It is a heavy-duty rapier loom—a core category of shuttleless looms and a key piece of equipment for fabric weaving in textile production.
Its core working principle is as follows: It grips the weft yarn via a "rapier" (a long rod component) fitted with a clamping device, guides the yarn through the shed formed by the warp yarns, and completes the interlacing of weft and warp yarns, thereby producing a finished piece of fabric.
Its main functions include:
Adaptability to Diverse Fabric Production
It excels particularly in weaving heavy-weight fabrics (such as denim and canvas), special fiber fabrics (such as woolen and linen fabrics), and slub yarn fabrics. This is because the mechanical clamping and weft insertion method of the rapier offers stronger traction and better compatibility with different types of yarns.
Enabling Complex Fabric Effects
It supports the automatic switching of multi-color weft yarns, enabling the mass production of fabrics with complex textures or color patterns, such as jacquard and yarn-dyed fabrics.
Balancing Efficiency and Adaptability
Compared with traditional shuttle looms, it boosts production efficiency by 2–3 times. In contrast to air-jet looms, it has superior adaptability to heavy fabrics and slub yarns, making it one of the commonly used devices in the manufacturing of mid-to-high-end fabrics.