EP1805094A1

EP1805094A1 - Thread splicing device

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Publication number: EP1805094A1
Application number: EP05800334A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Wolfgang Irmen
Original assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH and Co KG; Saurer GmbH and Co KG
Current assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH and Co KG
Priority date: 2004-10-20
Filing date: 2005-10-15
Publication date: 2007-07-11
Anticipated expiration: 2025-10-15
Also published as: DE102004051038A1; EP1805094B1; CN101014521B; DE502005004674D1; CN101014521A; WO2006042721A1; JP2008516869A

Abstract

The invention relates to a thread splicing device comprising a splicing prism with a splicing channel, to which pneumatic pressure can be applied, in addition to a control element that can be driven by an individual motor. At least one thread tensioning and cutting unit for fixing and severing the thread ends that are to be spliced and a thread feed for positioning the prepared thread ends in the splicing channel are connected to the control element by means of actuating elements. According to the invention, the control element consists of a pivotally mounted control element (18) comprising external gearing (19), which meshes with a drive pinion (20) of an individual drive (22) that can be controlled in a defined manner and the actuating elements (47, 44) for the thread tensioning and cutting unit (23) and the thread feed (26) are rotationally fixed to the control segment (18).

Description

Description:

yarn splicing

The invention relates to a thread splicing device according to the preamble of claim 1.

Thread splicing devices have long been known in the textile machinery industry, in particular in connection with automatic spooling machines.

In DE 42 40 728 A1 or in the manual "Autoconer 338" of the company Schlafhorst Winding Systems, for example, those thread-splicing devices which have proven themselves in practice are described in detail.

With such yarn splicing devices, two yarn ends can be pneumatically swirled into a knot-free compound that has almost yarn strength and ideally has an almost yarn-like appearance. That is, when it comes to a thread break at one of the winding units of a cross-spooling machine during the winding process ^" or if at one of the winding units of the textile machine due to a thread error, a defined cleaner cut was performed, the yarn ends of the separated thread first by special pneumatic devices in the area the thread splicer retrieved.

A suction nozzle brings back the so-called upper thread from the cross-wound bobbin and places it in the splicing channel of the splicing head of the thread splicing device, possibly after cleaning out the thread defect. The thread is also threaded through the suction nozzle in a arranged above the splice channel thread clamping device and positioned below the splice channel thread cutting device.

Accordingly, the so-called bobbin thread, which originates from a supply bobbin positioned in the winding position, is inserted into the splicing channel by means of a gripper tube which can be subjected to negative pressure and threaded into a thread clamping device arranged below the splicing channel and a thread cutting device arranged above the splicing channel. The yarn ends are then cut to length by the thread cutting devices, sucked into so-called holding and Auflöseröhrchen and prepared there for the subsequent splicing process.

This means that the thread ends are first freed in the holding and Auflöseröhrchen largely from their Garndrehung before they are withdrawn by a Fadenzuber so in the splice that the thread ends in the splice, in opposite directions, are next to each other and finally there can be pneumatically swirled ,

In these known and proven in itself

Fadensleiißvorrichtungen the drive of the various functional elements of the yarn splicing device, in particular the thread clamping and cutting device, the splicer cover and the thread feeder usually takes place via a cam drive.

That is, in a splicer drive housing a cam disk pack is mounted, for example via a plug-in coupling to a spool own drive connected.

The individual cams are in turn connected via lever linkage with the aforementioned functional elements of the yarn splicing device.

Furthermore, by DE 196 10 818 Al or

DE 199 21 855 Al also thread splicing devices known which are driven by a single motor.

These known thread splicing devices have within the

Splicer drive housing on a grooved drum, which has a plurality of differently shaped groove tracks and is driven by a reversible stepper motor.

In the Nutbahnen each control cam are guided, which via appropriate linkage arrangements, the functional elements of the

Thread splicer, for example, operate the splicer cover and the thread cutting and thread clamping devices.

The grooved drum also has a groove track on a

Part of their circumference with separate track sections for the

Forward and return is equipped. About this quite elaborate Nutbahn a valve is controlled, which is the

Preparation tube supplied with air.

Furthermore, the grooved drum has a groove track for

Actuation of the thread feeder.

