ABSTRACT
In conventional looms, a shuttle housing a pirn of weft yarn is propelled to and fro across the warp shed by either an over-pick or an under-pick shuttle propulsion mechanism. Such a system suffers from the following drawbacks:
1. A large shuttle mass of about 450 g (for cotton weft yarn) is employed for transporting a pick of weft, which is about 0.2 g/m on average, leading to a considerable waste of energy.
