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EP0700857A2
EP0700857A2 EP95112439A EP95112439A EP0700857A2 EP 0700857 A2 EP0700857 A2 EP 0700857A2 EP 95112439 A EP95112439 A EP 95112439A EP 95112439 A EP95112439 A EP 95112439A EP 0700857 A2 EP0700857 A2 EP 0700857A2
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titer
piston
sleeve
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Volker Ludwig
Josef Geiger
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Ludwig Volker
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ZUE-Zwirnerei Untereggingen GmbH
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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
    • B65H67/06—Supplying cores, receptacles, or packages to, or transporting from, winding or depositing stations
    • B65H67/063—Marking or identifying devices for packages
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/18—Constructional details
    • B65H75/182—Identification means
    • 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 titer ring with information about a yarn or the like located on a sleeve, a method for inserting a titer ring designed as an annular disk with an approximately central hole in a sleeve for receiving a yarn, thread or the like. , and a device therefor.
  • yarns, threads or the like are wound onto a sleeve or unwound from a sleeve.
  • These are all possible types of yarn or thread, regardless of the material, natural or artificial, they are made from.
  • the present inventive concept relates to all such yarns, threads or the like, which can be wound onto a sleeve.
  • Bobbins with spooled yarn come to certain stations as bobbins and are fed from there for further processing.
  • a so-called titer ring is inserted into a basket made of plastic, which contains, for example, information about the name of the yarn, its origin, strength, weight, etc.
  • the plastic cups are inserted into a free opening in the sleeve, which is usually limited by an inwardly flanged edge.
  • This basket has protrusions behind which the titer ring is clipped.
  • the basket also has the task of guiding the trowel.
  • the sleeves should preferably be reused. To do this, after unwinding the yarn, the basket must be removed from the sleeve opening and the titer ring must be ejected by hand. This is complex and makes recycling difficult.
  • the present invention has for its object to provide a titer ring that significantly facilitates recycling of the sleeves.
  • the titer ring itself is made from a recyclable workpiece and can be inserted into the sleeve.
  • the titer ring should consist of the same or a similar material as the sleeve.
  • the sleeve is made of cellulose or a cardboard-like one Material made. This material has the advantage that it can be disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner without difficulty. It is also cheap. For this reason it makes sense that the titer ring also consists of cellulose, in particular cardboard.
  • the titer ring itself can now carry a desired information for a yarn on a tube. For example, it is possible to give the titer ring a certain color, which indicates a certain yarn. This color can then be recognized by a color camera. This makes it easier to sort out certain cops for a specific further processing. However, this is only intended to be an example of certain information. Furthermore, the selected material box is only to be considered as an example; plastics that can be disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner are also conceivable. The present invention relates to all of these possibilities.
  • the procedure for inserting the titer ring into the sleeve also appears to be essential. Since, as mentioned above, the sleeve usually has an inwardly flanged edge, it makes sense to use this flanged edge as a stop for the titer ring. It is possible to insert the titer ring through the opening with the flange itself Insert the sleeve and then press from the inside against the edge of the flange. However, this results in a relatively large deformation of the titer ring, which is undesirable in many cases.
  • this titer ring is pushed into the sleeve with a conical bulge and hits the stop of the flanged edge there. Now the titer ring is placed on one level again by the tool, i.e. a conical bulge is reversed. As a result of its larger outer diameter, the titer ring is wedged inside the sleeve.
  • titer ring it is preferable to not punch out the titer ring individually, for example from a cardboard box, but to pre-punch a large number of titer rings in a cardboard box. This means that the individual titer ring is only connected to the remaining cardboard grid via a few webs, so that it can be easily broken out using an appropriate tool.
  • titer ring is assigned a stamp with an obliquely or conically inwardly extending outer edge. This outer edge enables the titer ring to be placed against this conical outer edge, creating the desired conical bulge.
  • At least one movable foot should be provided which engages through the approximately central hole in the titer ring and engages behind the titer ring and thus clamps the titer ring in a gap that can be lifted between the foot and a piston.
