Braiding Technology for Textiles

Braiding Technology for Textiles272

Assuming the most common case of carrier arrangement, namely 1 Full 1 Empty,

then  oating length is equal to the number of slots in each inner horn gear minus

one:

Floa

t

in

g

_len

g

th =

Slots_hor

n_

g

ear

N

S

−

1

[11.14]

This rule derives from the motion of the carriers and the horn gears. Three-slot

horn gears transfer each carrier from one parking position to another by moving them

over two other carriers (Fig. 11.19a). During this motion the yarn of a moving car-

rier  oats under two other yarns. While a carrier stays in a parking position, the horn

gear moves two other carriers “over” it, in the course of which ...