Patent ID: 6874196

Claim:
A reed cleaning apparatus for an air-jet loom supported on a carriage which moves along an upper bar arranged over a reed, including: a brush mounted on the carriage to brush dents forming a guide groove in a front surface of the reed wherein the rotary brush is driven for rotation about an axis parallel to a inserting direction in which a weft yarn is inserted and is disposed with its rotary axis extended within the guide groove of the reed, and a jet nozzle for jetting cleaning air and a suction nozzle for sucking cleaning air jetted through the jet nozzle, which are disposed on the opposite sides, respectively, of the reed, close to the rotary brush with a jetting opening of the jet nozzle facing the guide groove in the front surface of the reed, and with a suction opening of the suction nozzle disposed opposite to the jetting opening, respectively.