Patent ID: 6752177
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: D03D

Abstract:
A self-adjusting braking device for units for feeding weft thread, having a frustum-shaped braking body that acts on said thread and is suspended elastically in front of (the) a drum of (the) a feeder and is pushed into elastic tangent contact with said drum along an exit circumference of said drum, wherein said braking body has, at a larger-diameter region thereof meant to make contact with the drum, a discontinuous annular contact element, which comprises a plurality of through slits which are arranged so as to be equidistant and delimit a row of contact laminas, each of which has both ends joined to the braking body and monolithic therewith; the annular contact element, arranged at a region of contact between the braking body and the drum, being ranged symmetrically on either side of said exit circumference of said drum.