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Article: Textile technology: shuttleless air-jet looms lead weaving innovations.(50 Years: Fiber & Textile Innovation, 1945-1995)
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- Daily News Record
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- December 7, 1995
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CHARLOTTE - It's difficult to imagine that any sector of the textile industry has benefited more from innovations in the past 50 years than weaving.
During the period since 1945, shuttleless weaving has brought new life to the fabric-forming segment of the business. The fly-shuttle loom, which was developed in 1733, had dominated the textile scene for years.
Sulzer Bros. [now Sulzer Ruti Ltd.] of Switzerland, is generally credited with the firts commercially successful shuttleless loom, the projectile weaving machine, introduced about 1950.
"Actually, the rapier system existed a long time before projectiles, and there were patents in the early 1900s on ...