Picking in Projectile Loom:

1. The picking are projectile receiving units are separated from the moving sley.
The sley carries the reed & gripper guides.
2. The gripper projectile made of fine steel, 90 mm long 14mm wide and 6
mm thickness weight is 40 g. It carries the weft thread into the warp shed.
3. The weft is drawn directly from a large stationary cross wound package. There
is no weft winding.
4. The gripper projectile is picked across the warp shed at a very high speed
,the picking energy being derived from the energy stored in a metal torsion bar
which is twisted at predetermined amount of released to give the projectile a high
rate of acceleration .
5. Picking always takes place from one side, but several projectiles are
employed and all of them return to the picking side by a conveyor chain located
underneath the warp shed.
6. During its flight through the shed the projectile runs in a rake likes steel guides,
so that the warp threads are touched neither by the projectile nor weft thread.
7. Every pick is cut off at the picking side near the selvedge after weft
insertion, leaving a length about 15 mm from the edge. Similar length of weft also
projects from the selvedge on the receiving side.
8. The ends of weft thread projecting on both sides of the cloth are tucked into
the next shed by means of special tucking device and woven in with next pick,
thus providing firm selvedges.
9. The reed is not reciprocated as in a shuttle loom, but rocked about its axis by
a pair of cams.
10. The reed & projectile guides are stationary during pick insertion.
11. The sley which carries the reed & projectile guides is moved forward &
backward through a saddle carrying two follower bowls, which bear against the
surface of two matched cams.
12. A sley dwell of 25 degree at back center enables the projectile to travel
through the warp shed without being unnecessary reciprocated by the sley.
13. Whenever the reed width is reduced for weaving a small width cloth from
the standard reed width, the projectile receiving unit is moved inward on
the telescope shaft, to the new selvedge position, and so the projectile travel
distance is reduced.
14. Smaller shed opening because of the smaller size projectile. This might result
in lower warp breakage rate.
15. Weft insertion rate up to 900-1500 m/min is possible depending up to the width
of the weaving machine.
16. The color changing mechanism is less complicated.
17. In case of weft breakage the take up beam & heald frames can de driven
in reverse by a pick finding mechanism.