Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft Mbh

Rainer Finger

Valentin Krumm

Stephan Arndt

Stefan Kimmel

The sley shaft of a loom, particularly a loom for weaving terry cloth or pile fabric, is rotated so as to provide more time for a gentle beat-up of the weft along the fabric beat-up line. For this purpose, the acceleration of the sley shaft and thus of the reed, which is connected to the sley shaft, toward the beat-up position is first faster to provide more time for the following entrainment of the weft or a group of wefts and for their beat-up by way of a discontinuous deceleration of the sley shaft and reed by a two phase deceleration toward the beat-up line. The two phase deceleration is interrupted by a slower deceleration between the two deceleration phases or by no deceleration between the two deceleration phases. Weft entrainment takes place between the two deceleration phases.

Method for controlling a motion characteristic of a sley shaft for driving a reed

A gripper head travelling through a shed in a weaving loom, has a longitudinal lateral guide surface (14A, 17A) along its gripper head body which is temporarily contacted by guide lever fingers in those positions of the head where its proper guidance is most critical, e.g. at the time of the weft transfer. The guide lever fingers are so driven by a drive mechanism that these fingers are withdrawn from the loom shed just as soon as the weft transfer is completed.

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Rainer Finger