Dobbies incorporating double swinging levers for weaving looms

In a weaving-loom dobby of the type having a fixed frame and having multiple actuating levers attached to associated heddles and carrying rocking levers each having two spaced coupling hooks, and the dobby having for each coupling hook a selection hook means including a hook body pivotally supported by a pin carried by said fixed frame and including a hook nose for engaging a coupling hook, each selection hook means being displaceable by a pattern reading device between a coupling-hook engaging position and a retracted position, improved dobby structure comprising:

• heel means associated with each selection hook means and contactable by the reading device to pivot said body and displace it between said positions;
• and releasable retaining means coupled between said fixed frame and the body of each selection hook means and operative to stably retain the selection hook body in whichever of said positions the reading device last displaced it and until displaced thereby to a different position, each releasable retaining means comprising a pawl rockably carried by the fixed frame and having a nose, and said body of the selection hook having shoulder means thereon engageable by said pawl nose, and elastic means yieldably urging the hook body to pivot into one position and urging the pawl nose against a shoulder means in the other position, whereby to releasably retain the body in the other position when displaced thereinto.