US 12,344,970 B2
Loom and method for guiding a woven fabric in a loom
Thomas Laukamp, Lindau (DE); Nicolas Mega, Opfenbach (DE); and Dirk Janicijevic, Lindau (DE)
Assigned to LINDAUER DORNIER GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG, Lindau (DE)
Filed by LINDAUER DORNIER GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG, Lindau (DE)
Filed on Feb. 8, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/436,226.
Application 18/436,226 is a division of application No. 17/253,353, granted, now 11,913,145, previously published as PCT/EP2019/068650, filed on Jul. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 211 531.1 (DE), filed on Jul. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0175174 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. D03J 1/22 (2006.01); D03D 47/12 (2006.01); D03J 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC D03J 1/223 (2013.01) [D03D 47/12 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A weaving machine, comprising:
a shed forming device that opens and closes a loom shed formed by a plurality of warp threads of a fabric being woven by the weaving machine;
a weft insertion device that inserts weft threads through the open loom shed;
a weaving reed that beats up the weft threads at a beat up plane against an edge of the woven fabric;
a drawing off device that draws off the woven fabric;
a guide device comprising one or both of:
(a) an upper guide unit with a guide section that contacts an upper surface of the woven fabric; and
(b) a lower guide unit with a guide section that contacts a bottom surface of the woven fabric;
the upper and lower guide units extending at least partially over a width of the woven fabric;
one or both of the upper and lower guide units positionable in a direction of thickness of the woven fabric to contact and guide the woven fabric in an area of the beat up plane; and
the guide section of one or both of the upper and lower guide units comprising a profiled shape in a weft direction to guide the woven fabric at different thicknesses in the weft direction.