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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1990
Tatsuo Takehana, Matsuto, JP;
Tsudakoma Corp., Kanazawa, JP;
Abstract
A weft insertion apparatus for inserting a weft yarn in a picking direction into a main picking nozzle of a picking apparatus of a loom, which nozzle has at least one individual nozzle, and the loom further having at least one measuring and storing device with a winding yarn guide. The insertion apparatus has an air current generator for generating an air current in the picking direction inside the at least one winding yarn guide, and a yarn suction device disposed at a position offset from the axis of the main picking nozzle and opposite an exit of the winding yarn guide positioned at a predetermined rotary position in the at least one measuring and storing device. It furthermore has a yarn conveying member for engaging a weft yarn extending between the at least one measuring and storing device and the yarn suction device and guiding the weft yarn thus engaged to the inlet end of the at least one individual nozzle of the main picking nozzle.