EP0867390B1 - Dispositifs de freinage de fil autoréglables pour fournisseurs de fil - Google Patents

Dispositifs de freinage de fil autoréglables pour fournisseurs de fil Download PDF

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EP0867390B1
EP0867390B1 EP19970120349 EP97120349A EP0867390B1 EP 0867390 B1 EP0867390 B1 EP 0867390B1 EP 19970120349 EP19970120349 EP 19970120349 EP 97120349 A EP97120349 A EP 97120349A EP 0867390 B1 EP0867390 B1 EP 0867390B1
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Pietro Zenoni
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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
    • D03D47/34—Handling the weft between bulk storage and weft-inserting means
    • D03D47/36—Measuring and cutting the weft
    • D03D47/361—Drum-type weft feeding devices
    • D03D47/364—Yarn braking means acting on the drum
    • D03D47/366—Conical

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  • the present invention relates to an improvement to self-adjusting thread braking devices for weft feeders.
  • the invention relates to a self-adjusting braking device of the kind described in the prior Italian patent no. 1,251,209 and hereinafter referenced as conventional device for the sake of brevity.
  • Weft feeders are devices which typically comprise: a fixed cylindrical drum, on which a windmilling hollow arm winds a plurality of turns of thread which constitute a thread reserve; means for producing the advancement of the reserve turns from the base toward the free end of the drum; and means for braking at the output the thread that unwinds from the drum and feeds the loom or other textile machine, passing through a final thread guide supported in a fixed manner coaxially to the drum.
  • the conventional self-adjusting braking device is constituted by a substantially frustum-shaped braking body which is arranged so that its larger circumference is in front of the fixed drum of the feeder, with respect to which it is tangent at an output circumference which is slightly smaller than the maximum circumference of the cylindrical body of the drum.
  • Said braking body is supported by elastic suspension means which are shaped like a lamina or an elastic diaphragm and is more typically suspended at the center of a radial arrangement of traction springs which react on an annular suspension element, which is rigidly coupled to a movable support, controlled by an axial movement mechanism which allows to vary the static contact pressure that the frustum-shaped braking body applies to the drum if the thread is not advancing.
  • the thread advances between the drum and the braking body, onto which it discharges the axial component of its mechanical tension.
  • said axial component tends to move the braking body axially in contrast with the action of the elastic suspension means, separating it from the drum and causing a consequent and corresponding decrease in the braking action, which is thus modulated as a function of said advancement speed.
  • the self-adjusting action of said conventional brake is such as to decrease the braking of the weft thread as the thread advancement speed increases and viceversa.
  • the excessive decrease in the mechanical tension of the weft thread can form a so-called "balloon" of thread ahead of the frustum-shaped braking body.
  • This has a negative effect on the correct execution of the weaving action, because it can generate tangles of thread but most of all because it causes the mechanical tension of the thread to be substantially uncontrollable, so that the brake at least partially loses the ability to self-adjust.
  • the essential aim of the present invention is to eliminate this drawback by improving known self-adjusting braking systems in order to make them adapted to avoid the forming of the so-called "balloon" of thread without resorting to an increase in the static pressure of the braking body on the drum of the weft feeder and therefore without undesirably altering the values of the overall mechanical tension that acts on the thread during the beating cycle of the loom or the like.
  • the invention is based on the concept of limiting the axial movements for the disengagement of the frustum-shaped braking body from the drum of the feeder through a retention means made of flexible material.
  • the retention means is constituted by a ring made of soft, natural or synthetic elastomeric material, advantageously having a cellular structure, which is vulcanized onto a threaded ring which mates with a correspondingly threaded seat formed in the annular suspension element of the frustum-shaped body, so that by adjusting the extent to which said ring is screwed into said annular element, the distance of the elastomeric ring from the outer surface of the frustum-shaped body is adjusted, consequently adjusting the axial stroke that said frustum-shaped body can perform before elastically abutting against the retention ring.
  • the elastomeric retention ring is supported directly by the annular suspension element of the frustum-shaped body, so that the distance between the outer surface of the frustum-shaped body and said elastomeric ring is adjusted by elastic deformation of the suspension spring of the frustum-shaped body, adjusting the axial position of said supporting ring by means of the movement mechanism.
  • the weft feeder 10 shown in the figure is of the conventional type which comprises a fixed cylindrical drum 11, which is adapted to receive a plurality of turns of weft thread F which constitutes a weft reserve R to be fed to a loom or other textile machine.
  • a hollow radial arm 12 rigidly coupled to a rotating ring 13 arranged at the base of the drum, winds the turns of thread onto said drum, and a known system with oscillating rods 14 transfers the turns from the base to the head of the drum 11 in order to form the weft reserve R.
  • the thread When requested by the loom, the thread unwinds from the drum 11 and passes through a fixed thread guide 15, which is coaxial to said drum, and its mechanical tension is controlled by the modulated and self-adjusting braking action produced by a frustum-shaped braking body 16, which is arranged so that its larger circumference faces the drum, against which it is pushed so as to engage it by tangent elastic contact.
  • the frustum-shaped body 16 is suspended at the center of a radial arrangement of helical springs 18, typically a set of three springs, which react against an annular support 19 which is arranged frontally and coaxially to the drum 11 and is supported by a slider 20 so that it can be adjusted axially.
  • Said slider can move along a guide 21 which is parallel to the drum 11 and is controlled by a mechanism of the screw-and-nut type, which can be operated by a knob 22, through which it is possible to vary the static pressure that the frustum-shaped braking body 16 applies to the drum 11.
  • said braking system reacts automatically to the variations in the mechanical tension of the thread produced by corresponding variations in the advancement speed of said thread, by means of corresponding axial movements of the braking body 16, which moves away from the drum 11, in contrast with the action of the springs 18, correspondingly reducing the braking action applied to the thread and therefore the mechanical tension of said thread.
  • the mechanical tension of the thread decreases excessively, as a consequence of a large axial movement of the braking body 16, a balloon of thread forms in the region directly before of the braking body 16.
  • this drawback is overcome by means of an improvement to said braking system, which consists of the fact that the movement of said frustum-shaped braking body 16 is limited by a flexible retention element.
  • Said retention element is constituted by a ring 23 made of soft elastomeric material, advantageously having a cellular structure, such as natural or synthetic rubber, adapted to engage by abutment the outer surface S of the frustum-shaped body 16.
  • the elastomeric ring 23 is vulcanized onto a threaded ring 24, which engages a correspondingly threaded seat formed in the annular support 19, allowing to adjust, according to the extent to which it is screwed in, the distance of the elastomeric ring 23 from the outer surface S of the frustum-shaped body 16 and therefore the maximum axial stroke that said body can perform in order to abut against the retention ring 23.
  • the position of the retention ring 23 is adjusted by means of the following procedure: since the ring 24 is fully screwed into the respective threaded seat of the annular support 19, the static pressure that the frustum-shaped body 16 applies to the drum 11 when the thread does not advance is set to the minimum value through the knob 22.
  • the loom is started with this minimum setting of the static pressure, so that the frustum-shaped body 16 undergoes a sudden and large axial movement, triggering the forming of said balloon.
  • the degree to which the ring 24 is screwed into the seat of the support 19 is decreased, moving the retention ring 23 closer to the frustum-shaped body 16 until it almost skims its surface while still allowing a minimum axial mobility to the latter.
  • the position thus assumed by the ring 23 is the optimum configuration of the system for retaining the frustum-shaped body by abutment, after which the static pressure can be set by the knob 22 to the correct operating value without generating said balloon of thread.
  • the elastomeric ring 23 is vulcanized directly onto the supporting ring 19 and its axial distance from the frustum-shaped braking body 16 is adjusted by the knob 22 by means of flexing of the springs 18 and of the consequent variation in the mutual relative position of said body 16 and said ring 23.
  • the springs 18 are highly elastic, so that the movement of the annular support 19 and accordingly of the frustum-shaped body 16 and of the retention ring 23 does not entail a significant increase in the static pressure with which the frustum-shaped body 16 engages the drum 11.

