Gripper head for shuttleless looms

US5065797A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Lindauer DORNIER Gesellschaft mbH · DE

Inventors

• Horst Haeussler · Gettorf, DE
• Hubert Ortmann · Hergatz, DE
• Harald Stoerr · Gettorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 1990
• Grant date: Nov 19, 1991
• Expiry date: Jul 13, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T24/44932
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A gripper head for a loom is of lightweight construction and has a weft thread clamp with a stationary pad and a movable pad. The former is directly mounted to the gripper body. The latter is mounted through an adjustable spring to the gripper body, whereby the clamping force is adjustable.