Filling cutting device for a weaving machine

Claim 1

A filling cutting device for a weaving machine in which filling is inserted from a stationary source of filling located outside the shed of a fabric being woven and in which weaving machine reciprocable filling carriers are provided to draw filling from the supply and to insert it as single picks in a warp shed as the fabric is being woven, characterized in that, the cutter comprises two members, an oscillatable shaft on which said members are carried, one said member being fixed for oscillation with the shaft and the other being mounted for restricted rotation relative to the shaft, connecting means between the two members imparting movement of the member fixed to the shaft to the other member through a limited angular extent, that member also having a yarn-catching recess at its end adjacent the point where filling is picked up by a carrier and at which the carrier and filling enter the shed, said recess being closed on the side of the warp thread and open toward that direction from which the filling is drawn, a cutting edge at one half of the yarn recess, the first member fixed to the shaft having a cutter blade and means for urging that blade into a cutting engagement with the cutting edge of the recess, cutting edges of both blade and recess lying in a plane parallel to the direction of pick insErtion.