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Article: Sound weaving: making a fast loom even faster requires special handling of noise and vibration.(Picanol N.V.)
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Weaving puts the clothes on our backs, but like so many things in life, if you're not in the business, you may not think often about looms or how they perform. Fabric is largely a commodity business, so speed is important, because the faster the loom can go, the more productive it and the mill are.
Picanol NV, a maker of weaving machines based in Ieper, Belgium, markets a variety of models, including a family of high-speed rapier looms sold under the name OptiMax. The rapier loom has no shuttle. Instead, it uses a device called a rapier to pass the weft at high speed through the warp. This kind of loom can weave a variety of ...