Patent ID: 7650913
Filing Date: 2010-01-26
Classification: D03D

Abstract:
1. Method of operating a weaving machine, especially an air-jet weaving machine, to produce a woven fabric, said method comprising starting the weaving machine in a starting process, operating the weaving machine in a slow speed running after the starting process during at least a first weaving cycle, inserting a weft thread during the first weaving cycle, monitoring the insertion of the weft thread by at least one sensor and correspondingly producing a signal, holding the inserted weft thread at the outlet side of the loom shed against springing back into the loom shed at least until binding thereof by warp threads, wherein said holding of the inserted weft thread comprises binding the inserted weft thread by separate binding threads temporally before the binding by the warp threads, wherein the binding by the binding threads is carried out spatially at at least one position of the loom shed after the inlet side of the loom shed, and wherein the binding by the separate binding threads is carried out dependent on the signal of the at least one sensor monitoring the insertion of the weft thread.