Pneumatic weft insertion · shuttleless

Picks Per
Minute

A modern air-jet loom throws the weft across four metres of shed on nothing but a pulse of compressed air, then does it again fifteen hundred times a minute. Nothing solid crosses the cloth. There is no shuttle to catch.

Two parts. First the control panel — eighteen settings, learned as numbers on a dial, because on this machine the numbers are the machine. Then the loom itself, from the side and from above, and you name the parts.

SPEED 700–1500 rpm
INSERTION >2650 m/min
REED SPACE 150–390 cm
CYCLE 360°

Efficiency starts at 100%. A wrong setting costs 12, a run-out costs 14, and answering inside six seconds pays a snap bonus. Drop to zero and the shed stays shut.

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Machine settings

Turn the dial to the correct value.
Part one complete

Panel signed off

Now the machine. You'll see it from the side first — the warp path, the shed, the beat-up — then it turns and you look down the sley at the insertion channel itself.

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View · Side elevation
Click the part on the machine.
Shift report