| 摘要 |
An improved configuration for the nose portion of a gripper shuttle is disclosed. A recess, which may be a concave depression, is formed in the arcuate edge of the tapered front end portion of a tubular shuttle having a gripper clamp mounted therein with the weft gripping jaws positioned even with or in close proximity to the open trailing end thereof. The recess is so shaped and dimensioned as to preclude contact between the front edge of the shuttle with the weft gripping jaws of a similar shuttle when the front and rear ends of the shuttles contact each other in the same plane. Thus, in the event of a machine malfunction causing one shuttle to crash into the rear end of a preceding shuttle, the force of impact of one shuttle on another in this manner is borne by the body portions of the shuttles rather than being borne by the body portion of one of the shuttles and the gripper clamp of another.
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