Apparatus at a weaving machine for the protection of persons

A method for an accident protection at a weaving machine comprising an apparatus that includes monitoring means which emit and register light beams being arranged in said apparatus about the danger regions and with it being possible to produce, by means of the light beams in the monitoring means, signals which arise as a result of encroachment into the danger regions and through which an operating stop of the weaving machine can be triggered, wherein first monitoring means are associated with a more comprehensive region and second monitoring means are associated with a central region, the actual danger region, with the first monitoring means being brought during a normal operation of the weaving machine into an active state which ensures the protection and with an activation of the second monitoring means being provided for use during activities which are occasionally to be carried out at the weaving machine within the more comprehensive region, and wherein the paths of the emitted light beams are routed parallel to the beat-up edge and over the entire danger region which is formed by the sley, wherein the monitoring may be controlled in such a manner that during a stand-still of the machine, in a starting-up operation or during a creep speed operation, only the second monitoring means are brought into the active state, and wherein after starting up of the weaving machine, the first monitoring means are activated, with it being possible for the second monitoring means to be left in the active state or to be deactivated.