CN211595908U - Electronic mechanical jacquard weave structure - Google Patents

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CN211595908U
CN211595908U CN201921915228.8U CN201921915228U CN211595908U CN 211595908 U CN211595908 U CN 211595908U CN 201921915228 U CN201921915228 U CN 201921915228U CN 211595908 U CN211595908 U CN 211595908U
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The utility model discloses an electronic mechanical jacquard weave leno structure, which is applied to the technical field of textile machinery and solves the technical problems that a pattern plate is easy to rub with a cylinder in the transmission process and is easy to wear or damage after being used for a long time; the pattern control mechanism comprises a cylinder, a pattern plate and a transverse needle; the lower end of the flower cylinder is provided with a plate inlet, the upper end of the flower cylinder is provided with a plate outlet, the transverse needle is arranged in the horizontal direction, and one end of the transverse needle is inserted into the flower cylinder; the plate inlet of the cylinder is provided with a damage prevention assembly; the damage prevention assembly comprises a sliding roller and a sponge body; a conveying assembly is arranged on a plate outlet of the cylindrical firework; the jacquard weaving machine has the technical effects that the jacquard is protected, so that the jacquard can be normally conveyed into the cylinder, the integrity of the jacquard is ensured, and the weaving efficiency of the loom is further ensured.

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Electronic mechanical jacquard weave structure
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of textile machinery, in particular to sieve structure is knitted to electronic machinery formula jacquard weave.
Background
The jacquard loom is an ancient loom, and the jacquard loom is a jacquard shedding mechanism of the jacquard loom, which is the biggest difference between the jacquard loom and other common looms because the jacquard fabric is formed by interweaving mutually unparallel warps and wefts after mutually regularly twisting.
The jacquard shedding mechanism generally controls and lifts warp yarns by a lifting knife, a vertical needle (or a straight needle), a heddle and the like, and each warp yarn can be lifted independently; the warp lifting sequence is controlled by the cylinder, pattern plate and transverse needle, and the shedding mechanism can weave large pattern fabric.
At present, chinese patent publication No. CN101037820A discloses an electronic shedding device for a jacquard, which comprises at least two sets of knife-lifting mechanisms capable of moving up and down synchronously, wherein each set of knife-lifting mechanism comprises knife-lifting beams arranged on both sides, a plurality of knives connected between the two beams, a plurality of motors for converting information input electrical signals into angular displacement and outputting the angular displacement, and a plurality of transmission mechanisms connected with output ends of the motors for converting the angular displacement output by the motors into linear displacement, the transmission mechanisms are respectively connected with the two knife-lifting beams on the same side to drive the two sets of knife-lifting mechanisms to move up and down synchronously, and simultaneously, the linear motors can drive the knife-lifting mechanisms to move back and forth.
The invention discloses a Chinese patent publication No. CN102978772A, which discloses a highly reliable jacquard electronic cylinder with excellent heat dissipation, the structure of the electronic cylinder comprises a frame, a transverse needle control panel, built-in transverse needles, a transverse needle insertion head, a fan and an electronic control device, a track for mounting the transverse needle control panel is designed inside the frame, the built-in transverse needles are correspondingly connected with small holes in the transverse needle insertion head, a plurality of transverse needle control units are mounted on the transverse needle control panel, and each transverse needle control unit controls a corresponding built-in transverse needle.
In the prior art, the pattern plate is easy to rub with a cylinder in the conveying process, the pattern plate is easy to wear or damage after being used for a long time, and a loom needs to be suspended for replacing a new pattern plate in serious cases, so that the weaving efficiency of the loom is influenced.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at providing an electromechanical type jacquard weave leno structure, its advantage is protection card for the card can be normal convey to the flower section of thick bamboo in, thereby guarantee the integrality of card, and then guarantee the work efficiency that the loom was weaved.
