Carrier for shuttleless loom
AssigneeRockwell International Corporation
InventorRichard L. Volpe
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Abstract
An improved carrier for use on a shuttleless loom of the type in which yarn is inserted into the warp shed from a stationary source located outside of the warp and in which a free end of the previously cut warp is gripped by the inserter carrier between biased gripper finger and a yarn guide finger to carry the end to approximately the mid point between the two sides of the loom, in which the improved inserter carrier has a yarn gripping element whose axis of rotation can be spatially varied to assure accurate and uniform contact between the gripping surfaces of the pivotable gripper element and the yarn guide element.
Claims11
An improved carrier for inserting weft yarn into the shed formed between warp yarns on a loom of the type in which the weft yarn is supplied from a source located outside of the warp and is inserted into the shed by a carrier which is attached to a reciprocating inserter, said improved carrier, comprising:
- 1. a main body portion which includes:
- a. a shank portion for attachment to the reciprocating inserter,
- b. a back wall extending outwardly from said shank portion, said back wall including means defining a yarn guide,
- c. a top wall extending forwardly from said back wall,
- d. a front wall extending downwardly from said top wall a distance less than the height of said back wall, and
- e. a yarn gripping surface on the bottom surface of said front wall,
- 2.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.