Rotably driven braiding machine with third yarns carried and delivered by stationary carriages about a braiding point

摘要

A braiding machine which operates to deliver a first set of yarns about a vertical axis along a first plane to a braiding point and a second set of yarns about the vertical axis along a second plane located above the first plane to the braiding point and a third set of yarns stationarily arranged about the vertical axis for delivery along a third plane intermediate of the first and second planes to the braiding point. The machine includes an interlacing mechanism which is associated with each yarn of the third set of yarns and including a rotating interlacing member. The interlacing member of each interlacing mechanism is operative to successively engage and carry the first yarns out of the first plane above said third plane over a third yarn of the third yarns and to carry the second yarns out of the second plane below the third plane beneath a third yarn of the third yarns causing each of the first and second yarns to successively interlace with each of the third yarns during their movement about the vertical axis. This positioning action between the first, second, and third yarns forming a braided fabric of superior strength and stability.