TYPES OF JACQUARD SHEDDING MECHANISM (VERDOL JACQUARD):-

Types of jacquard shedding mechanism:-

(4) Verdol jacquard or fine pitch jacquard shedding mechanism:-

This an advance and compact jacquard shedding mechanism in all mechanical jacquards. The jacquard has large figuring capacity. This jacquard shedding mechanism has 1344 hooks figuring capacity. A long pattern chain can be used due to a light weight plastic card. The jacquard can be operated at high revolution per minute of the loom.

Structure of Verdol jacquard or fine pitch jacquard shedding mechanism:-

The double hook is used in this mechanism. The hook has two incline bands on the upper end of the hook. These bands gets inclined in the same direction. A notch lever is attached to the hook in the middle of the hook. There are sixteen row of hooks used and one row contains 84 hooks. The hook rests upon tug board when it reaches the down position. The upper end of the neck cord is passed through the hole of the comber board and then gets connected to the upper end of the heald wire. The lower end of the heald wire is connected with the reversing spring mounted on the spring board. The main needle having double eye is used to control the selection of each hook. A pressure spring is mounted at the rear end of each double kink needle towards the pattern cylinder. Total sixteen double kink needle used. The front end of each needle passes through the hole of the needle board. A pusher needle is mounted in front of a double kink needle. The pusher needle passes through the round eye of dropper needle. A pressure spring is fitted at the upper end of each dropper needle . The lower end of the dropper needle passes through the hole of the needle plate. A pressure grid is mounted in front of the pushing end of the pusher needle . The pressure grid contains 16 pressure bars. A fixed perforated cylinder is mounted just under the dropper needle plate. The pattern cylinder has a shaft on which peg wheel are mounted on the pattern cylinder. The punched paper card get rotated with the help of peg wheels mounted on the cylinder shaft. A Geneva wheel is mounted at one end of the cylinder shaft. The Geneva wheel receives an intermittent rotary motion through a crank mounted on the side shaft .

There are two griffes mounted on the jacquard shaft. Eccentric cams are used to impart reciprocating motion to the griffes. The sprocket wheel is mounted on the jacquard shaft which get connected to a sprocket wheel having an equal number of teeth mounted on the bottom shaft of the loom through a chain.

Fig of Verdol jacquard or fine pitch jacquard shedding mechnism.

Working of a Verdol jacquard or fine pitch jacquard shedding mechanism:-

When the bottom shaft rotates , the jacquard shaft also rotates in the same direction. The rotating eccentric cam imparts reciprocating motion to the griffes. When the first griffe reaches the bottom dead center position, the second griffe goes to the top dead centre position. The position of the griffe get interchange after the half revolution of the jacquard shaft. When the griffe reaches the bottom dead centre position, the top edge of the knives come slightly down from the upper band ends of the hook. Now the dropper needle presses the punched design card mounted on the perforated pattern cylinder. If there is a hole in the design card the dropper needle gets entered into the hole of the pattern cylinder. The pusher needle position remains unchanged. The pushing needle comes in front of the open space present in the pressure grid. If there is no hole in the card , the dropper needle goes in an upward direction and the pushing end of the pushing needle engaged with the dropper needle goes in front of solid pressure bars. Now the pressure grid pushes the pusher needle . If the pusher needle doesn’t pushed by the pressure grid, the position of the pusher needle and kink needle remains unchanged and the respective hook gets engaged, with a knife. The reciprocating griffe carries the engaged hooks in the upward direction. When the first griffe reaches the top dead centre position the second griffe reaches its bottom dread center portion. Now the selection of hooks take place again.

If a hook needs to keep in up position two or more times it remains in up position and rests upon the rest knife. The notch of the hook gets engaged with the rest knife . When the pattern demands to bring down the hook that hook gets disengaged from the rest knife.

Since the hook is connected to the heald wire through the neck cord and harness cord so that the heald wire connected with respective hook goes in the upward direction. In this way, shed formation takes place . The pressure spring mounted at the bottom end of the heald wire brings the hook in down position.

When the jacquard shaft makes one revolution, the pattern card changes it position two times. The pattern card is mounted on the peg wheels , when the Geneva wheel receives intermittent angular motion, it rotates the cylinder shaft. Since the peg wheels are mounted on the cylinder shaft so that the rotating peg wheels change the pick position of the card.

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