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Fujio Suzuki

Kazunori Yoshida

Susumu Kawabata

Masao Shiraki

Susuma Kawabata

Hidehiko Tanaka

A weft inserting device using a profiled reed for an air jet loom is equipped with a plurality of reed pieces each having a C-shaped guide notch. The line of guide notches forms a weft passage where weft injected from a main nozzle flies. Each guide notch has a upper wall parallel to the floor surface on which the device is placed, a deep wall perpendicular to this surface, a lower wall which gradually becomes wider toward an opening, an upper connecting portion which connects the upper wall to the deep wall, and a lower connecting portion which connects the deep wall to the lower wall. The radius of curvature of the upper connecting portion is set equal to or smaller than 1 mm, and the radius of curvature of the lower connecting portion is set greater than the radius of curvature of the upper connecting portion.

Weft inserting device for an air jet loom having reed pieces with

A jet loom comprising a weft measuring roller for continuously drawing out a weft from a supply package, a weft storage unit for temporarily accumulating and storing the weft drawn out from the supply package by the weft measuring roller, a main nozzle for jetting air to insert the weft into the warp shed, and a driving unit for sinusoidally varying the rotating speed of the weft measuring roller. The weft stored in the weft storage unit runs in a free running period in a free running mode at a comparatively high running speed. After the stored weft has exhausted, the weft is supplied for insertion directly from the weft measuring roller, so that the weft runs in a constrained running mode at a running speed constrained by the surface speed of the weft measuring roller. When the running mode of the inserted weft changes from the free running mode to the constrained running mode, the driving unit drives the weft measuring roller so that the surface speed of the weft measuring roller is higher than a speed Vf defined by: Vf=Lo/tc, where Lo is the weft length of the loom and tc is a time necessary for one weaving cycle of the loom.

Weft insertion in jet loom

In a jet loom in which weft yarns are stored in weft yarn storing units according to a weaving command, and are jetted in the weft insertion cycles thereof, a device for controlling the storing unit comprises: rotation detecting means for detecting the rotational condition of the loom spindle, to output a spindle rotation signal; a rotation control circuit which, according to a weft yarn jetting order, calculates the number of standby cycles between weft insertion cycles, and calculates the speeds of rotation of the storing units to store weft yarns in advance according to the numbers of standby cycle, to output rotation command signals; a drive circuit for receiving the spindle rotation signal and the rotation command signal, to output drives signal to determine the speeds of rotation of the storing units; and drive means provided for the storing unit, each receiving the drive signal to drive the storing unit at a speed of rotation corresponding to the drive signal thus received, a weft yarn as long as a predetermined weft insertion length being stored in the storing units in the weft insertion cycles selected according to the weft yarn jetting order.

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Toyota, Japan

Fujio Suzuki