EP4426884A1

EP4426884A1 - Spinning or twisting ring, and associated traveler and traveler system

Info

Publication number: EP4426884A1
Application number: EP22813900.2A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Vadim Verlotski; Markus Dippel; Jan-Dirk GERKEN
Original assignee: Braecker AG
Current assignee: Braecker AG
Priority date: 2021-11-01
Filing date: 2022-10-28
Publication date: 2024-09-11
Also published as: CN118202099A; CH719102A1; WO2023073212A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a spinning ring (8) for a ring-spinning or ring-twisting machine, having a connecting piece (15) and a ring top (14), the ring top (14) consisting to at least some degree of a sintered tungsten material containing at least 90% tungsten. The invention also relates to a traveler system having a traveler made of HS steel.

Description

Spinning or twisting ring and ring traveler system

The invention relates to a ring for a ring spinning or a ring twisting machine and a ring traveler system. Rings are used as spinning rings in so-called ring spinning machines or as twisting rings in so-called twisting machines. In the following, spinning rings and twisting rings are summarized under the term spinning ring. The spinning rings interact with attached ring travellers. The ring travellers, dragged along by a thread held by the ring traveler, rotate at high speeds on an upper side of the spinning rings, the so-called ring crown, which leads to high loads on the contact surfaces between the ring traveler and the ring crown of the spinning rings. To fasten the spinning rings in a machine, a web adjoining the ring crown is provided, which can end in a base flange. The ring crown as well as the base flange or, if there is no base flange, the bridge, are manufactured in a variety of designs, each in shape and geometry adapted to the requirements of the corresponding machine and a planned construction of the attachment of the spinning ring. The spinning ring is held in the machine in a so-called ring frame.

During operation, the contact surfaces heat up due to friction between the spinning ring and the ring traveler, and with it the thread. Due to the rapid rotation of the ring traveler on the spinning ring, local temperatures of over 400°C can occur, which set operational limits for the ring traveler system. Due to these mechanical conditions, the ring traveler speeds of more than 30,000 revolutions per minute cannot be exceeded with today's usual ring diameters without damaging the ring traveler or thread. Through a further development of the construction of the spinning ring and ring traveler, this speed was increased further and today it reaches a maximum of safe spinning for cotton at approx. 42 m/s and for polyester at approx. 32 m/s. The developments in the field of materials influenced less the base material of the spinning ring and the ring traveler, but their surfaces. The development of the basic materials for spinning rings and ring travelers has hardly been considered since the invention of the ring spinning machine in the 19th century. is still the common material for both components a hardened carbon steel. A large number of different coatings for spinning rings and ring travelers were developed, which have already resulted in a significant increase in the service life of the components. Nevertheless, a significant increase in the speed of the ring travelers could not be achieved through the coatings. Special coatings, at least in the area of the contact surfaces, have improved the sliding properties and thus the service life has been extended, but the speed of the ring travelers has hardly been increased.

Various designs of coatings for spinning rings or ring travelers are known from the prior art. For example, EP 1 066 419 A1 discloses a traveler coated with phosphate, as a result of which less wear of the ring traveler on the ring is achieved. EP 3 052 684 A1 discloses a spinning ring with a chromium coating with embedded boron nitride, which also leads to less wear on the ring travelers. US 200020162315 A1 discloses a nitrided rotor. The nitration achieves a higher wear resistance and an improvement in the sliding properties. US 4677817 A discloses a ceramic coated ring traveler to reduce wear and increase service life. Furthermore, US Pat. No. 2,970,425 discloses a spinning ring coated with nickel, as a result of which a uniform surface can be achieved and the coefficient of friction can thus be reduced.

A reduction in wear of a component, as shown in the prior art, is relatively easy to achieve; the component (eg the spinning ring) must be coated with a layer that is as hard as possible or be made of an extremely hard material. The disadvantage of this is that the other component (eg the ring traveler) wears out all the faster. The temperature of the friction point or the contact surfaces, which is higher in the case of the ring traveler than in the spinning ring and thus accelerates the wear of the ring traveler despite the hardest coatings, has an aggravating effect. The object of the invention is therefore to create a spinning ring which enables a longer service life at today's speeds of the ring traveler and an increase in the upper limit of the speed of the ring traveler that can be achieved.

It is also the object of the invention to create a ring traveler system which allows the speed limit of the ring traveler to be increased to over 50 m/s (cotton).

The problem is solved by a spinning ring and a ring traveler system with the features of the claims.

