Old loom structure and working principle

Usually, shuttle loom is divided into left and right hand car, the switch handle on the right side of the machine is called the right hand car, and vice versa, is called the left hand car. When the shuttle weft yarn is used up can automatically complete the filling action to ensure that the machine continues to run for the "automatic loom", otherwise, known as the "ordinary loom". Weaving machine at least one side of the shuttle box is greater than a time, known as multi-shuttle box loom.

Shuttle loom is the use of shuttle into the weft, it is the edge of the process is the side of the warp and weft yarns in accordance with the requirements of the side of the organization of the interweaving, the use of weft yarns to go back and forth to hook the side of the warp yarns, the edge of the fabric edge of the smooth, flat, blank fabrics made of a high rate of the fabric for the retailer, the light edge of the fabric is more popular. The design of certain edges also requires reasonable alignment with the bobbin case and bobbin to be perfect.

Expanded Information

Historical Development: China is one of the four major ancient civilizations in the world, and primitive looms appeared as early as the Neolithic era. Shuttle looms have been introduced to the present nearly 300 years of history, and still account for the majority of the total number of looms in the world. Although there are economic factors, but the shuttle loom is still in many aspects of the undisputed advantages is also a fact.

In the past 30 years, with the rapid development of production, shuttle loom gradually exposed its weaknesses, such as lower speed, poor adaptability of varieties, noise, weaving complex fabrics more difficult. The main reason -- shuttle weft has become an obstacle to further improve the level of weaving, so the shuttleless loom came into being

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