As early as 150 years ago, the shuttle looms gradually replaced hand-woven fabrics, when the shuttle looms were twice as high as the hand-woven fabrics. The shuttleless loom began to appear in 1844. The flexible rapier loom began in 1925. After World War II, it achieved commercial production from the 1950s to the 1960s, and gradually made significant progress. At present, the weft insertion rate of the rapier loom reaches 1500m/ Min or above.
The rapier loom is mainly designed to solve the weft insertion method, including rigid, flexible and telescopic weft insertion. Its main product is fabric for clothing. Compared with other weft insertion methods, the weft insertion method of rapier loom is suitable for multi-color weft insertion, and can produce multi-pattern patterns of 12-color weft insertion, including various types of Yarn, producing various types of fabrics. The active rapier drive can complete weft insertion for many yarns with difficult weft insertion.
The rapier loom is the most widely used shuttleless loom. It has the characteristics of high speed, high automation and high-performance production of shuttleless loom. Its positive weft insertion method has strong variety adaptability and can adapt. The weft insertion of all kinds of yarns, combined with the rapier weaving machine, also has obvious advantages in multi-color weft weaving, and can produce yarn-dyed products of up to 16 color weft yarns. With the shuttleless loom replacing the shuttle loom, the rapier loom will become the main production machine for woven fabrics.