of servo motor groups (13, 14) is assigned. The servo motor groups are located below each of the heddle shafts (3 through 8), in each case as a cluster, and they are located with their pivot axes (27 through 32) on a circle, an ellipse, or a similar figure. They are also axially offset from one another. Each servo motor (15 through 20) is provided with a driven lever (21 through 26). The free ends of all the levers are located approximately at the center of the circle or ellipse or other figure of revolution. They are connected to the heddle shafts (3 through 8) via connecting rods (34 through 39) and form various angles with the connecting rods (34 through 39). The result is a drive mechanism with little inertia, low resilience, and little play. Very fast shaft motions can be attained in a controlled way.

Abstract: A novel rod linkage for driving a heddle shaft includes at least one strap (16), which for damping oscillation has a sandwich structure (37) oriented in the longitudinal direction (L) of the strap assembly (16). The sandwich structure includes at least one rigid element (27), extending in the longitudinal direction, which is joined to one end (17) of the strap assembly (16); a second rigid element (31), likewise extending essentially in the longitudinal direction, which is joined to the other end (19); and a two-dimensional damping element (34), again extending in the longitudinal direction, disposed between the first two. The element (34) exclusively effects the mechanical connection of the two parts (16a, 16b) of the strap assembly (16). Preferably, no additional connecting elements, such as rivets, screws, or other rigid connections, between the rigid elements (27, 31) are provided.

Abstract: The dobby according to the invention comprises, at the level of each of its blades, an oscillating piece associated with an actuation element, at least one mobile coupling member borne by the actuation element and two pivoting levers subjected, on the one hand, to the action of a reading device and, on the other hand, to that of elastic means which tend to engage catches of the pivoting levers either with a jamming surface provided on the actuation element, or with the coupling member, while the lever in engagement with the jamming surface is out of range of a selector of the reading device. In addition, mechanical members independent of the reading device are adapted to displace, against the action of the elastic means, a lever whose catch is not in engagement with the jamming surface, with the result that it does not interfere with the angular displacement of the selector.

Abstract: The dobby according to the invention comprises, at the level of each of its blades, an oscillating piece associated with an actuation element, at least one mobile coupling member borne by the actuation element and two pivoting levers subjected, on the one hand, to the action of a reading device and, on the other hand, to that of elastic means which tend to engage catches of the pivoting levers either with a jamming surface provided on the actuation element, or with the coupling member, while the lever in engagement with the jamming surface is out of range of a selector of the reading device. In addition, mechanical members independent of the reading device are adapted to displace, against the action of the elastic means, a lever whose catch is not in engagement with the jamming surface, with the result that it does not interfere with the angular displacement of the selector.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for the rectilinear guiding of a body (1) of a shed-forming device that can be driven in a go and fro movement whereby the device comprises a rod mechanism (2, 3, 4) of which a first (2) and a second rod (3) are rotatably connected to respectively the aforesaid body (1) and a fixed part (11), whereby this rod mechanism is provided in order to exert a rectilinear movement on the joint (5) between the body (1) and the first rod (2) in the course of driving the body (1). The joint (5) between the first rod (2) and the body (1) moves for that purpose preferably in a straight line through the joint (7) between the second rod (3) and the fixed part (11). This device is especially utilized as shed-forming device of a machine of the Jacquard type for the rectilinear guiding of knife-supporting beams. Such a rectilinear guide has the advantage that it can be implemented with only hinge points that require no maintenance.

Abstract: The arrangement contains a carrier (4) which is mounted in a drive shaft (1) which is formed as a hollow shaft with holes (10) which are arranged in a radial plane, two switching tappets (5) which are displaceably arranged in the holes, two control members (7) which can be brought into operative engagement with the switching tappets, means (8) for the actuation of the control members and two resetting elements (9) for the control members (7). The control members are displaceable in the carrier with respect to the drive shaft into a first position in order to switch the coupling apparatus into a drive position and into a second position in order to switch the coupling apparatus into an idling position. The resetting members (9) are arranged inside the drive shaft (1) in order to displace the control members (7) into the second position. With this arrangement the resetting of the control members is ensured.

