EP0607945A1 - Horizontal condenser for card set, with automatic spool changing - Google Patents
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- As is known, the web condenser - or "condenser" for short as it is called in carding - is a complementary apparatus to the card set, and its function is to divide the web coming from the finisher card, as it leaves the doffer, into a plurality of ribbons having the same width and count. These ribbons then undergo an operation of rubbing in which the textile fibres are gathered and compacted into a cylindrical shape to form rovings strong enough for the next processing stage. The rovings are in fact normally collected onto spools which are then used to feed the spinning machines.
- To perform its task, the condenser comprises:
- - a pair of vertically arranged take-in rollers which rotate in contact with each other and in opposite directions,
- - a plurality of relatively narrow tapes, for example 8-30 mm in width, guided around these take-in rollers and following an endless path to the rubbing leathers, and
- - a plurality of rubbing leathers arranged in parallel in a number of vertically arranged banks.
- The arrangement is such that, along the line of contact between the two take-in rollers, each tape is guided around one of the rollers in the space between two successive tapes running around the other roller; the tapes that travel around the top roller and enter in a downward direction emerge on the bottom roller, also in a downward direction, and vice versa. In this way when the web coming off the doffer is fed between the take-in rollers, or rather between the opposing tapes, it is cut by these tapes into ribbons which follow the tapes along their path from the rollers to the rubbing leathers. This arrangement is perfectly familiar to those skilled in the art, so further details are not felt to be necessary.
- What is worth observing is that there are at present many kinds of condensers having different technical characteristics to meet the highly diverse range of needs of users, especially as far as the textile fibres and the counts processed are concerned. In particular:
- - the web may be divided into widths varying from 8 to 30 mm,
- - a single tape following a back-and-forth path may be used, or one tape for every two rovings, or one tape for every roving,
- - 2, 4 or 6 banks may be provided,
- - the rubbing leathers may be arranged to perform a single, double or triple rubbing operation,
- - the collecting spool system may have from 4 to 24 spools and may be of the fixed type with moving roving guides or of the moving type with fixed roving guides, or indeed of the double type with moving roving guides.
- Despite the differences cited, many known condensers do however have in common the first- described arrangement, with vertically arranged take-in rollers and rubbing leathers forming several horizontal or approximately
horizontal banks 1 above the other, as schematically shown in Fig. 1 in BE-A-564,197, which depicts a configuration having 1 roving/1 tape. This arrangement, which for the sake of simplicity of description will be referred to in this text as a "vertical condenser", does however have limits, if not disadvantages, and in particular: - - the number of vertically arranged banks of rubbing leathers cannot be increased, for this would render the higher banks practically inaccessible, and consequently
- - nor does it allow the rubbing stroke of the leathers to be increased, which means that double or triple rubbing has to be employed, as further explained below.
- French Patent no. 1,143,965 describes, however, an arrangement which may be defined as a "horizontal condenser" in which the card web is guided in a downward direction between a pair of horizontally adjacent take-in rollers and then the ribbons are fed to a plurality of rubbing leathers which are also horizontally adjacent. Here the web arriving from the finisher card (which is located above the horizontal condenser) is then fed directly to a spinning machine located beneath it.
- This horizontal condenser- which ought in theory to solve at least some of the problems outlined above, but which in practice has never been used, even experimentally, on a card - actually creates other problems. In the first place, the system stands some 6 m high, making it both rather large and difficult to control for the operator. Another problem is the inevitable difficulties of synchronizing the condenser and the spinning machine, given that the two machines have two different operating cycles. What is more, the interaction between the carding and spinning frames overcomplicates the problems of cleaning and maintaining the individual components.
- There are similar problems in the condenser illustrated in Belgian Patent no. 506,344, which also has a horizontal configuration. This condenser has a corridor beneath the rubbing output to allow for spool collection or for siting a spinning frame integrated with the rest of the system. Apart from the faults described in reference to the condenser according to French Patent no. 1,143,965, in this device the web rests loosely on the cloth carrying it from the card outlet to the condenser, with the risk of the formation of irreversible longitudinal folds, which would compromise the count.
