Travelling-wave loom

A travelling-wave loom comprising:

• a cloth-forming mechanism composed of a rotary reed and a separating grate;
• disks with teeth forming the rotary reed of said cloth-forming mechanism, the crests thereof tracing out a trajectory with the disks rotating;
• plates forming a separating grate of said cloth-forming mechanism and having recesses forming a tunnel of the separating grate;
• weft thread carriers flying through the shed of the warp threads, each of the carriers having an abutment extending into said tunnel for partially accommodating each carrier in the tunnel of the separating grate and each carrier being provided with a side wall facing the plates of said separating grate, the latter plates respectively terminating on one side of the abutment of each carrier in a free end situated adjacent a top surface of each carrier, said carriers cooperating with one of the teeth of the disks of the rotary reed for accomplishing said flight through the shed;
• a groove being formed in each of said weft thread-carriers on the side wall thereof facing said plates of the separating grate;
• a projection on each of said plates of the separating grate engaging said groove of said weft thread carriers and having an end disposed as close as possible to the trajectories circumscribed by the crests of the teeth of said disks of the rotary reed so that with the disks rotating the teeth thereof are clear of said projections of the plates.