  • This device should also work automatically, for example pneumatically or hydraulically. Therefore, the piston just mentioned is inserted into a blind hole in the plunger to form a pressure chamber, and it slides in this blind hole depending on the pressurization of the pressure chamber. Furthermore, a working cylinder is provided in a stepped bore in the piston, which can move between a step and a bottom surface, wherein a pressure chamber can also be formed between the bottom surface and the piston surface.
  • the foot is in turn part of a toggle lever, which rotates with one knee in a ball trough in the stepped bore and engages with a ball head in a recess in the working piston. If the working piston is moved relative to the piston, the foot is also pivoted radially, which means that the foot can be pivoted behind the titer ring.
  • the above-mentioned piston is to be connected to the piston via a connecting rod with a further piston in a chamber, this chamber being separated from the blind hole by a partition.
  • This piston is mainly used for mechanical retrieval of the Piston, wherein it is acted upon by appropriate spring packages. For this reason, only one pressure chamber is required for the piston.
  • the piston is returned via the spring assemblies just mentioned.
  • the device is intended to represent only one example, of course many technical configurations for carrying out the method according to the invention for inserting the titer ring into a sleeve are also conceivable.
  • a device R according to the invention for inserting a titer ring 1 engages in a sleeve 2, which is only indicated by dash-dotted lines, in an opening 3 of a guide plate 4.
  • a support plate 5 on which a carton 6 rests, from which the titer rings 1 are already pre-punched.
  • the titer rings 1 are connected to the rest of the cardboard grid only by means of individual webs left standing, so that they can be easily broken out of the cardboard 6 by the device R.
  • the support plate 5 is preferably penetrated by bores 7, through which the cardboard 6 can be pressurized, for example, with compressed air, in order to facilitate its further displacement between the guide plate 4 and the support plate 5.
  • the holes 7 can also be connected to a vacuum source, so that when a vacuum is applied, the cardboard 6 is held firmly on the support plate 5 and cannot slip during the stripping process.
  • the opening 3 in the guide plate 4 is assigned a step opening 8 in the support plate 5, which has a centering cone 9 for facilitating the insertion of the sleeve 2 into a retaining ring 10.
  • a shoulder 11 adjoins the retaining ring 10 and forms a limitation of the insertion depth of the sleeve 2.
  • a stamp 12 is shown, which is connected to a piston rod 13.
  • This piston rod 13 can in turn be connected, for example, to a piston-cylinder unit of a pneumatic or hydraulic drive.
  • drives which are suitable for moving the punch 12 in the direction x through the opening 3 and into the sleeve 2.
  • the plunger 12 has a blind hole 14 from its end face, an outer edge 15 of the plunger 12 extending obliquely or conically inwardly toward the blind hole 14. This creates a knockout edge 16 which, if necessary, can be sharpened to a certain extent. This makes it easier to break the titer ring 1 out of the carton 6. Furthermore, the obliquely inwardly inclined outer edge 15 has another function described below.
  • a piston 17 is slidably seated in the blind bore 14 and forms a pressure chamber 19 with a bottom 18 of the blind bore 14.
  • the piston 17 is supported against a sealing ring 20.
  • its edge 21 protrudes beyond the blind hole 14 after pressurization of the pressure chamber 19 to such an extent that it lies approximately at the height of the knockout edge 16.
  • the edge 21 thus strikes the titer ring 1 approximately simultaneously with the knock-out edge 16, which improves the knock-out.
  • the edge 21 has other functions, which are described below.
  • the piston 17 is connected via a connecting rod 22 to a further piston 23 in a chamber 24 of the plunger 12.
  • the connecting rod 22 passes through a bore 25 in a partition 26 between the blind bore 14 and chamber 24. It is also supported there against a sealing ring 27, so that the pressure chamber 19 is sealed off from the chamber 24.
  • the piston 23 has a diameter which, although larger than the diameter of the connecting rod 22, is smaller than the diameter of the chamber 24. As a result, the piston 23 forms an annular shoulder 28 between which springs 30 are supported and a chamber base 29.
  • These can be plate spring assemblies which surround the connecting rod 22.
  • the piston 23, the connecting rod 22 and a base body 31 of the piston 17 are penetrated by an axial bore 32 which, on the one hand, is connected to the chamber 24 via a radial bore 33.
