To provide a carrier tape for a rapier loom insertable into a warp opening and removable from the opening while stably keeping the posture of a rapier head, having high durability and capable of avoiding the breakage of the loom caused by the breakage of the tape at the end of the life.
The fiber structure 2 for the reinforcement of a carrier tape 1 is a three-dimensional braid having the width of the carrier tape 1 and a thickness (1-3mm) to impart the tape with a rigidity to enable the movement of the carrier tape in a warp opening in weft-insertion while stably keeping the posture of the rapier head. The 1st yarn 4 constituting the most part of the fiber structure 2 is a carbon fiber having high breakage strength and elastic modulus. A 2nd yarn having a breaking extension larger than that of the 1st yarn is arranged (inserted) in almost the whole length of the fiber structure as a core yarn 5a. The core yarn 5a is made of a polyaramid fiber. The carrier tape has rhombic engaging holes 3.
TSUZUKI MAKOTO
YASUE MASAHIKO
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