4 the harness is now reloaded from the harness truck 15 onto the warp beam truck 2 which then carries the warp beam 3 and the drawn in harness and can be moved to the relevant weaving machine or into an intermediate store the functions described are distributed over a plurality of modules which represent virtually autonomous machines which are controlled by a common control computer the cross connections between the individual modules run via this higher level control computer and there are no direct cross connections between the individual modules the main modules already mentioned of the drawing in machine are themselves also of modular construction and as a rule consist of submodules this modular construction is described in swiss patent application no 03 633 89 1 to the disclosure of which reference is herewith expressly made as apparent from fig2 the drawing in needle 7 which forms the main component of the drawing in module is formed by a gripper band 16 and a clamping gripper 17 carried by the same the drawing in needle 7 is guided in the lifting direction arrow p in a channel like guide 18 which extends from the frame 5 in a rectilinear direction up to a curved end part 19 the guide 18 passes through the drawing in machine and is in each case interrupted in the area of the harness members drop wires la healds li and the reed wb in order to permit the feed of the harness members to the drawing in position and their further transport after drawing in is complete up to the transfer arrow s to drop wire supporting rails 12 and to the heald shafts 14 fig1 or the drawing in of the warp threads into the.