To provide a rapier head for a lead-in foil loom for weaving activities using both foil yarns and linear yarns as wefts, enabling weft inserting mechanism to be simplified and stable weaving operations to be conducted without occurrence of any weave defects.
In an one-side rapier loom 1 acting so as to make a weft insertion using this rapier head 2 provided with a weft catch part 4 for an ordinary yarn 5, the tip of the rapier head 2 is furnished with a guide 7 for foil lead-in use, a guide face 9 is formed to guide a foil yarn 6 in such a design as to thread the guide 7 with the foil yarn 6, and the ridge line 9a of the guide face 9 is provided so as to be nearly parallel to the bottom face 2a of the rapier head 2 and nearly rectangular to the direction of the movement of the rapier head 2.
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