To solve the problem, a spinning ring for a ring spinning or ring twisting machine is proposed with a web and a ring crown, the ring crown consisting at least partially of a tungsten sintered material with at least 90% tungsten. By partially forming the ring crown with a tungsten surface, a number of advantageous properties are achieved compared to surfaces known from the prior art, for example made of steel, chromium, chromium carbide, nickel-phosphorus and others. The tungsten grains forming the sintered material have a hardness of about 450 HV. This prevents abrasive wear on harder ring travelers, but the hardness is high enough to withstand abrasive wear well. Spinning ring surfaces commonly used today reach a hardness of up to 1000 HV, which leads to high wear of ring travelers. Furthermore, the tungsten grains have a high thermal conductivity of around 180 W/mK, which is almost double that of conventional materials and coatings. The increased thermal conductivity leads to improved heat dissipation and thus to increased cooling of the spinning ring surface. The tungsten grains also have a melting temperature of around 3400°C, in contrast to this the melting temperature of conventional materials is around 1900°C. The high melting temperature causes a reduction in the tendency towards micro-welding, as a result of which destruction of the sliding surface can at least be delayed.

If the tungsten sintered material is subjected to dry friction, tungsten oxide is formed, which is powdery, soft, easily melted and has weak adhesion has on the base material. This results in a self-lubricating effect that contributes to improving the sliding properties. In contrast, with conventional coated spinning rings, there is no self-lubricating effect on dry rubbing because, for example, with chromium-coated spinning rings, the chromium oxide that forms is solid and hard and forms a strongly adherent continuous coating on the chromium surface.

Under these circumstances, the use of spinning rings made of tungsten sintered material has a positive effect on the wear of all known ring travelers. The improvement to be achieved varies with different ring traveler surfaces. The slightest improvement can be seen when using nickel-plated ring travellers. In the case of uncoated steel ring travelers made of carbon steel, nitrided ring travelers and CVD-coated ring travelers (CrC, TiC coatings), a speed advantage of more than 10-15% could be achieved in addition to the improvement in wear behavior.

The entire ring crown preferably consists of a tungsten sintered material with at least 90% tungsten. By incorporating the entire ring crown rather than a limited insert into the ring crown, manufacturing of the spinning ring is simplified.

In an alternative embodiment, the spinning ring is provided with a foot flange on a side of the web opposite the ring crown. There are different types of spinning rings up to spinning rings with two ring crowns. The design of the spinning rings with a web or with a web and foot flange depends on the construction of the attachment of the spinning rings in the spinning or spinning machine.

The tungsten sintered material is preferably W97Ni2Fe. In principle, all available W-Ni-Fe sintered materials can be used as tungsten sintered alloys. However, it has been shown that the best results can be achieved when using the material W97Ni2Fe1 with a density of 18.5 g/cm ³ . It is also advantageous if the base flange and/or the web consists of copper or a copper alloy. When used as spinning rings, copper or copper alloys result in high thermal conductivity and, due to the dynamic operation, good flexibility with appropriate shape retention. Furthermore, this also means that the part of the spinning ring made from the tungsten sintered material can preferably be applied to the ring crown or to the web by a soldering process.

For certain applications it can be advantageous if the base flange and/or the web consists of an aluminum bronze, preferably of a nickel aluminum bronze (CuAl10Ni5Fe4). A spinning ring corresponding to such an embodiment according to the invention can be manufactured particularly inexpensively and is characterized at the same time by high corrosion resistance and mechanical competence with sufficiently high thermal conductivity at the same time. Such a pairing of materials also increases the optical recognizability of a ring traveler on a spinning ring, which generally applies to embodiments of spinning rings according to the invention with a base flange and/or the web made of copper or a copper alloy. Such increased optical recognizability simplifies the inspection and, if necessary, also the replacement of ring travellers.

For certain applications it can be advantageous if the base flange and/or the web is made of steel. Spinning rings with good thermal conductivity can be achieved if the base flange and/or the web is made of carbon steel, in particular 100Cr6. Likewise, the use of a ferritic stainless steel (1.2083) or a duplex stainless steel (1.4462) for the base flange and/or the web of certain embodiments of a spinning ring according to the invention is advantageous.

