JPH09228197A - Enlargement of warp yarn shedding angle of loom and apparatus therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smooth operations to remove a defective weft yarn by realizing a warp yarn shedding angle exceeding the maximum one during the regular operation. SOLUTION: A defective weft yarn is found in a warp yarn shedding Wa1 and a cloth fell Wc is retreated in the direction of a reed RD. The cloth fell Wc can be drawn near to heald frames SF and SF by a distance (d) to thereby afford a warp yarn shedding angle θ>θ0 (θ is the warp yarn shedding angle; θ0 is the maximum shedding angle).

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an expansion of the warp opening angle of a loom capable of expanding the warp opening angle beyond the maximum opening angle during normal operation in order to smoothly remove defective wefts from the cloth fell. A method and an apparatus thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a loom, when a weft insertion operation is not normally performed for some reason, the operation of the loom is immediately stopped, and the weft thread (hereinafter,
After removing the defective weft) from the cloth fell, restart the operation of the loom.

[0003] Generally, a weaving machine stops after coasting for about one rotation when a weft insertion failure is detected. Therefore, the defective weft yarn is beaten immediately before the stop of the loom and tightly woven in the front of the loom. Therefore, in order to remove the defective weft, the following new weft insertion is prohibited during inertial rotation due to the stopping operation, and after the stop, the loom is reversely controlled and the defective weft is spouted into the warp shed and Wefts must be removed from the weft and out of the warp shed. However, at this time, the defective weft cannot be smoothly removed because the defective weft is strongly gripped by the warp and the pull-out resistance of the defective weft is large only by setting the warp to the maximum open state during normal operation. There are cases.

In order to solve such a problem, when the defective weft is removed, the opening stroke of the heddle frame is made extremely large to form a warp opening angle exceeding the maximum opening angle in the normal operation, and the defective weft is smoothed. Has been proposed (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-97944).

This type uses a heddle frame having a double structure of an outer frame and an inner frame having a height lower than that. During normal operation, the inner frame is fixed to the center of the outer frame for opening movement. When removing the defective weft, the inner frame is moved to the upper side or the lower side of the outer frame so that the warp yarns are spread over the maximum opening angle during normal operation. The inner frame is positioned with respect to the outer frame by a bellows interposed between the outer frame and the inner frame or a positioning pin provided on the outer frame. In addition, in a heddle frame with a normal single-layer structure that performs an opening movement by a cam mechanism and a pulling rope, a bending path with three guide rollers is provided in the middle portion of the pulling rope, and the central guide roller is moved by an air cylinder. The heddle frame can be moved up and down more than during normal operation.

The defective weft yarns can be removed from the cloth fell automatically or manually by a dedicated weft removing device after the warp yarns have been opened beyond the maximum opening angle in normal operation in this way. Good.

[0007]

According to the prior art, it is not necessary for normal operation because the heald frame has a double structure and an adjusting mechanism including an air cylinder is provided in the path of the pulling rope. An exaggerated mechanism is required, and the problem that the entire structure of the loom becomes unnecessarily complicated is inevitable.

In view of the problems of the prior art, therefore, the object of the present invention is to retreat the cloth fell in the reed direction, thereby eliminating the need for any extraordinary special mechanism and exceeding the maximum opening angle during normal operation. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for expanding a warp yarn opening angle of a loom and a device therefor capable of easily realizing the warp yarn opening angle.

[0009]

The structure of the first invention according to the present application for achieving the above object is to remove the defective weft from the cloth fell by exposing the defective weft into the warp shed and removing the cloth fell. The gist is to extend the warp opening angle beyond the maximum opening angle during normal operation by retracting in the reed direction.

The cloth winding device can be retracted by reversing the winding device or moving the cloth guide for guiding the front end of the woven cloth in the reed direction.

Further, when the cloth fell is retracted, the feeding device may be reversed.

