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US3173452A
US3173452A US181116A US18111662A US3173452A US 3173452 A US3173452 A US 3173452A US 181116 A US181116 A US 181116A US 18111662 A US18111662 A US 18111662A US 3173452 A US3173452 A US 3173452A
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    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03WEAVING
    • D03CSHEDDING MECHANISMS; PATTERN CARDS OR CHAINS; PUNCHING OF CARDS; DESIGNING PATTERNS
    • D03C5/00Cam or other direct-acting shedding mechanisms, i.e. operating heald frames without intervening power-supplying devices
    • D03C5/02Cam or other direct-acting shedding mechanisms, i.e. operating heald frames without intervening power-supplying devices operated by rotating cams
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03WEAVING
    • D03CSHEDDING MECHANISMS; PATTERN CARDS OR CHAINS; PUNCHING OF CARDS; DESIGNING PATTERNS
    • D03C2700/00Shedding mechanisms
    • D03C2700/01Shedding mechanisms using heald frames
    • D03C2700/0105Cam-driven heald frame movement
    • D03C2700/0122Devices for adjusting the geometric and time parameters of shed opening

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  • This invention relates to weaving, and its main object is to provide an improved weaving process and loom whereby a more efficient and uniform packing of the weft threads will be produced in the woven fabric.
  • two sheets of warp yarn are formed, the sheets comprising the alternate yarns of the warp, and the two sheets are cyclically reciprocated relative to one another by means of the so-called harness, to opposite sides from a horizontal midplane, so as to form between the sheets a V-shaped recess, called the shed, which reverses at each weaving cycle. That is, first one sheet of warp lies above the midplane and the other below, and at the next cycle the one sheet drops below the midplane while the other sheet is raised above said plane.
  • Means are provided for shooting a length or pick of weft yarn across the warp through the shed at each cycle, first in one transverse direction and then in the other.
  • the weft shooting or picking means may comprise the traditional shuttle, or as is more often the case at the present time, a pair of needles which are projected into the shed from both sides, and then out, at each cycle, with the weft thread being transferred from one to the other of these needles first in one direction then in the other, as both needles meet at the center of the shed. Every time a pick of weft has thus been shot through the shed, it is struck by means, such as a reed carried by a batten, which pushes it home into the apex of the V-shaped shed so as to beat-up and pack it tightly against the preceding pick of weft in the woven fabric.
  • the vertical adjustability of the whip roll considerably complicates the construction of the loom, especially since it generally brings with it the further requirement that the stopper mechanism, i.e. the device responsive to warp yarn breakage to stop loom operation, must also be provided vertically adjustable.
  • the present invention solves the problem thus posed in a complete and rather perfect manner, and achieves the desired tight and uniform packing of the weft threads without any of the difficulties in adjustment mentioned above and without in any way complicating the construction of the loom.
  • the basic idea underlying the invention is to modify the timing of the harness operation during each weaving cycle in such a manner that at the instant in each cycle when the batten is acting to press the newly shot pick of weft home into the apex of the shed, one of the two sheets of war-p is lying nearly fiat on the midplane while the other sheet is displaced close on to the maximum distance away from the midplane; thus there is a differential in the tension between the warp threads in the two sheets and efiicient packing of the weft is readily obtained.
  • this modified timing of harness operation may be simply and effectively obtained by using a pair of suitably contoured cams interposed in the connections from each harness actuating means, such as one of two reversely reciprocating treadle arms, to the related harness means or heddle, the cam contours being so predetermined as to achieve the desired non-uniform movement of the heddles in each weaving cycle.
  • FIGS. 1 to 5 are diagrammatic views illustrating the main components of a loom constructed and operated in accordance with the invention, in various operating stages; and FIG. 6 is a larger-scale view showing an illustrative cam usable in controlling the loom harness.
  • a generally conventional loom is shown as comprising a back roll 1 over which warp yarn 2 is passed, a whip roll 3 and an associated warp stop motion 4, a harness fixing or heddle 6 controlling the upper sheet of warp yarn 7, a harness fixing or heddle 8 controlling the lower sheet of warp yarn 9, a reed 11 for beating-up each pick such as 12 of weft yarn against the woven fabric at 13, and a breast beam 14 over which the woven fabric is passed before it is taken up around a winding drum provided with regulator means of any suitable type, not shown.
  • the heddle control mechanism is schematically illustrated as comprising a pair of treadle levers 21, 22 pivoted on a fixed shaft Zil and connected to the heddles 6 and 8.
  • the levers 21 and 22 are actuated by a pair of cams 23,
  • FIG. 6 illustrates on an enlarged scale an illustrative contour for the earns 23, 24 constructed in accordance with the invention.
  • the two cams are identical and are displaced in setting 180 around their common shaft 29, so that the cam contours are symmetrical on opposite sides of the geometric axis of shaft 29.
  • the follower roller 25a successively assumes the series of relative positions indicated at 2512, 25c, 25d and 25e relative to the cam 23, said positions being respectively situated on the theroretical radii Oa, Ob, 0c, 0d and Oe and respectively corresponding to the five operating positions of the loom shown in FIGS. 1 to 5.