The spinning ring as a whole preferably consists of a tungsten sintered material with at least 90% tungsten. This eliminates the need to produce a spinning ring consisting of several parts and to connect the parts to one another, for example using a soldering process. If the entire spinning ring is made from a tungsten sintered material, there are no fundamental differences between conventional steel spinning rings and spinning rings made of sintered tungsten alloys, as both are turned from blanks or are manufactured by machining processes. Also in the case of a spinning ring combined from several parts, the finished spinning ring is produced from a previously soldered tubular blank. However, in contrast to spinning rings made of steel, tungsten spinning rings are ready for use immediately after turning, and the usual subsequent manufacturing processes, such as hardening, scouring, polishing and chrome-plating, are no longer necessary.

A ring traveler system for a ring spinning or ring twisting machine is also proposed, with a spinning ring as described above and a ring traveler made of high-speed steel wire (HSS) being provided, with the ring traveler having a minimum hardness of 60 HRC. In order to achieve a maximum increase in the speed of the ring traveler, the wear on the ring traveler must be reduced without inducing increased wear on the spinning ring, or vice versa. This means that the contact surfaces of the spinning ring and the ring crown, and thus both rubbing surfaces, must be considered and optimized as a pair. This optimization not only includes adjusting the surface hardness of the components, but also other aspects, such as improving heat dissipation from the friction point or chemical processes that can take place during friction (e.g. oxidation). An increase in the number of revolutions or speed of the ring traveler that can be achieved through the optimization leads to a corresponding increase in the production of the spinning machine.

The HSS ring travelers can be made from all known high-speed steels that are in the form of a wire. Ring traveler fabrication is analogous to conventional carbon steel ring traveler fabrication, except that the annealing, hardening and tempering processes are performed at different conditions. Known material-typical hardness parameters are to be used for each HSS material. The basic hardnesses achieved are in the range of 850-1000 HV, depending on the high-speed steel used. The HSS ring travelers basically do not need a coating and are ready for use after scouring and polishing. The advantages of HSS runners compared to carbon steel runners mainly result from a significantly higher hot hardness. Hardened carbon steels soften very quickly from around 300°C, while hardened high-speed steels retain their original hardness up to around 550°C. Temperatures of over 300 °C on the ring traveler friction surfaces are common in spinning operations, which is why the HSS steels expand the ring traveler application options for higher speeds. But even in the temperature range below 300°C, HSS steels offer significantly higher hardness and strength than carbon steels. Since high-speed steels are less brittle than carbon steels when hardened to the maximum, HSS ring travelers can be harder than ordinary ring travelers even at room temperature over 200 HV. A ring traveler made of carbon steel must not be harder than 700 HV, otherwise it will break when placed on the spinning ring. HSS ring travelers, on the other hand, only break when placed on the spinning ring from a hardness of around 950 HV.

Just like tungsten spinning rings compared to conventional spinning rings, the HSS ring travelers are practically superior to all common carbon steel ring travelers when used in combination with all possible spinning rings. But here, too, a maximum effect was only achieved on the tungsten ring. The following application examples show the increase in speed that was achieved in individual cases.

The high-speed steel preferably corresponds to the material 1.3343 according to DIN EN ISO 4957 (2018-11) with the material name HS6 5-2C. Using this material has proven to be particularly advantageous.

In a combination of spinning rings made of tungsten sintered material with ring travelers made of high-speed steel (HSS ring travelers), an increase in the speed of the ring traveler of over 20% could be achieved.

The increases in speed that could be achieved in individual cases of combinations of spinning rings with ring crowns (tungsten spinning rings) made at least partially from tungsten sintered material with common ring travelers are shown in the the following application examples, the designations listed come from the applicant's product catalog and correspond to commercially available ring travelers:

Before the start of the test series, all spinning rings were run in with the corresponding ring travelers at a low speed (23-34 m/s) for several hours. A test series consisted of several identical tests, with each additional test within a test series being carried out at a slightly higher speed (ring traveler speed). The running time of a test per speed and ring traveler was one hour (a new ring traveler was used for each test). All ring travelers were weighed before and after the test to record the degree of wear (accuracy of measurement approx. 0.01 mg). During the series of tests, the speed was increased in increments of 0.6 m/s. As a point of reference for the comparison, a certain amount of ring traveler wear of 0.2 mg was specified; ring travelers with wear greater than 0.2 mg were considered worn. The maximum possible speed limit was set at the ring traveler speed at which the first ring traveler in the series was worn out in a 60-minute test. No measurable wear of spinning rings was found in any of the tests. All application examples refer to laboratory tests with a 16-spindle spinning machine from SER.MA.TES. In all tests, the new components (tungsten spinning rings and/or HSS ring travelers) were simultaneously tested together with geometrically identical reference components from the prior art. This enabled a direct comparison to be made between old and new components under the same conditions. The combined tungsten spinning rings consisted of a ring crown made of the sintered material W97Ni2Fe1 which was soldered onto a copper bridge. The HSS ring travelers were made from high-speed steel 1.3343 (M2). The maximum achievable ring traveler speed corresponds to that speed at which the same wear occurs on the ring traveler within the same operating time as with the reference ring traveler speed on the spinning ring-ring traveler pairing to be compared.

