Foldable nose guide device for a heddle frame

A guide device for spacing and aligning adjacent heddle frames of a weaving loom during shedding wherein said heddle frames are of the type including top and bottom frame slats, said guide device comprising:

• side plate means including attachment means for affixing said plate means to a heddle frame slat;
• a pair of guide legs pivotally carried by said plate means terminating in free ends;
• said guide legs being pivotable from a generally fixed guide position in which the legs depend downwardly to a generally fixed folded position;
• first mean for fixing said legs in said guide position;
• second means for maintaining said legs in said folded position;
• and
• said free ends of said guide legs having a lesser relative vertical distance from said frame slat in said folded position than when in said guide position;
• whereby said heddle frame may be placed on an automatic warp threading machine by manually positioning said guide legs in said folded position and thereafter said guide legs may be manually positioned in said guide position for utilization on said weaving loom machine without the need for removing said guide device from the slat when transferring said heddle frame between said machines.