This groove track has a partially stepped course and allows in conjunction with a special

Lever linkage a defined setting of the pivoting of the

Yarn feeder.

That is, to adjust the pivoting of the

Fadenzubringers, the stepper motor rotates forward a certain number of steps, thereby turning the grooved drum into one

Angular position in which a roller bolt on the actuating linkage for the yarn feeder corresponds to a specific, specifiable level of the groove track. The above-described, known yarn splicing device is quite complex in terms of its structural design and, not least because of its relatively complicated grooved drum in its manufacture, is very cost-intensive.

The invention is based on the aforementioned prior art, the object to provide a yarn splicing device, in the one hand, a variable remote adjustment of the pivoting path of Fadenzubringers is possible and on the other hand, with respect to their manufacturing costs significantly below the manufacturing cost of the known Fadensleiißvorrichtungen.

This object is achieved by a yarn splicing device as described in claim 1.

Advantageous embodiments of the invention are the subject of ünteransprüche.

The inventive construction of a yarn splicing device with a control that is designed as a pivotally mounted control segment whose outer teeth meshes with a drive pinion of a defined controllable single drive offers in particular the advantage that the drive torque of the single drive is transmitted directly and almost no play on the functional elements of the yarn splicing device.

That is, the movement of the functional elements can be interrupted exactly in any position, preferably to carry out a further operation for an adjustable period of time if necessary, and then, as the inventive Embodiment, as indicated above, almost free of play works to be continued exactly.

The yarn splicing device according to the invention is also relatively simple in terms of its structural design, and in particular as regards its drive device, and can therefore be realized cost-effectively.

As described in claim 2, it is provided in an advantageous embodiment that at least the thread clamping and - cutting device and the thread feeder are connected to the control segment via actuators.

In this way, it is possible to use in the production of the yarn splicing devices according to the invention a plurality of components which have already proven themselves in the known yarn splicing device.

Advantageously, the control segment, as described in claim 2, thereby connected via a control link directly to the Fadenzubringer and rotatably connected via a pivot shaft which also serves as a bearing axis to a lever which actuates the Fadenklemm- and - cutting device via a connecting plate.

With such a design, the number of switched between the drive motor and functional elements power transmission elements is minimized, which is not only inexpensive, but also has a positive effect on the overall game of power transmission.

These advantages also apply to the embodiment described in claim 4.

In this advantageous embodiment, a lever is connected to the control segment via a first fastening means connected, via which the thread clamping and cutting device is actuated and, at a certain radial distance from the bearing axis of the control segment another hinge means to which the thread feeder is connected. About the radial distance of the other hinge means a basic adjustment of the working path of the yarn feeder is given, which is infinitely adjustable by appropriate positioning of the control segment.

As stated in claim 5, the

Thread splicing device in a preferred embodiment, not only on Fadenklemm- and -Schneideinrichtungen and a Fadenzubringer, but also on a pivotally mounted cover member which closes the splice during the splicing process. These cover element is actuated by the control segment.

That is, the control segment is, as described in claims 6 and 7, preferably connected via a connecting bolt to a lever mechanism which is rotatably mounted on the same bearing axis as the control segment. The lever mechanism, a known and proven construction, consists of a first lever which is fixed directly to the control segment and connected via a connecting plate to the thread clamping and cutting device, as well as from a second, via a spring element entrained lever, on which is hinged over a short tab, the cover element.

This means that when pivoting the control segment are simultaneously actuated by the lever mechanism Fadenklemm- and - cutting device and the cover element, wherein the intermediary spring element is ensured that there is no damage to the components involved after placing the cover element on the splicing prism, nor that the further pivoting movement of the control segment is hindered in any way.

As set forth in claims 8 and 9, and the yarn feeder is connected via a corresponding control linkage to the control segment. The control segment has for this purpose on its circumference on a ball joint connection. By appropriate pivoting of the control segment of the working path of the yarn feeder can be set defined and adjusted if necessary to given yarn parameters. That is, by shortening or lengthening the pivoting of the control segment can be changed in a simple way, the working path of the yarn feeder and thus the

Overlap length defined in the splice channel to be positioned yarn ends are set.

Those described in claims 10 and 11

Thread splicing devices provide further alternative

Embodiments to that in the figures

1-6 illustrated, particularly advantageous embodiment of a yarn splicing device.

