Device for creating a gauze fabric

Apparatus for producing a leno fabric, comprising a plurality of juxtaposed needles each fitted with one needle guide eye for a warp and furthermore a plurality of juxtaposed moveable guide eyes defined by a warp moving device drivable so as to be displaced periodically relative to the stationary needles in the longitudinal needle direction and transversely thereof, and guides arranged to cooperate with and to guide the warp moving device during longitudinal displacements of the warp moving device occurring along the longitudinal direction of the needles and during transverse displacements of the warp moving device occurring transversely of the needles, said warps extendable through the movable guide eyes being displaced below and along either side of the stationary needles by the relative motion of the warp moving device;

• wherein the warp moving device comprises two displaceable elements movable relative to each other and of which one element is displaceable transversely of the longitudinal direction of the needles and comprises guide slits running parallel to the needles and wherein the other element is displaceable parallel to the needles and includes a transverse guide slot the guide slits running parallel to the needles and the transverse guide slot together defining said movable guide eyes.