PURPOSE: To stabilize the posture of rod groups in the weft direction relatively to a rod group in the warp direction, facilitate the insertion of other rod groups and simultaneously the reed beating for the rod groups in the weft direction.
CONSTITUTION: Rod groups 2 in the weft direction are successively inserted from plural directions relatively to a rod group 1 in the warp direction to weave a rod type three-dimensional multiaxial woven fabric. In the weaving, only rods in the rod groups in the weft direction arranged on one plane and other rod groups 2 in the weft direction arranged on a plane parallel to the rod arrangement plane in the rod groups 2 in the weft direction inserted from the plural directions are initially successively inserted with the first and second inserters 15 and 25 and stacked in a required woven state. In this stage, the reed beating is carried out. The rods of the rod groups 2 in the weft direction inserted in the direction intersecting the rod arrangement plane are inserted from one or plural directions into rod inserting holes formed between the rods in a semifinished woven unit (3A) constructed from the rod groups to weave this three-dimensional multiaxial woven fabric.
AMANO MASAAKI