The above technical purpose of the present invention can be achieved by the following technical solutions: an electronic mechanical jacquard weave leno structure comprises a rack, a heald lifting mechanism, a pattern control mechanism and a transmission mechanism, wherein the heald lifting mechanism is arranged on the rack and comprises a knife box, a lifting knife and a vertical needle;
the pattern control mechanism comprises a cylinder, a pattern plate and a transverse needle, the cylinder is positioned at one end of the knife box, and the length direction of the cylinder is arranged along the width direction of the rack; the lower end of the cylinder is provided with a plate inlet for feeding the pattern plate, the upper end of the cylinder is provided with a plate outlet for discharging the pattern plate, the transverse needle is arranged in the horizontal direction, and one end of the transverse needle is inserted into the cylinder;
a damage prevention assembly for preventing the wear of the pattern plate is arranged on the plate inlet of the cylinder; the damage prevention assembly comprises sliding rollers arranged on two sides of the plate inlet, and a sponge body is arranged between the sliding rollers and the plate inlet;
and a conveying assembly for conveying the pattern plate is arranged on the plate outlet of the cylinder.
Through the technical scheme, the rack is used for supporting the knife box and the cylinder, so that the mechanical jacquard can carry out jacquard work; the transmission mechanism is used for driving the lifting knife which drives the vertical needle, so that the harness wire is driven to lift by the through wire, an opening is formed between warps, and the shuttle can be woven when entering; the card board cover is established on the card section of thick bamboo, weaves a latitude and then turns over a card board, and the card section of thick bamboo leans on to press once to horizontal needle, and when the eyelet on the card, the head end of horizontal needle stretches into the punchhole of card and card section of thick bamboo, makes the hook end of vertical needle still hang on the griffe, rises when the griffe, and vertical needle then rises, promotes through driving the harness wire, and the harness wire that penetrates the harness wire this moment also forms the upper strata of shed along with promoting. The sliding roller is used for driving the pattern plate to move upwards, meanwhile, the pattern plate is further conveniently conveyed upwards, and meanwhile, the pattern plate is protected from being abraded; the cavernosum has better compliance and ductility for the protection card for the card can be normal convey to the flower section of thick bamboo in, thereby guarantee the integrality of card, and then guarantee mechanical jacquard's work efficiency.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the plate inlet and the plate outlet are both coated with anti-collision pads.
Through above-mentioned technical scheme, the crashproof pad is used for protecting the card to prevent that card and the mouthful limit of advancing board mouth, play board mouth from bumping, and then guarantee the integrality of card.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the lower extreme of advance board mouth sets up the buffer board, the one end of buffer board set up in the one end of frame, the buffer board sets up towards the slope of ground direction from the one end of frame.
Through the technical scheme, the buffer plate is used for relieving the downward gravity of the pattern plate, ensuring the normal transmission of the pattern plate and the perforation and the punching of the cross needle, and further ensuring that the weaving pattern of the mechanical jacquard machine is consistent with the pattern plate. The buffer board is arranged obliquely and is compared with the horizontal arrangement, so that the corrugated board is convenient to convey.
The utility model discloses further set up to: and limiting plates extend upwards from two ends of the buffer plate.
Through above-mentioned technical scheme, the restriction board is used for restricting the line board and shifts out the sliding plate when sliding on the buffer board to can stably convey the line board to the flower section of thick bamboo, guarantee the effect of weaving of decorative pattern.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the buffer board is provided with an anti-slip mat, and the anti-slip mat is provided with a plurality of anti-slip cross bars.
Through above-mentioned technical scheme, the setting up of slipmat and anti-skidding horizontal bar has increased with the area of contact between the line board, and then has improved the frictional force between line board and the buffer board to the line board slippage from the buffer board is avoided, influences jacquard machine production and work.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the conveying assembly comprises a conveying roller, a driving motor used for driving the conveying roller to rotate and a driving shaft of the driving motor is provided with a rotation sensor used for opening and closing the driving motor.
Through the technical scheme, pass into the cylinder of flowers from the board inlet when the card, it rotates to weave a latitude sensor start drive motor at every time, thereby it goes to drive the transfer roller and rotate and go a card transmission, another card gets into the cylinder of flowers, the sensor closes drive motor, thereby transfer roller stall, drive mechanism drives horizontal needle and penetrates in the punchhole of card, thereby make the hook end of vertical needle still hang on the griffe, rise when the griffe, vertical needle follows to rise, promote through driving the harness wire, the harness wire that penetrates the harness hole also along with promoting this moment, form the upper strata of shed, then sensor start drive motor rotates, and cyclic motion guarantees jacquard loom's the effect of weaving.
