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US3416573A
US3416573A US614973A US61497367A US3416573A US 3416573 A US3416573 A US 3416573A US 614973 A US614973 A US 614973A US 61497367 A US61497367 A US 61497367A US 3416573 A US3416573 A US 3416573A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D47/00—Looms in which bulk supply of weft does not pass through shed, e.g. shuttleless looms, gripper shuttle looms, dummy shuttle looms
    • D03D47/27—Drive or guide mechanisms for weft inserting
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    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D47/00—Looms in which bulk supply of weft does not pass through shed, e.g. shuttleless looms, gripper shuttle looms, dummy shuttle looms

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  • a thread from at least one weft bobbin passes continuously lengthwise through one of said tubular guides and is maintained 'in such guides with a free end extending beyond the end of such guide, while the other weft guide is provided with a gripper adapted to grip the projecting end of said thread when the two weft guides are closest to each other but not in contact at the end of their inward strokes, and to complete the insertion of the weft in the shed by drawing thread from the supply during the return stroke of said weft guides.
  • the present invention relates to looms of the shuttleless type, that is, having a large weft thread reserve, and more particularly to improved means for inserting the weft in the shed in such a loom.
  • Pneumatic devices have also been designed, which are associated with mechanical or electro-mechanical devices, but they are difficult to make and the operation thereof is rather complex and, consequently, somewhat unreliable.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a shuttleless loom in which the weft insertion device, though it uses a stream of air, is not actually a pneumatic device, since said stream of air is only used for keeping the thread supported and for positioning same without ensuring the movement thereof.
  • the loom of the invention which to this end includes two tubular weft guides reciprocating along a common axis but in opposite directions, at least one thread from at least one weft bobbin passing continuously lengthwise through one of said guides, is characterized in that a stream of air passes through said latter weft guide so as to maintain said thread supported and extending beyond the end of said weft guide, while the other weft guide is provided with a gripper adapted to grip the projecting end of said thread at the moment said two weft guides reach the end of their outstroke and come very close to each other but without any mutual contact, and to complete thus the insertion of the weft in the shed through forced mechanical traction during the return stroke of said weft guides.
  • That tubular weft guide carrying the gripper is ad vantageously subjected to a suction effect, the purpose of which is to ensure that the thread end projecting from the first-mentioned thread guide is duly held out to said gripper.
  • the weft thread from a stationary reserve passes over a guide located above the first-mentioned tubular weft guide at a distance such from the latter that the path of said thread between said further guide and the inlet through which said thread enters said tubular weft guide forms with the latter a sharp angle such that, when said tubular weft guide moves forward and reaches its farthest position in the shed, said thread is not drawn since it passes to an angular position which is symmetrical but opposite to its starting position.
  • Said guide above the tubular weft guide may be adapted to have its position adjusted as regards its distance from said'tubular weft guide, with a view to enabling cloths of different widths to be woven. It acts also as a brake to stop any untimely unwinding which could occur either as a result of the movement of the tubular weft guide or under the effect of the stream of air prevailing inside the latter, any unwinding being obtained only through the mechanical traction exerted by the gripper of the other tubular weft guide during its coming out of the shed.
  • a cutting device is provided laterally with respect to the loom, on the side of the Weft bobbin or bobbins, to cut off the weft thread a few centimeters from the end of the corresponding tubular weft guide when the latter completes its return stroke.
  • FIGURE 1 is a diagrammatic side elevation showing the essential members of a loom
  • FIGURES 2, 3, 4 and 5 are front elevations of the loom according to the invention, showing four of the successive positions taken by the weft guides thereof;
  • FIGURE 6 shows, on a larger scale, and partially in section, a portion of a loom adapted for weaving with two different wefts in alternation;
  • FIGURE 7 illustrates, in section, an embodiment of the gripper of the loom.
  • FIGURE 8 is an elevation view of a cam arrangement by which the period of opening of the gripper of FIG- URE 7 is adjusted.
  • FIGURE 1 designates the lay of the loom, 3 its sword, 4 and '5 indicate healds through which the warp threads 6 and 7 pass, while 8 designates the fabric obtained by laying the weft in the shed 9.
  • the present invention relates precisely to the means for the laying of' the weft. Said means are indicated generally at 10 in FIGURE 1.
  • said means comprise two tubular weft guides 10a and 10b sliding each within a stationary slide, 11a, 11b respectively.
  • the sliding of each of said weft guides is obtained through a respective carriage 12 carrying rollers or shoes 13 moving inside the above-mentioned slides.
  • An arm 15 is pivotally mounted at 14 on each of said carriages 12, the other end of said arm 15 being hinged at 16 to a lever 17 hanging from a stationary spindle 18 around which it is adapted to rock.
  • a connecting rod 20 is linked at 19 to said lever 17, said connecting rod 20 being mounted on the crank pin 21 of a fly wheel 22 adapted to rotate continuously.
  • the two fly wheels 22 controlling the two weft guides 10a, 10b respectively rotate in accurate synchronism with respect to each other, under the action of a motor (not illustrated).
  • the two tubular weft guides 10a, 10b are thus driven with rectilinear alternating motions along a common 3 axis but in opposite directions with respect to each other.
  • the arrangement is such that during their outstroke above the lay 2 the weft guides a, 10b slide towards each other till they come very close to each other without coming into mutual contact, while their return stroke is such that they are completely clear of said lay.