According to the structure of the second invention, the cross guide for guiding the front end of the woven cloth, the swing lever for holding the cross guide in parallel with the cloth beam, and the cross guide by swinging the swing lever back and forth. The gist of the present invention is to include a drive mechanism for moving back and forth.

[0013]

According to the structure of the first aspect of the invention, when the cloth fell is retracted in the reed direction, the distance from the cloth fell to the heddle frame becomes shorter, so that the warp opening angle at the cloth fell becomes shorter as the distance becomes shorter. , It can be opened larger than the maximum opening angle during normal operation. However, the heddle frame at this time is assumed to be stopped at the maximum open state during normal operation by discharging the defective weft into the warp opening.

In order to retreat the cloth fell in the reed direction, the winding device may be reversed and the cross guide for guiding the front end of the woven cloth may be moved in the reed direction. In any case, it is possible to retreat the cloth fell in the reed direction by loosening the warp tension on the loom.

Further, when the cloth fell is retracted, if the feeding device is reversed, the cloth fell can be retracted in the reed direction by an arbitrary distance without excessively reducing the warp tension.

According to the structure of the second invention, the cross guide guides the front end of the woven cloth and is held in parallel with the woven cloth beam via the swing lever, and the drive mechanism is connected via the swing lever. The cross guide can be moved back and forth. Therefore, the drive mechanism moves the cross guide in the reed direction after discharging the defective weft into the warp opening, thereby reducing the warp tension to retreat the cloth fell in the reed direction and widen the warp opening angle. By moving the cross guide in the opposite direction and advancing the cloth fell, the warp opening angle can be restored.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The method for enlarging the warp opening angle of a loom can be carried out on a loom equipped with a feeding device 11 and a winding device 12 (FIG. 1).

The loom is an optional shuttleless loom such as an air jet loom, a water jet loom, a rapier room, etc., and the warp yarn Wa from the warp beam B1 is a tension roller R1, a heddle frame SF, SF, a reed RD, a cross guide R2.
Through the woven cloth Wb to the woven cloth beam B2. However, the heddle frames SF and SF form the warp opening Wa1 by opening the warp Wa up and down in a predetermined opening pattern, and the reed RD is weft-inserted into the warp opening Wa1 via a weft inserting mechanism (not shown). The woven cloth Wb can be woven by driving the weft yarn into the cloth fell Wc.

The feeding device 11 and the winding device 12 are connected to the warp beam B1 and the woven beam B2, respectively. The delivery device 11 and the winding device 12 respectively have a warp beam B1.
, Woven beam B2 can be driven to rotate in the reverse direction,
It is a so-called positive drive type.

When the weaving machine detects a weft insertion failure through a weft feeler (not shown), the weaving machine stops while prohibiting the next weft insertion operation, and reverses to reverse the defective weft into the warp opening Wa1.
Put your mouth inside and wait. At this time, the heddle frame S
F and SF are driven to the maximum opening state during normal operation (solid line in FIG. 1), and the warp opening Wa1 has the maximum opening angle θ during normal operation when the warp opening angle θ at the cloth fell Wc is normal.
open to o. Further, the reed RD is stationary at the standby position farthest from the cloth fell Wc.

Therefore, in this state, the winding device 12
When the woven cloth Wb on the woven cloth beam B2 is unwound, the warp tension is relaxed, and the cloth fell Wc is reed R
It can be moved backward in the direction of D by an arbitrary distance d (dashed line in the figure). In addition, the warp opening angle θ at this time
Can be expanded to θ> θo by bringing the cloth fell Wc closer to the heald frames SF, SF by the distance d (the same).

Therefore, the defective wefts that have been projected into the warp opening Wa1 have a reduced gripping force by the warp Wa, and are automatically or manually operated by a weft removing device (not shown).
It can be smoothly removed from the cloth fell Wc to the outside of the warp opening Wa1. After removing the defective weft yarn in this way, the loom rotates the winding device 12 in the forward direction to return the cloth fell Wc to the original position, and then automatically or manually rotates it to a predetermined start position. , Restart and return to normal operation.