Abstract: An electrical rotating apparatus for controlling a harness cord associated with the shed of a weaving loom which includes an actuator including a rotor and a stator. The rotor is formed of at least two permanent magnets which are mounted within a tube so as to be spaced axially with respect to one another and wherein a plurality of stator elements are also provided offset axially relative to an axis of rotation of the rotor such that each of the plurality of rotors corresponds with a separate one of the plurality of stators. The polarities of one or the other of the permanent magnets or the stator elements are offset angularly relative to the axis of rotation.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for a rotary electric actuator for the formation of a shed on a loom wherein the actuator includes a driving rotor for rotating a device for winding and unwinding a harness thread and wherein the actuator includes a locking plate driven by the rotor which interacts with a locking member such that, when a stop of the locking member engages the locking plate, rotation of the rotor is stopped. A control mechanism is provided to selectively maneuver the locking member relative to the locking plate.

Abstract: A dobby for controlling movements of a heald frame in a weaving machine is provided. A treadle is mounted on a treadle spindle and a link arrangement connects the treadle to the heald frame. Levers are mounted on the treadle and catching members are arranged on the levers and on the treadle. The catching members on the treadle interact with a corresponding catching member on one of the levers based on a control signal. Driving equipment moves the levers between a central position and an outer position. The treadle follows the movements of the lever it is connected to by the catching members and moves the heald frame via the link arrangement.

Abstract: A rotary dobby which includes pivoting arms which are moveable with respect to a plate connected to an element for actuating a heddle frame in controlled response to a reading-in device and wherein the pivot arms include catches which are uniquely configured having internal and external bearing surfaces which cooperatively engage binding surfaces of the plate.

Abstract: A rotary dobby which includes pivoting arms which are moveable with respect to a plate connected to an element for actuating a heddle frame in controlled response to a reading-in device and wherein the pivoting arms include catches which are engageable with respect to first and second spaced binding surfaces of the plate in such a manner that one of the arms is spaced from an actuator associated with the reading-in device when the pivoting arms are engaging the binding surfaces.

Abstract: A modulator mechanism for a rotary dobby, the input side of the modulator mechanism being connected to a drive which rotates at an essentially constant angular velocity and the output side thereof providing an output which is applied to a main shaft controlling heald shafts and which is temporally modulated inch a way that a delay of the movements of the heald shafts their maximum displacement positions is caused. To permit a sufficiently large shed rest angle for aft insertion in the case of fabrics having a very large width, a substantially enlarged shed rest angle is provided by a rotatable cam body, which is connected to the drive, and by at least one cam body follower in the form of an articulated lever, which, when the cam body rotates, carries out an oscillating pivoting movement modulated in accordance with the cam shape of the cam body, the pivoting movement being transmitted to the main shaft.

Abstract: An electromagnet-striker bar system for the control device of a rotary dobby includes an amagnetic container having an extremely rigid box structure into which the iron cores of the electromagnets are equidistantly inserted and irreversibly locked. Amagnetic spools for supporting the electrical windings are mounted on electromagnetic pole pieces. The container is provided, in that side further from the hinging axis of said striker bars, with a longitudinal groove into which are inserted the amagnetic support and slide shoulders for the free ends of the striker bars. The free ends of the striker bars are hardened by heat treatment.

Abstract: A rotary dobby has two mutually opposed ratchet levers pivotably mounted to a cam disk engaging a connecting rod. First ends of the ratchet levers are to interact with two respective mating surfaces defined on the periphery of a drive disk integrated with a drive shaft. A rocking lever is pivotably mounted to the cam disk at a fulcrum that lies in a plane coincident with the axis of the drive shaft and extending between the pivots of the ratchet levers. The rocking lever has first and second terminal contact appendages disposed symmetrically with respect to the plane passing through the fulcrum and the axis of the drive. These appendages are operatively associated with second ends of the ratchet levers remote from the first ends thereof. The rocking lever also has a control arm positioned on the opposite side of the fulcrum from the terminal contact appendages and interacting with a control mechanism.

Abstract: An automatic control system for an electronic rotary dobby, has a pair of permanent magnets mounted on each of the corresponding rocker members. These members are driven by the dobby operating crank arms, such as the ends of the main levers. The magnets on the pair mounted on the rocker members are arranged such that in one end-of-rock position of the respective rocker member only one magnet cooperates with a related fixed sensor, and in the other end-of-rock position of the respective rocker member only one magnet cooperates with another related fixed sensor, and in the other end-of-rock position only the other magnet of the pair cooperates with its own fixed sensor. The sensor signals are compared with the corresponding signals of the predetermined weaving program, the loom being halted if they do not coincide.

