Patent ID: 8720492

Claim:
A selection device for the shed-forming device of a weaving machine, comprising: an electromagnetic selector with a coil wound around a fixed core and at least two poles connected to this core designed to form at least one magnetic north pole and at least one magnetic south pole, and a selection element with a positionable part which, when the selection element is situated in a cooperating position near the selector, comprises a magnetically influenceable zone situated next to at least two of the poles while the selection element is retained at a holding distance from this zone, in which the selector can be controlled in order to exert a magnetic force with each pole situated next to the selection element on this zone so as to place or keep the positionable part in a selection position or a non-selection position in accordance with a predetermined weaving pattern, wherein the zone extends in the longitudinal direction of the positionable part of the selection element and over a distance that is shorter than the coil length, while the holding distance is equal to at least half the length of the positionable part.