Also described in claims 10 and 11

Embodiments provide over the previously known

Thread splicing devices, not least what the

Manufacturing costs, a significant improvement.

The invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the embodiments illustrated in the drawings. It shows :

1 is a side view of a equipped with a Fadensleiißvorrichtung workstation of a cheese winder,

2 shows a first embodiment of the thread splicing device according to the invention with its associated functional elements, in a view from below,

3, the thread splicer according to Figure 2, in side view, wherein the central housing of the yarn splicing device is shown in section,

FIG. 4 shows the thread splicing device according to FIG. 2, in particular the control of the cover element, FIG.

5, the yarn splicing apparatus according to Figure 2, in particular the control of the thread clamping and - cutting device,

6, the thread splicing device according to FIG. 2, in particular the control of the thread feeder,

7 shows a first alternative embodiment of the thread splicing device according to the invention, in a view from below,

Fig. 8 shows a second alternative embodiment of the yarn splicing device according to the invention, also in a view from below.

FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic side view of a cross-wound bobbin, designated as a whole by the reference numeral 1 Textile machine, in the embodiment, a cheese winding machine, shown.

As is known, such automatic packages have a plurality of similar types between their end frames (not shown)

Workplaces, in this case winding units 2, on.

On these winding units 2 spin cops 9, which were produced on a (not shown) ring spinning machine, rewound to large-volume cheeses 15, which after their

Completion by means of an automatically operating (also not shown) service unit to be handed over to a machine-length cross-bobbin transport device 21.

In the exemplary embodiment, the cross-wound bobbin 1 also has a machine-own logistics facility in the form of a cop and sleeve transport system 3.

In this cop and tube transport system 3, of which only the Kopszuführstrecke 4, the reversible drivable storage section 5, one of the leading to the winding units 2 cross transport sections 6 and the sleeve return path 7 are shown in Figure 1, are positioned on transport plates 8 in a vertical orientation, Spinnkopse 9 or empty tubes to. The supplied spinning cops 9 are rewound in the unwinding position AS, which is located in each case in the region of the transverse transport sections 6 at the winding units 2, to large-volume cheeses 15.

The individual winding units 2 have for this purpose, as is well known and therefore only indicated, various facilities that ensure proper operation of these jobs. These devices are, for example, a winding station computer 29, a suction nozzle 12 movable about a pivot axis 16, a vacuum-loadable gripper tube 11 movable about a pivot axis 13 and a pneumatic thread splicing device 10.

As indicated in FIG. 1, the pneumatic thread splicing device 10 is slightly set back with respect to the regular yarn path and fixed with its central housing 31 to the winding head housing 33.

Such thread splicing devices 10 have, as will be explained in more detail below with reference to Figures 2-6 and 7, in addition to a splicing prism 32 with pneumatically actable splice still on an upper and a lower thread clamping and cutting device 23, a pivotally mounted Fadenzubringer 26 and a pivotable stored lid member 25.

The splicing prism 32 is in turn arranged on a distributor block 46 into which the holding and dissolution tubes (not shown) are embedded.

The cross-wound bobbin 15 is freely rotatably held in the bobbin frame 28 of a winding device 24 during the winding process and rests with its surface on a grooved drum 14, which carries the cross-wound bobbin 15 via frictional engagement and also ensures proper traversing of the thread running on the cross-wound bobbin 15.

FIG. 2 shows a first embodiment of a yarn splicing device 10 according to the invention. Within the central casing 31 there is a single electric motor drive, preferably a stepping motor 22. whose drive pinion 20 meshes with the external teeth 19 of a control segment 18.

The control segment 18 is mounted rotatably limited on a bearing shaft 17 and connected via a fastening means 30 to a lever mechanism 35, which is also arranged on the bearing axis 17.

