Rotating dobbies

Claim 1

In a dobby of the rotating type having multiple control elements each including an actuating rod for each heddle frame of a weaving loom, the loom having a main shaft driven with intermittent rotational motion and having reading-device push elements located adjacent to the shaft, each control element comprising: (a) an open circular boss on the heddle frame actuating rod and surrounding the shaft; (b) an eccentric member rotatably supported on the shaft and having an outer surface eccentrically offset from its center of rotation on which the circular boss of the actuating rod is rotatably supported; (c) a plate member fixed to the eccentric member for rotation therewith, the plate member having an outer periphery with a notch therein; (d) a pawl pivotally supported by the plate member adjacent thereto, the pawl having a first end having a finger thereon extending toward the shaft and having a second end underlying said notch in the plate member; (e) drive means on the shaft and disposed to underlie the pawl and including two diametrically opposed notches shaped to receive said finger; (f) a spring urging the pawl to pivot in a direction to insert its finger into a drive means notch; and (g) two levers supported on fixed pivots, the levers respectively having ends carrying diametrically opposed noses extending toward the shaft and located opposite the outer surface of the plate member, and the levers having spring means urging the levers to pivot in directions to move their outer ends toward engagement of a nose in the notch in the surface of the plate member and to thereby displace the second end of the pawl to disengage its finger from a notch in the drive means, and the levers respectively having control ends disposed to be engaged by the reading-device push elements to pivot the levers to move their noses away from engagement in the notch in the surface of the plate member.