A full-width temple device for a loom including: a base body including a base plate; a cover provided on the base plate; and a temple bar accommodated in a space defined by the base plate and the cover, where the temple bar is a ring bar temple constituted by a rod-shaped inner bar and ring temples provided continuously to both sides of the inner bar and having shaft parts for support at both ends. The base body has support parts at both end portions for supporting the ring bar temple on the shall parts. The full-width temple device includes attachment members each detachably attached to each of the support parts and comprising a plate-shaped shaft fixing part having an engaging part formed to engage with a circumferential surface of the shaft part.

The invention relates to various mutually combinable embodiments of a weaving machine or loom that comprises at least one guide device with at least one guide unit (32, 34) for the contacting guidance of a woven fabric (82) in the area of the weaving reed beat-up plane (14). In this regard, according to an embodiment, a control unit (15) is provided, which is embodied for controlling at least one drive (38, 39) for the at least one guide unit (32, 34), wherein for the actuation the control unit (15) processes informations that are related to the woven fabric structure in the area of the weaving reed beat-up plane (14), and/or informations regarding the position of the warp threads (80a, 80b) in the open loom shed. The invention also relates to methods for guiding a woven fabric in the area of the weaving reed beat-up plane (14).

A weaving machine includes a shed forming device, a weft insertion device, and a weaving reed that beats up the weft threads at a beat up plane against an edge of the woven fabric. A guide device extends over a width of the woven fabric and is driven by a drive, the guide device being one or both of an upper guide unit that contacts a top surface of the woven fabric or a lower guide unit that contacts a bottom surface of the woven fabric. A control unit controls alternating movement of the guide unit along the direction of thickness of the woven fabric as the fabric is being woven based on information related to one or both of a structure of the woven fabric in the area of the beat up plane or a position of the warp threads in the open loom shed.

A full-width temple device for a loom including: a base body including a base plate; a cover provided on the base plate; and a temple bar accommodated in a space defined by the base plate and the cover, where the temple bar is a ring bar temple constituted by a rod-shaped inner bar and ring temples provided continuously to both sides of the inner bar and having shaft parts for support at both ends. The base body has support parts at both end portions for supporting the ring bar temple on the shall parts. The full-width temple device includes attachment members each detachably attached to each of the support parts and comprising a plate-shaped shaft fixing part having an engaging part formed to engage with a circumferential surface of the shaft part.

A weaving machine includes a shed forming device, a weft insertion device, and a weaving reed that beats up the weft threads at a beat up plane against an edge of the woven fabric. A guide device extends over a width of the woven fabric and is driven by a drive, the guide device being one or both of an upper guide unit that contacts a top surface of the woven fabric or a lower guide unit that contacts a bottom surface of the woven fabric. One or both of the upper and lower guide units are positionable in a direction of thickness of the woven fabric to contact and guide the woven fabric in an area of the beat up plane. The guide section of one or both of the upper and lower guide units has a profiled shape in a weft direction to guide the woven fabric at different thicknesses in the weft direction.

A weaving machine with a shedding arrangement (10, 25) for forming loom sheds (3) between warp threads (1) drawn off from a thread supply (9), a weft insertion arrangement (20) for inserting weft threads (2) in the form of tapes into the formed loom sheds (3), and a drawing-off arrangement (30) for drawing off the woven fabric (4) formed by warp and weft threads (1, 2) after a weft thread insertion. The weaving machine encompasses a measuring arrangement (40) for detecting geometric parameters, especially the width, of a weft thread (2) before its insertion in the loom shed (3), as well as an evaluating arrangement (45) for evaluating the detected measurement results. A control arrangement (50) for controlling a motion of the woven fabric (4), including the drawing-off, based on the evaluated measurement results, is present on the weaving machine and is connected with the drawing-off arrangement (30).

A weaving machine includes a shed forming device, a weft insertion device, and a weaving reed that beats up the weft threads at a beat up plane against an edge of the woven fabric. A guide device extends over a width of the woven fabric and is driven by a drive, the guide device being one or both of an upper guide unit that contacts a top surface of the woven fabric or a lower guide unit that contacts a bottom surface of the woven fabric. One or both of the upper and lower guide units are positionable in a direction of thickness of the woven fabric to contact and guide the woven fabric in an area of the beat up plane. The guide section of one or both of the upper and lower guide units has a profiled shape in a weft direction to guide the woven fabric at different thicknesses in the weft direction.