- Systems partly analogous to those described above are described in French Patents nos. 1,076,166 and 2,240,306.
- In spite of the existence of these patents and the teaching they provide for "horizontal condensers", the only arrangement which, though with differences, is being used in carding engines in present-day production and is actually proposed in the specialist literature covering this sector of the art, is the "vertical condenser" arrnagement. The literature does not indicate whether the reason why the various proposals for "horizontal condensers" have never been brought to industrial application is to be found in the disadvantages cited above, or elsewhere: quite simply, there is no discussion of the question, even at an experimental level. However, it is the opinion of the Applicant that in addition to the various problems of a practical nature that have been mentioned, one has been decisive, namely the impossibility of achieving correct handling of the rovings emerging from the rubbing leathers.
- The fact is that, in the first place, all those systems (see FR-A-1,076,166, FR-A-1,143,965 or FR-A-2,240,306) in which a spinning machine is placed immediately downstream of the condenser and the roving is guided directly from the condenser to the spinning machine, are incapable of operating, owing in part to the practical problems already discussed and also because the operating cycles of these two machines are fundamentally different and in essence incompatible.
- In the second place, none of the documents cited provides any means at all for practical and efficient spool-changing (even BE-A-507,344 fails to do so, though its Figure 1 shows a spool collecting system); and yet efficient spool changing is regarded - in current practice, using vertical condensers, where access to and removal of spools occurs from the front, by hand orwith a lifting carriage - as an essential condition for avoid ing unacceptable stoppages of the carding frame.
- It is an object of the present invention to provide a "horizontal condenser" structure which will overcome the drawbacks of the prior art as discussed above and in which it will be possible both correctly to transfer the rovings to and collect them on spools, and also, and more especially, to load and unload the spools automatically, in order that spinning can then be carried out on separate suitable machines.
- This object is achieved, in a condenser basically of the kind according to BE-A-507,344 and as stated in the introductory portion of
Claim 1, by virtue of the features described in the characterizing portion of thesame Claim 1. Preferred embodiments are described in the dependent claims. - Further features and advantages of the condenser according to the invention will however be made clear in the following detailed description of a number of preferred embodiments thereof. These are provided by way of example and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:
- Fig. 1 is an overall schematic of the final part of a card set ending with a vertical condenser of the prior art;
- Figs. 2a and 2b are side and plan views respectively of a condenser device of the prior art, for example according to BE-A-564,197;
- Figs. 3 and 4 are two general views, the former from the side and the latter from above, of a condenser according to the present invention, with its associated means for collecting the rovings;
- Fig. 5 is a side view in greater detail, and on an enlarged scale, of one of the devices for collecting rovings onto spools and for automatically changing the latter;
- Fig. 6 is a partial front view of the same device as in Figure 5;
- Figs. 7 and 8 are views similar to Figure 5 showing two different embodiments.
- To enable the invention and its attendant advantages to be understood more clearly, it may be helpful to begin with a brief description of the prior art, with reference to Figures 1 and 2.
- Figure 1 is a diagrammatic rendering of the final part of a card set, in which the finisher card C of the set, the doffer P and the condenser D can be seen.
