JP6171982B2 - Spinning machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a spinning machine including a draft section and a coiler, such as a comber and a drawing machine.

  The comber bundles and drafts a plurality of slivers made from fleeces that have been beaten (combed) by a plurality of combing heads, and then stores them in a can with a coiler device. Then, when a predetermined amount of sliver is accommodated in the can and becomes full, the operation of the comb is stopped, and after the full can is replaced with an empty can, the operation of the comb is resumed. As a comber, there is a comber provided with a space for a spare can in which a spare can is arranged in addition to a can in which a sliver supplied from a coiler of a coiler device is accommodated (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  In the space for spare cans, when a predetermined amount of sliver is accommodated in a can that is receiving a sliver, the full can and the empty cans (spare cans) can be exchanged smoothly with the comber stopped. As described above, the sliver is provided near the can placement portion where the cans being received are placed. In addition, it takes about 2 hours for the can to reach full can. In order to prevent the fluff from accumulating on the stand-by spare can, the space for the spare can is placed together with the can receiving the sliver. It is covered with a can containing part having a doorway. Further, a draft portion for drafting a sliver guided to the coiler is provided on the upper side of the coiler, and a shaft of a roller or the like is provided in parallel with the arrangement direction of the cans being received by the sliver and the spare cans.

  Further, not only the comb, but also a drawing machine provided with a can housing part that covers a space for a spare can with the same structure as described above together with a can receiving a sliver and has an entrance for a can.

JP 2012-254848 A

  When the shaft of the draft roller is provided parallel to the arrangement direction of the sliver receiving and spare cans and the draft is on the coiler, the maintenance of the timing belt etc. constituting the draft There is a mechanism that needs to be on both sides of the draft portion in the axial direction. For this reason, conventionally, when performing maintenance from the upper side of the spare can placement portion, it has been necessary to perform the work by placing an operator on the can storage portion covering the spare can placement portion or leaning forward on a stepladder. However, working in such a posture has a problem that it is difficult to work.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a spinning machine capable of performing maintenance work of a draft section provided on the upper side of a coiler in an easy posture.

  A spinning machine that solves the above-described problem is a spinning machine that includes a draft unit and a coiler, and includes a spare can placement unit adjacent to a can placement unit provided below the coiler, and the can placement unit and the spare unit. The cans placement part is covered with a cane storage part having a can and a preliminary cane entrance, and the work opening and the work opening are closed on the top plate of the cane storage part facing the spare cane placement part. A lid is provided.

  According to this configuration, the top plate of the can housing section that covers the can placement section and the spare can placement section is provided with the work opening at a position facing the spare can placement section, and the lid that closes the work opening. Is provided. Therefore, in the state where the opening for work is closed by the lid, the canister accommodating portion functions in the same manner as in the prior art, and it is possible to prevent the fluff from accumulating on the standby canister that is on standby. In addition, in the state where the lid covering the work opening is opened and the spare cans are taken out of the canister housing, the maintenance work of the draft portion provided on the upper side of the coiler is entered by the operator into the canister housing, Standing on the spare can placement section, the shoulder and arm can be taken out of the can housing part from the working opening. Therefore, the maintenance work of the draft section provided on the upper side of the coiler can be performed with an easy posture.

  The lid portion is preferably a door supported by a hinge. The lid that covers the working opening may be provided so as to be slidable along the top plate, or may be fixed to the top plate with screws. However, when it is slidably provided, a space for sliding the lid portion is required, the size of the case housing portion is increased, and there is a possibility that the fluff is bitten when the lid portion is slid. Moreover, when it fixes with a screw, when removing a screw | thread when opening a cover part, while removing the screw | thread, there exists a possibility that the removed screw may be lost. However, if the lid is a door supported by a hinge, there is no such concern.

  The can housing portion includes a can upper holding plate capable of coming into contact with a sliver receiving member supported by a coil spring so as to be movable up and down in the can when the sliver is not housed in the can. The presser plate is preferably cut away at a location corresponding to the work opening. In general, a can is provided with a sliver receiving member supported by a coil spring in a can so as to be lifted and lowered. When the can is empty, the sliver receiving member is moved from the upper end of the can by the action of the coil spring. It will be in the state of coming out. In a state where the sliver receiving member comes out from the upper end of the can, when the spare cane is moved from the spare can placing portion to the can placing portion below the coiler, the sliver receiving member may hit the coiler. There is a case in which a can upper holding plate that can come into contact with the sliver receiving member is provided so as to straddle the upper portion of the preliminary can placement portion from the upper portion of the can placement portion. In this invention, even if there is a can upper presser plate, the portion corresponding to the work opening is cut out, so that the operator can hold the shoulder and arm from the work opening in the state where the lid is opened. The work can be performed without any trouble in the state of being out of the section.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the maintenance operation | work of the draft part provided in the upper side of a coiler can be performed with an easy attitude | position.