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Claims (4)

  1. Dispositif de freinage de fil autoréglable pour des dispositifs d'alimentation en fil de trame (10), comprenant un corps de freinage de forme tronconique (16) et des moyens (18-19) pour suspendre de façon élastique ledit corps de forme tronconique et pour le pousser élastiquement en engagement de contact tangent avec le tambour (11) du dispositif d'alimentation en fil de trame,
    caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend un élément de maintien (23) réalisé en matière flexible, qui est associé aux moyens de suspension (19) du corps de freinage de forme tronconique (16) et est adapté pour engager élastiquement, par aboutement, la surface externe (S) dudit corps de freinage de forme tronconique de façon à limiter ses mouvements axiaux.
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que ledit élément de maintien est constitué par un anneau (23) réalisé en une matière élastomère souple naturelle ou synthétique, ayant avantageusement une structure cellulaire.
  3. Dispositif selon les revendications 1 et 2,
    caractérisé en ce que ledit anneau de maintien (23) est rigidement couplé à un anneau fileté (24) qui coopère avec un siège également fileté prévu dans un élément annulaire rigide (19) qui constitue le support de suspension dudit corps de freinage de forme tronconique (16) ; l'étendue sur laquelle ledit anneau (24) est vissé dans ledit siège de l'élément de support annulaire (19) étant utilisée pour régler la distance de l'anneau de maintien en élastomère (23) à partir de la surface externe (S) du corps de freinage de forme tronconique (16).
  4. Dispositif selon les revendications 1 et 2,
    caractérisé en ce que ledit anneau de maintien en élastomère (23) est supporté directement par un anneau rigide (19) qui constitue le support de suspension du corps de freinage de forme tronconique (16), qui est supporté par un agencement radial de ressorts de suspension (18) qui réagissent sur ledit anneau rigide ; en ce que l'anneau rigide (19) est commandé par un mécanisme à mouvement axial qui peut être manoeuvré par un bouton (22) ; et en ce que le réglage de la distance relative mutuelle entre la surface externe (S) du corps de forme tronconique (16) et l'anneau de maintien en élastomère (23) se produit par déformation élastique des ressorts de suspension (18) en réglant, par l'intermédiaire dudit bouton (22), la position axiale dudit anneau rigide (19) qui constitue le support de suspension du corps de freinage de forme tronconique (16).
EP19970120349 1996-11-29 1997-11-20 Dispositifs de freinage de fil autoréglables pour fournisseurs de fil Expired - Lifetime EP0867390B1 (fr)

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ITTO960967 IT1289696B1 (it) 1996-11-29 1996-11-29 Perfezionamento ai dispositivi di frenatura autoregolante del filato, per apparecchi alimentatori di trama

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