Patent ID: 6953066

Claim:
A method of disposing a weft in a loom which comprises: a reed sley, a weft length measurement storage unit, a guide nozzle disposed in the reed sley for jetting an air current to displace the weft led into a weft insert nozzle, and a discharge device for discharging a defective yarn, said discharge device fixed at a position opposing said guide nozzle at a part of a swinging range of said reed sley, wherein, when mis-insertion occurs, said weft is displaced to a vicinity of an intake of said discharge device by the air current from said guide nozzle to deliver the weft to said discharge device, the method comprising the steps of: stopping said reed sley at a position where the air current from said guide nozzle is directed to the vicinity of said intake when reversing after stopping of the loom due to an occurrence of mis-insertion, and delivering the weft to said discharge device.