(A) is a schematic partial top view of a comb, (b) is a schematic partial front view. The partial fragmentary perspective view of a comb. A sectional view of Kens. The side view which shows the support mechanism of a cover part. The side view of the state in which the cover part was arrange | positioned in the intermediate position. The side view of the state in which the cover part was arrange | positioned in the fully open position. The schematic perspective view of the state in which the cover and cover part of a draft part are arrange | positioned in the fully open position.

Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is embodied in a comb will be described with reference to FIGS.
As shown in FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b), a comber as a spinning machine has a plurality of (generally eight or six) combing heads 11 arranged in parallel. Each combing head 11 combs the lap L with a combing unit (not shown) and then sends the lap L onto the table 12 as a fleece F. The fleece F fed onto the table 12 is converged by the table 12 and then compressed by the calendar roller 13 to become a sliver S. The moving direction of the fleece F is changed by the sliver guide 14 and the longitudinal direction of the fleece F on the sliver table 15 is changed. It moves along (the left-right direction of FIG. 1 (a), (b)).

  On the downstream side of the sliver table 15 that guides the plurality of slivers S, a can housing unit 16 that houses the cans 40 and the spare cans 41 in a state of being arranged in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the machine base of the comber is provided. .

  As shown in FIG. 1B, a draft portion 17 is provided above the canister housing portion 16, and a plurality of slivers S are transferred from the sliver table 15 to the draft portion 17 on the upstream side of the draft portion 17. A belt conveyor 18 is provided. A coiler device 25 is provided downstream of the draft unit 17. The coiler device 25 includes a gatherer 26, a coiler trumpet 27, a pair of coiler calendar rollers 28, and a coiler (tube wheel) 29. The coiler device 25 travels downward from the front end of the draft portion 17 and passes through the gatherer 26 and the coiler trumpet 27 and is compressed by the coiler calender roller 28 into the can 40 using the coiler 29. Store in. A cover 30 that covers a part of the draft unit 17, the coiler device 25, and the belt conveyor 18 is provided on the upper side of the cans housing unit 16 so as to be openable and closable.

  A can placement portion P1 in which the sliver receiving can 40 is placed is provided below the coiler 29. Adjacent to the cans placement portion P1, a preliminary can placement portion P2 is provided. The cans accommodating portion 16 has an entrance 16a (shown in FIG. 2) for the cans 40 and the spare cans 41 on the side opposite to the side corresponding to the sliver table 15.

  The cans 40 and the spare cans 41 have the same configuration, and are placed in the can place placement part P1 and are placed in the spare can place placement part P2 until the cans 40 receiving the sliver are full. 40 becomes the spare can 41.

  As shown in FIG. 3, a sliver receiving member 42 is supported on the can 40 by a coil spring 43 so as to be movable up and down. When the sliver receiving member 42 is in a free state in which the sliver S is not placed thereon, the upper portion of the sliver receiving member 42 protrudes above the upper end of the can 40. The sliver receiving member 42 is gradually lowered against the spring force of the coil spring 43 corresponding to the amount of the sliver S supplied to the upper surface thereof.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, a can upper holding plate 20 is provided below the top plate 19 in the can housing 16. The cans upper presser plate 20 abuts against the sliver receiving member 42 protruding from the upper end of the can 40 or the spare can 41 before receiving the sliver, and serves to dispose the sliver receiving member 42 at a height where it cannot contact the coiler 29. Fulfill. The cans upper presser plate 20 is supported by a support plate 21 suspended from the top plate 19.

  As shown in FIGS. 1A, 2, and 5, the work opening 22 and the lid portion 23 that closes the work opening 22 are provided on the top plate 19 that faces the preliminary can placement part P <b> 2 of the canister housing 16. Is provided. The work opening 22 is formed in such a size that the shoulder and arm can be easily taken out of the can housing 16 from the work opening 22 in a state where the worker has entered the can housing 16. In this embodiment, the work opening 22 is formed in a rectangular shape. As shown in FIGS. 4, 5, and 6, the can upper presser plate 20 has an opening 20 a formed by cutting away a portion corresponding to the work opening 22.

