EP1043435B9 - Métier à tisser avec un dispositif pour contrôler la vitesse de rotation du moteur principal du métier à tisser et procédé pour contrôler la vitesse de rotation du moteur principal d'un métier à tisser - Google Patents

Métier à tisser avec un dispositif pour contrôler la vitesse de rotation du moteur principal du métier à tisser et procédé pour contrôler la vitesse de rotation du moteur principal d'un métier à tisser Download PDF

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EP1043435B9
EP1043435B9 EP99116571A EP99116571A EP1043435B9 EP 1043435 B9 EP1043435 B9 EP 1043435B9 EP 99116571 A EP99116571 A EP 99116571A EP 99116571 A EP99116571 A EP 99116571A EP 1043435 B9 EP1043435 B9 EP 1043435B9
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D51/00—Driving, starting, or stopping arrangements; Automatic stop motions
    • D03D51/007—Loom optimisation
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    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
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  • the present invention refers to a device and a method for controlling the revolving speed of the main motor of a loom during the sudden shift from a rest to a steady state, which takes place when the movable parts of the loom start their motion and then reach the weaving speed.
  • the final quality of a fabric also depends on the fact that the working speed of the loom is as uniform as possible. Speed transients, during the weaving, can produce even a lightly different quality of the fabric, which can all the same be noticed by an expert in the art, especially in the connecting area of two fabric lengths woven at different speed.
  • This problem is indeed quite common in the ordinary manufacturing, in particular due to the possible weaving defects (broken or short weft, breaking of the warp yarns and so on) which cause automatic stops of the loom.
  • a first motor section of the loom - which essentially includes a main motor of the loom and a flywheel - is separated, through a main clutch group, from a second weaving section of the loom - which includes a sley with relative reed, a weave forming machine with its heald frames and, in case, grippers for the insertion of the weft - allowing, in this way, the stopping of this second section of the loom in order to execute the desired repairing operations.
  • the loom can be restarted by engaging the clutch group and so connecting said first section, which has been kept at the steady speed, to said second section of the loom, now in a rest state.
  • a transient of speed of the loom is unavoidable, with a temporary lowering of the speed at a value lower than the steady speed, due to the inertia of the rest section of the loom, said speed reduction leaving therefore a visible mark on the fabric being woven.
  • the above inverter device accomplishes therefore a twofold task, allowing on one hand the optimisation of the transient curve and offering, on the other hand, a large number of steady speeds, without operating on mechanical gear ratios of the loom .
  • said device can be easily integrated in the software system of the loom, and easily programmed and controlled as a function of a larger and larger range of variables, both technical and environmental, which can influence the weaving process.
  • the inverter device is a sophisticated and expensive kind of device, which - even if appreciated because it is apt to fit, in an efficient way, a large number of different weaving conditions - it cannot be used in all the situations.
  • the weaving mass-production wherein the weaving takes place according to well defined and unchanged standard conditions, there is the demand of a device ad hoc - for solving the problem relative to the starting transient of the loom - simpler than the inverter, so as to be more reliable and economic of this latter, and all the same apt to allow a satisfactory reduction of the length of the starting transient of the loom.
  • Aim of the present invention is therefore to offer a device and a method for controlling the working speed of a loom during the starting transient thereof, having a low cost and high efficiency, strength and reliability.
  • the aim is reached, according to the present invention, through a device for controlling the working speed of a loom, during its starting run - said loom being formed by a first section, essentially including a main motor and a flywheel, and a second section, including at least a sley and a weave forming machine, connected to said first section through a main clutch group - wherein said first section of the loom, rotating at a predetermined launching speed higher than the steady speed of the loom, is connected through the main clutch group to said second section of the loom, in a rest state, characterised in that said main motor is a double-speed motor, a first lower speed being equal to said steady speed of the loom and a second higher speed being equal or higher than said launching speed.
  • the invention also concerns a method for controlling the working speed of a loom, which provides, during the starting run of the loom, the following subsequent steps:
  • Fig. 1 shows the working principles thereof.
  • the main motor M of the loom is an electric motor with two windings M1 and M2, separately supplied by the power supply A, through circuits 1 and 2.
  • motor M is apt to develop two different and predetermined steady revolving speeds V1 and V2; for the sake of brevity, in the following, said motor will be simply defined as double-speed motor.
  • the double-speed motor M is designed in order to have its lower speed V1 corresponding to the standard steady speed of the loom, and its second speed V2, higher than speed V1, being equal or higher than the highest value of speed which could be desired from motor M during the starting run of the loom.
  • the increase of speed of the loom in respect of the speed V1 is set according to the inertial features of the weaving section T of the loom downstream of the main clutch F, which section, as widely known, comprises a sley and relative reed, a weave forming machine and relative driven heald frames, and finally, in case of a gripper loom, carrying and drawing grippers.
  • the setting operation must result in the fact that the additional momentum of the motor section of the loom, deriving from said overspeed Vs, must be as equal as possible, in absolute value, to the momentum necessary to start the above said section T of the loom downstream of the clutch F, at the speed V1. In this way, in fact, the motor M brought to the launching speed V1 + Vs is slowed down exactly to the speed V1 in a very short time, which is the same time necessary to the complete engagement of the clutch F.
  • the value of the overspeed Vs - considering that the double speed motor M doesn't have in itself any speed control device - according to the present invention said motor should be combined to a rotation angle meter device E.
  • Said device is in turn connected to a processing central unit C, which is usually already provided on the loom for the general working of the loom itself.
  • a specific board of said unit is apt to convert the instantaneous measure of the rotation angle of the motor M, provided by the meter device E, in a measure of instantaneous speed and thereafter to compare said last measure with the predetermined value of the launching speed V1 + overspeed Vs.
  • the processing unit C gives the consent to the circuit 2 of the power supply A and the motor M starts to increase its speed from V1 to V2, according to a variation law which is constantly controlled by the unit C according to a feedback closed ring control model, as described heretofore.
  • the unit C operates the engagement of clutch F and, in the same time, disables the circuit 2 of the power supply M, keeping the power supply only on circuit 1.
  • Said above predetermined value of overspeed Vs can be manually set by the operator, on the control keyboard of the unit C, on the basis of former experimental data.
  • said value should be automatically calculated by the central processing unit C.
  • said unit provides to store data relative to the values of the overspeed Vs and the trend of n preceding transients, and to process said data through an appropriate algorithm, so as to calculate a value of overspeed Vs apt to minimise the duration of transient n + 1.
  • said duration is lower than the length of time of a single weft insertion cycle. In the present looms, working at a speed of about 600-1000 cycles per minute, this means a duration of the transient lower than 6-10 hundredth of a second.