  • the other follower roller 26a controlling the motion of heddle 8 assumes the positions 26b, 26c, 26d and 269 relative to cam 24.
  • cam vector radius increases rapidly in length from radius 011 to radius 00 then remains constant from O0 to O8, and then decreases in length, rapidly at first then more and more slowly from radius Oe to radius 0g; then the radius diminishes very fast from radius 0g to Oh, and finally remains constant from Oh to Ca.
  • cam 24 has exactly the same configuration as that of cam 23.
  • the harness operating system of the invention operates as follows: It is assumed for descriptive purposes that the loom is of the type comprising needles for the insertion of the picks of weft through the shed, and that at the initial point in the cycle the needles are just meeting at the midpoint of the shed which is then wide open. In other words the drawing needle is taking over the pick of weft presented to it by the inserting needle, in accordance with the conventional procedure.
  • the batten with the reed 11 carried by it are positioned at rear neutral position and the remaining components, including the harness operating means, are in the positions shown at FIGS. 1 and 6.
  • the follower roller 25a is on the minimum-radius portion of cam 23, while roller 26a is on the maximum-radius portion of cam 24, so that the heddle 6 is in an uppermost position and heddle 8 in a lowermost position'
  • the next significant position encountered during the weaving cycle is that shown in FIG. 2, wherein the reed has struck the pick 12 and pushed it to a distance I from the shed apex 13. This distance I may, for example, be about one centimeter.
  • the camshaft 29 has rotated in the direction of arrow 1 by the angle shown between radii Ob and 0a.
  • Roller 25a is hence now at the position 25b with respect to cam 23, and roller 26a is in the position 26b relative to cam 24.
  • the two rollers are in coincident positions as seen in side view, indicating that both heddles are positioned at a common elevation and the shed is substantially closed or fiat; the needles are just disengaging the shed from each side.
  • the camshaft proceeds to rotate while the reed settles the pick of weft against the fabric and the roller 25a reaches position 25c on the maximum radius of cam 23 and roller 26a reaches position 26c on a smaller radius of cam 24.
  • the upper sheet of warp yarn '7 is now at a position substantially below the bisector plane of the shed, whereas the lower sheet 9 has now risen very slightly above the bisector plane (FIG. 3) though it still is substantially horizontal whereas sheet 7 is markedly bent downwards at the heddle.
  • the warp yarn in sheet 9 is tensioned considerably less than is the yarn in sheet 7, a condition ensuring excellent beating-up of the pick.
  • the downward stress exerted by the warp yarn towards the rear of the loom is taken up by the whip roll 3, thereby relieving the Warp stop motion 4.
  • the last stage of the settling cycle (FIG. 5) is that wherein both rollers are passing from positions 25d and Zed to positions 25:: and 26a.
  • the rollers and heddles therefore have not moved nor have the sheets of warp yarn.
  • All of the loom components in FIG. 5 are in the same positions as in FIG. 1 except that the two sheets of warp yarn 7 and 9 have reversed.
  • the sheet 7 will perform the motions described above with reference to the sheet 9 and vice versa, since the follower rollers 25a and 26a will be engaging with the diametrically opposed portions of cams 23 and 24 from the portions engaged by them in the cycle described above, and since said cams are identical and displaced from one another.
  • whip roll and the Warp stop motion are stationarily mounted in the system of the invention, an advantageous simplification over certain conventional arrangements including means for adjustably raising the .'hip roll is achieved as earlier described.
  • the invention has provided new and improved means for beating-up the picks of weft during the weaving of fabric thereby considerably improving the quality of the woven fabric, and that such improvement is accomplished in an extremely simple and practical manner, in that it does not require any modification of existent weaving frames beyond simply changing the contour of the harness actuating cams.
  • the exemplary embodiment shown and described is illustrative only and that various changes may be made therein within the scope of the invention.
  • the invention is applicable to various types of weaving frames other than the particular type schematically shown herein.
  • cams may differ from that shown, and in fact the desired non-uniform motion of the harness or heddles, as required to achieve the benefits of the invention, may be obtained by operating the heddles through kinematic means other than the treadle and cam system here shown as a typical example.
  • a method of operating a shed defined by two groups of warp threads passing through a loom by moving the two groups of warp threads in opposite directions between an upper open shed position above the position whereat the two groups are crossing and a lower open shed position below said position of crossing said method including the steps of opening the shed by moving one of the two groups of warp threads from said position of crossing towards said upper open shed position faster than the other group of warp threads is moved from said position of crossing towards said lower open shed position, accelerating the movement of said other group of warp threads as said one group of warp threads reaches said upper open shed position, maintaining said one group of Warp threads in said upper open shed position at least until said other group of warp threads reaches said lower open shed posi- References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 667,527 Hutchins Feb. 5, 1901 2,580,994 Budzyan et al Jan. 1, 1952 2,924,247 Flamond Feb. 9, 1960 2,955,619 Flarn

