Carpet weaving loom
AssigneeBrintons Limited
InventorMichael Winspear Burton
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Abstract
A carpet weaving loom comprises one or more tuft forming units (1), each of which is capable of supplying yarn tufts (26) of a number of different colours to a number of different weaving points sequentially. The or each of the tuft forming units (1) includes a demountable yarn carrier (2). In this way, when it is required to change the design of carpet being woven, or the creel (3) is exhausted, the or each yarn carrier (2) is simply replaced by another fed from a different creel (3). Preferably the creel (3) associated with the or each set of yarn carriers is itself removable from the remainder (6) of the loom and replaceable with the yarn carriers (2).
Claims13
A carpet weaving loom comprising one or more tuft forming units (1), each of which is capable of supplying yarn tufts (26) to a number of different colours to a number of different weaving points sequentially, characterized in that the or each of the tuft forming units (1) includes a demountable yarn carrier (2).
A carpet weaving loom according to any one of the preceding claims, in which the creel (3) is located behind the weaver (7) and on the opposite side of the loom from the warp thread entry (8) and shedding arrangements.
A carpet weaving loom according to any one of the preceding claims, in which includes a number of package holders each of which supports the bobbin (5) of a conventional yarn package or, alternatively, the creel includes a number of individual containers or cells (14) each of which contains a length of yarn.
A carpet weaving loom, according to any one of the preceding claims, in which the yarn supplies on the creel (3) are all of a predetermined length and matched to those required for the particular design of carpet to be woven.
A carpet weaving loom according to any one of the preceding claims, in which the or each yarn tuft forming unit (1) includes means (21) to drive the yarn carrier (2) into a selected one of a number of discrete positions to bring a selected yarn (20) to a loading position, a puller (51) for engaging the selected yarn (20) at the loading position and pulling a predetermined length of the selected yarn (20) from the selector wheel (2), and a cutting mechanism (61) to cut the selected yarn (20) to form a tuft (26) of predetermined length.
A carpet weaving loom according to any one of the preceding claims, in which the or each yarn carrier (2) is demountable from the remainder of the or each tuft forming unit (1) without the use of tools of any kind.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.