- Figures 2a and 2b illustrate a known kind of condenser (for example according to BE-A-564,197), in which arrangement a pairof take-in
rollers roller 2 around thesmaller rollers lower rubbing leathers roller 8 and back to theroller 2; from here around the take-inroller 1, then onto thesmaller rollers upper rubbing leathers roller 12 and back again to theroller 1, where it resumes its journey around the take-inroller 2. - When the card web V is introduced between the
rollers - In the arrangement shown in Figure 2a there are four paths for the ribbons, namely:
- - from take-in
roller 2, aroundrollers 4 and 5a, towardsleather 7a, - - from take-in
roller 2, aroundrollers 4 and 5b, towardsleather 7b, - - from take-in
roller 1, aroundrollers 9 and 10a, towardsleather 7c, - - from take-in
roller 1, aroundrollers leather 7d. - The rubbing leathers - which, as is known, are given a forward and parallel movement for roving transport and opposing sideways movements for rubbing convert the ribbons into rovings which are then wound onto the bobbins or
spools 13. In the arrangement shown in Figure 2a there are two pairs of rubbing leathers for each series of rovings and they are distributed in four "banks", i.e. four roving transporting planes, specifically rubbingplanes spools rollers total width 12 occupied in plan view by thespools 13 is noticeably greater: this is in order to allow for the lateral separation, fan-wise, of the rovings as they leave the rubbing leathers and for their winding onto the spools separately from each other, that is avoiding superim- positions. The more the fan is widened out the greater the width that can be obtained, and hence the capacity of the windings or cheeses of rovings wound onto the spools. - All these known arrangements have at least the following disadvantages:
- a) - in the case of wider cards - that is, where
dimension 11 is greater and hence also length 12 proportionally - the fan of rovings must be significantly opened out, which means they become stretched and eventually the count of the rovings becomes insufficiently even; - b) - the sideways stroke of the rubbing leathers is still relatively limited and as a result the rubbing action is often insufficient for, in view of the fact that the space between one ribbon and the next in the same transporting plane is equal to three times (where there are four transporting planes) the width of each tape, said sideways stroke must be less than this space if entanglements between the fibres of adjacent ribbons are to be avoided (currently this width is of the order of 19 to 30 mm).
- In order to overcome at least the first of these disadvantages, the prior art has already proposed an arrangement in which there are two banks of spools for each rubbing plane. However, this arrangement also has other kinds of disadvantages owing to the fact that great difficulties are encountered in the operations of removing and changing the innermost series of spools, as well as in re-tying broken rovings at such points, and indeed the fact that there are long stretches of roving that are uncontrolled.
- Moreover, even in another known arrangement, in which the increase in the number of spools is achieved by providing six transporting planes of rubbing leathers and therefore six planes of spools in a single vertical alignment, great difficulties are encountered in the operations of removing and changing the spools, as well as in the operations of re-tying broken rovings, because of the great height (approx. 3 m) at which the two highest banks of spools are situated.
- These disadvantages and difficulties of the prior art can now be solved by the condenser device according to the present invention which radically alters the vertical condenser design used hitherto by arranging the take-in rollers adjacently in a horizontal plane and the aligned banks also horizontally, while the card web is fed vertically both to the take-in rollers and to the rubbing leathers, which latter are arranged such that their rubbing planes are vertical.
- This construction, already illustrated in general terms in BE-A-507,344, will now be described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiment of the present invention as illustrated in Figures 3 to 5.
- The two take-in
rollers rollers 17 and 18, which are adjacent in horizontal succession (rather than vertically one above the other, the form adopted in all prior art condensers). These eight banks feed the ribbons to the rubbing leathers 20 whose working surfaces are oriented in vertical planes. - An immediate consequence of this construction according to the invention is that there are no longer any limits, whether structural or operational, as to the number of banks that may be desired and which may be increased much beyond the number eight depicted in the drawings. This is because however large the number of banks:
- - there is no change to the problems of access to the rubbing leathers for re-tying broken rovings,
- - nor is there any change to the problems of removing and changing the means of collecting the rovings, as will be clearly demonstrated later.
