Spacer design for dobby rocker members

In a weaving mechanism for forming the shed on a weaving machine which mechanism includes rocking members oriented parallel to one another on a common support shaft for controlling the movement of heddle frames, the improvement comprising, the rocking members being separated by spacer means which are freely mounted to the common support shaft and between each of the rocking members, each spacer means including a body portion having oppositely oriented lateral faces, a plurality of spaced projections extending from at least one of said lateral faces of each of said spacer means, said projections being engageable with an adjacent spacer means to thereby retain said body portions of said spacer means in spaced relationship with respect to one another and to define spaces between the projections through which the rocking members extend, said rocking members being moveable between said body portions of adjacent spacer means while being maintained in spaced relationship with respect to one another.