Patent ID: 7017617

Claim:
Shed forming device for a weaving loom of Jacquard type, the device comprising rigid or semi-rigid shafts, characterized in that the device further includes at least one member ( 200 ; 700 ) provided with orifices ( 203 ; 703 ) for the passage and direct guiding in translation of a shaft, or heddle, ( 120 ; 620 ) in its controlled rocking movements (F 1 ), in that said member ( 200 ; 700 ) is mobile, with two degrees of freedom relative to the loom frame, in translation (F 4 ), in a direction (A–A′) substantially parallel to the direction of the weft yarns, and in rotation (P 4 ), about an axis (Z 1 –Z′ 1 ) substantially parallel to the translational direction (F 1 ) of said shafts ( 120 ; 620 ), and in that said member ( 200 ; 700 ) can be positioned in translation (F 4 ) and in rotation (P 4 ) in the afore-mentioned movements by the warp yarns ( 103 ; T) which pass through the eyelets ( 127 ) of the shafts ( 120 ; 620 ) guided by said member.