- In the embodiment shown in Figure 3 the arrangement is of the kind using one tape for every two rovings, or alternatively a single tape for all the rovings. As the drawing shows, each tape is guided in a closed loop which begins for example at
roller 16 and, travelling inwards, passes around theroller 15 and then (travelling to the left in the drawing) passes around thesmaller rollers rollers rollers 19 and back to the outer side of theroller 15; from here the tape, passing under theroller 16 in an inward direction, runs (travelling to the right in the drawing) over therollers rollers rollers 19 and back again to the outer side of theroller 16 to resume its path underneath theroller 15. - When the card web V is introduced vertically in a downward direction between the
rollers - - from take-in
roller 15, aroundrollers - - from take-in
roller 15, aroundrollers - - from take-in
roller 15, around rollers 17b and 18c, towardsleather 20c, - - from take-in
roller 15, aroundrollers 17b and 18d, towardsleather 20d, in order to feed the ribbon towards the four rubbing leathers on the left-hand side of the drawing, whereas in order to feed the ribbon towards the four rubbing leathers on the right-hand side of the drawing the ribbon follows mirror-image paths over therollers - As an alternative, it would be possible to have one tape for every roving; this alternative would have the advantage of eliminating the problem, noted earlier, of the different support of the ribbons of web between one half and the other of the condenser, for in this case the ribbons divided by the take-in
rollers 15 and 16 - ribbons which are held between the surfaces of the rollers and the tapes around them - will subsequently be supported on the surface of these tapes which, as they run towards the rollers 18, are always underneath said ribbons. Such an alternative embodiment is however within the scope of one skilled in the art so it is not felt necessary to illustrate it, especially as it does not strictly form part of the present invention. - Returning to Figure 3, however, it should be observed that the card web has to be guided positively between the point of its emergence from the doffer P of the card and the point of its entry between the
rollers cloths - It is also important to note that the horizontal condenser system according to the invention overcomes all the problems of the prior art in relation to the forming of the fan as seen above with reference to Figure 2b. As can be seen in Figure 4, the horizontal condenser enables the web to be subdivided over a number of banks distributed lengthwise along the delivery axis of the card, which means that no fan need be formed at all. Figure 4 shows that the
transverse width requirement 12 of the spools arranged two by two is no more than thewidth 11 of the card web. - As the rovings leave the rubbing leathers 20 they therefore pass onto the spool-type collecting system, which will be described in greater detail below with reference to the embodiment depicted in Figures 5 and 6. This system, according to a fundamental characteristic of the invention, permits easy and practical spool changing by automatic means.
- In this embodiment the roving 41 emerging from a pair of rubbing
leathers 42 descends under gravity in a downward direction to atransfer roller 43, passing via aroving guide 44. Theroller 43 is parallel to and in contact with a spool CA which consists of the winding of therovings 41 onto aspindle 45 that acts as a rigid supporting base. The function of theroller 43 is therefore on the one hand to transfer the roving onto the spool, and on the other hand to drive the spool round by simple peripheral contact. - The roving 41 is controlled in its descent by the
roving guide 44 which oscillates in an essentially vertical plane (arrow Fg in Figure 6), which corresponds to the plane of alignment of a series of rovings descending from the rubbing leathers. By means of this oscillating movement of the aligned rovings, the latter form corresponding adjacent windings or cheeses CA1, CA2, CA3, etc. on thespindle 45. The winding takes place with no tension in the rovings since theroller 43 rotates at a speed related to the speed of descent of the rovings. - The width of each cheese is equal to the product of the number of banks multiplied by the width of the tape. In the case of horizontal arrangement of the condenser according to the invention it is possible, as already stated, to use a sufficiently large number of banks that the rovings can be fed in a straight line towards the spools so that no fan need be created.
