EP1418259A2 - Procédé et dispositif pour l'entretien des postes de filage dans un métiers à filer - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour l'entretien des postes de filage dans un métiers à filer Download PDF

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EP1418259A2
EP1418259A2 EP03022024A EP03022024A EP1418259A2 EP 1418259 A2 EP1418259 A2 EP 1418259A2 EP 03022024 A EP03022024 A EP 03022024A EP 03022024 A EP03022024 A EP 03022024A EP 1418259 A2 EP1418259 A2 EP 1418259A2
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Romeo Pohn
Sebastian Brandl
Adalbert Stephan
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01H—SPINNING OR TWISTING
    • D01H15/00—Piecing arrangements ; Automatic end-finding, e.g. by suction and reverse package rotation; Devices for temporarily storing yarn during piecing
    • D01H15/013—Carriages travelling along the machines
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01H—SPINNING OR TWISTING
    • D01H13/00—Other common constructional features, details or accessories
    • D01H13/005—Service carriages travelling along the machines
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01H—SPINNING OR TWISTING
    • D01H4/00—Open-end spinning machines or arrangements for imparting twist to independently moving fibres separated from slivers; Piecing arrangements therefor; Covering endless core threads with fibres by open-end spinning techniques
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01H—SPINNING OR TWISTING
    • D01H4/00—Open-end spinning machines or arrangements for imparting twist to independently moving fibres separated from slivers; Piecing arrangements therefor; Covering endless core threads with fibres by open-end spinning techniques
    • D01H4/48—Piecing arrangements; Control therefor
    • D01H4/50—Piecing arrangements; Control therefor for rotor spinning

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  • the preparatory work can already during the Machine run out.
  • Feed cylinder can be turned back with the sliver.
  • one is used to carry out the method mentioned Device according to claim 8. With the aid of such a device can trigger such auxiliary work at the desired time and be carried out, which is the core work of a standstill Frame the open-end spinning machine for maintenance.
  • the maintenance device can be designed in such a way that the necessary attachments for the auxiliary work only during this work having. These are during normal maintenance Additional units removed. But you can also stick to the Maintenance device must be attached and always carried.
  • the magazine on the maintenance device with a further arranged for example on the front of the machine Work supply magazine together.
  • the replaced parts can be brought in and / or new parts stored and fed to the magazine.
  • Maintenance device has units, which are used while the machine is spinning, as also other units that are used to carry out auxiliary work when the machine is at a standstill Spinning machine can be used.
  • the method according to the invention and the device according to the invention allow a significant relief in a simple and safe manner the operator while performing maintenance work, which are to be carried out when the spinning machine is at a standstill.
  • auxiliary work which is the core work to be carried out manually of maintenance, often only minor interventions in the Control of the maintenance facility.
  • the cost of the device required to carry out such auxiliary work is not excessively large, especially if the aggregates that are used when the machine is working, and those units which are required to carry out auxiliary work when the machine is at a standstill, arranged on one and the same movable maintenance device are.
  • FIG. 2 schematically shows an open-end spinning machine 1 which has a large number of spinning stations 10 arranged next to one another, each with a spinning device 2 and a spooling device arranged above it to form spools S P.
  • a maintenance device 3 For the maintenance of the individual spinning stations 10 during normal spinning, e.g. B. for. Correction of a broken thread or to replace a full bobbin S P with an empty tube H L , a maintenance device 3 is provided which patrols up and down along the spinning stations 10 assigned to it and thereby carries out the required maintenance on the spinning stations 10 concerned.
  • the maintenance device 3 has a control device 30 which is connected to a control center 4 by means of a control line 300. This is located in one of the two end frames 11 of the open-end spinning machine 1 and has, inter alia, a switching device 40 with a first switching element 400 for switching on and a further switching element 401 for decommissioning the open-end spinning machine 1.
  • this control center 4 has two triggering devices 41 and 42 assigned to trigger a first or a second group of auxiliary work K I / P I or K II / P II (FIG. 1), which will be discussed below.
  • the open-end spinning machine 1 is in normal spinning mode A.
  • the open-end spinning machine 1 is stopped by actuating the switching device 40 (step B).
  • the operator wants to carry out the planned maintenance work, he actuates the triggering device 41 or 42 depending on the desired group of auxiliary work K I / P I or K II / P II (step G).
  • the control center 4 activates the maintenance device 3 via the control line 300 and the control device 30 (step I), which now triggers auxiliary work C which is carried out in preparation for the maintenance work D to be subsequently carried out by the operator.
