Heddle to slide bar arrangement
AssigneeGrob & Co. Aktiengesellschaft
InventorBernhard Koch
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Abstract
A heddle shaft has only one heddle supporting member at the opposite ends of which side supports are provided to guide the heddle shaft in the weaving machine. The supporting member has a heddle slide bar and an auxiliary heddle holding element extending parallel to and spaced from the heddle slide bar. All heddles are held virtually without play at the heddle slide bar and are held with play at the auxiliary holding element, and the opposite free ends of the heddles are not firmly held.
Claims10
A heddle frame for the oscillating movement of a plurality of heddles in a weaving machine, said frame comprising only a single, elongated heddle supporting member having a slide bar extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of said member for holding the plurality of heddles at only one single end section thereof leaving the other end of said heddle free, said supporting member having an auxiliary holding bar lying at a fixed spacing from and parallel to said slide bar said heddle slide bar and auxiliary holding bar both including male/female means to engage with a complementary male/female engaging means on the heddle end section thereby defining, a two-point means for holding the heddles on said supporting member at said one end section of the heddles for the purpose of the oscillating movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.