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US3434504A (en) * 1967-10-17 1969-03-25 Cannon Mills Co Shuttleless terry loom warp shedding means and method
US3603351A (en) * 1968-03-06 1971-09-07 Giovanni Piazzolla Dobby for looms
US4170250A (en) * 1977-01-17 1979-10-09 Cone Mills Corporation Loom harness mechanism

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US667527A (en) * 1900-07-23 1901-02-05 Crompton & Knowles Loom Works Warp tension mechanism for looms.
US2580994A (en) * 1949-08-26 1952-01-01 Draper Corp Mechanism for weaving
US2924247A (en) * 1957-01-11 1960-02-09 Draper Corp Loom selvage motion
US2955619A (en) * 1958-11-24 1960-10-11 Draper Corp Loom selvage motion

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US667527A (en) * 1900-07-23 1901-02-05 Crompton & Knowles Loom Works Warp tension mechanism for looms.
US2580994A (en) * 1949-08-26 1952-01-01 Draper Corp Mechanism for weaving
US2924247A (en) * 1957-01-11 1960-02-09 Draper Corp Loom selvage motion
US2955619A (en) * 1958-11-24 1960-10-11 Draper Corp Loom selvage motion

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US3434504A (en) * 1967-10-17 1969-03-25 Cannon Mills Co Shuttleless terry loom warp shedding means and method
US3603351A (en) * 1968-03-06 1971-09-07 Giovanni Piazzolla Dobby for looms
US4170250A (en) * 1977-01-17 1979-10-09 Cone Mills Corporation Loom harness mechanism

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