  • the operator can carry out the manual maintenance (step D) at any time. If he has finished the manual maintenance (step D), the auxiliary work E to complete the manual maintenance work (step D) can be carried out by actuating the trigger device 41 or 42 (step M) are triggered.
  • step F After completing the auxiliary work E to complete the manual maintenance the open-end spinning machine 1 can at any time Spinning will resume (step F). To this end the switching element 401 is actuated (step R), whereby the open-end spinning machine 1 starts up again and with the help of moving again placed maintenance device 3 in succession at the spinning stations 10 carries out a piecing process (step S) until after all the spinning stations 10 assigned to the maintenance device 3 are normal again Spinning conditions prevail (step T).
  • auxiliary work C or E various operations can be carried out as part of the auxiliary work C or E before or after manual maintenance (step D) of the open-end spinning machine 1.
  • step D manual maintenance
  • the program H I is used to prepare for a batch change
  • the program H II is used to clean one or more of the elements or units of the spinning devices 2. This will be explained in more detail later.
  • the maintenance device 3 for carrying out the auxiliary work C is initially brought into one of its end positions after the initiation by actuation of the trigger device 41 (step G) and after the selection of the desired program H I and H II (step J ), from where she starts her journey along the spinning stations 10 and carries out the same auxiliary work K I or K II at each spinning station 10 in accordance with the selected program H I or H II . If the maintenance device 3 has carried out the auxiliary work K I or K II at all of the spinning stations 10 to be operated by it, the maintenance device 3 is moved back to its starting position (step L) and stopped there (step M).
  • the operator can start the manual maintenance work (step D). If it has finished this, it can trigger the execution of auxiliary work E as completion of the maintenance work. For this purpose, it actuates the triggering device 41 or 42 (step N), which is reported to the control device 30 of the maintenance device 3 (step O), which then performs the auxiliary work P I or P II at the spinning stations 10 assigned to the maintenance device 3 in accordance with the previously selected program H I or H II performs. When these are completed at all spinning stations 10 assigned to the maintenance device 3, the maintenance device 3 is stopped (step Q).
  • each spinning device 2 has a spinning element which, depending on the type of open-end spinning machine 1, can be designed as a spinning rotor 5 (as shown), a friction spinning element, an electrostatically operating spinning element or the like.
  • the spinning element designed as a spinning rotor 5 is located in a housing 50 which is connected to a vacuum source and which can be covered by a cover 51.
  • the cover 51 is carried by a convertible top 52 which covers the spinning device 2 during the spinning operation and which is pivotably mounted on a pivot axis (not shown).
  • the spinning device 2 also has a feed device 6, which in the exemplary embodiment shown has a drivable feed roller 60 and a feed trough 61 which resiliently braces against it. With the aid of the feed device 6, a sliver B F to be spun is removed from a spinning can 12 during the spinning operation and fed to a disintegration device 7, in which the sliver B F is dissolved into individual fibers which are fed to the spinning rotor 5 for spinning.
  • the feed roller 60 has a toothed wheel or the like, not shown, to which a toothed rack 31 or the like can be suitably fed from the maintenance device 3 (see item 31 ').
  • the feed roller 60 can be turned back in the direction of the arrow f by correspondingly moving this rack 31 in the program H I , ie in the opposite direction compared to the direction of rotation of the feed roller 60 during normal spinning operation, so that the sliver B F is the nip between the feed roller 60 and feed tray 61 leaves and falls into a spinning can 12.
  • non-empty spinning cans 12 can also be removed for a planned batch change and replaced by spinning cans 12 with other sliver material, without residues of the previously spun sliver B F remaining in the spinning device 2.
  • the maintenance device 3 therefore has, according to FIG. 3, an ejection device 32 which is designed in a manner known per se and which, as part of the auxiliary work C or E, can be fed to all the spinning stations 10 assigned to the maintenance device 3 of the spool S P lifted by a drive shaft (not shown) ( see position 32 ') to eject the spool S P from a holding device, not shown.
  • the spool S P reaches a spool conveyor belt 13 (see position S P '), with the aid of which it can be fed to a collection point (not shown) at one of the two machine ends.
  • the maintenance device 3 also has, according to FIG. 3, a known sleeve insertion device 33 which, as part of the auxiliary work C or E at all spinning positions 10 to be operated, removes an empty sleeve H L supplied from the sleeve feed belt 14 with the aid of a sleeve feed belt 14 or the like inserts the holding device mentioned, not shown.
