Loom shuttle
AssigneeBonas Machine Company Limited
InventorJohn D. Griffith
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Abstract
A loom shuttle having a yarn receiving chamber including yarn restraining elements in the chamber, the yarn restraining elements are so arranged as to enable yarn to be loaded without restraint and to apply restraint to the yarn as it is being withdrawn thus to prevent entanglement of the yarn during withdrawal.
Claims9
A loom shuttle for use with a traveling wave shedding loom including a yarn chamber having an entry/exit opening for receiving randomly loaded yarn characterized in that the yarn chamber is provided with movable means resiliently loaded to restrain full opening which during loading of the yarn is adapted to open only slightly to effectively serve to increase the chamber size to enable yarn to be entered into the chamber through said opening substantially without restraint and with restraining means arranged, during usage of the yarn, to restrain it against free withdrawal through said opening thereby to prevent the formation of entanglements in the yarn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.