  • the tubular weft guide 10a is provided laterally with at least one port 24 through which the weft thread 25 from a reserve bobbin 26 passes, while a guiding and braking device 27 is provided between said bobbin and the tubular weft guide 10a, above the latter.
  • a stream of air blown in the direction of the arrow 28 passes through said tubular weft guide 10a, while a stream of air passes through the second tubular weft guide 10b in the direction of the arrow 29.
  • the two tubular weft guides 10a and 10b are connected, at 30 and 31 respectively, with a blower (not shown) and the other with a suction device (not shown), by means of flexible lines 30a and 31a respectively.
  • tubular weft guide 1011 includes a gripper 32 the opening and closing of which takes place (as will be described hereinafter) at the moment said weft guide 10b comes close to the weft guide 10a, that is, substantially in the middle of the shed.
  • the two tubular weft guides 10a, 10b are at the end of their return stroke or at the beginning of their forward stroke, in which position the weft guide 10a carries the weft thread 25 which passes lengthwise therethrough, while the free end of said weft thread 25 projects beyond the end of said weft guide 10a.
  • the two tubular weft guides move then towards each other, in the direction of the arrows 33a, 33b respectively, (FIGURE 3), while entering the shed 9 above the lay 2, owing to the movements of the arms 15, levers 17, connecting rods 20 and wheels 22.
  • the weft thread 25 is thus inserted into the shed 9 substantially over the first half of its length, while remaining still inside the tubular weft guide 10a within which it is supported and held by the stream of air acting in the direction of the arrow 28, and without being subjected to any relative shifting with respect to said weft guide 10a.
  • the gripper 32 closes then and grips the end 25a without the two Weft guides 10a and 10b having come into contact. Said two weft guides then perform their return stroke in the direction of the arrows 34a, 34b, respectively (FIGURE 4).
  • the weft thread 25 is now drawn forcedly by the weft guide 10b. It is unwound from the bobbin 26 while overcoming the resistance offered by the braking device 27 and is thus laid over the whole width of the shed by sliding inside the weft guide 10a in a direction opposite to the motion of the latter.
  • the gripper 32 then opens to leave the weft thread in the shed.
  • the two weft guides 10a, 10b reach thus the end of their return stroke, that is, the positions shown in FIG- URE 2, at which moment a cutting member 35 cuts off the weft at a point near the end of the weft guide 10a adjacent the loom.
  • the loom is then ready for the insertion of a new pick.
  • each of said weft threads 25c, 25d passes first through a short elbow provided on the tubular weft guide 10a and opening thereinto at 38c, 380? respectively, and then into an individual channel 39c, 39d respectively, provided in said weft guide 10a.
  • FIGURE 7 illustrates an embodiment of the gripper 32 carried by the tubular weft guide 10b.
  • Said gripper comprises a valve 40 carried by a rod 41 which passes throughout the tubular weft guide 10b, the other end of said rod 41 being provided with a head 42 projecting beyond said weft guide.
  • the valve 40 is held open by the action of a spring 43.
  • the valve 40 comes to bear against the inner periphery of a mouthpiece 44 carried by the end of the tubular weft guide 10b.
  • the closing of the valve 40 is performed by a hollow cam 45 which. acts on the head 42.
  • Said cam is integral with the arm 15 and pivotally mounted with the latter on the spindle 14.
  • the cam 45 thus follows the changes of direction of said arm 15, and during such changes the boss 46 on said cam pushes back the rod 41, which causes the valve 40 to close and to act thus as a gripper.
  • the cam 45 may be formed by two elementary parts 46a, 46b adapted to be angularly adjusted with respect to each other by pivoting around the spingle 14.
  • valve 40 is mounted on the end of the rod 41 with a certain amount of freedom in its axial movement, owing to a return spring 49, which always ensures that said valve bears elastically on the inside of the mouthpiece 44 while absorbing any possible slight unevenness of the travel of the rod 41.
  • the distances between the crank pins 21 and the centers of their fly wheels 22 are adjustable, which makes it possible to adjust the length of the strokes of the tubular weft guides 10a, 10b.
  • a loom comprising means for insertion of weft threads in the sheds formed in the loom, said means including two hollow weft guides supported in alignmenton a common axis, means for driving said weft guides in reciprocation in opposite directions to cause said weft guides to alternately approach one another in one stroke and to move away from one another in the successive stroke, a stationary supply of weft thread, means for guiding and introducing weft thread from said supply into one of said guides, means for passing a stream of air through said one guide to support the weft thread in the stream, gripper means carried by the other of said guides for engaging thread in said one guide when the guides have approached one another at the ends of said one stroke, said gripper means drawing the thread therewith as the gripper means travels with said other guide in the successive stroke whereby thread is drawn from said supply of weft thread, means controlling said gripper means to release the thread at the end of said successive stroke, means for cutting the thread in said one guide at the end of said successive stroke, to leave a portion projecting therefrom
  • a loom as claimed in claim 2, wherein said means which exterts the braking action on the thread is located at a distance above said one weft guide such that the path of said thread between said braking means and the port through which said thread enters said one weft guide forms an acute angle with the latter at the end of the stroke and when the guides are furtherest apart, so that when said guides move towards one another and reach the end of their stroke, said thread is not drawn from the supply since it passes to an angular position which is symmetrical but opposite that of its starting position.
  • a loom as claimed in claim 1 comprising means for establishing a suction within said other weft guide to draw the portion projecting from said one guide to the gripper means.

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FR1261463A (fr) * 1959-05-25 1961-05-19 Métier à tisser à insertion pneumatique de la trame
US3249127A (en) * 1964-01-02 1966-05-03 Oscar V Payne Needle loom

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