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US 5,634,981 AGranted
Method and apparatus for cleaning the dents of a weaving reed
AssigneeLindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
InventorsHerbert Mueller, Adnan Wahhoud, Leonhard Groeger
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Abstract
Avivage deposits on and between the dents of a reed, especially in an air weaving loom, are removed by heating at least a portion of the reed dents in the vicinity of the weft insertion channel to a temperature sufficient to melt the avivage which can then be discharged from the reed dents and the spaces between the reed dents by dripping downwardly, for example, into a collecting trough.
Claims10
A method for cleaning dents of a reed in a weaving loom, comprising the following steps:
- (a) raising a temperature of said reed dents sufficiently for melting avivage from said feed dents,
- (b) discharging melted avivage and any dirt enclosed in said melted avivage away from said dents, and
- (c) collecting melted avivage and any dirt enclosed in said melted avivage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.