  The lid portion 23 is provided as a door supported by the hinge 24. A handle 23a is fixed to the upper surface of the lid 23, and the lid 23 is configured to be able to open upward with the handle 23a. The hinge 24 is provided so that the lid 23 is in an upright state on the side opposite to the draft portion 17 in the opened state of the lid 23.

  As shown in FIGS. 4, 5, and 6, the lid 23 is located between the lid 23 and the peripheral edge of the work opening 22 of the canister housing 16 in the closed position (state shown in FIG. 4) and the fully opened position. A holding mechanism 31 that can be held in a stable state (the state of FIG. 6) is provided. The holding mechanism 31 includes a bracket 32 fixed to one side of the back surface near the base end of the lid portion 23, and an arcuate moving member 34 that is rotatably supported on one end side with respect to a shaft 33 fixed to the bracket 32. I have.

  The moving member 34 is formed with an arc-shaped elongated hole 34a. The long hole 34 a is formed so as to extend from the center of the moving member 34 to the other end. The support plate 21 is provided with a guide shaft 35. The guide shaft 35 engages with the elongated hole 34a to guide the moving member 34 so that the lid portion 23 can be opened and closed in a stable state. The guide shaft 35 is provided so as to be positioned substantially at the center of the moving member 34 in a state where the lid portion 23 is disposed at the closed position. At the other end of the long hole 34a, a restricting portion 36 that restricts the fully open position of the lid portion 23 is formed so as to be continuous with the long hole 34a and located above the long hole 34a. Then, with the lid portion 23 being rotated to a position that makes an angle of approximately 90 degrees with the top plate 19, as shown in FIG. 6, the guide shaft 35 engages with the regulating portion 36, so that the lid portion 23 is It is designed to hold the state.

Next, the operation of the comb configured as described above will be described.
When the comber is driven, the lap L is combed by a plurality of combing heads 11 to form a fleece F, converged by the table 12, and then compressed by the calendar roller 13 to become a sliver S. The movement direction of each sliver S is changed by the sliver guide 14 and moves along the longitudinal direction on the sliver table 15. The plurality of slivers S are transferred from the sliver table 15 to the draft unit 17 via the belt conveyor 18, drafted by the draft unit 17, and then sent to the coiler device 25. A plurality of slivers S are bundled into one sliver S via a gatherer 26 and a coiler trumpet 27 of a coiler device 25, compressed by a coiler calendar roller 28, and then stored in a can 40 using a coiler 29. Is done.

  When the can 40 is full, the driving of the comb is stopped, and the can 40 is taken out from the entrance 16a of the can housing 16. Then, after the spare cane 41 arranged in the spare can placement unit P2 is moved to the can place placement unit P1, the driving of the comb is started.

  When performing the maintenance work of the draft part 17, as shown in FIG. 7, an operator works from the side part (axial side) of the draft part 17 with the cover 30 covering the draft part 17 opened. During the maintenance work, depending on the work location, it is necessary to perform the work from the left side of FIG.

  Conventionally, the work opening 22 is not provided in the top plate 19 of the canister housing 16. Therefore, when performing maintenance from the upper side of the preliminary can placement part P2, it is necessary to perform work by placing an operator on the cane storage part 16 covering the preliminary can placement part P2 or leaning forward on a stepladder. It was difficult to do. However, in this embodiment, a work opening 22 is provided on the top plate 19 of the canister housing 16 and a lid 23 for closing the work opening 22 is provided. Therefore, in a state where the work opening 22 is closed by the lid portion 23, the cane accommodating portion 16 functions in the same manner as the conventional one, and accumulation of fluff is prevented on the standby case 41 that is on standby. When the lid 23 covering the work opening 22 is opened and the spare cane 41 is out of the canister housing 16, the worker enters the canister housing 16 and stands on the spare can placement portion P2. Thus, the shoulder and arm can be taken out of the can housing 16 from the work opening 22. Accordingly, the operator performs maintenance work of the draft portion 17 provided on the upper side of the coiler 29, for example, maintenance work of the timing belt drive portion, and the shoulder and arm portion are moved out of the canister housing portion 16 from the work opening 22. Can be done in the state.