- Adjacent to and underneath the roller43 is an oscillating spool supporting system: this is formed by a first pair of
arms 46 attached pivotably to acommon shaft 46a parallel to the axis of theroller 43. At each free end of thesearms 46 is a groove in which the two opposite pin-shapedends 45a of aspindle 45 rest. When winding begins, thearms 46 are raised to their full extent (the position indicated by the dot-dash line 46') and thespindle 45 is resting directly on the roller 43 (position 45"'). As winding proceeds, the spool CA grows in diameter and thearms 46 swing downwards anticlockwise to keep the spool periphery in constant contact with thetransfer roller 43 with a controlled pressure (the control of this pressure will be considered later), eventually coming to theposition 45 shown in solid lines. - Underneath the pair of
arms 46 by which the spool is supported during winding, there is also a second pair ofarms 47 which guide the spool during its discharging. These arms are attached pivotably to acommon shaft 47a also parallel to and underneath the axis of theroller 43. The function of thesearms 47 is to support the pin ends 45a of the spools from the moment they are released by the arms 46 (the end-of-winding position indicated in solid lines in Figure 5) until the moment they are discharged onto the carriage (position 47' indicated in dot-dash lines) as detailed below. - The change-over unit also comprises a
feeder 49 for holding and insertingspindles 45 which is composed of atrough 49a and two opposing guides, each formed by a first oblique or almosthorizontal guide part 49b and a secondcurved guide part 49d whose centre of curvature is on the axis of theroller 43, with an interposed resting and releasing device 49c. Thetrough 49a can tilt about one of its axes 49'a, which is parallel to the axis of theroller 43, in order to insert and position a spindle inside theguide 49b. Along said guides the spindles are engaged by theends 45a of their shafts and are guided freely downwards purely by means of gravity, initially to a position where they stop and wait 45', and later to the starting positions 45" and 45"', as explained below. - The automatic change-over unit is completed by the following parts:
- a) a system of two retaining
bars 50, to control the descent of the full spool CAtowards asupport 51 forming part of acarriage 52. Thesebars 50 are mounted vertically at the two opposite ends of the spool, between these ends and thearms 47. Thebars 50 and thearms 47 intersect each other over almost the whole clockwise stroke F from theposition 47 in which the spool is taken over to the position 47' in which it is discharged. The lower ends 50' of thebars 50 also continue downwards and terminate close to thesupport 51; - b) a system of two
transverse rods 53 moved in opposing directions and each carrying aplate 53a which clamps the rovings. Theseplates 53a are approximately horizontal and cut through the vertical plane 41' down which the rovings freely fall when not wound onto the spool CA. Theplates 53a, which in the rest position lie on either side of the alignment of the rovings on the plane 41', move towards each other, with therods 53, to clamp the rovings between themselves, as described in more detail below; - c) a system for recommencing the winding, which comprises a
crossmember 54 carried by a pair ofarcuate arms 55 rotating as one about anaxis 55a. The twoarms 55 are, like thearms crossmember 54 is in the position indicated in solid lines underneath theroller 43, while in the working position said crossmember moves - by rotating anticlockwise around thepin 55a along the arc indicated by arrow F' - above thespindle 45"' in the starting position; and - d) a system for controlling the contact pressure of the spool CA on the periphery of the
drive roller 43. This system comprises acounterweight 56, which acts on thearm 46 through acord 57 passing overrollers 58 and attached at 57a directly to thearm 46. Preferably, as is shown in Figure 5, thecounterweight 56 is in the form of a hood and also serves to protect the spool during winding. Alternatively some other kind of means could be employed, such as a calibrated spring. - The operation of the device described above comprises the following steps:
- a) - initially a spindle is located in position 45', held by the release device 49c. A few moments before change-over begins, the device 49c rotates in an anticlockwise direction, taking the spindle to position 45" in contact with the
roller 43, where it remains for the entire spool- discharging period, controlling the flow of the rovings. As soon as thearms 46 return to the starting position 46', after the discharge, the device 49c rotates further to allow the spindle to drop intoposition 45"' where itsend pins 45a fit into the grooves of thearms 46. Thecounterweight 56 acts on thearms 46 in such as way as to keep the spindle in contact with the circumference of theroller 43 with controlled pressure; - b) - as the
