Design and Analysis of Picking & Checking mechanism of Shuttle loom

Mechanical Engineering

Shuttle loom is one of the oldest machine for weaving of cloth and is the vital machinery for Power loom industry in India. With this basic loom it is possible to weave all types of cloth very efficiently. This ancient machine is still used by many weavers in India , so they face many problems because of high power consumption and more losses of energy , than any other machinery for this industry. To obtain minimum power consumption detailed analysis of another auxiliary mechanism called checking which is also related to picking mechanism is required. The mechanism operates by applying brake to the Shuttle , which is at very high speed and prepare Shuttle for next cycle of Picking mechanism. It uses spring loaded swells to retard the shuttle. Due to retardation velocity of shuttle decrease to zero. If these brakes are not release then picking mechanism needs to generate more power to strike picker on shuttle. Hence it is extremely necessary to design and develop mechanism to compliment the checking mechanism and move in the direction of achieving minimum power consumption.The aim of this Project is to develop a checking mechanism which releases the spring loaded swell at the time of initialization of picking mechanism and load that spring to brake the shuttle when picking mechanism ends.

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