Actually the research work on the shuttle loom was dropped in the first half of the 70’s, with the arrival on the market and the prevalence of systems using for weft insertion other ways than the shuttle. The new shuttleless machines are simply called ″weaving machines″, this term implying looms working without shuttle. The weaving machines present following advantages over traditional looms:
- Total elimination of any spooling operation.
- Production increase
- Reduction of the shed size, therefore lower tension of the warp threads and consequently reduction in the number of yarn breaks
- Noise reduction
- Automation of various devices
Process Description
The warp threads wound on a beam (1) are bent on the back rest roller (2), support special drop wires (3), pass through the healds (5) and through the dents of the reed (8) fastened to the slay (7), along which the vehicle transporting the weft runs (9). The fabric produced is then drawn by a take-down roller(10) and wound on the cloth beam (11). This figure shows also the motor driving the warp let-off (4) and the motor driving the fabric take-down (6).
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