FREEFORM WEAVING LOOM

원문 (중국어)

A loom for freeform weaving and method of using thereof. The loom includes a plurality of rollers each selectively and individually promoting a respective one of a plurality of warp threads along a longitudinal axis, a first and second grippers selectively holding and carrying a weft thread perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis, and at least pair of combs interchangeably holding odd and even numbered warp threads at opposite vertical offsets, and by at least one comb promoting along the longitudinal axis weft thread segments deposited by the grippers, wherein the grippers deposit in a plurality of sequential iterations a plurality of segments of the weft thread at a plurality of locations corresponding to a plurality of different subsets of the plurality of rollers, and respective rollers of one of the different subsets promote a respective subset of the plurality of warp threads in each iteration.