Cleaning means for a weaving machine
AssigneeSulzer Brothers Limited
InventorOtto Hintsch
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Abstract
The cleaning means employs a nozzle on one side of the picking mechanism which directs a stream of air over the weft yarn in a direction opposite the picking direction to pass through the picking station as well as a funnel on the opposite side of the picking mechanism to receive and exhaust the air with any entrained foreign matter from the picking station.
Claims7
In combination with a weft picking mechanism of a weaving machine for picking a picking means in a predetermined picking direction into a shed formed in the weaving machine with a weft yarn trailing therefrom, said picking mechanism having a picking station wherein a weft yarn is engaged with the picking means, means for passing a stream of cleaning air over the weft yarn in said picking station in a direction opposite said predetermined picking direction and substantially parallel to the weft yarn to remove foreign matter from said picking mechanism.
In combination a picking mechanism for picking a gripper shuttle in a predetermined picking direction into a shed with a weft yarn trailing therefrom;
- and a means for passing a stream of cleaning air over the weft yarn in a direction opposite said predetermined picking direction and parallel to the weft yarn therein to remove foreign matter from at least one of the weft yarn and the picking mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.