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US 6,953,066 B2Granted
Method of disposing weft in a loom
AssigneeTsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHidetomo Yoneda, Mutsuo Fujitani
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Abstract
The method of disposing the weft, in a loom for displacing the weft led into a weft insert nozzle by jetting the air current from a guide nozzle disposed in a reed sley and releasing the weft from the upstream side of the weft inset nozzle to the vicinity of an intake of an discharge device, is characterized in that, when displacing the weft to the vicinity of the intake, the reed sley is stopped at a position where the air current from the guide nozzle is directed to the vicinity of the intake.
Claims6
A method of disposing a weft in a loom which comprises:
- a reed sley, a weft length measurement storage unit, a guide nozzle disposed in the reed sley for jetting an air current to displace the weft led into a weft insert nozzle, and a discharge device for discharging a defective yarn, said discharge device fixed at a position opposing said guide nozzle at a part of a swinging range of said reed sley, wherein, when mis-insertion occurs, said weft is displaced to a vicinity of an intake of said discharge device by the air current from said guide nozzle to deliver the weft to said discharge device, the method comprising the steps of:
- stopping said reed sley at a position where the air current from said guide nozzle is directed to the vicinity of said intake when reversing after stopping of the loom due to an occurrence of mis-insertion, and
- delivering the weft to said discharge device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.