Adjustable Full-Width Temple for Textile Looms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional temples for textile looms are not adjustable in length, leading to increased costs and storage issues due to the need for multiple temples for different weaving widths, and they often leave visible holes on the fabric.
Innovation Solution
A full-width temple with a C-shaped groove and a movable bar that can be adjusted in length using modular elements, allowing it to accommodate various weaving widths without the need for multiple temples, and featuring a design that prevents fabric damage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional temples are made monolithically by extrusion, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but adaptability to different weaving widths deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The temple body is divided into multiple modular segments that can be connected in different quantities to achieve various lengths. Each segment has standardized connection interfaces, allowing the temple to be assembled in different configurations for different weaving widths while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through standardized components.
Solution Approach 2:
The temple design incorporates universal connection mechanisms and standardized interfaces that allow the same basic module to serve multiple functions at different lengths. The adjustable structure enables a single temple model to replace multiple fixed-length temples, achieving multi-functionality without complicating the basic manufacturing process.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple temples are acquired for different weaving widths, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity and storage requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The temple incorporates adjustable length mechanisms that allow dynamic reconfiguration of the temple structure. The movable bar and adjustable segments enable the temple to change its effective length to match different weaving widths, replacing the need for multiple static temples with a single dynamic structure.
3Ease of operation
If conventional temples with teeth are used, then ease of operation is improved, but harmful effects on fabric surface worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The harmful teeth elements are completely removed from the temple design. Instead of using protruding teeth to hold the fabric, the invention employs a smooth temple body with a C-shaped groove that accommodates a movable bar, eliminating the source of fabric damage while maintaining the fabric holding function through alternative means.
Solution Approach 2:
The movable bar acts as an intermediary element between the temple body and the fabric. It provides the necessary friction and contact to hold the fabric in place during weaving, while being smooth and non-damaging compared to direct contact with fixed teeth. The bar can move independently to accommodate fabric tension variations without creating holes.
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AI summary
A full-height temple (1) for textile looms and the like, comprising a main body (2) provided with an upper profile (3) and a lower profile (4) which are adapted to delimit a linear slot (5), which is defined by the main body (2), is substantially C-shaped and is adapted to accommodate with play a movable bar (6) around which a fabric (7) woven by a textile loom (8) is partially wrapped; the main body (2) is fixable to the textile loom (8) proximate to the comb (9) of the textile loom (8) and is arrangeable downstream of this comb (9) with respect to the direction of advancement of the fabric (7) woven by the textile loom (8), so that the linear slot (5) is parallel to the direction of the weft threads of the fabric (7) with its open side directed toward the comb (9), the full-height temple comprising means (10) for adjusting the longitudinal extension of the main body (2) along a direction which is substantially parallel to the direction of the weft threads of the fabric (7) in order to vary the weaving width of the temple (1) as a function of the desired height of the fabric (7).