Patent ID: 7147010

Claim:
A heddle frame for a weaving loom, said frame comprising two spaced uprights and two spaced crossbeams, a catching member mounted to each crossbeam and adapted to engage a corresponding end of at least one heddle of said heddle frame, at least one of said catching members being formed of at least one piece of bent sheet metal, damping means carried by said at least one catching member, said damping means and said at least one catching member being cooperatively configured such that said damping means is retained on said at least one catching member due to their complimentary shapes, said damping means being positioned on said at least one catching member so as to be engageable with a compression surface of said corresponding end of said at least one heddle to thereby dampen vibrations along said at least one heddle and said two spaced crossbeams as said at least one heddle is moved in a first direction between said two spaced crossbeams and said at least one catching member including at least one metallic abutment traction surface, spaced from said damping means, that is directly engageable with an opposing abutment traction surface of said corresponding end of said at least one heddle as said at least one heddle is moved in a second opposite direction between said two spaced crossbeams and such that said damping means is spaced from said compression surface of said corresponding end of said at least one heddle as said at least one heddle is moved in said second opposite direction.