EP0412453B1 - Greiferband mit variabler Dicke für Greiferwebmaschinen - Google Patents

Greiferband mit variabler Dicke für Greiferwebmaschinen Download PDF

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EP0412453B1
EP0412453B1 EP90114955A EP90114955A EP0412453B1 EP 0412453 B1 EP0412453 B1 EP 0412453B1 EP 90114955 A EP90114955 A EP 90114955A EP 90114955 A EP90114955 A EP 90114955A EP 0412453 B1 EP0412453 B1 EP 0412453B1
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Luigi Pezzoli
Giuseppe Casarotto
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D47/00—Looms in which bulk supply of weft does not pass through shed, e.g. shuttleless looms, gripper shuttle looms, dummy shuttle looms
    • D03D47/27—Drive or guide mechanisms for weft inserting
    • D03D47/275—Drive mechanisms
    • D03D47/276—Details or arrangement of sprocket wheels
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D47/00—Looms in which bulk supply of weft does not pass through shed, e.g. shuttleless looms, gripper shuttle looms, dummy shuttle looms
    • D03D47/27—Drive or guide mechanisms for weft inserting
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D47/00—Looms in which bulk supply of weft does not pass through shed, e.g. shuttleless looms, gripper shuttle looms, dummy shuttle looms
    • D03D47/27—Drive or guide mechanisms for weft inserting
    • D03D47/271—Rapiers
    • D03D47/272—Rapier bands
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D47/00—Looms in which bulk supply of weft does not pass through shed, e.g. shuttleless looms, gripper shuttle looms, dummy shuttle looms
    • D03D47/27—Drive or guide mechanisms for weft inserting
    • D03D47/277—Guide mechanisms

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  • the present invention concerns improvements in gripper straps for gripper looms, that is, in the straps which control the motion of the grippers and thus of the weft yarns through the shed of modern looms.
  • the EP-A-0 102 588 has already supplied a solution to the problem of varying the stiffness of gripper straps along their length: this solution consists in incorporating into a conventional strap of normal stiffness a core or lining of variable thickness and/or width along the strap length.
  • the straps used for this system are in fact particularly rigid because of their ribbed section with great overall thickness (required to form said recess and allow proper engagement with said guides and precise guiding of the gripper at the centre of the shed). Similar situations can besides arise also with other types and arrangements of gripper straps.
  • the strap is of the type moved by a toothed wheel with reciprocating motion, the teeth of which engage into notches formed along said strap, the distance between said notches in the strap according to the invention can be varied according to the position taken up therein by the neutral bending axis.
  • the gripper strap according to the invention is of the type having longitudinal stiffening ribs, and its thickness will advantageously be reduced only in correspondence of said longitudinal ribs, as far as causing the end of the strap opposite to that carrying the gripper to take up a flat rectangular shape.
  • the decrease in thickness of the strap can be continuous and uniform or, alternatively, discontinuous by steps, along the length of the strap. It can furthermore be uniform, or not uniform, across the width of the strap, giving rise to symmetrical or asymmetrical sections, according to cases.
  • the gripper strap according to the invention has the following cross section: a channel or C section whose flanges forming said ribs have a constant thickness in the area of the strap end carrying the gripper; a channel or C section whose flanges forming said ribs have a gradually decreasing thickness in an area adjacent to the previous one and extending therefrom; and a rectangular or T section in the area of the strap end opposite to that carrying the gripper.
  • the gripper strap N carrying the gripper P through the warp shed of the loom T, has to be particularly flexible in correspondence of its part caused to adhere - by conventional guide means P1 and P2 - to the wheel R controlling its motion, the teeth of which engage into its notches.
  • this is obtained - in the case of particularly rigid straps - by gradually reducing the thickness of the strap over at least part of its section, starting from an area 2 close to the end 3 carrying the gripper and extending towards the opposite end 4.
  • the strap N according to the invention is of the type with channel section, having lateral longitudinal stiffening ribs 1, for the gripper to be properly guided at the centre of the shed.
  • the configuration of the strap N shown in figs. 2 to 5 is such that only the ribs 1 are gradually and evenly reduced in thickness, so as to be totally eliminated in correspondence of its end 4, while the remaining part of the strap N keeps its thickness unvaried.
  • Said strap end 4 thus takes up a perfectly rectangular and relatively thin symmetrical section (fig. 5), which is fully apt to guarantee a high flexibility of the strap in this area. In the adjacent areas the flexibility will be similar, while the strap will then gradually stiffen towards its end 3 carrying the gripper, taking up its maximum thickness between said end 3 and the area 2 from which the ribs 1 start to grow thinner.
  • a gripper strap similar to that shown in figs. 2 to 5, is illustrated in figs. 6 to 10: the only difference in respect of the previous embodiment is that the thickness of this strap varies discontinuously, by steps, along its full length.
  • a first length 5 of maximum uniform thickness in correspondence of the end area carrying the gripper (its cross section is shown in fig. 8), is followed - between points 6 and 7 - by a length 8 of reduced thickness of the ribs 1 (cross section shown in fig. 9) and then - beyond point 7 - by a final length 9 wherein the ribs 1 are eliminated and the strap takes up a thin rectangular section (fig. 10).
  • the strap always keeps a symmetrical cross section.
  • the ribs 1 of the strap are again gradually and evenly reduced in thickness, but said reduction is more pronounced - in respect of the strap embodiment of figs. 2 to 5 - whereby the strap end 10, opposite to the end 3 carrying the gripper, takes up a T section, as shown in fig. 14.
  • the cross section is perfectly symmetrical. It could however be provided for the strap - having a ribbed or non-ribbed section - to be unevenly reduced in thickness across its width, in which case, the cross section of the strap would be asymmetrical.