The utility model discloses further set up to: and a guide roller is arranged at the upper end of the conveying roller.
Through above-mentioned technical scheme, the guide roller is used for guiding the card to the one end conveying of keeping away from the frame to guarantee that every card can be opened, avoid folding together, improve the work efficiency who conveys the card.
The utility model discloses further set up to: the wall of the flower cylinder is provided with a plurality of air holes.
Through above-mentioned technical scheme, because the business turn over of control horizontal needle can produce a large amount of heats in the section of thick bamboo of flower in the section of thick bamboo, so setting up of bleeder vent is used for dispelling the heat to the inside heat of section of thick bamboo of flower to guarantee the inside normal work of section of thick bamboo of flower, and then guarantee jacquard's production efficiency.
To sum up, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
1. through the arrangement of the sliding roller and the sponge body, the pattern plate can be normally conveyed into the cylinder, so that the integrity of the pattern plate is ensured, and the weaving efficiency of the weaving machine is further ensured;
2. through the setting of buffer board, crash pad and restriction board for the line board can normal operating conveying, and then guarantees the normal operating of line board, thereby weaves the fabric tissue that matches.
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Fig. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of the present embodiment;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a transfer assembly of the present embodiment;
fig. 3 is a sectional view of the entirety of the present embodiment;
fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the loss prevention assembly of the present embodiment;
fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view of a in fig. 4.
Reference numerals: 1. a frame; 2. a support frame; 3. a heald lifting mechanism; 4. a pattern control mechanism; 5. a transmission mechanism; 6. a knife box; 7. lifting a knife; 8. a vertical needle; 9. a cylindrical firework; 10. pattern plate; 11. transverse needle; 12. a plate outlet; 13. a plate inlet; 14. a loss prevention assembly; 15. a slide roller; 16. a sponge body; 17. an anti-collision pad; 18. a transfer assembly; 19. a conveying roller; 20. a drive motor; 21. a sensor; 22. an anti-slip sleeve; 23. a guide roller; 24. a buffer plate; 25. a non-slip mat; 26. anti-skid crossbands; 27. a limiting plate; 28. air holes are formed; 29. a needle inlet; 30. and a conveying roller.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example (b):
referring to fig. 1 and 2, an electromechanical jacquard weave structure includes a frame 1, a support frame 2, the support frame 2 is connected with one side of the frame 1, the frame 1 is provided with a lifting heald mechanism 3, a pattern control mechanism 4 and a transmission mechanism 5 (not marked in the figure); the heald lifting mechanism 3 comprises a knife box 6, a lifting knife 7 and a vertical needle 8, the knife box 6 is positioned at the upper end of the frame 1, the lifting knife 7 is positioned at one side of the knife box 6 and extends outwards, and the vertical needle 8 is hung on the lifting knife 7; the pattern control mechanism 4 comprises a cylinder 9, a pattern plate 10 and a transverse needle 11, the cylinder 9 is positioned at one end of the knife box 6, and the length direction of the cylinder 9 is arranged along the width direction of the frame 1; the lower end of the cylinder 9 is provided with a plate inlet 13 (refer to fig. 3) for feeding the pattern plate 10, the upper end of the cylinder 9 is provided with a plate outlet 12 (refer to fig. 3) for discharging the pattern plate 10, the transverse needle 11 is horizontally arranged, one end of the cylinder 9 close to the transverse needle 11 is provided with a needle inlet 29, and one end of the transverse needle 11 is inserted into the needle inlet 29 of the cylinder 9. A plurality of air holes 28 are formed in the wall of the cylinder 9, and the air holes 28 are used for dissipating heat inside the cylinder 9, so that normal work inside the cylinder 9 is guaranteed, and the production efficiency of the jacquard is further guaranteed.
