Circular weaving machine

A circular weaving machine comprising warp-tape guide elements which are arranged around a circular reed of the circular weaving machine in order to supply a multiplicity of warp tapes to the circular weaving machine, comprising weaving-shed forming devices which divide the supplied warp tapes into two warp-tape groups and impart mutually opposed alternating movements to the two warp-tape groups, with the result that a weaving shed is opened and closed between the two warp-tape groups, comprising a weaving shuttle which moves on an orbit in the opened weaving shed in order to draw off, during its circulation, a weft tape from a weft-tape bobbin it carries, introducing it into the weaving shed, with the result that a fabric is formed, and comprising a weaving ring through which the fabric is drawn off, wherein the weaving shuttle keeps the bobbin axis of the weft-tape bobbin at an angular position which deviates by at most +/−15°, from a normal to a surface which contains the geometric connecting lines between the warp-tape guide elements and the weaving ring.