Incidentally, in order to retreat and advance the cloth fell Wc in this manner, the drive motor 1 of the winding device 12 is moved.
2a is, for example, the movement amount setter 21, the sign inverter 2
2, it is possible to drive and control via a control circuit 20 in which a counter 23 and a control amplifier 24 are cascaded (FIG. 2).
However, the reverse rotation command signal S1 and the normal rotation command signal S2 from the outside are input to the sign inverter 22, and the counter 2
3, the output of the pulse encoder 12b directly connected to the drive motor 12a is fed back.

When the reverse rotation command signal S1 is given from the outside, the sign inverter 22 uses the rotation amount do set in the movement amount setting unit 21 as a digital amount of the negative signal and the counter 23.
Therefore, the counter 23 and the control amplifier 24 can reverse the drive motor 12a by the amount corresponding to the rotation amount do and retreat the cloth fell Wc. However, the rotation amount do is the rotation amount of the drive motor 12a corresponding to the distance d for retracting the cloth fell Wc. Further, when the normal rotation command signal S2 is given from the outside, the sign inverter 22
The counter 23 uses the rotation amount do as a digital value with a positive sign.
Then, the drive motor 12a can be rotated in the normal direction by the amount corresponding to the rotation amount do to return the cloth fell Wc to the original position.

The reverse rotation command signal S1 and the normal rotation command signal S2 from the outside can be output from the weft removing device when the defective weft is automatically removed through the weft removing device. When removing, it may be generated through an appropriate manual switch.

In the above description, when the winding device 12 is reversed, the feeding device 11 may be also reversed. When retracting the cloth fell Wc, the warp thread Wa is wound around the warp beam B1 as the cloth fell Wc moves, and the warp tension can be prevented from being excessively loosened. In this case, prior to restarting the loom, both the feeding device 11 and the winding device 12 are normally rotated to return the cloth fell Wc to its original position. The drive motor of the delivery device 11 at this time can also be drive-controlled via the control circuit according to FIG.

[0028]

Other Embodiments The cloth fell Wc can be retracted in the direction of the reed RD by moving the cross guide 31 for guiding the front end of the cloth Wb backward (FIG. 3).

The cross guide 31 is a rotary roller,
The front end of the woven cloth Wb just after weaving is bent downward, and the woven cloth beam B2 is passed through the winding roller R3 and the pressure roller R4.
To guide you. Both ends of the cross guide 31 are rotatably held in parallel with the winding roller R3 and the fabric beam B2 via a pair of swing levers 32, 32, and the swing levers 32, 32 are common. It can be rocked back and forth via the support shaft 33. However, in FIG. 2, only one of the swing levers 32, 32 is shown.

At the upper end of each swing lever 32, the support shaft 3
An arc-shaped worm gear 32a centering on 3 is formed. A worm 34 meshes with the worm gear 32a, and the worm 34 is directly connected to the shaft end of the drive motor 34a. The drive motor 34a is fixed to the frame F. Therefore, the cross guide 31 simultaneously rotationally drives the drive motors 34a, 34a corresponding to the swing levers 32 in the forward and reverse directions to move the swing levers 32, 32 back and forth through the worms 34, 34 and worm gears 32a, 32a. It can be moved back and forth by rocking. That is, by moving the cross guide 31 forward, the cloth fell Wc can be set at the specified position during normal operation (solid line in FIG. 3), and by moving it backward, the cloth fell Wc can be moved to the reed RD. The warp opening angle θ can be expanded to θ> θo by retreating in the direction (dotted line).

