The Earliest Weaving Machine
Weaving machine, also known as cotton looms, cloth weaving loom, the earliest loom was the squat loom (called the waist loom) that sat on the ground. Firstly, it needs to step on the warp stick of the loom with your feet and beat the weft to make it tight by holding a wooden knife in the right hand, then the guide the weft into thread by the left hand. It has no frame design so need to make one end of the winding beam to be tied on the waist and the other end of the warp beam needed to be pressured with both feet, the feet also need to make the fabric to be in tension state. Separate the warp yarn into odd and even 2 parts by warp separating stick and lift the warp yarn to form a shed with the heald bar. Inserting the weft by bone needle, beat the weft by the wooden knife.
Traditional Weaving Machine
The Development of Shuttleless Loom
Since 1990s, variety of technology research about the shuttleless loom invention, have been carried out, and it has been introduced to international market gradually from 1950s. Many new types of shuttleless looms have been saled on the main market since 1970s. As a kind of developed weaving machine, shuttleless looms achieve unbelievable results by improving the working efficiency of looms and fabric industry. There is a general trend of replacing shuttle looms with shuttleless looms. The share of shuttleless looms in many developed countries has reached about 80%.
It is determined by the production level of fabrics that to judge a weaving benefit of a weaving machine. However the production level of fabrics depends on the the efficiency of the looms so that it is unrealistic of only increasing the working speed of a working machine to achieve the production efficiency of fabrics. What matters the most to improve the production speed is the loom efficiency.
The Optimization Of Weaving Efficiency
But presently ,how to increase the working efficiency of the weaving machine?
The factors affecting the efficiency of the loom mainly include the time occupied by the warp and weft mechanisms stop by accident and need to be replaced by new equipment and the time of the maintenance of various equipment. However, it doesn’t cost a lot of time of replacing and maintaining various equipment during the production process. So it turns out that how to reduce the time of replacing warp and weft parts and how to reduce the stop that occur during the producing process is the key of optimize the efficiency of weaving machine.
Presently, due to the development of weaving preparation technology, the yarns are able to withstand a greater stress when in a high-speed weaving environment so that the performance of shuttleless looms has matured enough to increase weft insertion rate. Also if the on-machine process parameters such as loom speed, warp tension, shed geometry are not set correctly, even if it is a good quality yarn, the end breakage rate of the warp and weft will increase,same time the fabric quality will decrease. These 2 examples means the yarn quality and looms parameter plays a essential role in the optimization of the efficiency of weaving machine. The air-jet loom navigation system equips the weaving machine with the function of detection and control of the process parameters when on the machine automatically, which expands and strengthens the simple setting and automatic optimization function of process parameters and automatic setting function that achieves the weaving machine with various setting items in a more specific and simpler state.
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