Weaving machine having an air duct for cleaning purposes
AssigneeSulzer Brothers Limited
InventorHeinz Baumann
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Abstract
Removable bearer members in the form of rails are removably mounted on studs at the picking and catching side. The bearer members allow the air duct to be moved horizontally out of the vertical plane of the shafts of the shedding mechanism so as to permit removal of the shafts during a warp beam change.
Claims11
In combination with a weaving machine having a frame having a picking side and a catching side and means for moving a weft yarn through a predetermined weft path in a weaving plane from said picking side to said catching side;
- an air duct extending parallel to said path above said weaving plane,
- a shedding mechanism below said air duct between a warp beam end and a cloth beam end of said machine,
- at least one flap secured to said duct to cover at least a part of said weaving plane, and
- removable bearer members mounted on said frame below said air duct, each said member being disposed at a respective one of said picking side and said catching side to move said air duct.
In combination with a weaving machine having a frame with a picking side, a catching side, a warp beam end, a cloth beam end, and means for moving a weft yearn through a weft path in a weaving plane from said picking side to said catching side;
- an air duct extending parallel to said path above said weaving plane for carrying off air entrained impurities from said machine;
- at least one flap hinged to and extending from said duct to cover at least a part of said weaving plane at one of said ends;
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- bearer members removably mounted on said frame, each said member being disposed at a respective one of said picking side and said catching side to movably receive said air duct thereon.
A bearer member for mounting on a weaving machine to vertically raise and lower an air duct thereon, said member having a flat surface parallel to a longitudinal axis thereof, an eccentric rotatably mounted in said rail, and an elongated slot spaced longitudinally from said eccentric and disposed at an acute angle to said surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.