Patent ID: 6009989
Filing Date: 2000-01-04
Classification: D03D

Abstract:
A coupling for a loom comprising:a support;a loom shaft rotatable relative to said support and having a shaft end projecting beyond said support;a machine shaft aligned with and spaced from said loom shaft;a toothed wheel mounted on said machine shaft and formed with an annular array of teeth;an annular electromagnet on said support surrounding said end of said loom shaft;a plurality of axially effective springs on said end of said loom shaft; andan axially shiftable magnetically attractable disk mounted on said end of said loom shaft for rotatable entrainment thereby and having a surface directly juxtaposed with said annular electromagnet and engageable therewith on attraction of said disk to said electromagnet upon energization thereof, said disk having an annular array of teeth engageable with the teeth of the toothed wheel, said springs bearing directly against said disk and urging the teeth of said disk into engagement with the teeth of said wheel upon deenergization of said electromagnet.