NEEDLING LOOM FEEDING WITH CONTINUOUS HELICAL STRIP

摘要

The invention concerns a loom for needling a textile structure (10) formed from a strip of material to be needle-punched supplied by strip feeding mean s (12) comprising a storage basket containing the wound strip, an unwinding assembly (48-62) for continuously extracting said strip from the storage basket, and a twist for taking up the unwound extracted strip from the baske t and bringing it to the needling table at the frictional driving means. The storage basket and the twist have a common axis C with the needling table.