roller 43 rotates, thespindle 45 also rotates, winding the rovings and forming the spool CA. As winding proceeds, thespool support arm 46 is made to swing downwards. In its descent the spool is guided by the fact that itspins 45a are resting on thearms 46. It is important to note that throughout this step of winding thecounterweight 56 continues to exert on thearms 46 a tension which gradually comes to be balanced by the increasing weight of the spool: by this means, therefore, an automatic control is provided over the contact pressure between the spool and theroller 43, which must be at its maximum at the start (position 46') in order that the rovings are wound tightly, and must then be reduced as the diameter of the winding grows; - c) - when spool CA winding is complete (the position indicated in solid lines in Figure 5), or indeed at any moment when it is desired to discharge the spool, a control device (not shown) acts on the
shaft 46a of thearms 46 so as to turn them anticlockwise to the point where the end pins 45a touch the retaining bars 50 and consequently disengage themselves from thearms 46 and are deposited onto thearms 47. At this point thearms 47 are caused to rotate downward in a controlled manner (direction F) into the position 47' indicated in dot-dash lines, where their ends are a short distance from the ends 50' of thebars 50 to allow thepins 45a to pass out. The spool is therefore free to drop down into position CA' in which thepins 45a are resting on thesupport 51. In this position thesupport 51 is located underneath therespective transfer roller 43 but not in lateral alignment therewith, which means that the rovings continue to drop down in a vertical plane 41'. When all thesupports 51 of onecarriage 52 have been filled with spools, the carriage is run along on a rail to take away the full spools and to be replaced with an empty carriage. It wi obviously be within the capacity of anyone skilled in the art to substitute any other transporting device for the carriage 52 - e.g. a chain conveyor which would take the spools on supports and carry them away from the condenser so that they could be then passed to the spinning machines; - d) - the
arms 46 swing up again to their initial position as soon as the spools CA are released and are still descending towards position CA. When thearms 46 are in position 46', anempty spindle 45 is lowered onto therelease device 49, as described above, and a new cycle begun; - e) - during steps a) to d), the rovings are allowed to continue to fall freely. At the end of step d) the two
rods 53 are made to move towards each other keeping parallel with the axis of the roiier43 and causing theplates 53a to close on each other towards the centre and thereby collect and clamp the rovings in a fan shape; - f) - immediately after this, the
crossmember 54 is turned and, as it moves in the direction F', it meets the rovings inposition 41" and carries them with it around and over the spindle intoposition 45"'. The rovings are then caught in the nip between theroller 43 and thespindle 45"', pulled round with it and so collected on the spool which is now beginning to form; in this step the rovings are also simultaneously broken at the clamping point of therods 53, leaving free the spool underneath in position CA'. A new cycle of winding can then begin; - g) - the
rods 53 are then opened and returned to the rest position, but they leave all the ends of the rovings gathered in the centre on the spool that has just been deposited on thesupport 51. This facilitates the work of the operator in the later operations of handling and of tying up to the spinning machine. - Figure 7 shows an alternative embodiment which in part is simplified in comparison with that shown in Figure 5, but which requires more floor space, for example up to 900 mm. Identical or equivalent parts are indicated here by the same reference numerals. The following therefore reappear:
- - the guiding of the
rovings 41 through the oscillatingroving guides 44 and onto theroller 43, - - the feeding of the
spindles 45 from a feeder49, along theguides position 45"', - - the fixed
vertical bar 50, thesupport 51 of thecarriage 52 and theroving clamping rods 53, and - - the
restarter bar 54 supported by thearms 55 and pivotable between a rest position (the broken lines in Figure 7) and an active position (solid lines in Figure 7) of placing the rovings around thespindle 45"' in the starting position. - This alternative also has the pair of
arms 47 oscillating as one about thecommon axis 47a but does not have thearms 46. During the entire course of the winding, the spool CA is moving directly on thearms 47, which are held up in an inclined position (indicated in solid lines in Fig. 7). They are then swung downwards (arrow F) into position 47' only during the discharging of the completed spool, under the control of control means (not shown). - As stated, the
pins 45a projecting from the ends of thespindle 45 rest freely on the top surface of thearms 47, on which they can rotate. Because of this support the spool CA moves automatically, as it grows in diameter, along thearm 47 towards the end furthest from theaxis 47a. A shoulder ortooth 47b formed on the top edge of theoscillating arm 47 acts as a safety stop, specially in the starting position. - The way in which the device according to the variant shown in Figure 7 works is basically identical to that shown in Figure 5 and so it is not felt necessary to provide a further detailed explanation thereof. It should however be pointed out that since the pair of