Referring to fig. 4 and 5, the plate inlet 13 of the cylinder 9 is provided with a damage prevention assembly 14 for preventing abrasion with the card 10; the damage prevention assembly 14 includes a slide roller 15 and a sponge 16; the length direction of the sliding rollers 15 is arranged along the length direction of the cylinder 9, two sliding rollers 15 are arranged, and the two sliding rollers 15 are respectively positioned at two sides of the plate inlet 13; the two sponges 16 are arranged between the sliding roller 15 and the side wall of the cylinder 9, and the two sponges 16 are distributed on two sides of the plate inlet 13; when the pattern plate 10 enters the cylinder 9 from the plate inlet 13, the sliding roller 15 and the sponge 16 are used for protecting the pattern plate 10 from entering the cylinder 9, so that the pattern plate 10 is prevented from being scratched or damaged in the conveying process, and the working efficiency is further prevented from being influenced. The edge of the plate inlet 13 and the plate outlet 12 of the cylinder 9 are coated with anti-collision pads 17, so that the scratch or damage of the vein plate 10 when entering or transferring out of the cylinder 9 is avoided.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a plate outlet 12 of the cylinder 9 is provided with a conveying assembly 18 for conveying the card 10; the conveying assembly 18 comprises a conveying roller 19, a driving motor 20 and a sensor 21; the conveying roller 19 is positioned on one side of an outlet of the plate outlet 12, the guide rollers 23 are arranged on the other side of the outlet of the plate outlet 12, the length directions of the guide rollers 23 are distributed along the length direction of the cylinder 9, the two guide rollers 23 are arranged, the two guide rollers 23 are distributed up and down, the guide rollers 23 are used for guiding the corrugated plate 10 to be conveyed towards the direction far away from the rack 1, overlapping of the corrugated plates 10 is avoided, and conveying efficiency of the corrugated plate 10 is improved; one end of the support frame 2, which is far away from the rack 1, is provided with two transmission rollers 30 (refer to fig. 4), the two transmission rollers 30 are distributed up and down, and the corrugated plate 10 is sleeved on the guide roller 23 and the transmission rollers 30; the length direction of each conveying roller 19 is arranged along the length direction of the cylinder 9; the driving motor 20 is used for driving the conveying roller 19 to rotate, a driving shaft of the driving motor 20 is fixedly connected with one end of the conveying roller 19, and the driving motor 20 is fixedly arranged on the cylinder 9; a sensor 21 is provided at the upper end of the driving motor 20, the sensor 21 being used to control the rotation of the driving motor 20 and thus the rotation of the conveying roller 19; when the card 10 passes through the card inlet 13 and enters the cylinder 9, a weft sensor 21 is woven to start a driving motor 20 to rotate every time, thereby driving a conveying roller 19 to rotate to convey a card 10, another card 10 enters the cylinder 9, the sensor 21 closes the driving motor 20, thereby the conveying roller 19 stops rotating, a transmission mechanism 5 drives a transverse needle 11 to penetrate into an eyelet of the card 10, thereby the hook end of a vertical needle 8 is still hung on a lifting knife 7, when the lifting knife 7 rises, the vertical needle 8 rises along with the lifting, the harness wire is lifted by driving the harness wire, the harness wire penetrating into the harness eye at the moment also forms the upper layer of a shed along with the lifting, and then the sensor 21 starts the driving motor 20 to rotate and moves circularly.
Referring to fig. 2 and 4, the transfer roller 19 is sleeved with the slip-preventing jacket 22, so that the contact area with the card 10 is increased, and the transfer efficiency of transferring the card 10 is improved.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, a buffer plate 24 is provided at the lower end of the plate inlet 13, and the buffer plate 24 is located at the upper end of the support frame 2; one end of the buffer plate 24 close to the plate inlet 13 is connected with the frame 1, the buffer plate 24 is obliquely arranged from one end of the frame 1 towards the ground, the buffer plate 24 is provided with an anti-skid pad 25, and the anti-skid pad 25 is provided with a plurality of anti-skid cross bars 26. The buffer plate 24 is provided with limiting plates 27 extending upwards from two sides, and the limiting plates 27 further stabilize the sliding of the corrugated board 10 on the buffer plate 24.
