US1630197A - Method for use in the manufacture of artificial silks - Google Patents

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US1630197A
US1630197A US683213A US68321323A US1630197A US 1630197 A US1630197 A US 1630197A US 683213 A US683213 A US 683213A US 68321323 A US68321323 A US 68321323A US 1630197 A US1630197 A US 1630197A
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Donald A Mckenzie
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01D—MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS
    • D01D10/00—Physical treatment of artificial filaments or the like during manufacture, i.e. during a continuous production process before the filaments have been collected
    • D01D10/04—Supporting filaments or the like during their treatment
    • D01D10/0418—Supporting filaments or the like during their treatment as cakes or similar coreless thread packages

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  • noNALD A. MOKENZTE', or swanrHMoaE, rmmsmivaNIA; AssieNon 'ro 'rms vrs-' COSE COMPANY, OF MARCUS HOOK, DELAWARE, A CORPORATION OF PIILN'N'SYI'J- ⁇ VANIA.
  • My invention relates to a method for use in the manufacture of artificial silks.v
  • the object of my invention is to simplify and facilitate the'washing and subsequent operations upon the fiber after it leaves the spin- In the manufacture of artificial' silk and the like, it is the customary practice to lead the thread from the setting bath, over guide rollers or godets to a rapidly rotating spinning box, within which the thread is twisted, and coiled or built up into what is commonly known in the art as a fiber cake.
  • Apparatus .for this purpose is illustrated in the Clay- My invention eliminates the danger of injury incident to skeining and other delicate handling operations, by maintainingr the fiber cake intact, and facilitating the handling thereof during the Washing and at least some of the subsequent manufacturing steps.
  • my invention contemplates the doling of 'the fiber cake from the spinning box upou a suitable carrier, on Which it rcmains during the setting up period. and by which it 1s carried during the'washing and' such subsequent steps as may be desirable.
  • the washing step is preferably ⁇ carried out itma by sprayingvthe Wash Water or the like against the inner periphery of the cake, the ylatter being rotated at sufficient speed to causeA the Wash liquid to permeate and be i discharged from the'fiber cake by centrifual force.
  • the fiber cake has been thus washed, be rotated or ,whizzed for a brief ⁇ perio to lremove the free moisture by centrifugal force from the interior of the cake. It. is then lifted on its carrier from the v Washing rotor and transferred, still on its ent position;
  • a simple and appropriate carrier upon which the ber cake may be doled from theI spinning box, and by which it may be. supported during its treatment in cake form, is
  • Fig. 2 is a section onthe line 2 2, Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 is a. shown in Fig. 1, but with the parts in differ- Fig. 4 is a rotor alone;
  • Fig. 5 is an inverted broken plan thereof
  • Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic plan view illustrating the operation of the Washer
  • Fig. 7 is a broken plan of a modified construction.
  • the carrier comprises a base plate 5 apertured at 6 for ventilation and lightness, and at 7 to afford a bearing for the ollset lower ends 8 of the centering and gripping bars 9.
  • the plate 5 is apertured to pass over a rotary tubular standard 10 perforated ⁇ at appropriate points 11, the perforations v preferably being rathersmall.
  • Fitting over the upper end of the standard 10 is a second bearing plate 12, the offset collar 13 of which snugly fits the standard.
  • the plate 12 is appropriatelypierced at 14 (Fig. 1) in register Withthe apertures 7 in plate 5 to receive the upper offset ends 15 of the bars 9.
  • the bar shifting disk 16 is slotted at 21 for ventilation and lightness, and also at 22 to accommodate the bars 9 which pass therethrough, the lower offset reaches 23 of the bars lying between the j disk 16.
  • I provlde la vert-ical rotary spindle 24 having at its upper end a rigid hub 25, in the upper supporting face of which pockets 26 are formed for the reception of the offset lower ends 8 of the gripping bars 9.
  • the'ends 8 of the bars 9 form in effect clutch studs, through which the driving connection between the hub 25 and the cake carrier is eiiected.
  • the tubular standard 10 over which the carrier plates pass, is fast with the hub and rotates therewith and with the carrier.
  • the disk 16 In order to locate the gripping bars 9 in proper position for the receptlon of the liber cake when the latter is dotted from the spinbox to the carrier, the disk 16 is rotated Witliy -respect to the base plate 5 to cause the bars 9 to swing inwardly toward the axis of the carrier.
  • the fiber cake, diagrammatically indicated at 27, is then dofed upon the disk 16 and the latter rotated with respect to the base plate 5, thus causing the bars 9 to move outward into engagement with the inner periphery of the liber cake.
  • stresses may be Iset up when the car- A rier is rotated, which tend to colla se the vfort of whichis so exerted as to overcome these unbalanced stresses. This may be accomplished in many ways. 'It may be attained, for example, by means -of the bell crank arms 28 pivotcd on the hub 25 and rovided attheir free ends with weights 29.
