An improved mechanism for guiding shuttles in a circulair room

摘要

An improved mechanism for guiding shuttles in a circular loom, wherein shuttles provided with a plurality of rotatable supporting wheels (19a, 19b) are moved along a circular running passage and wefts taken out from each shuttle are inserted into successive sheds of warps created immediately before the arrival of the shuttle, so that the weft is interwoven with the warps to form a tubular fabric, the above-mentioned circular running passage being defined by at least one annular guide surface (18c, d, f) created by an element guide surface of each reed element (18) of an annular reed member (17) of the circular loom, wherein the running passage of each of the supporting wheels (19a, 19b) is restricted by a corresponding one of the annular guide surfaces (18c, d, f) located at a corresponding position, by which any possible pressing of the warps against the upper and lower annular edge portions (17a, 17b) of the annular reed member (17) by the above-mentioned supporting wheels is prevented.