The working process and principle brief introduction:
when the card 10 passes through the card inlet 13 and enters the cylinder 9, a weft sensor 21 is woven to start a driving motor 20 to rotate every time, thereby driving a conveying roller 19 to rotate to convey a card 10, another card 10 enters the cylinder 9, the sensor 21 closes the driving motor 20, thereby the conveying roller 19 stops rotating, a transmission mechanism 5 drives a transverse needle 11 to penetrate into an eyelet of the card 10, thereby the hook end of a vertical needle 8 is still hung on a lifting knife 7, when the lifting knife 7 rises, the vertical needle 8 rises along with the lifting, the harness wire is lifted by driving the harness wire, the harness wire penetrating into the harness eye at the moment also forms the upper layer of a shed along with the lifting, and then the sensor 21 starts the driving motor 20 to rotate and moves circularly.
The present embodiment is only for explaining the present invention, and it is not limited to the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make modifications to the present embodiment without inventive contribution as required after reading the present specification, but all of them are protected by patent laws within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

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1. An electromechanical jacquard weave structure, characterized in that: the heald lifting mechanism comprises a rack (1), a heald lifting mechanism (3) arranged on the rack (1), a pattern control mechanism (4) and a transmission mechanism (5), wherein the heald lifting mechanism (3) comprises a knife box (6), a lifting knife (7) and a vertical needle (8), the knife box (6) is positioned at the upper end of the rack (1), the lifting knife (7) is positioned at one side of the knife box (6) and extends outwards, and the vertical needle (8) is hung on the lifting knife (7);
the pattern control mechanism (4) comprises a cylinder (9), a pattern plate (10) and a transverse needle (11), the cylinder (9) is positioned at one end of the knife box (6), and the length direction of the cylinder (9) is arranged along the width direction of the rack (1); the lower end of the cylinder (9) is provided with a plate inlet (13) for feeding the pattern plate (10), the upper end of the cylinder (9) is provided with a plate outlet (12) for discharging the pattern plate (10), the transverse needle (11) is arranged in the horizontal direction, and one end of the transverse needle (11) is inserted into the cylinder (9);
a damage prevention assembly (14) used for preventing the wear with the pattern plate (10) is arranged on a plate inlet (13) of the cylinder (9); the damage prevention assembly (14) comprises sliding rollers (15) arranged on two sides of the plate inlet (13), and a sponge body (16) is arranged between the sliding rollers (15) and the plate inlet (13);
and a conveying assembly (18) for conveying the card (10) is arranged on the card outlet (12) of the cylinder (9).
2. Electro-mechanical jacquard weave structure according to claim 1, characterized in that both the plate inlet (13) and the plate outlet (12) are coated with a crash pad (17).
3. Electro-mechanical jacquard weave structure according to claim 2, characterized in that a buffer plate (24) is provided at a lower end of the plate inlet (13), one end of the buffer plate (24) close to the plate inlet (13) is connected to the frame (1), and the buffer plate (24) is inclined from one end of the frame (1) towards the ground.
4. Electro-mechanical jacquard weave structure according to claim 3, characterized in that both sides of the buffer plate (24) are extended upwards with limiting plates (27).
5. Electro-mechanical jacquard weave structure according to claim 3, characterized in that said cushioning plate (24) is provided with a non-slip mat (25), said non-slip mat (25) being provided with a plurality of non-slip crossbars (26).
6. Electro-mechanical jacquard weave structure according to claim 1, characterized in that said transfer assembly (18) comprises a transfer roller (19), a driving motor (20) for driving said transfer roller (19) to rotate and a rotation sensor (21) for opening and closing said driving motor (20) is provided on a driving shaft of said driving motor (20).
7. Electro-mechanical jacquard weave structure according to claim 6, characterized in that the transfer roller (19) is provided at its upper end with a guide roller (23).
8. Electro-mechanical jacquard weave structure according to claim 1, characterized in that the wall of said tube (9) is provided with a plurality of holes (28).
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