The lever mechanism 35 consists of a first lever 38, to which via a connection axis 36, a connecting plate 47 is articulated for actuating the Fadenklemm- and -Schneideinrichtung 23 (see also Figure 5) and a second lever 39, which, in particular in 4, via a tab 48 to which the lid member 25 is connected. Between the two levers 38, 39 while a spring element 37 is turned on, the lever 39 positively engages with the pivoting of the control segment 18 via the lever 38. The spring element 37 prevents on the one hand, that due to the early placement of the cover element 25 on the splicing prism 32 at the same time pivoting of the control segment 18 at the Fadensleiißvorrichtung damage may occur and on the other hand, in conjunction with a corresponding formation of the thread clamping and - cutting device a large pivoting of the Control segment 18. The control segment 18 has in the region of its circumference 40 a second hinge means, preferably in the form of a ball joint connection 34. At this ball joint connection 34, a control linkage 44 of the yarn feeder 26 is connected (see also Fig.6).

Fig. 7 shows a first alternative embodiment of the yarn splicing device according to the invention. As can be seen, in the central housing 31 of this

Fadensverlißvorrichtung 10, preferably behind a cover

49 a control segment 18 limited rotatably mounted.

The pivotable about a bearing axis 27 control segment 18 has an outer toothing 19, in which a drive pinion 20 of a preferably designed as a stepping motor 22

Single drive encloses.

The control segment 18 has a connection flange 45 with a

Ball joint connection 51, which via an actuating linkage

41 and a further ball joint connection 53 is connected to a pivotably mounted on a bearing axis 17 control contour 42, which in turn is connected via a connecting bolt 52 to a lever mechanism 35.

The lever mechanism 35 corresponds to that described in connection with the embodiment of Figures 2-6

Lever mechanism.

The control contour 42 has in addition to the ball joint connection 53 for connecting the actuating linkage 41 nor the

Ball joint connection 54 on which the linkage 43 engages over which the yarn feeder 26 is actuated.

FIG. 8 shows a further alternative embodiment of the thread splicing device according to the invention. As can be seen, also here in the central housing 31 of the yarn splicing device 10 control segment 18 is rotatably mounted limited, which has an external toothing 19, in which a drive pinion 20 of a preferably designed as a stepper motor 22 single drive surrounds.

The control segment 18 is part of a y-shaped lever element 59 which is pivotally mounted on a bearing axis 55. The control segment 18 opposite lever parts of the lever member 59 are formed as yarn feeder 26. That is, the control segment 18 and the yarn feeder 26 form a common, about the bearing axis 55 pivotally mounted component.

To the lever member 56 are connected via connection means 57 as well

Actuators 47, the Fadenklemm- and -schneid- devices 23 connected.

On the bearing shaft 55 and the lid member 25 is pivotally mounted, which during the splicing process, the splice channel in

Splice prism 32 closes.

The cover element 25 is connected to the lever element 59 via a spring element 37.

Function of the thread splicing device according to the invention using the example of the embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 1-6:

If a thread break occurred at a winding unit 2 or a controlled cleaner cut was carried out due to a thread error, the suction nozzle 12 retrieves the upper thread from the cheese 15 and threads it with the aid of the guide plate 50 in the upper thread clamping device of Fadenklemm- and - cutting device 23, the splice channel in the splicing prism 32 and the lower thread cutting device of the thread clamping and - cutting device 23 a.

Simultaneously or almost simultaneously, the lower thread is also brought by the gripper tube 11 and also with the help of a Fadenleitbleches 50 in the lower thread clamping device, the splice and in the upper thread cutting device of the thread clamping and cutting device 23 is positioned.

Subsequently, the yarn splicing device 10 is controlled via the winding station computer 29.

That is, the stepping motor 22 begins to pivot the control segment 18, as indicated in Figure 2, in the direction R, while the cover member 25, the thread clamping and cutting device 23 and the yarn feeder 26 are operated. This means that after a short time, the cover element 25 initially sets on the splicing prism 32 and covers the splice channel.

The weiterschwenkende control segment 18 actuates via the connecting plate 47 at the same time or shortly thereafter the thread clamping and cutting device 23, which clamps the thread ends and cuts.

Then, the control segment 18 is stopped briefly and arranged in the manifold block 46 of the splicing prism 32 (not shown) holding and Auflöseröhrchen be so pressurized with compressed air that the thread ends are sucked into the holding and Auflöseröhrchen and there largely freed from their rotation.

