Patent ID: 7036532

Claim:
A shedding device ( 1 ) for a loom, such as a jacquard loom, comprising a heddle ( 8 ) which includes an eyelet ( 9 ) from which heddle shafts ( 12 , 13 ) extend on diametrically opposed sides, a drive device for longitudinally moving said heddle ( 8 ), one of said heddle shafts ( 12 ) being coupled with said drive device ( 2 ) and the other of said heddle shafts ( 13 ) having a connecting device ( 27 ), an elongated helical spring ( 14 ) having one end mounted on said connecting device ( 27 ) for moving said heddle ( 8 ) in a retracting direction, an anchor ( 16 ) fixedly anchoring the other end of the helical spring ( 14 ); and a longitudinally extending damping element ( 22 ) having a nonrectilinear shape defined by a plurality of longitudinally spaced protrusions in contact with said helical spring at at least a corresponding plurality of longitudinally spaced-apart points for forcing and causing the helical spring to take a nonrectilinear shape along an elongated length thereof.