Sulzer Brothers Limited

Ruti Machinery Works Ltd.

Fredy Oderbolz

Walter Stark

Robert Szonyi

Paul Bebie

A yarn selector unit of a loom has a number of feeders associated one each with a weft yarn. Each feeder is drivable by a tongue drivable selectively via a lever by way of a slide. The tongue and therefore the feeder are moved into a different position when it is required to present a weft yarn to a gripper or withdraw a weft yarn. The tongue is moved transversely by two actuators disposed opposite one another into a predetermined top or bottom position relative to the actuators by the action therefor. Positioning of the tongue relative to a tongue-moving slide is therefore always clearly defined so that misactuation of the yarn selector unit cannot occur.

Yarn selector unit for a weft feeder

A gripper weaving machine having flexible weft inserting or picking bands formed from plastics material reinforced with carbon fibers.

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Tann-Ruti, Switzerland

Fredy Oderbolz