Yarn carrier
AssigneeGriffith Textile Machines Limited
InventorJohn Griffith
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Abstract
A yarn carrier (30) for presenting a selected yarn (16) to a pair of gripper jaws (26,28). The yarn carrier (30) includes a yarn guide passageway (14) defining a path along which the selected yarn (16) is longitudinally guided. The passageway (14) has a yarn inlet end, a yarn outlet end and adjacent to the yarn outlet end yarn guides (32) to constrain the tail of the yarn (YT) against lateral deflection in a longitudinal direction of the yarn carrier (30). The yarn guides (32) are depressible on contact with open gripper jaws (26,28) to enable the gripper jaws (26,28) to grip the yarn tail (YT).
Claims12
A yarn carrier for presenting a selected yarn to a pair of gripper jaws, the yarn carrier including a yarn guide passageway defining a path along which the selected yarn is longitudinally guided, the passageway having a yarn inlet end, a yarn outlet end and adjacent to the yarn outlet end yarn guides to constrain the tail of the yarn against lateral deflection in a longitudinal direction of the yarn carrier, the yarn guides being depressible on contact with open gripper jaws to enable the gripper jaws to grip the yarn tail.
A method of holding a plurality of yarns for selective presentation to a pair of gripper jaws in an Axminster gripper loom comprising the steps of:
- (i) inserting the yarns into yarn inlet ends of longitudinally spaced yarn guide passageways provided in a yarn carrier;
- (ii) guiding the yarns along the respective yarn guide passageways to present tails of yarn at yarn outlet ends of the yarn guide passageways;
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- (iii) constraining each of the tails of yarn against lateral deflection in a longitudinal direction of the yarn carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.