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Chapter II

This document provides an introduction to shuttle looms. It describes hand looms and non-automatic power looms that require some manual operations. Automatic looms have additional mechanisms to improve productivity and quality. Shuttle looms insert weft yarn using a shuttle that moves back and forth across the loom. While shuttle looms have improved productivity over hand looms, they have limitations including low productivity, high noise, breakages, and maintenance costs which has led to the development of shuttleless looms.

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Chapter II

This document provides an introduction to shuttle looms. It describes hand looms and non-automatic power looms that require some manual operations. Automatic looms have additional mechanisms to improve productivity and quality. Shuttle looms insert weft yarn using a shuttle that moves back and forth across the loom. While shuttle looms have improved productivity over hand looms, they have limitations including low productivity, high noise, breakages, and maintenance costs which has led to the development of shuttleless looms.

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Chapter II

Shuttle loom
Introduction to Shuttle loom
Hand loom:
 It is the type of shuttle loom in which all weaving mechanism,
warping, drawing in, shedding, picking and beat up are
manipulated by hand.
Non automatic power loom:
 These looms have only the basic mechanisms like primary, secondary
and some auxiliary mechanisms.
 Shuttle is changed by hand.
• Automatic loom:

• To get high productivity and good quality of fabric , additional


mechanisms are added to non automatic power looms.

• These looms are becoming popular because of their versatility and


relative cheapness.

Pirn changing and shuttle changing are automatic(for conventional


weaving machines)
Shuttle loom

Fig. Shuttle
Cont…
 Filling insertion with shuttle is the oldest filling insertion system.

 Gradual improvement from hand loom in which weft yarn is inserted by stick
to power loom resulted the shuttle loom of today.

 Automatic shuttle loom itself is about to become extinct due to the


introduction of shuttleless loom.

 In shuttle weaving, the filling is inserted by a shuttle that traverse back and
forth across the loom width.
Cont…

Shuttles can be made of wood, plastic, or combination of both.

The shuttle moves continuously back and forth across the loom.

 On each side of the loom, there is picking stick that propels the shuttle by
hitting it and causes it to fly across the loom inside the shed.
Fig. Shuttle picking mechanism
Cont…

A continuously rotating picking cam generates energy to displace the


picking shaft through via cone.

The picking shaft pulls the picking stick with a lug strap

Picking stick accelerate and hits the shuttle.


Cont…
Weft replenishment: Weft replenishment motion is a process of
replacing the exhausted weft package automatically.
• As we know the main task of weavers on non-automatic Looms
includes.
a) General supervision and inspection of the yarn, cloth, and
machine
b) Repairing warp and weft breaks and
c) Stopping the Loom to replace the weft package when the
yarn on the pirn was almost used up.
Looms with multiple box motions

 This is specifically used on automatic shuttle looms in which


the shuttle boxes are available on both sides.
 This will increase productivity as compared to single shuttle
loom.
 Therefore, for multiple box automatic weaving machines,
weft insertion will be turn by turn from both side.
Limitation of Shuttle loom
 Automatic shuttle loom itself is about to become extinct due
to the introduction of Shuttleless loom. Why?
The productivity of shuttle loom is very low
High noise level
High warp breakage. Why?
High maintenance cost

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