arms 46 and associatedcounterweight 56 are not provided, the supporting of the spool CA against theroller 43 is achieved purely by the weight of thespindle 45 itself and of the rovings that are wound upon it; it is not therefore possible, in contrast to the alternative shown in Figure 5, to provide automatic control of the pressure of contact on theroller 43. Thearms 47, which remain stationary in the raised position throughout the winding of the spool, are turned only once the winding has been completed, in a clockwise direction (by suitable motor means, not shown), and are lowered to discharge the spool CA. - Figure 8 shows still another alternative embodiment which, at least in certain respects, is also simplified: here too, parts identical or equivalent to those shown in Figure 5 are indicated by the same reference numerals. The following therefore reappear:
- - the guiding of the
rovings 41 through the oscillatingroving guides 44 and on to theroller 43, - - the feeding of the
spindles 45 from afeeder 49 along theguides - - a pair of oscillating
arms 46 which support the spindle inposition 45"' and throughout the process of winding, and - - the
support 51 of thecarriage 52 and theroving clamping rods 53. - However, there are no oscillating
arms 47 or fixedvertical bars 50, while therestarter bar 54 is shaped differently (see details below). - In this alternative, the
arms 46, oscillating as one on thecommon axis 46a, are L-shaped: the top part of the L pivots at 46a and is basically rigid, while the lower part is formed by a telescopic part. This part, which during the winding of the spool CA is retracted, carries grips (not shown in any greater detail) at its ends for gripping the pin ends 45a of the spool. - As the diameter of the spool increases in the course of winding, the
arms 46 swing anticlockwise from the starting position 46' to position 46" at the conclusion of the winding. Having reached this position, thearms 46 are again briefly swung towards the dischargingposition 46", where the spool CAis briefly separated from theroller 43 and is ready to be discharged. - The telescopic system of the lower part of the
arm 46 is now actuated: it grows longer in a downward direction, as indicated by the dot-dash lines 46"", taking the spool to position CA where it rests in thesupport 51 of thecarriage 52. - With the spool now resting in position CA, the
rods 53 are actuated to clamp the rovings and then - after the spool has been removed and a new spindle placed inposition 45"' - therestarter bar 54 is operated. - In this alternative embodiment, the
restarter bar 54 is not supported by oscillating arms (in contrast to the two embodiments shown in Figures 5 and 7) but engaged by its ends with a transporting system formed by twobelts 61 travelling aroundrollers 62, at least one of which is powered. - When therefore an empty spindle is in the restarting
position 45"', thebelts 61 are caused to move in an anticlockwise direction and thecrossmember 54 moves from the low position immediately above therods 53, indicated by the solid lines, to the position 54' indicated by the broken line, following the path of thebelts 61 androllers 62, and therefore around theempty spindle 45"'. - A person skilled in the art will readily see that compared with the prior art, the arrangement of the condenser according to the invention has many advantages, which can be summarized as follows:
- - better division of the card web owing to its vertical introduction between the take-in rollers: this is because in the prior art arrangements employing horizontal entry, the web comes into contact first with the tapes of the lower roller and these therefore take a greater load and are a source of defects in the count. The vertical entry of the invention automatically eliminates this problem;
- - uniform support of the ribbons of web on all the tapes owing to their position beneath the vertex, with consequent elimination of the possible differences of count between the banks of one half and those of the other half of the condenser. This automatically eliminates the problem mentioned in point c) above, which involved a difference in count between the lower banks, where the web ribbon tended to separate from the tape and therefore became slacker, and the upper banks;
- - the possibility of increasing the transverse stroke of the rubbing leathers, leading to an improvement in the quality of the rubbing - and this by any desired increase in the number of now vertical transport planes, without introducing difficulties either with regard to the opening out of the fan of rovings or even with regard to the removing and changing of the roving collection systems;
- - possibility of increasing the space between one ribbon and the next in the same transporting plane, and likewise by an increase in the number of vertical transporting planes of the rubbing leathers, which can easily even exceed the eight of the embodiment illustrated;
- - possibilityofchangingspoolsbyfullyautomat- ic means, thus saving time during change-over and reducing the amount of labour; and
- - possibility of changing all spools simultaneously and thereby guaranteeing an exact length on each spool.
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