Rectilinear loom of the "pick-pick" type

Claim 1

A RECTILINEAR LOOM OF THE "PICK-PICK" TYPE COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A CONTINUOUSLY UNIDIRECTIONALLY ROTATING PICKING COMB COMPOSED OF A PLURALITY OF COAXIAL CIRCULAR DISKS AXIALLY SEPARATED BY COAXIAL ANNULAR SPACERS; A REDUCTION COMB; THE NUMBER OF DISKS CORRESPONDING TO THE WIDTH OF THE WARP IN THE REDUCTION COMB; HEDDLES RECIPROCATING THE WARP YARNS TO PROVDE SHEDS; SAID PICKING COMB BEING FORMED WITH A PLURALITY OF GROOVES IN ITS PERIPHERY EACH EXTENDING RECTILINEARLY PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF SAID PICKING COMB, SAID GROOVES BEING SPACED EQUIANGULARLY OF THE CIRCUMFERENTIAL PERIPHERY OF SAID PICKING COMB; A PLURALITY OF WEFT BEARER NEEDLES EQUAL IN NUMBER TO SAID GROOVES AND INSERTABLE INDEPENDENTLY INTO, AND COMPLETELY RETRACTABLE INDEPENDENTLY FROM, SAID GROOVES; A NEEDLE INSERTION CONTROL ADJACENT ONE AXIAL END OF SAID PICKING COMB AND SUPPORTING SAID NEEDLES TO EXTEND IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID GROOVES IN THE RETRACTED POSITIONS OF SAID NEEDLES; DOBBY-CONTROLLED WEFT FEEDING MEANS POSITIONED BETWEEN SAID ONE AXIAL END OF SAID PICKING COMB AND THE INNER ENDS OF SAID NEEDLES AND OPERABLE TO SELECTIVELY POSITION ANY ONE OF A PLURALITY OF WEFT YARNS IN ADVANCE OF THE INNER END OF A NEEDLE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOBBY PATTERN, FOR DIRECT ENGAGEMENT WITH THE INNER END OF THE NEEDLE; SAID WEFT FEEDING MEANS FEEDING THE WEFT YARNS TRANSVERSELY OF THE AXIS OF THE PICKING COMB FROM ONE SIDE THEREOF; SUCTION MEANS AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICKING COMB HOLDING THE FREE ENDS OF THE WEFT YARNS FOR EXTENSION OF THE WEFT YARNS TRANSVERSELY OF THE PICKING COMB AND, EXCEPT FOR THE SELECTIVELY POSITIONED WEFT YARN, OUT OF THE PATH OF NEEDLE RECIPROCATION; CHAIN FEEDING MEANS INCLUDED IN SAID INSERTION CONTROL AND OPERABLE, AS SAID GROOVES SUCCESSIVELY REACH A FIRST ANGULAR POSITION RELATIVE TO SAID WEFT FEEDING MEANS, TO SUCCESSIVELY ADVANCE SAID NEEDLES INTO AND THROUGH THE GROOVES TO SUCCESSIVELY ENGAGE THE WEFT YARNS AND LAY THEM THROUGH SAID GROOVES; SAID CHAIN FEEDING MEANS, AS SAID GROOVES SUCCESSIVELY REACH A SECOND ANGULAR POSITION BEYOND SAID FIRST ANGULAR POSITION, SUCCESSIVELY RETRACTING SAID NEEDLES COMPLETELY FROM SAID GROOVES.