Beat up

1)Purpose is to push the weft yarns to the cloth fell and it is done using metallic reed.

2)Uniform pick spacing so as to reduce defects

Reed has reciprocating action ,forward and backward

During beat up ,the reed comes forward.

Khadi fabrics do not have uniform picking because they are done in handloom.
Denim and commercial fabrics have uniform picking because they are produced on shuttle
loom as the beat up is uniform so gives two texture

Cloth fell is the boundary to which the fabric has been woven.

Reeds-
They are metallic combs ,they have different counts .
The metallic combs are of different sizes examples – 80s Stockport which means 80 dents in
2 inches which means 80 warp yarns in 2 inches

Reed gets motion by sley ,which sways backward and forward .

Because of the rotation of the crankshaft the sley will move forward and backward.

When sley or reed comes forward -It will do beat up

When sley or reed is back- It protects the shuttle so that it does not come outside of the
machine ,basically it deaccelerates the shuttle.

Beat up is after every pick insertion, we will have to do it after every pick in inserted in the
shed.

On crankshaft we have crank connecting rod to which sley is connected and reed is
connected to sley.

MOTION OF SLEY-
Let radius of crank be r
Length of crank arm =l

The crank arm is connected to sley

When crank is at 0 degree the crank arm moves forward ,the sley moves forward and beat
up happens

The sley forward and backward displacement is not uniform as sley motion deviates from
SHM.

If somehow we make length of crank arm (l) is very high ,close to infinity ,we will have SHM
motion of sley so forward and backward motion will become uniform ,this uniform motion
however is not desired in weaving.
We want the forward motion of sley to be very fast ,so that beat up force is maximum and if
it is moving at slower rate back ,it will give ample time to slep to deaccelerate the shuttle
,and the shuttle travels from one end to other so it takes time ,so if back motion is slow that
doesn’t hamper picking.

If sley motion is slow backward then it provides greater time for picking and shed formation
,for example for delicate fibres like silk ,there is a delay in building and closing shed so the
picking gets delayed and so we want slow motion of the sley backwards.

If sley comes at faster rate back then picking process will have less time so shed formation
will have to be fast and it may lead to tensions and breaking.

At 0 degree we have the maximum acceleration and at 180 degree the acceleration is
minimum as it moves backwards.

Sley eccentricity is the measurement of the deviation of the sley displacement with SHM
motion

Sley eccentricity =r/l

If r/l is 0 then l will be very long and the displacement will be same as SHM.

As we increase r/l the deviation from SHM will increase manifolds.

If r/l =1 then there will be dwell between 90 to 270.

Sley covers more distance during its back motion (0 to 90 degree ) and in the back motion
from 90 to 180 ,here the SHm displacement is more than sley displacement in back motion

Sley covers less distance in forward movement (180 to 270) and more forward distance
between (270 to 360)

If the sley would have be having SHM then the displacement would have been uniform
across 360 degrees.

Advantages of sley eccentricity-

1)Maximum velocity
2)Half of the maximum displacement.

Shed opening and picking

Shed closing and beat up
When shed covers more displacement ,slow motion then healds are happening up and
down.

High sley eccentricity will lead to more wear and tear