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  1. Métier comprenant un dispositif pour commander la vitesse de fonctionnement du métier, durant la phase de démarrage du métier - ledit métier étant formé par une première section, comprenant principalement un moteur principal (M) et un volant, et une deuxième section (T), comprenant au moins un battant et une machine de formation d'armure, reliée à ladite première section via un groupe d'embrayage principal (F) - dans lequel ladite première section du métier, tournant à une vitesse de lancement prédéterminée supérieure à la vitesse stable du métier, est reliée via le groupe d'embrayage principal (F) à ladite deuxième section (T) du métier, à l'état de repos, caractérisé en ce que ledit moteur principal (M) est un moteur à double vitesse, avec deux enroulements (M1 et M2) alimentés séparément par une source d'énergie (A), et aptes à développer deux vitesses de rotation stables différentes et prédéterminées (V1, V2) ; une première vitesse plus faible (V1) étant égale à ladite vitesse stable du métier, et une deuxième vitesse plus élevée (V2) étant supérieure ou égale à ladite vitesse de lancement.
  2. Métier selon la revendication 1, comprenant, en outre, une unité de traitement (C) apte à activer la source d'énergie (A) dudit moteur à double vitesse (M) et contrôler sa vitesse instantanée et, en outre, à commander ledit groupe d'embrayage principal (F).
  3. Métier selon la revendication 2, dans lequel la valeur instantanée de ladite vitesse de lancement est calculée depuis l'unité de traitement (C) en détectant, via un dispositif de mesure (E) de l'angle de rotation dudit moteur principal (M) du métier, les déplacements angulaires dudit moteur dans l'unité de temps.
  4. Métier selon la revendication 3, dans lequel la valeur de survitesse pour le transitoire de démarrage n+1 du métier est calculée par ladite unité de traitement (C) sur la base de données stockées de survitesse et de tendance de transitoire du transitoire de démarrage n précédent.
  5. Procédé pour commander la vitesse de fonctionnement d'un métier, ledit procédé utilisant un dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que, durant la phase de démarrage du métier, les étapes suivantes sont prévues :
    a) démarrage dudit moteur à double vitesse (M), tandis que l'embrayage (F) reliant la section de moteur du métier à la section de tissage (T) est désengagé ;
    b) contrôle de la vitesse instantanée dudit moteur (M) durant le transitoire d'accélération de ladite première vitesse (V1) à ladite deuxième vitesse (V2) ;
    c) mise en oeuvre de l'engagement dudit embrayage (F) au moment où la vitesse instantanée du moteur à double vitesse (M) est égale à ladite valeur prédéterminée de vitesse de lancement (V1) ; et, en même temps,
    d) commander la source d'énergie (A) dudit moteur (M) à ladite première vitesse (V1).
EP99116571A 1999-04-01 1999-08-24 Métier à tisser avec un dispositif pour contrôler la vitesse de rotation du moteur principal du métier à tisser et procédé pour contrôler la vitesse de rotation du moteur principal d'un métier à tisser Expired - Lifetime EP1043435B9 (fr)

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