  • a known sleeve insertion device 33 which, as part of the auxiliary work C or E at all spinning positions 10 to be operated, removes an empty sleeve H L supplied from the sleeve feed belt 14 with the aid of a sleeve feed belt 14 or the like inserts the holding device mentioned, not shown.
  • this gripper 34 can again be given such a movement that the cover 51 is returned to its position closing the housing 50.
  • the open-end spinning machine 1 For purposes of opening the spinning device 2 required. For example, it is when changing the lot, it is usually necessary to counter the spinning rotor 5 to exchange a spinning rotor 5 of another shape or size. Moreover it can be used to achieve other yarn properties, especially to change it of the yarn twist, are required, one arranged in the cover 51 Trigger nozzle 510 also against a differently designed trigger nozzle 510 exchange.
  • a changing device 8 shown only schematically, is provided, which with a first magazine 80 for receiving the from the Parts removed from spinning device (spinning rotor 5 and / or take-off nozzle 510) and a second magazine 81, which is used as a replacement elements to be installed. It is understood that a such magazine 80 or 81 always only receives similar elements, d. H. either spinning rotors 5 or take-off nozzles 510 etc. Should be different Elements (e.g. spinning rotor 5 and draw-off nozzle 510) of a spinning device 2 be replaced with the help of the maintenance device 3, so for each each of these elements to provide a separate magazine or magazine pair.
  • Elements e.g. spinning rotor 5 and draw-off nozzle 5
  • Such an exchange of elements of a spinning device 2 is, however not only necessary in connection with a lot change or appropriate.
  • such elements can also be used after a predetermined running time to be replaced to wear and tear check out or around them outside the open-end spinning machine 1 to undergo a special cleaning procedure by the element to be cleaned (e.g. spinning rotor 5 and / or extraction nozzle 510) removed from the spinning device 2 and in the maintenance device 3 cleaned and then back into their operating position within the spinning device 2 is brought back.
  • the element to be cleaned e.g. spinning rotor 5 and / or extraction nozzle 5
  • a cleaning of with the fiber material to be spun or the spun Thread coming into contact with elements can also be provided if these elements remain in the spinning device 2.
  • This cleaning can z. B. with the usual, arranged on a maintenance device 3 cleaning device 9 can be made.
  • the maintenance device 3 with a further cleaning device 90, which the elements of the spinning device 2 to be cleaned one particularly subject to intensive cleaning.
  • such Cleaning device 90 instead of or in addition to a pneumatic working cleaning element still a mechanically working cleaning element (not shown), for example in the manner of a brush or a scraper.
  • a cleaning liquid Application which is combined by a suitable suction with the dirt loosened by this cleaning liquid or Avivage components is suctioned off.
  • both the method and the device can be modified in many ways within the scope of the present invention, in particular by replacing individual features with equivalents or also with other combinations of the described features or their equivalents.
  • the operator does not have to wait so long until the maintenance device 3 has been stopped at all of the spinning stations 10 assigned to it after the auxiliary work C has been carried out, but instead can start his maintenance work (step D) at those spinning stations 10 which the maintenance device 3 after the execution who has left maintenance work K I or K II and thus released it.
  • the operator can also trigger the auxiliary work E to complete the maintenance work before he has carried out his manual maintenance work (step D) at all spinning stations 10.
  • auxiliary work C and the manual maintenance work D on the one hand and also the manual maintenance work D and the auxiliary work E on the other hand can thus be carried out in an overlapping manner, but at different spinning positions 10, it being possible to ensure by conventional and therefore not shown safety devices that the movable maintenance device 3 when carrying out the auxiliary work C or E, the operator can neither endanger nor hinder the manual maintenance work (step D).
  • Step D Work to be carried out can be of different types. For example they include a supplementary cleaning of the with the fiber material or the thread produced in contact with the elements of the Spinning device 2. Also, it can, for. B. necessary for a lot change be to still exchange such elements of the spinning device 2 that for an expansion using the maintenance device 3 is not suitable, for example due to poor accessibility or due to Art their attachment.
  • Such elements can e.g. B. the housing 50 for the spinning rotor 5, the cover 51 or only the extraction nozzle 510 belong, previously through the in the context of the relief work C. Open the top 52 or by opening the top 52 and that subsequent removal of the spinning rotor 5 made accessible have been.
  • all elements are or Units required for performing auxiliary work C and / or E. are arranged on the same maintenance device 3, which also the Maintenance of the spinning stations 10 with the open-end spinning machine 1 running performs.
  • a further maintenance device (not shown) is provided, which independently or in cooperation with the maintenance facility 3 the Aid work C and / or E is carried out.

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