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US 4,091,844 AGranted
Loom harness
AssigneePioneer Heddle and Reed Company Incorporated
InventorJames L. Underwood
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AssigneePioneer Heddle and Reed Company Incorporated
InventorJames L. Underwood
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A loom harness in which the rails thereof are provided with protective attachments here illustrated as nose guides, each of which is formed from a pair of opposed, interlocking molded abrasive resistant plastic elements. The elements are identical to each other and have at one end locking flanges which when fitted together, form a twist-lock assembly for removably joining the ends of the pair of elements together. At the other ends of the elements, there are provided two rows of inwardly extending, staggered opposed blocks within the elements, the blocks intermeshing when the elements are in registry and having grooves or slots which align for slideably receiving the edges of a flat removable tongue for joining the elements together. The plastic of the respective elements may be the same or different so as to provide the same or different wear characteristics. By such a construction, the nose guide is readily removable without the necessity of removing the frame from the weaving loom. Also shown is the protective attachment as a support for the heddle rod support.
An element of a protective attachment which cooperates with a similar element thereof to form said protective attachment for surrounding the rail of a heddle frame comprising:
A protective attachment for surrounding the rail of a loom harness comprising a pair of opposed registering attachment elements for being positioned on opposite sides of said rail, said elements being longer than the width of said rail so as to protrude beyond the edges of said rail in both directions, a locking means for joining the ends of said elements adjacent to one edge of said rail and detent means for joining the other ends of said elements adjacent to the other edge of said rail, said detent means including overlapping blocks protruding inwardly from said elements, said overlapping blocks having openings which are aligned when the blocks are overlapping, and a locking member inserted through said openings.
A loom harness of the type having a rail of rectangular cross section and a protective attachment of the type having a pair of opposed elements on opposite sides of the rail and removably secured together about said rail by detent means, the improvement comprising wherein said detent means includes a slideable tongue slideably received between said elements and wherein said elements have alignable openings in the respective elements which are aligned only when the elements are in abutting registry, said openings receiving said tongue to prevent appreciable movement of said elements out of abutting registry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.