According to this embodiment, the following effects can be obtained.
(1) The comb is provided with a preliminary can placement portion P2 adjacent to the can placement portion P1 provided below the coiler 29, and the can placement portion P1 and the spare can placement portion P2 are formed of the cans 40 and 41. It is covered with a can housing 16 having an entrance 16a. A work opening 22 and a lid portion 23 for closing the work opening 22 are provided on the top plate 19 of the cane housing part 16 facing the spare can placement part P2. Therefore, in the state where the working opening 22 is closed by the lid portion 23, the cane accommodating portion 16 functions in the same manner as in the prior art, and the accumulation of fluff on the standby spare cane 41 is prevented. Further, the lid 23 is opened, the operator enters the canister housing 16, and is provided on the upper side of the coiler 29 with the shoulders and arms out of the canister housing 16 through the work opening 22. Maintenance work of the draft unit 17, for example, maintenance work of the timing belt drive unit can be performed in an easy posture.

  (2) The lid portion 23 is a door supported by the hinge 24. The lid portion 23 covering the work opening 22 may be provided so as to be slidable along the top plate 19 or may be fixed to the top plate 19 with screws. However, in the case of being provided so as to be slidable, a space for sliding the lid portion 23 is required, the size of the case housing portion 16 is increased, and there is a possibility that the fluff is bitten when the lid portion 23 is slid. Moreover, when it fixes with a screw, while removing the screw | thread when opening the cover part 23, while there exists a possibility that the removed screw may be lost. However, if the lid 23 is a door supported by the hinge 24, there is no such a possibility.

  (3) The can upper holding plate 16 is capable of coming into contact with the sliver receiving member 42 supported by the coil spring 43 so as to be movable up and down in the can 40 when the sliver S is not accommodated in the can 40. 20, the can upper presser plate 20 has a portion corresponding to the work opening 22 cut out. The cans 40 are generally provided with a sliver receiving member 42 supported in a can 40 so as to be movable up and down by a coil spring 43. The sliver receiving member 42 is a coil spring 43 when the can 40 is empty. As a result of this action, the can 40 comes out above the upper end. If the sliver receiving member 42 is moved from the upper end of the can 40 and the spare can 41 is moved from the spare can placing portion P2 to the can placing portion P1 below the coiler 29, the sliver receiving member 42 may come into contact with the coiler 29. is there. Therefore, a can upper holding plate 20 that can come into contact with the sliver receiving member 42 is provided as a can containing part 16 in a state of straddling from above the can placement part P1 to above the preliminary can placement part P2. However, even if the upper cane holding plate 20 is present, the portion corresponding to the work opening 22 is cut out, so that the operator can remove the shoulder or arm from the work opening 22 with the lid 23 opened. The work can be performed without any trouble in the state where it has been taken out of the cans housing 16.

The embodiment is not limited to the above, and may be embodied as follows, for example.
In the case where the lid 23 is a door supported on the top plate 19 by the hinge 24, the door may be configured to open to the lower side instead of the upper side.

The lid portion 23 is not limited to the door supported by the hinge 24 on the top plate 19 of the can housing 16 and may be a sliding door.
O It is good also as a structure which makes it possible to remove the cover part 23 and to screw the cover part 23 to the top plate 19 of the can accommodation part 16 when closing the opening 22 for work.

(Circle) the cover part 23 is not restricted to one piece, A double door may be sufficient.
The working opening 22 may be any shape and size that allows the worker to work without any trouble in the state where the shoulder or arm is taken out of the canister housing 16 from the working opening 22. Is not limited to a rectangle, and may be, for example, a circle or an ellipse.

  O Not only combs but also other spinning machines equipped with a draft section and a coiler, for example, a drawing machine may be used.

  S ... Sliver, P1 ... Cans placement part, P2 ... Preliminary cans placement part, 16 ... Cans housing part, 16a ... Entrance / exit, 17 ... Draft part, 19 ... Top plate, 20 ... Kens upper pressing plate, 22 ... Work opening, 23 ... Lid, 24 ... Hinge, 29 ... Coiler, 40 ... Kens, 41 ... Preliminary cans, 42 ... Sliver receiving member, 43 ... Coil spring.

Claims (3)

  A spinning machine including a draft unit and a coiler, wherein a spare cane placement unit is provided adjacent to a cans placement unit provided below the coiler, and Covered by a can housing section having a cans entrance, and provided on the top plate facing the spare can placement section of the can housing section is provided with a working opening and a lid for closing the working opening. Spinning machine characterized by   The spinning machine according to claim 1, wherein the lid is a door supported by a hinge.   The can housing portion includes a can upper holding plate capable of coming into contact with a sliver receiving member supported by a coil spring so as to be movable up and down in the can when the sliver is not housed in the can. The spinning machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a portion of the presser plate corresponding to the work opening is cut off.