Abstract: A high-speed rotary dobby key mover mechanism having a main crank arm in which two keying levers that have the same arm ratio are mounted for pivotal movement on a cam in opposing positions. The adjacent ends of the keying levers cooperate with a key, while the free other ends of the key levers, which are diametrically opposite about and at the same distance from the axis of the dobby drive shaft for the dobby cooperate alternately with a single control device which is located on only one side of the main crank arm. The control device is regulated, moreover, by a logic unit.

Abstract: A control device for rotary dobbies in which a key has a transverse groove of width equal to the thickness of a control ring with which it cooperates plus the length of travel undergone by the key in its insertion into or withdrawal from radial grooves in a big end of a main crank arm or in a drive shaft. The control ring has an elliptical shape and is fixed onto a operating lever which, pivoted on a minor axis of an ellipse and retained in its rest position by a V-shaped spring, is made to rock to one side or the other about the axis of symmetry of the spring by a pusher rod. The pusher arm is operated by a cam mechanism and moved by a needle selector controlled by a programmer, to act on one of two valleys provided in a rocking sector on an operating lever symmetrically about an axis of symmetry.

Abstract: A device for driving the ring levers that control the keys of a high-speed rotary dobby. In the device, a metal rocker armature is hinged to each lever along the axis of symmetry of the device. The axis passes through the fulcrum about which the levers rock. The levers have at their lower ends teeth that cooperate with corresponding grooves in two digging tracks that move with a reciprocating motion and in mutual opposition perpendicular to the axis of symmetry. The upper rocker armature surface, moreover, cooperates with one of two overlying electromagnets that are arranged symmetrically about the axis of symmetry.

Abstract: A dobby for a weaving loom including a series of actuation elements which depend on a weaving program incorporated in a reading device and which are coupled to traction levers connected by a drawing system to the heddle frames, wherein, between the traction levers and the drawing systems of at least certain of the actuation elements there is interposed an arm associated with additional actuation elements which impart thereto a periodic oscillating movement which is in synchronism with the operating cycle of the conventional actuating elements. The arms are pivotally carried by the traction levers so as to continue their oscillating movement to one or the other of two work positions of the lever.

Abstract: An assembly of actuating elements of a rotating dobby for a weaving loom wherein the elements for controlling the movement of each heddle frame include a lever pivotably connected to a connecting rod selectively engageable with an eccentric which is mounted to a drive shaft by bearings. The eccentric and the connecting rods are selectively rotated with the drive shaft by being selectively engaged with drive plates which are secured to the drive shaft under axial compression between compression members and the bearings.

Abstract: A modulator mechanism for actuating textile dobbies in looms which include a cage driven in rotation by the drive shaft of the loom and which have at least two oscillating supports provided with rollers which roll in contact with a fixed cam which is connected to the principal shaft of the dobby. Connecting rods are pivotally attached to the supports and to a web fixed to the dobby shaft so that the dobby shaft is intermittently driven in rotation as the connecting rods are oscillated by the supports.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling warp threads on weaving machines, particularly suited for control of warp threads on Jacquard type machines, for example selvedge machines. Control members are arranged to control movement of a warp thread and are adapted to be moved in arcuate paths by a reciprocatable member which reciprocates repeatedly. Selectively operable members cooperate with the control members to allow the control members to reciprocate fully with the reciprocatable members or to be held in a position in which the control members either reciprocate less than the reciprocatable members or do not reciprocate at all. The control members have abutting surfaces in different planes which slide relative to each other and which permit the control members to be positioned with the abutting surfaces facing each other with a combined thickness substantially the same as the overall thickness of one of the control members.

