Patent ID: 8015999

Claim:
A weaving machine for weaving a three-dimensional distance woven fabric including two outer fabrics and a plurality of inter-yarns connected with the outer fabrics, comprising: a warp let-off mechanism including at least two warp beams for providing and transferring a plurality of warps; a plurality of vertically arranged heald wires, supported by each of the heald frames, each of the heald wires having a heald eye for the warps passing through, the warps being driven and divided into two warp layers by the heald frames, and a shed being formed between the two warp layers; a picking mechanism transferring wefts to pass through the shed along a transferring direction; a beating-up mechanism pushing the wefts, the wefts and the warps being interwoven to form the outer fabrics, and the heald frames being located between the warp let-off mechanism and the beating-up mechanism; a yarn raising mechanism passing through the shed along a direction substantially parallel to the transferring direction and raising parts of the warps functioning as the inter-yarns, wherein the yarn raising mechanism is separate from the heald frame; and a take-up mechanism capable of adjusting and controlling latitude density of the three-dimensional distance woven fabric.