LIle Wert tork tails,

Brake.
The aðplication of brake has rendered a loom to run at a
very highuspeed without developing 'cracks' in the
Whenever aarting bandle is shifted from the fast totabrie. the
loose pulley, the brake acts. This brake motion is
in fg. 90. illustrated
The brake E, fu lcrumed at the top, is
the brakewheel B. The brake. made to ft iully to
rodF passes through a casting
bolted to the bottom of the brake. The
rod is regulated by the lcck-nut T. This length of the brake
sOd
length is that when
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the lose frog, 0, is just cleaof the

loom freme, the brake
The weight lever
has then full power on the brake wheel.
weight M. The rcd Rh u l e r u e
L bas the brake lever studD and the lrom
G, attached to
passes to the connecCting tum bler
Connechngtumble
lorsnba.

P A5Tocknot
hod

Fig. 9¢
moves the brake
bandle K, through the lever L. This lever means
wheet B, by
rod F an i brake E a ay from the brake
the spring S, when the loomn is set in motiom. When the
of the tumbler G
loom han ile K is forced out of its notcb,
the brak e E into
drops, and the weight M and lever L bring
ly when the
action by the knoc king-off finger P, immediate The brake
absent.
loom bangs off or when the weft is
the weights on
power is regulated by altering the position of cranksbafr
-the lever L. Bis the brake wheel, keyed on the
handle ; G the
C; D the brake lever stud ; K the loom
tumbler lever ; N the collar ; and M the weight.
as
A brake puts considerable strain upon the loefo"parts
pulley,
it acts beforethe belting bas been shifted to the lcose
revolution,
and in the meantime the cranksbaft makes one
the time of
båt the momentum of the sley is stopped at
beat-yp.
Modern Brakes: Autom atic stop motions demand that a
fol5on is to be brought repidly to a stop. This involves the
itting of poweriul quic k-acting brakes. Most modernlooms
areequipped with very effective brakes. The 'Shbirley brake'
sto ps a loom in 57° revolution of the crankshaft. Again,
both the mec hanical and electriai brakes are employed in
modern looms. An electro -magnetiç brak system, as used
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WEAVING MECHANISM
on the Crompton andKnowles C-7 loom, provides a
rotary
switcb in the circuit, and the lo om is timed to stop with the
healds and the sley in the mTst suit able position.
A brake should not jmpart strain to any part of a loom,
If a weft is broken, a loom should always stop wita the
Cranks at the back centre a nd with the shuttle at the weft
fork side. In check and other loTms, d evices should be pro
vided for holding the brake off, while aa weaver
we inds the

proper starting place in the cloth.)

Side Weft Fork Motion