90-17/4 High Speed Braiding Machine

As the two tracks cross over, the strands twist around each other, making a braid. The carriers are pushed by four horn gears in the base plate. Each of the horn gears has a gear and a horn on a common shaft. The gears intermesh with each other, with alternate gears traveling in opposite directions.The quintessential braiding process is that of a maypole celebration, where two or more groups of people dance in opposite-directed twirling and interlacing circles around a pole, each person holding the end of a ribbon of a (woven) fabric, the other end of which is tied to the top of the pole.