Example 1. A tungsten spinning ring was compared to a chrome plated steel spinning ring when used with uncoated carbon steel ring travelers. Spinning ring type: T-flange rings 047x38,

Ring traveler type: C1 ELMudrlSO35.5mg

Spinning parameters: cotton, Ne 30, twist = 1000, not compact.

Reference ring traveler speed with steel spinning ring: 20,000 rpm (39.8 m/s)

Maximum ring traveler speed with tungsten spinning ring: 23,300 rpm (46.3 m/s)

This results in an increase in speed and thus production of 16.3%.

Example 2. A tungsten spinning ring was compared to a chrome plated steel spinning ring in an insert with nitrided carbon steel ring travelers.

Spinning ring type: T-flange rings 047x38,

Ring traveler type: C1 SELudrlSO31 ,5mg,

Spinning parameters: cotton, Ne 30, twist = 922, compact.

Reference ring traveler speed with steel spinning ring: 22,000 rpm (43.8 m/s),

Maximum ring traveler speed with a tungsten spinning ring: 25,300 rpm (50.3 m/s). This results in an increase in speed and thus production of 14.9%.

Example 3. The use of a tungsten spin ring with an HSS ring traveler was compared to the use of a chrome plated steel spin ring with an uncoated carbon steel ring traveler.

Spinning ring type: T-flange rings 047x38,

Ring traveler type: C1 ELudrlSOI 8.0mg,

Spinning parameters: cotton Ne 46, twist = 1000, not compact.

Reference ring traveler speed with steel spinning ring: 22,000 rpm (43.8 m/s),

Maximum ring traveler speed with HSS ring traveler on tungsten spinning ring: 27,000 rpm (53.7 m/s),

This results in an increase in speed and thus production of 22.6%.

Example 4. The use of a tungsten spinning ring with HSS ring travelers was compared with the use of a chrome-plated steel spinning ring with uncoated carbon steel ring travelers.

Spinning ring type: T-flange rings 047x38,

Ring traveler type: C1 MMudrlSO63.0mg, Spinning parameters: cotton Ne20, twist = 705, not compact.

Reference ring traveler speed: 14,300 rpm (28.4 m/s),

Maximum ring traveler speed with HSS ring traveler on tungsten spinning ring: 17,300 rpm (34.4 m/s),

This results in an increase in speed and thus production of 21.1%.

The invention is explained below using an exemplary embodiment and illustrated in more detail by drawings. Show it

FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a spinning position of a ring spinning machine;

Figure 2 is a schematic representation of a spinning ring with a ring traveler:

Figure 3 is an enlarged view of Figure 2 and

FIG. 4 shows a schematic representation of a second and third embodiment of a spinning ring.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a spinning position of a ring spinning machine, with today's ring spinning machines having up to 2,000 or more such spinning positions. In the ring spinning machine, a fiber structure, a so-called roving 1 , is fed to a drafting system 2 . The roving 1 is drawn into a thread 3 by the drafting system 2 . The drafting system 2 shown is a so-called strap drafting system, which is usually used for cotton. Depending on the application, various designs of drafting units 2 are known from the prior art. After the drafting system 2 , the thread 3 is guided via a thread guide 4 to a ring traveler 10 . After passing the ring traveler 10, the thread 3 is wound onto the bobbin 5. The bobbin 5 is set in rotation 6 by a drive 7 . This rotation 6 of the bobbin 5 causes the ring traveler 10 to be entrained by the thread 3, with the result that the thread 3 is rotated and the yarn is thus formed. Because the ring traveler 10 is held on the spinning ring 8 , the ring traveler 10 is forced to revolve around the bobbin 5 . The spinning ring 8 is held stationary on a ring frame 9 .