  • a plurality of transverse bores 34 branch off from the axial bore 32 at the end of the base body 31, which open out to the left and right next to a T-punch 35, which is part of the piston 17 or is firmly connected to the base body 31.
  • a piston surface 36 of a further working piston 37 can be pressurized.
  • This working piston 37 is guided in a stepped bore 38 in the piston 17, its movement being limited by a step 39 in this stepped bore 38.
  • the working piston 37 can strike this step 39 with an annular shoulder 40.
  • a further pressure chamber 42 is formed between a bottom surface 41 of the bottom body 31 and the piston surface 36.
  • a sealing ring 43 around the T-punch 35 and a further sealing ring 44 in front of the annular shoulder 40 serve to seal it.
  • the T-punch 35 has a plate head 45 which is guided in a space 46 in the working piston 37. In this space 46, the plate head 45 is supported by spring assemblies 47 against an annular base 48 of the working piston 37.
  • a leg 56 adjoins the knee 53, from which a foot 57 projects approximately at right angles.
  • the length of the leg 56 projects beyond the edge 21 to such an extent that a gap is formed between the edge 21 and the foot 57 for receiving the titer ring.
  • FIGS. 1 to 8 In the starting position, the plunger 12 is in the retracted position shown in FIG. 1 above a titer ring 1, the titer ring 1 having a central hole 58 to which the toggle levers 51 are assigned. There is also a sleeve 2 for receiving the titer ring 1 in the step opening 8 of the support plate 5.
  • the plunger 12 is lowered in the direction x according to FIG. 2 by a drive, not shown in detail.
  • the knockout edge 16 and the edge 21 of the piston 17 hit the titler ring 1 and push it out of the box 6.
  • the titer ring 1 Since the titer ring 1 has a slightly larger outer diameter d than the inner diameter d i of the sleeve 2, the titer ring 1 cannot fall into the sleeve 2. It remains on an edge 59 of the sleeve 2.
  • the chamber 24 is now pressurized, this pressure also reaching the piston surface 36 via the radial bore 33, the axial bore 32 and the transverse bores 34.
  • the pressure chamber 42 is opened and the working piston 37 is also driven in the direction x until it strikes with its annular shoulder 40 on the step 39 in the step bore 38.
  • this movement of the working piston 37 causes the toggle levers 51 to rotate about the respective knee 53 in the ball socket 45, so that the legs 56 pivot the foot 57 in the hole 58 under the titer ring 1, so that this titer ring 1 is clamped between the edge 21 and the foot 57.
  • the piston 17 is now retracted in the blind bore 14 according to FIG. 4, the pressure chamber 19 being relieved of pressure. However, this allows the springs 30 to act on the piston 23 and move it in the chamber 24 against a chamber roof 60.
  • each sleeve 2 has a flanged edge 62 at its end, the edge of the sleeve 2 being folded inwards. This forms a stop 63 for the titer ring 1, the titer ring 1 first reaching this stop 63 with its outer region.
  • the stamp 12 is released from the titer ring 1, as shown in FIG. 6.
  • the pressure chamber 42 is relieved of pressure, so that the working piston 37 can be returned to its starting position under the pressure of the spring assemblies 47.
  • This working piston 37 takes the toggle levers 51 with it, so that the foot 57 is pivoted inwards again and so the gap 61 between the foot 57 and the outer edge 21 of the piston 17 is canceled.
  • the funnel-shaped bulge of the titer ring 1 is now removed, as shown in FIG. 7.
  • the piston 17 is pushed forward, the pressure chamber 19 being formed again and a corresponding pressure being applied. This takes place against the force of the springs 30, since the piston 23 is carried along via the connecting rod 22.
  • the titer ring 1 is now in the sleeve 2 and is biased in the sleeve 2 by its slightly larger outer diameter d compared to the inner diameter d i .
  • the toggle levers 51 can be pulled out through the hole 58 in the titer ring 1 and the entire punch 12 can be brought into the starting position according to FIG. 8.
  • the carton 6 is now pushed on until a new titer ring 1 is located under the opening 3. Then the whole process can be repeated.

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