Heddle and Drop Wire Feeding Systems
topic
Automatic drawing-in machines receive heddles from magazine storage systems that orient individual heddles and deliver them one at a time to the drawing-in gripper at the correct shaft position, while drop wire feeders supply individual drop wires from bulk storage magazines and position them correctly below the warp sheet for insertion onto each drawn-in end that will activate the stop motion when the end breaks during weaving.
Role
Provides the automatic supply of heddles and drop wires to the drawing-in gripper without manual loading that would reduce drawing-in machine productivity and introduce feeding errors, with magazine capacity and feeder reliability determining the uninterrupted operating time between manual replenishment interventions required during long drawing-in runs on wide warps with high end counts.