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What are The Types of Weaving Machines?

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What are The Types of Weaving Machines?

Handloom 

A handloom is a low-tech weaving machine. A wooden "vertical-shaft" loom is a classic handloom. The heddles are secured in the shaft at this point. The warp threads alternately pass through a heddle and a space between the heddles, so that elevating the shaft rises half the threads, and lowering the shaft lowers the same threads.

Power Loom

A power loom is a mechanised loom with a "line shaft" that drives it (a power driven rotating shaft). Edmund Cartwright devised the first power loom in 1784, and it was built in 1785. Over the next 47 years, it was developed until Kenworthy and Bullough designed the Lancashire Loom, which made the procedure totally mechanised. For a century, this loom constituted the backbone of Lancashire's cotton economy. In England, there were 260,000 in operation by 1850. The Northrop Loom, which could replenish the shuttle when it was empty, superseded the Lancashire loom fifty years later. There are various productions in the "Power Loom" category, and most of them are named after the designer.

Shuttle 

Shuttle looms were the very first motorised looms. As the shuttle moves across the shed, spools of weft are unraveled. With the exception that the weft spool is stored on the shuttle, this style of weaving is quite similar to projectile weaving. Because these machines can only choose 300 picks per minute, these looms are considered outdated in modern industrial fabric manufacturing.

Air Jet

An air jet loom completes the weave by propelling the weft through the shed in short bursts of compressed air. In current manufacturing, air jets are the fastest traditional way of weaving, at speeds of up to 1200 picks per minute. However, because of the large amounts of compressed air necessary to run these looms, as well as the complexity of the air jet placement, they are more expensive than other looms.

Water Jet

Water jet looms operate on the same principles as air-jet looms, but they use pressurised water to accelerate the weft. Water power is cheaper where water is immediately available on-site, which is an advantage of this sort of weaving. The number of picks each minute can be as high as 1000.

Rapier 

Rapier looms can weave with a wide variety of threads, making this form of weaving extremely adaptable. There are numerous sorts of rapiers, but they all pass the pick across the shed using a hook system coupled to a rod or metal band. In normal production, these machines can attain 700 picks per minute.

Projectile 

Projectile looms use a spring-powered device that is driven across the shed and guided over the width of the cloth by a succession of reeds. After that, the projectile is withdrawn from the weft fibre and returned to the machine's opposite side to be reused. To boost the pick speed, several projectiles are used. The maximum speed on these devices is 1050 ppm.

Circular Looms

Tights, sacks, t-shirts, textiles, fire hoses, and other items are made with a circular loom to make a seamless tube of cloth. Small "jigs" for hand knitting or gigantic high-speed machines for modern clothes are examples of circular looms.

Warp-Weighted Loom

The warp-weighted loom is a vertical loom that is thought to date back to Neolithic times! The hanging weights (loom weights) that keep the warp thread bundles taut are its distinguishing feature. The extra warp thread is frequently looped around the weights. When a weaver has used up all of the available warp, the completed section can be rolled around the top beam and additional lengths of warp threads unwound from the weights to continue weaving. This eliminates any vertical size limits for the weaver.

 

Conclusion:

Weaving machines are here to assist in reducing the workload on mankind. With its brilliant qualities, the machine makes a significant difference in the workplace with its efficiency. From its high speed to its ability to increase production and reduce threads, the machine is designed to provide a better, finer, and more detailed weave. Trust weave tech's high quality and top-notch machine performance, and see and feel the excellence in its details.


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