Figure 2 shows a schematic representation of a spinning ring 8 with an attached

Ring traveler 10. The spinning ring 8 shown as an example consists of a ring crown 14 and a web 15 adjoining the ring crown 14. The web 15 is used to fasten the spinning ring 8 in a spinning machine. The ring traveler 10 is placed on the ring crown 14 and partially encloses it; the ring traveler 10 is designed in such a way that it encompasses the ring crown 14 so far that the ring traveler 10 cannot fall off the ring crown 14, but a greatest possible freedom of movement of the ring traveler 10 relative to the ring crown 14 is achieved. Numerous shapes and configurations of ring crowns 14 and ring travelers 10 are known from the prior art. The rotary movement transmitted by the thread 3 to the ring traveler 10 causes the ring traveler 10 to revolve around the spinning ring 8 in the direction of the traveler rotation 11 . This circulation in turn creates a centrifugal force 12 that affects the ring traveler 10. This forces the ring traveler 10 against the inside of the spinning ring 8 or the ring crown 14.

This situation is shown enlarged in FIG. The ring traveler 10 slides along the spinning ring 8, resulting in a contact surface 13. At least in the area of this contact surface 13, it must be ensured that the ring traveler 10 has good sliding properties in relation to the spinning ring 8. The sliding pairing between the spinning ring 8 and the ring traveler 10 is promoted by an appropriate choice of material for the ring crown 14 at least in the area of the contact surface 13 . The ring crown 14 is shown in the area of the contact surface 13 with an insert 16 made of a tungsten sintered material with at least 90% tungsten. In this case, the insert is connected to a base material, for example copper, with the ring crown by a soldering process.

Figure 4 shows a schematic representation of a second and third embodiment of a spinning ring 8 according to the invention. The illustration is divided in two, with the left and right versions each showing a spinning ring 8 with a ring crown 14, a web 15 and a foot flange 17 arranged on a side of the web 15 facing away from the ring crown 14. The foot flange 17 is used to fasten the spinning ring 8 in a spinning machine. In the right-hand embodiment, the ring crown 14 is made of a sintered tungsten material with at least 90% tungsten and the remaining part of the spinning ring 8, namely the web 15 and the base flange 17 are made of a standard material, for example copper, a copper alloy, steel or one light metal. The ring crown 14 is connected to the web 15 by a soldering or welding process. In contrast, the entire spinning ring 8 is made of a tungsten sintered material with at least 90% tungsten in the left version.

The present invention is not limited to the illustrated and described embodiments. Modifications within the scope of the patent claims are just as possible as a combination of the features, even if they are shown and described in different exemplary embodiments.

Legend

1 fuse

2 drafting system

3 threads

4 thread guides

5 thread spool

6 rotation

7 drive

8 spinning ring

9 ring bank

10 ring runners

11 runner rotation

12 centrifugal force

13 contact surface

14 ring crown

15 jetty

16 use

17 foot flange

Claims

patent claims

1. Spinning ring (8) for a ring spinning or ring twisting machine with a web (15) and a ring crown (14), characterized in that the ring crown (14) consists at least partially of a tungsten sintered material with at least 90% tungsten.

2. Spinning ring (8) according to claim 1, characterized in that the entire ring crown (14) consists of a tungsten sintered material with at least 90% tungsten.

3. Spinning ring (8) according to at least one of claims 1 to 2, characterized in that the spinning ring (8) is provided with a foot flange (17) on a side of the web (15) opposite the ring crown (14).

4. Spinning ring (8) according to at least one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the tungsten sintered material is W97Ni2Fe1.

5. Spinning ring (8) according to at least one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the base flange (17) and/or the web (15) consists of copper or a copper alloy.

6. Spinning ring (8) according to claim 5, characterized in that the copper alloy is an aluminum bronze, preferably nickel aluminum bronze CuAl10Ni5Fe4.

7. spinning ring (8) according to at least one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the base flange (17) and / or the web (15) consists of steel.

8. Spinning ring (8) according to at least one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the part of the spinning ring (8) made from the tungsten sintered material is applied to the ring crown (14) or to the web (15) by a soldering process . Spinning ring (8) according to at least one of Claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the spinning ring (8) as a whole consists of a tungsten sintered material with at least 90% tungsten. Ring traveler system, characterized in that a spinning ring (8) according to one of Claims 1 to 9 and a ring traveler (10) made of a wire made of high-speed steel (HSS) are provided, the ring traveler (10) having a minimum hardness of 60 HRC having. Ring traveler system according to Claim 10, characterized in that the high-speed steel corresponds to the material 1.3343 according to DIN EN ISO 4957 (2018-11) with the material name HS6 5-2C.