Patent ID: 6973942

Claim:
Pair of weft carrying grippers for weaving looms, the grippers made of metal and driven in their back-and-forth movement through the shed by carbon-fibre and/or polyester straps, guided exclusively outside the shed, wherein each of said grippers ( 1 , 2 ) is provided with a metal shoe ( 3 , 4 ) integrated in said gripper and projecting from the bottom thereof near the tip, to which it is smoothly tapered, and said shoe ( 3 , 4 ) is provided with a large central recess ( 7 , 8 ) provided to host the end ( 12 , 13 ) of the driving strap ( 10 , 11 ) which end is narrower than the rest of the strap and thinner than the shoe recess ( 7 , 8 ).