The control segment 18 is now further pivoted by the stepper motor 22 and actuated via the control linkage 44, the yarn feeder 26, which pulls the prepared yarn ends from the holding and Auflöseröhrchen and positioned in the splice channel of the splicing prism 32 with predeterminable coverage. That is, the yarn feeder 26, whose arms each take on the side opposite the associated holding and Auflöseröhrchen side in the thread strand of upper thread or lower thread, that a loop of thread is formed, is via the control segment 18 and the stepping motor 22 so controlled that the yarn ends are pulled out of the holding and Auflöseröhrchen in the direction of the splice 20.

The yarn feeder 26 is pivoted so far until the withdrawn into the splice channel yarn ends have a predetermined, optimal overlap, which was set, for example, at the beginning of a batch change to a central control unit of the cheese 1.

When the yarn ends have reached this optimum coverage, which depends on different yarn parameters, for example the yarn material or the yarn count, splicing air is applied to the splice channel closed by the lid member 25 and the yarn ends positioned within the splice channel are pneumatically fluidized.

Subsequently, the control segment 18 is swung back by the stepping motor 22 back to its original position. The control segment 18 thereby opens the thread clamping and cutting device 23 and the cover element 25, so that the pneumatically connected thread is released.

The winding process can then be restarted.

Claims

claims:

1. thread splicing device with a splicing prism having a pneumatically actuable splice channel and having a single motor drivable control to which at least one Fadenklemm- and cutting device for fixing and cutting to be spliced thread ends and a Fadenzubringer for positioning the prepared thread ends are connected in the splice channel

characterized,

the control element consists of a pivotally mounted control segment (18) which has an outer toothing (19) which meshes with a drive pinion (20) of a defined controllable individual drive (22).

2. Fadensverlißvorrichtung according to claim 1, characterized in that actuating elements (47, 44) for the thread clamping and cutting device (23) and the yarn feeder (26) to the control segment (18) are connected.

3. yarn splicing device according to claim 2, characterized in that the control element (18) via a control linkage (44) connected directly to the on a bearing axis (55) pivotally mounted yarn feeder (26) and rotatably on a trained as a pivot shaft bearing axis (17) a lever (38) is connected, the over a connection tab (47) actuates the thread clamping and cutting device (23).

4. FadensverlißVorrichtung according to claim 1, characterized in that the control element (18) has a first fastening means (30) for connecting a Fadenklemm- and cutting device (23) actuating lever (38) is provided and that on the control element (18) in one radial distance (b) to the bearing axis (17) a further articulation means (34) for connecting the yarn feeder (26) is arranged.

5. yarn splicing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the yarn splicing device (1) has a pivotally mounted cover element (25) for closing the splice during the splicing process.

6. Fadensverlißvorrichtung according to claim 4, characterized in that the control element (18) via the fastening means (30) which is arranged parallel to the bearing axis (17) of the control element (18), with a pivotally mounted on the bearing axis (17) lever mechanism ( 35) to which the thread clamping and cutting device (23) and the cover element (25) are connected.

7. Fadensverlißvorrichtung according to claim 6, characterized in that the lever mechanism (35) has two via a connection axis (36) and a spring element (37) functionally connected lever (38, 39), wherein at a first, with the control segment 18 via a Connection pin (30) connected lever (38) via a connecting plate (47), the thread clamping and cutting device (23) and on a second, via the spring element (37) non-positively entrained lever (39) via a tab (48), the cover element (25) is articulated.

8. Fadensverlißvorrichtung according to claim 3, characterized in that the yarn feeder (26) via a ball joint connection (34) and the control linkage (44) directly to the control segment (18) is connected.

9. yarn splicing device according to claim 8, characterized in that the ball joint connection (34) on the circumference (40) of the control segment (18) is arranged.

10. Fadensverlißvorrichtung according to claim 1, characterized in that the control segment (18) mounted on a bearing axis (27) and by a single drive (22) can be acted upon, wherein the control segment (18) via an actuating linkage (41) to a control contour (42 ), which is arranged on the bearing axis (17), non-rotatably connected to the lever mechanism (35) and that on the control contour (42) via a linkage (43) of the yarn feeder (26) is connected.

11. Fadensverlißvorrichtung according to claim 1, characterized in that the control segment (18) is part of a y-shaped lever element (56) which is pivotally mounted on the bearing axis (55), wherein the control segment (18) opposite the lever parts of the lever element ( 56) are formed as thread feeders (26).