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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2000
Akihiko Nakada, Kanazawa, JP;
Hidetomo Yoneda, Kanazawa, JP;
Tsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Ishikawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
A weft holding device transfers a weft to a tuck-in device that tucks and end portion of the weft cut by a weft cutter in a shed formed by warps. The weft holding device has a slit opening backward toward a reed, the warps and the cutter to receive a portion of the weft beaten up by the reed, and a releasing hole connected to the closed end of the slit so as to jet air toward the open end of the slit to move the portion of the weft toward the open end of the slit. Air is jetted through the releasing hole in response to a command signal provided by a loom upon the detection of a mispicked weft to move the mispicked weft to be beaten up backward away from a cutting region in which the weft cutter cuts the weft.