Abstract: A modulator for controlling high-speed rotary dobbies of the type which control the dobby main shaft's motion by transmitting power from a drive shaft through pivotable rocker supports rotatably driven by the drive shaft and engaging conjugate cams so that the drive shaft's uniform rotary motion is converted into non-uniform motion of the dobby main shaft. This is caused by the conjugate cams, which cause the rocker supports to pivot. The rocker supports are mounted so as to accommodate this rocking. The two rocker supports are connected to the dobby main shaft by two connecting rods hinged by pins on one of the rocker supports and on an appendix of the main shaft respectively, these connecting rods being disposed antisymmetrically to each other in accordance with a particular geometry.

Abstract: The control system of a coupling apparatus of a dobby loom includes a hollow drive shaft, at least one eccentric hoop supported thereupon and a connecting rod arranged therearound for a controlled drive of an element. A dog is supported radially displaceable in the eccentric hoop and may be brought in a controlled manner via corresponding actuating means into engagement either into one of two recesses of the connecting rod or in one of two recesses of the drive shaft. For structural simplicity, the actuating means and the direct control means for the dog are located within the drive shaft, i.e. in the center of roation of the coupling.

Abstract: A rotating dobby for weaving looms wherein the oscillating rods which are connected to the heddles are positively and instantaneously retained in a fixed position upon the disengagement of the coupling hooks by way of which the rods are normally engaged with a rotating drive disk.

Abstract: A drive connection for reciprocating a connecting rod from an intermittently rotating drive shaft through an eccentric member to manipulate a harness frame of a textile loom from one shedding position to another, includes a drive ring fixed to the drive shaft and a pawl pivotably mounted on the eccentric member for movement into and out of engagement in opposed recesses in the drive ring during dwells in the intermittent shaft rotation to connect or disconnect the eccentric member and the drive ring. The pawl is biased toward engagement in the recesses with opposed shifting levers being provided for actuating selective disengagement of the pawl from the recesses. A pivotable blocking device enables alternate engagement of the switching levers into pawl disengaging position.

Abstract: A positive dobby in which a pair of cam plates for moving each heald frame positively vertically are provided separately on the first cam shaft and on the second cam shaft parallel to the first cam shaft, whereby the dobby is constituted without enlarging the pitch between the cam plates corresponding to each heald frame.

Abstract: Mechanism to control the oscillations of connecting rods operating the heald frames in a rotary dobby, of the type wherein, for each frame and connecting rod: the rod is mounted on a drive shaft by way of an eccentric interposed between the shaft and the connecting rod small end; the eccentric can be controlled for rotation, alternatively with the connecting rod or with the shaft, by means of a radial key; mechanism is provided to shift the key to the outer position of engagement of the connecting rod small end; a spring is provided to return the key to the inner position of engagement of the shaft; and an electromagnet is provided to hold, when energized, the key in the outer position of engagement of the connecting rod small end.

Abstract: A shaft control mechanism for controlling a shaft of a weaving machine according to a pattern includes a connecting rod operatively connected to the shaft, a drive element intermittently rotating and standing still in a dead center position, an eccentric disc rotatably supported on the connecting rod, a coupling element connected to the eccentric disc, a device for moving the coupling element into a recess formed in the drive element interconnecting the drive element and the eccentric disc in a coupled position, a controllable locking element securing the coupling element against movement out of said recess into an uncoupled position until the drive element reaches the dead center position along with the eccentric disc, and at least one control element transmitting an external force to the coupling element according to the pattern, required to move the coupling element into the uncoupled position while the drive element and the eccentric disc are rotating.

Abstract: A driving coupling includes two pawls which are supported pivotally on an eccentric ring and which in a patternlike manner engage a longitudinal groove in the drive shaft. Each of two plates of a toggle-lever joint engages an arm extension of a respective pawl, the swivel axle of the toggle-lever joint being guided in a control groove of a swinging switching arm. When the pawls are engaged with a drive shaft groove, the toggle-lever joint is in an extended position which locks the pawls in position. For unlocking the pawls, the switching arm moves the toggle-lever joint into a catch opening between two guide rails. The pawls swing out and the drive shaft rotates without carrying along the pawls and the eccentric ring.

