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Dobby Shedding Mechanism | Classification |

Types | Working

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Classification of Dobby:

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INTRODUCTION: -

Dobby is a shedding device

attached to loom to increased the designing capacity. The
dobby normally
controls 12 to 24 hold shafts the dobbies are classified as negative or
positive, single lift, double lift, crank driven, cam driven etc.

The dobby forms bottom closed,

center closed, semi open and open type of shed. The
dobby is also classified as
left hand and right hand.

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The right-hand dobby is one which

is placed at the left-hand side of the left hand. It gets
drive from left hand
end loom.

The left-hand dobby is one placed

at right hand side of left-hand loom. Left hand dobby
gets its drive from right
end of the loom.

Difference between tappet and dobby shedding:

Tappet Shedding Dobby Shedding

Tappet shedding is Dobby shedding is

simple and cheap relatively
in construction. complicated.

Tappets produce A dobby can

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A tappet looms A dobby loom

work efficiently and consumes more
consumes less power.
power.

A tappet loom can A dobby loom

be run at high cannot be work at
speed with less high speed
machine vibration. because of
high
machine vibration
  and excessive
friction between
moving parts.

Tappets are The designs can

required to be be modified easily
change for altering change out is
the
design gearing brought about
on the bottom and quickly and does
counter shafts are not require any
to be altered. major alternation

The number of The number of

heald shafts used healds and
and picks/repeat picks/repeat can
cannot be changed be easily
altered.
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In tappet shedding In swing lever

dwell period is dobbies there is no
maintained for
the dwell period. In
a
safe passage of cam dobby, a dwell
shuttle. is maintained.

Climax Dobby

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The Climax Dobby 

is double acting machine controlled from bottom shaft ,  it forms the
open shade.  The lifting of heald  is done by lifting of jacks. The healds are
lowered
because  of springs used on the
bottom side.  It  has 2 jacks. Dobby runs
at half the
speed.  In the right hand
dobby,  cylinder rotates in clockwise
direction.  In the left hand
Dobby,
cylinder rotates in anticlockwise direction.

Working

Dobby gets its drive from the bottom shaft through

connecting rod.  The T- lever   gets
oscillation  and thereby knives move forward and backward
in the framing machine slot. 
When the
knives are towards the set of  hooks  selection of engagement hook and knife
is
made feller.  The feelers  are activated because of wooden pegs.  when the hooks and
knives are engaged, then
the hook is pulled,  while the another
hook and the lever rest
on the stop bar. 
now the heald is lifted up.

Cycle of lifting of healed into Climax Dobby:

A-The Healds  shaft

remains down no selection has taken place. 
knives K1 and K2 are
about to move from extreme position. 

B-Heald  is down
and hook is not engaged with the knife on the second pick.

C-It represent the engagement of hook and knives is about

to pull the hook to lift the
shed.
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D-Heald is lifted up on the pick. TEX

E-The heald is again lifted up on next pick because of

engagement of hook and knife.

Timing and setting of Climax Dobby:

1-At 270 degree 

The heald shaft is levelled, 
knives are mid way position.

2-The T- lever is horizontal.  At 60 to 120 degree is the dwell Period of

the dobby.

 Heald are 
stationery
 shed shed is open
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At 120 To  360

degree To 60 degree is the change period of the heald  shaft.

Settings:

1- The driving rod connecting to the crank attached to

the bottom shaft off the loop and
T-lever 
must  be set to appropriate
length.  If the rod is too short or
long,  one set of the
hook will travelled
then more distance than the other.

2- The length of driving rod is adjusted  such that T-Lever  is horizontal when the crank
attached to the
bottom shaft is in horizontal plane either in the front or back of rotary its
stroke.

3- Crank and T-lever 

are kept in the horizontal position and now two  knives 
are 
Adjusted by draw bolts,  so that they are equidistance  from their slots. The pattern
cylinder is
rotated by ratchet wheel.  Cylinder is
rotated by 1/8th revolution  for every 2
pick.  the cylinder is held steady  buy flat steadied star wheel. The Pawl  regulate through
of the star wheel. The
T-lever  is lifting knives are
extreme  position there should be a
quarter inch  clearance between the tip
of the pawl  and the teeth of the
cylinder ratchet.

For right hand Dobby visible outermost feeler  which operate bottom drawer hook ,
pattern
cylinder rotate clockwise.

In the left hand Dobby, 

the first feeler  is a straight
feeler  acts on the top hook.

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In pegging,  the
upper row of holes in the lug represents first pick.

Cross Border Fabrics:

Many fabrics needs border in the warp  as well as in the weft way.  for creating the weft 
way border design.  The number of wooden leg required are
high.  so to create a border
design,  special cross border Dobby is used.  the fabrics which need the cross border are
sarees, carpets ,Chadar, tapestries, 
handkerchiefs,  table covers.

Cross border Dobby

Cross border Dobby is used when two different weaves are

required to woven using
same number of healds.

Cross border Dobby eliminates high number of wooden legs

which are required in
normal dobbies.

Types of cross border dobbies:

1- Two  cylinder
cross border Dobby

2- Three  cylinder cross border Dobby

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The common problem in the dobby is Jack missing. The
heald shaft is not lifted when
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required and weft floats across the warp end
giving rise the fabric effect called stitching.

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Stitching is sometimes caused by shuttle flying. Warp

thread get break occur because of
shuttle fly causing a major fabric defect.

The causes of Jack missing (Heald not lifted) are:

1) Bent wooden peg in a lag.

2) Wooden peg is worn out due to frequent use.

3) The spacing between the lag should be uniform and

cylinder should be positioned
below the feeler in the perpendicular manner. if
the lags are not spaced properly more
feelers may be lifted causing lifting of
improper jack.

4) The pattern barrel in which wooden lag rotate should

not move laterally.

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5) Needle operating hook may get stuck and jack is

missed, good oiling is necessary.

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6) Wooden peg will be broken and therefore jack is

missed.

7) The hook may come off from the knife in the middle of
stroke, causing missing jack.

Ruti Cam Dobby:-

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The ruti cam dobby is negative in action i.e the heald

are lowered because of the spring
in this dobby. The knives are pushed forward
by the pair of cams. The knive will come
back and always in the contact with
the cams because of the spring. Here dwell of about
1/3 pic is achieved. The
selection of the hook are made by paper pattern instead of
wooden pegs.

Positive Cam Dobby:-

The positive cam dobby is called positive

because lifting and lowering of the heald is
made positively. The dobby has cam
which will give oscillation to the griffel and returning
bar through the lever
i.e when the griffel is engaged with the hook it will pull one side
bulk and at
the same time return bar push the other side of the bulk. Suppose heald is to
be kept down on the next pick, the bottom hook will not engaged in the griffel,
it is looked
in the locking bar and thus engaged in the griffel, it is looked
in the locking bar and thus
other end of the bulk will not move even the upper
return bar pushes to the bulk towards
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it return bar stop and locking bar together make
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the dobby positive along with
grooved cam.

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Textile Calculations
April 20, 2021 at 3:47 AM

Great post indeed.

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Faze Three
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Such a detailed Study of Dobby. Thanks for Sharing.

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