The forward movement limit of the cross guide 31 is regulated by a stopper bolt 32b provided corresponding to each rocking lever 32, and the rear movement limit is provided corresponding to the cross guide 31. It can be detected by the proximity switch 31a. That is, when each drive motor 34a moves the cross guide 31 to the front side, it may be stopped by the rocking lever 32 coming into contact with the stopper bolt 32b and stopping, and moves the cross guide 31 to the rear side. At this time, it may be stopped by operating the proximity switch 31a.

In FIG. 3, the cross guide 31
May be a fixed roller instead of the rotating roller, and may be a member having an irregular cross section similar to a known breast beam. In addition, the drive motor 34a and the worm 3
4. The worm gear 32a forms a drive mechanism for swinging the swing lever 32 back and forth, but this may be replaced with an appropriate linear drive source such as a solenoid or a cylinder.

Further, in FIG. 3, the cross guide 31
When the cloth fell Wc is moved backward and the cloth fell Wc is retracted, a feeding device (not shown) may also be reversed.

Further, in FIGS. 1 and 3, when the defective weft is removed and the cloth fell Wc is returned to its original position, the cloth fell Wc
Instead of strictly returning to the original position, the woven fabric Wb may be returned to an appropriate position such that a harmful weft bar is not generated. In this way, when the return position of the cloth fell Wc is different from the original position, the movement amount setting device 21 of FIG.
dob) is set, and the sign inverter 22 causes the reverse rotation command signal S1
, The normal rotation command signal S2 respectively, the rotation amount do
One of a and dob may be sent to the counter 23. Further, an appropriate sensor for detecting the cloth fell Wc may be provided, and the returning position of the cloth fell Wc may be controlled via this sensor. However, the appropriate return position of the cloth fell Wc varies depending on parameters such as the type of the warp thread Wa to be set, the weaving structure, the type of weft, and the density of the weft, so it is desirable to set it through the weaving test data.

Incidentally, in FIG. 1 and FIG.
Instead of reversing, the warp yarn Wa may be bent by providing an appropriate guide rod that intersects the warp yarn Wa between the tension roller R1 and the heald frames SF, SF and driving the guide rod up and down.

[0036]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present application, by retracting the cloth fell in the reed direction, it is possible to expand the warp opening angle beyond the maximum opening angle during normal operation. Therefore, it is possible to easily achieve a predetermined large warp opening angle and smoothly remove defective wefts without the need for any extraordinary mechanism such as a double structure of the heddle frame. There is.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, by combining the cross guide for guiding the front end of the woven cloth, the swing lever and the drive mechanism, the cross guide is moved backward to retreat the cloth fell in the reed direction. Therefore, there is an effect that the first aspect of the invention can be carried out easily and surely, though the mechanism is extremely simple as a whole.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the overall configuration.

[Fig. 2] Block diagram of main parts

FIG. 3 is a structural explanatory view showing another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Wa1 ... Warp opening Wb ... Woven fabric Wc ... Woven cloth RD ... Reed B2 ... Woven fabric beam θ ... Warp opening angle θo ... Maximum opening angle 11 ... Sending device 12 ... Winding device 31 ... Cross guide 32 ... Swing lever

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. When removing a defective weft from the cloth fell, the defective weft is projected into the warp opening and the cloth is retracted in the reed direction to expand the warp opening angle beyond the maximum opening angle during normal operation. A method for enlarging a warp yarn opening angle of a loom, comprising: 2. The method of enlarging the warp shedding angle of a loom according to claim 1, wherein the winding device is reversed to retract the cloth fell. 3. The method for enlarging the warp opening angle of a loom according to claim 1, wherein a cloth guide for guiding the front end of the woven cloth is moved in the reed direction to retract the cloth fell. 4. The method for enlarging the warp opening angle of a loom according to claim 2, wherein the feeding device is rotated in reverse when the cloth fell is retreated. 5. A cross guide for guiding the front end of the woven cloth, a swing lever for holding the cross guide in parallel with the woven fabric beam, and a cross guide for swinging the swing lever back and forth. And a drive mechanism for moving the warp.