Abstract: A drive connection for reciprocating a connecting rod from a drive shaft through an eccentric cam to manipulate a harness frame of a textile loom from one shedding position to another. The drive connection includes a pawl mounted on an eccentric cam and movable into and out of engagement in recesses in an annular drive ring only when the eccentric cam is in predetermined dwell positions. The pawl is controlled by a locking element against any change of position after it is engaged and it is continually biased in the direction of engagement. An actuating lever mounted on the connecting rod actuates the locking element to cause disengagement of the pawl from the drive ring recess. The actuating lever is controlled by an operating member that operates according to a predetermined program, and the actuating lever is prevented from actuation by blocking members that are spaced to allow actuation only at a dwell position.

Abstract: A rotary dobby includes a drive shaft assembly, an eccentric mechanism releasably coupled to the drive shaft assembly, the eccentric mechanism including a connecting rod having a coupling joint to be connected to a shaft linkage and the eccentric mechanism including an eccentric disc carried by the connecting rod, the eccentric disc having a radially directed wedge guide formed therein, the drive shaft assembly having two diametrically opposite detent grooves formed therein, a coupling wedge, a device for shifting the coupling wedge in the wedge guide and in the detent grooves according to a pattern during a rest position of the drive shaft assembly, the eccentric disc and the connecting road, and a device for arresting the connecting rod in two rest positions thereof.

Abstract: A rotary dobby for moving a shaft includes a connecting rod connected to the shaft to be moved, the connecting rod having two mutually-opposite wedge detents disposed thereon, an eccentric disk carried on the connecting rod having a wedge guide extended radially in the eccentric disk, a drive shaft assembly having at least one detent groove formed therein, a coupling wedge disposed between the drive shaft assembly and the eccentric disk, the coupling wedge having an open shifting groove formed therein, two control pieces engageable in the shifting groove, two control rods each being connected to a respective one of the control pieces and being controlled according to a given pattern for pushing one of the control pieces into the shifting groove and for pushing the coupling wedge alternately into the detent groove along the length of the wedge guide when the drive shaft assembly is not rotating and into one of the two wedge detents, and a detent device disposed on the connecting rod at and associated with the

Abstract: A rotary dobby for moving a shaft includes a connecting rod connected to the shaft to be moved, the connecting rod having two mutually-opposite wedge detents disposed thereon along a given wedge-detent diametral line, an eccentric disk carried on the connecting rod having a wedge guide extended radially in the eccentric disk, a drive shaft assembly having at least one detent groove formed therein, a coupling wedge disposed between the drive shaft assembly and the eccentric disk, the coupling wedge having an open shifting groove formed therein, two control pieces engageable in the shifting groove, two control rods each being connected to a respective one of the control pieces and being controlled according to a given pattern for pushing one of the control pieces into the shifting groove and for pushing the coupling wedge alternately into the detent groove along the length of the wedge guide when the drive shaft assembly is not rotating and into one of the two wedge detents, and an automatic zero setting device

Abstract: An eccentric ring is rotatably supported between a drive shaft and a connecting rod. Two coupling keys are independently radially movably supported on the eccentric ring. The first key, during a coupling operation, is radially moved by an inner cam and is held in engagement with a groove in the shaft during a 180.degree. rotation thereof. The second key can move radially between positions respectively engaging the groove and an outer cam on an indexing ring and, for a holding-still phase, is moved outwardly by an edge of the shaft groove into an enlargement in the outer cam. Through the second key being in the enlargement and through a cam on the indexing ring which engages a gap between two noses on the eccentric ring, the eccentric ring is held against rotation. When the first key is moved inwardly, an edge of the groove engages it and thus rotates the eccentric ring and the second key, which slides on a ramp of the enlargement and is moved into the shaft groove.

Abstract: A rotary switch is provided in a dobby with a rotation drive and has for controlling the coupling part an annular collar. During rotation of the drive shaft, the coupling part is guided actively by the rotary switch, the position of which during this time is releasably secured by a lock. For this purpose, a differential lever is arranged on the dobby, the position of which varies based on feedback through a rocking lever and a rail which indicates the position of the heddle frame. The reading of a point on the pattern card results automatically in the correct engaging or disengaging movement of the coupling part, independent of its position.

Abstract: A normal position of a shifting wedge of a lifting unit for a rotational dobby is achieved by a movable arrangement of the recess in a locking block which receives the wedge and has rigid side flanks. The entire locking block is, against the urging of a spring, supported for movement translatorically and/or swingably within certain limits, wherein the center axis of the recess moves only insignificantly out of its normal radial orientation.

