MUMBAI, India, June 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202414088080 A) filed by Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Aichi, Japan, on Nov. 14, 2024, for 'tensioning device for air jet loom.'
Inventor(s) include Daisuke Yagi.
The application for the patent was published on June 20, under issue no. 25/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A tensioning device (30) for an air jet loom (100) that inserts a weft yarn (Y) along a weft yarn guide passage (10a) formed in a reed (10) formed of a plurality of reed dents (11) that are arranged with gaps (10b) in a weft insertion direction (W), includes a passage defining portion (31) that defines a weft yarn traveling passage (31a). The passage defining portion (31) has an upper surface (31c) and an air exhaust port (31d) facing at least one of the gaps (10b). The tensioning device (30) is configured to tension the weft yarn (Y). The passage defining portion (31) has a protrusion (50) that comes in contact with at least one of adjacent two of the reed dents (11) such that the protrusion (50) widens one of the gaps (10b) facing the air exhaust port (31d) and defining by the two adjacent reed dents."
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