EP0583469B1 - Aufspulmaschine - Google Patents

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EP0583469B1
EP0583469B1 EP93918761A EP93918761A EP0583469B1 EP 0583469 B1 EP0583469 B1 EP 0583469B1 EP 93918761 A EP93918761 A EP 93918761A EP 93918761 A EP93918761 A EP 93918761A EP 0583469 B1 EP0583469 B1 EP 0583469B1
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Hermann Westrich
Albert Stitz
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Oerlikon Barmag AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H67/00—Replacing or removing cores, receptacles, or completed packages at paying-out, winding, or depositing stations
    • B65H67/04—Arrangements for removing completed take-up packages and or replacing by cores, formers, or empty receptacles at winding or depositing stations; Transferring material between adjacent full and empty take-up elements
    • B65H67/044—Continuous winding apparatus for winding on two or more winding heads in succession
    • B65H67/048—Continuous winding apparatus for winding on two or more winding heads in succession having winding heads arranged on rotary capstan head
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H67/00—Replacing or removing cores, receptacles, or completed packages at paying-out, winding, or depositing stations
    • B65H67/04—Arrangements for removing completed take-up packages and or replacing by cores, formers, or empty receptacles at winding or depositing stations; Transferring material between adjacent full and empty take-up elements
    • B65H67/0405—Arrangements for removing completed take-up packages or for loading an empty core
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/31—Textiles threads or artificial strands of filaments