Abstract: A dobby includes a needle mechanism having a reading needle, the head of which, during reading of a nonperforated location on a pattern card, engages a pawl and, during reading of a hole in the card, releases the pawl to permit the pawl, under the force of a spring, to tilt about an axle and in this manner to have a surface thereof disposed in front of an edge of a key-shifting gate. During the operating movement of the axle, the pawl pushes the key-shifting gate, which slides in rectilinear guides, wherein a key is carried along by a cam which encircles the opening for the shaft 1. The key is radially movably supported on the eccentric ring and engages one of two openings on the connecting rod, which results in a standstill of the heddle frame, or engages one of two grooves in the drive shaft. In the latter case, the drive shaft carries the key and the eccentric ring along as it rotates and moves the connecting rod, which triggers a movement of the heddle frame.

Abstract: For the purpose of producing a synchronized rotating dobby capable of operating equally well in both directions of rotation, a plate fixed to a heddle-frame displacing eccentric is provided with a second notch diametrically opposite the immobilizing first notch in which engages the nose element of a pivoting lever actuated by the reading device. This second notch cooperates with the oppositely located lever to ensure maintenance of the correct positioning of the plate.

Abstract: A locking lever is articulated to a latch. The locking lever is pivoted or swung out against the action of a spring and the pivoting or swinging movement is limited by a stop mounted at an eccentric. The opposite pivoting or swinging movement of the locking lever is limited by a surface at the locking lever which runs-up against a surface at the latch. Upon rotation of a drive shaft carrying the eccentric the latch can now assume a decoupling or decoupled position. Due to the provision of control levers with hook-shaped ends which, when pivoted into a predetermined position, cause the locking lever to run-up or travel against one of the hook-shaped ends, the latch is only then caused to be decoupled when subsequently and in accordance with the weaving program a decoupling operation of the latch is really intended to take place. Otherwise the latch is not decoupled because in that case the locking lever cannot run-up against one of the hook-shaped ends of the control levers.

Abstract: A drive assembly or gear unit is formed with a drive unit which is rotatably supported on a power output shaft between two bearing positions on the output shaft. The drive unit includes a pair of crankshafts which are offset relative to each other by 180.degree., with each of the crankshafts carrying planet wheels which mesh with a stationary sun gear. The crankshafts are formed with cranks which cooperate with the arms of a twin-armed rocker member which is rotatably affixed to the output shaft in order to apply driving force thereto.

Abstract: The clutch arrangement contains a stroke member which carries two levers and a spring connecting the levers. The stroke member is driven by a drive lever which engages between the two levers. The stroke member drives the bar for the control levers while a scanning arm is moved against the armature of an electromagnet. Both movements occur with a force transmission occuring via the single spring. This provides for especially gentle treatment of the parts. At the same time, relatively few parts are needed.

Abstract: In a coupling arrangement for a textile machine, a drive shaft can be intermittently rotated and a connecting member encircles and is connected to the drive shaft by an eccentric hoop located between them. A coupling key is displaceable between a first coupling recess associated with the drive shaft and a second coupling recess associated with the connecting member. The coupling key is retained in the recesses by lead cams. A retaining key, independent from the coupling key, is supported by the eccentric hoop. The retaining key cooperates with a first retaining recess on the drive shaft or with a second retaining recess on the connecting member. The retaining key and/or the retaining recesses have control surfaces which provide the displacement of the retaining key when the drive shaft overtakes the eccentric hoop or the eccentric hoop overtakes the connecting member.

Abstract: There is provided an electromagnetically controllable coupling means between the drive shaft and a cam element of a textile machine. A latch mounted on the cam element and rotatable with it is biasable by a spring to interact with grooves in said drive shaft. Two rocker arms rotatable about fixed axes are each provided with a strikers and are swingable back and forth between a first position in which said striker holds the latch out of interaction with the grooves and a second position in which the latch is released in order to interact with said grooves. A pair of anchors influenced by program directed electromagnets serve to hold the said rocker arms in the first position. A stopping arrangement prevents further rotation of the cam means when the latch moves from one into the other of the aforementioned rotation positions. Each anchor attached to the appropriate arm is in the first position of the rocker arm presented proximate to the pole face of its appropriate electromagnet.