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  1. Greiferband (N) für Greiferwebmaschinen (T), dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß wenigstens ein Teil der Querschnittsdicke graduell reduziert ist, ausgehend von einem Bereich (2) nahe dem Ende (3), das den Greifer trägt, und sich in Richtung zu dem gegenüberliegendem Ende (4) erstreckend.
  2. Greiferband (N) nach Anspruch 1), wobei die Abnahme der Dicke über die Länge des Bandes (N) kontinuierlich und gleichförmig ist.
  3. Greiferband (N) nach Anspruch 1), wobei die Abnahme in der Dicke über die Länge des Bandes (N) diskontinuierlich gestuft ist.
  4. Greiferband (N) nach Anspruch 1), wobei die Abnahme der Dicke über die Breite des Streifens (N) gleichförmig ist.
  5. Greiferband (N) nach Anspruch 1), von der Art, die von einem gezahnten Rad mit einer Hin- und Herbewegung bewegt wird, wobei die Zähne in entlang dem Band ausgebildete Kerben (11) eingreifen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Abstände zwischen den Kerben (11) in dem Band (N) entsprechend der Position, die durch die neutrale Biegeachse eingenommen wird, variiert werden.
  6. Greiferband (N) für Greiferwebmaschine von der Art mit in Längsrichtung versteifenden Rippen (1), dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Dicke des Bandes (N) entlang der längsverlaufenden Rippen (1) graduell reduziert wird, ausgehend von einem Bereich (2) nahe dem Ende (2), das den Greifer trägt, und sich zu dem gegenüberliegenden Ende (4) erstreckend.
  7. Greiferband (N) nach Anspruch 6), wobei die Abnahme der Dicke über die Länge des Bandes (N) kontinuierlich und gleichförmig ist.
  8. Greiferband (N) nach Anspruch 6) wobei die Abnahme der Dicke über die Länge des Bandes (N) diskontinuierlich gestuft ist.
  9. Greiferband (N) nach Anspruch 6) wobei die Abnahme der Dicke gleichförmig über die Breite des Bandes auf (N) ist.
  10. Greiferband (N) nach Anspruch 6), mit: einem kanalförmigen oder C-förmigen Querschnitt, dessen Flansche die Rippen (1) bilden, die in dem Bereich des den Greifer tragenden Endes (3) des Bandes eine konstante Dicke haben; einem kanal- oder C-förmigen Querschnitt, dessen Flasche die Rippen (1) bilden, die in einem benachbart dem vorangehend genannten und sich von diesem erstreckenden Bereich eine abnehmende Dicke haben, und einem rechteckigen Querschnitt in dem Bereich des Ende (4) des Streifens, der dem Bereich, der den Greifer trägt, gegenüberliegt.
  11. Greiferband (11) nach Anspruch 6) mit: einem kanal-förmigen oder C-förmigen Querschnitt, dessen Flansche die Rippen (1) bilden, die in dem Bereich des den Greifer tragenden Endes (3) des Bandes eine konstante Dicke haben; einem kanal- oder C-förmigen Querschnitt mit Flanschen von abnehmender Dicke, gefolgt von einem rechteckigen Querschnitt und sodann von einem T-förmigen Querschnitt in einem Bereich benachbart dem vorangegehend genannten und sich von diesem erstreckend und einem T-förmigen Querschnitt in dem Bereich des Endes (4) des Bandes, das dem Bereich, der den Greifer trägt, gegenüberliegt.
EP90114955A 1989-08-09 1990-08-03 Greiferband mit variabler Dicke für Greiferwebmaschinen Expired - Lifetime EP0412453B1 (de)

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IT8921482A IT1230810B (it) 1989-08-09 1989-08-09 Nastro portapinza a spessore variabile per telai di tessitura a pinze.
IT2148289 1989-08-09

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