Jacquard mechanism

Claim 1

In a jacquard mechanism for controlling a shedding motion or warps set on a loom, comprising a plurality of axially displaceable dropper needles, each associated with a horizontal needle relating to a group of said warps, and a plurality of solenoid, each corresponding to one of said dropper needles, said control being carried out by selectively energizing said solenoids to hold the corresponding dropper needles by a command from a computer, an improvement comprising, a printed board on which a circuit for transmission of a command signal from said computer to said solenoids is printed, solenoids comprising stationary cores, accommodated in housings secured, along with coils, directly on said printed board and disposed at predetermined position along extensions of axes of said dropper needles, and movable cores fixed to ends of said dropper needles closer to said stationary cores; means for periodically reciprocating all of said dropper needles along each longitudinal axis thereof from a first position where said movable and stationary cores are apart from each other at a predetermined distance to a second position where said movable and stationary cores substantially come into contact with each other; a guide plate provided with a plurality of holes for stably guiding said movable cores during said reciprocation of said dropper needles; and means for urging said dropper needle toward said first position for facilitating the return thereto.