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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 1985
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1983
Steven J Showers, Greensboro, NC (US);
Draper Corporation, Greensboro, NC (US);
Abstract
In a carrier tape for shutttleless looms the juncture of the carrier with the tape upon which it is mounted is strengthened to resist breakage by reducing the flexing stresses in the area of the tape where the tails of the carrier are joined to the tape. The aforesaid flexing stresses are reduced by tapering the tails of the conventional carriers to a contour that provides a more gradual angular convergence with the tape, and secondly, by filling the conventional bubble in the tape with a tin alloy to stiffen the bubble area of the tape and thus move the flexing stress from the area behind the carrier to the area behind the bubble where the tape is stronger.