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  • the invention relates to a winding machine according to the preamble of claim 4.
  • Such a winding machine is known for example from EP-A-374 536.
  • This winding machine has a winding turret with two winding spindles which are brought alternately into the winding area and into the changing position by rotating the winding turret.
  • the winding spindle located in the winding area is referred to as the operating spindle and the winding spindle located in the changing position is referred to as the idle spindle.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a method with which, despite the small spacing of the coil spindles for changing the full bobbins against empty tubes, there is always a sufficient changeover time.
  • the advantage of the invention is that the time required for the change is divided into two time segments.
  • the first period is very short, since in this period only the full bobbins have to be pushed off the idle spindle.
  • the necessary equipment is attached to the winding head itself.
  • the winding head is therefore self-sufficient to the extent that the time required to push off the full bobbins depends solely on the speed of the devices. It is thus achieved that the actually critical phase of the change process, in which there is a risk that the new coil grows against the old coil, is moved to this first period, which is very short. This enables a small distance between the two winding spindles.
  • the coil turret cannot be turned any further during the change phase. It follows from this that the movably mounted contact roller must dodge the growing coil. The maximum alternative route available for this can also be kept small according to the invention.
  • the coil turret is rotated slowly or in cycles in accordance with the growing coil diameter, so that the contact roller essentially remains in place. At this time, the empty tubes - be it by hand or by the machine - must be brought in. Then the turret is stopped again and the second phase of the changeover takes place.
  • the second phase of the change process involves pushing empty tubes onto the waiting idle spindle.
  • the duration of this second phase is also short, since only the transfer of the empty tubes must take place, but not also the creation of the empty tubes.
  • the sum of the two time periods required according to the invention is therefore less than the change time required according to the prior art.
  • the 2nd phase of the change is at a distance in time from the 1st phase. Therefore, the new coil has already grown to a larger diameter and is now growing less quickly. There is therefore no danger that the contact roller will travel to the end of the evasive path while the turret is stopped.
  • the invention is based on the fact that a large number of such winding machines are always operated simultaneously in a spinning system, which can cause the problem that not all winding machines can be operated simultaneously when the bobbin is required to be changed.
  • This prewarning signal calls the operator or the machine to feed the empty spools.
  • the features of claim 5 relate to information on dimensioning.
  • Claims 6 and 7 relate to further developments that make it possible quickly push the full spools off in the first stopping position and push on the empty tubes in the second stopping position.
  • this intermediate storage device does not interfere with the supply of the empty tubes, it being only important to remove the second stopping position sufficiently far from the first stopping position.
  • FIG. 1 to 9 each show a winding machine according to the invention for a continuously running chemical thread 3, with a winding turret 18.
  • Two winding spindles 5.1, 5.2 are mounted on the winding turret 18, which by rotating the winding turret 18 into a winding area 57 and into an exchange area 57 ' to be brought.
  • the Spooling turret 18 is further rotated in the winding area 57 by a rotary drive 33 controlled by the deflection of a sensing roller 11 in accordance with the diameter of the spools 6 that increases during the spooling travel.
  • the change position designated 57 ′ in FIG. 2 now has an angular range 84 with two stop positions 80, 82. It is characteristic that the angular range between the second stopping position 82 and the first stopping position 80 is smaller than the winding area 57, in which the bobbin grows to the desired final diameter.
  • the rotary drive 33 can be interrupted in the stopping positions 80, 82 during both stopping times.
  • the winding machine 17 is supplied with the thread 3 by the delivery mechanism 17 without interruption at a constant speed.
  • the thread 3 is first passed through the head thread guide 1, which forms the tip of the traversing triangle.
  • the thread with direction of movement 2 then arrives at the traversing device 4, which will be described later.
  • Behind the traversing device 4, the thread 3 on the contact roller 11 is deflected at more than 90 degrees and then wound on the bobbin 6.
  • the bobbin 6 is formed on the winding-up bobbin tube 10.
  • the winding-up bobbin tube 10 is clamped on the rotatably driven operating spindle 5.
  • the operating spindle 5.1 has just been rotated, as shown in FIG. 1, with the winding-on bobbin tube 10.1 mounted thereon from the winding turret 18 into the start of the winding-up area 57 in order to wind up the incoming thread 3 there to form a bobbin 6 (see, for example, FIG. 2).
  • the winding on this operating spindle 5.1 begins.
  • the winding turret 18 is controlled by the deflection of the feeler roller 11 during the winding travel Motor to the rotary drive 33 rotated in the direction of rotation 56.
  • the further rotation takes place in accordance with the diameter of the coil 6 which increases during the winding travel (see FIG. 2).
  • the path covered by the operating spindle 5.1 is referred to as the winding area 57.
  • the operating spindle 5.1 is brought from the end of the winding area 57 into the change position 57 'by quickly rotating the bobbin turret.
  • the idle spindle previously in change position 57 is rotated to the start of the winding area 57, where the winding process is continued.
  • the thread is separated from the full bobbin 6.1 for synchronous application of the thread to the empty tube 10.1.
  • a changing device consisting of the swivel lever 41 and the sheet 39 attached to it, is used.
  • the full coil 6.2 should also be pushed off the idle spindle.
  • the fully wound full coil 6.2 which has a high kinetic energy, must be braked.
  • the drive motor 29.2 can be short-circuited, for example, so that electrical braking takes place.
  • a mechanical brake (not shown here) can also be provided.
  • the full bobbin 6.1 must then be pushed off the bobbin spindle 5.2.
  • the sliding device will be discussed later. A certain amount of time is required for braking and pushing off.
  • the distance between the two spindles 5.1 and 5.2 on the reel turret 18 must now be selected so that those on the now operating spindle 5.1 grow rapidly during braking and pushing off
  • the coil does not grow against the full coil 6.1. This would destroy the spindles and the entire winding head.
  • the control circuit of the rotary drive 33 is opened by means of the switch 88 (FIG. 1) and remains open during the first stop time necessary for changing the thread, for braking and for removing the full bobbin 6.1, so that the rotary drive 33 is interrupted .
  • the switch is automatically, e.g. closed by the incidence of a timing relay, so that the rotary drive 33 is in operation again.
  • the resting spindle 5.2 is now empty.
  • the spool 6 continues to grow and moves by rotating the turret 18 in the direction of movement 56 towards the end of the winding area 57 lying in a clockwise direction.
  • FIG. 2 shows the second stopping position of the bobbin turret, which lies between the start and end of the winding area 57.
  • the bobbin turret 18 is stopped again and the bobbin spindle 5.2 is equipped with empty tubes.
  • the second stop position is reached when the coil is on the Spool spindle 5.1 has already grown to a larger diameter. In this position, the diameter increase of the take-up reel in operation is relatively small. A sufficient stopping time is therefore available for the movement of the contact roller 48, which has to evade the further increasing diameter by pivoting the arm 48, before the arm 48 strikes and the end of the control range of the displacement sensor 52 and the control device 54 is reached.
  • the second stopping position 82 is therefore as far as possible from the 1st stopping position in an area where the diameter increase of the bobbin 6 in the winding area 57 is so small that the empty tubes can be applied with the bobbin turret 18 at a standstill without the winding process being interrupted, without the speed control of the coil spindle leaving the predetermined control range and without the evasive movement of the feeler roller 11 being limited by a stop.
  • the empty sleeves are pushed on with a push-off device 65, which will be explained with reference to FIG. 4D.
  • the rotary drive 33 of the bobbin turret is started again by closing the switch 88.
  • the switch 88 can be controlled, for example, by a timing relay.
  • the winding process is now continued until the winding spindle 5.1 with the full bobbin formed thereon reaches the end of the winding area and is full. Since the other winding spindle is now equipped with empty tubes, it can be brought very quickly into the operating area by rotating the winding turret, specifically at the beginning of the winding section. In this case, as shown in FIG. 1, the contact roller is raised again by the cylinder-piston unit 21, so that the operating state shown in FIG. 1 can be produced and the thread can be applied to the new empty tube from the now finished bobbin.
  • the full bobbin 6.2 is removed from the idle spindle 5.2 by means of the doffer shown as an example in FIG. 4C, a bobbin transport device 65 that can be moved along the front of the machine and has the function of intermediate bobbin storage here.
  • the bobbin transport device 65 has a bobbin mandrel 66 at the height h at which the bobbin spindle 5.2 with the full bobbin 6.1 just formed thereon during the stopping time is in alignment with the idle spindle 5.2 in this position.
  • the push-out device 67 engages behind the machine-side end face 92 of the bobbin tube of the full bobbin 6.2 with a fork and displaces it from the idle spindle 5.2 onto the bobbin mandrel 66 of the doffer 65.
  • DE-A-24 31 567 This is a shell adapted to the coil diameter, which is attached below the 1st stopping position and can be extended synchronously with the push-off device 67.
  • the advantage of this type of intermediate storage is that in the 1st stopping position it is not necessary to wait until a doffing device is called up from other areas of the machine and moved to the winding spindle in the 1st stopping position.
  • the switch 88 is closed and the rotary drive 33 for the winding turret 18 is started.
  • a second doffer 65 with its winding mandrel 66 is brought into alignment with the winding spindle 5.3.
  • the mandrel 66 there is the required number of empty tubes 10.3, which is gripped behind by the fork of a push-out device 68 attached to the doffer on its end 98 facing away from the machine and is pushed onto the empty winding spindle 5.3, where it is clamped.

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JP (1) JP3288377B2 (xx)
KR (1) KR0134112B1 (xx)
CN (1) CN1031389C (xx)
DE (1) DE59301242D1 (xx)
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CN1085183A (zh) 1994-04-13
TW252998B (xx) 1995-08-01
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