  • ugs 30 project downward from the flange 19 of the disk 16 into kthe path of the arms 28, and are so located that the thrust of the arms aga-inst them, under the action of cen-4 trifugal force, is in a direction to rotate the disk 16 in thedirection to expand the cage and cause the gripping arms 9 to move outward against the inner wall of the cake.v
  • lugs 3l may be struck inward from the collar 13 to enter notches 32 in the upper margin of the rotor standard 10.
  • centrifugal arms 28 since the centrifugal arms 28 must be swung inward in order to insure their proper position with' respect to the lugs 30 onthe disk when the cage is placed on the rotor in collapsed condition (Fig. 3), some means are preferably provided to draw the arms 28 automatically inward toward the hub 25.
  • the bearing ends 33-and 34 of the centrifugal arms are passed downward through the hub 25, each provided at its lower end with a pin 35 which is engaged by one end of a light sprin 36 anchored to the hub at its other end 3%'.
  • the eiort of the spring 36 is sufficient to swing the arm inward towardvthe hub, but has no apprzjihble effect upon the resilience of the arms un er the action of cen-
  • the wash liquid may be applied in any suitable way to the inner periphery of the fiber cake.
  • the direction of the jets is indicated in the diagrani,'Fig. 6.
  • theeliquid emerges ina radial spray from the central feed pipe 38 and impinges against the inner wall 'of the rotary standard 10. Passing uid is discharged inl a whirling mist-like spray which .bodilyl rotates in the same direction as the fiber' cake 27 against the inner face of which the spray impinges. By reason ofthe fact that the spray is whirling in the same direction'as the fiber cake, a violent impingement of the jets against the fiber of the cake-is prevented. On the contrary,
  • the spray beats lightly against the inner periphery of the cake, without injury to the fibers. is thrown off radially in all directions. It is customary to pass ⁇ the spindles 24 up through the bottom of ⁇ a box, or side by side in a trough, (where a group of washers operates at the same time) and thus, confine" the liquid, which is discharged'by an overflow or drainage outlet.
  • the acid carried into the fiber cake from the setting bath is ⁇ r taken up by the wash water which permeates the cake by centrifugal force, and is discharged with the waterfrom the trough or box (not shown).
  • Figs. 7 and 8 atype in which theAgripping bars 40 are fewer in Lnumber than in the construction ⁇ first described, each of the bars, however, carrying a .segmental screen 41 adapted to lie against the inner periphery. of ⁇ the fiber cake.
  • the upper land lower' plates' are dispensed with and are substituted by upper and lower flanges 42 and 43 at opposite ends of the rotarytube 44 which forms a portion of the carrieizj
  • the flanges 42 and 43 arelsuit-ably apertured jin register to receive the upper and lower offset ends of the bars, 40 which swing therein.
  • the lower flange 43 is also apertured to accommodate the offset ends of the rods45 which project through apertures Permeating the cake, the liquid ⁇ 4 6 inthe down-turned flange 47 ⁇ yon the shifting disk 48.
  • the hub 49 at the head of the spindle 50 is providedwith an annular channel 51, in which the lower fla-nge 43 of the tube 44 is accommodated, while the pockets 52 ⁇ into which the stud ends 53 of the bars 40 pro- Ject,lextend downward from the bottom of the channel 51.
  • the entry of the stud ends 53 of' the bars ⁇ 40 and rods 45 into their appropriate pockets 52 in the bottom of the channel 51 may be l'eadily assured by means of a locating boss 54 on the hub 49 which takes into a corresponding notch 55 at the lower end of the tube 44.
  • the rods 45 afford ready means for shifting the gripping bars 4() of the ca geoutward into engagement with the inner face of the fiber cake, after the carrier has been positioned rods 45 pass through holes 46 in the flange 95 i 47 of the shifting disk, the rods may be also used .to collapse the ⁇ cage by shifting the gripping bars 40 inward. It is necessary merely to push the Vrods inward to cause them to rotate the disk in the opposite directiondand thus swing the gripping bars inwar The rods 45 thus also form. portionof the carrier in this construction.
  • the carrier may be handled readily by means of the collar 13, the apertures in which, formed by striking-in of thel lugs 31, afford finger holds.
  • a similar flange may. befprovided at ⁇ the upper end of the. tube 44 i (Figs. 7 and 8) if desired--but there is in p this construction ample finger room between adjacent bars -of the cage.
  • the step 'of applying liquid to a rotating. fiber cake simultaneously throughout the length of the cakeaxis to cause the liquid to pass through the cake by 'ceutrif-ugahforce.
  • the step Aof applyingliquidin the f'orm of a lol i the fiber cake upon a carrier, causing liquid centrlfugal whirling s ray to a rotating fiber cake to cause the liquid to pass through the cake by centrifugal force.
  • the step of rotating a centrally open mass of fiber supplying liquid to the inner peripheral surface of the mass during rotation of the latter to cause the liquid to pass through the mass by centrifugal force, and prevent- 1ing irlijurious abrasion of said surface by the iquic y 15.
  • the' step of rotating a centrally open fiber mass unconfined at its outer periphery, supplying liquid to the central opening of the mass during rotation of the latter to cause the liquid to pass through the mass and be freely discharged from its unconfined outer periphery by centrifugal force, and preventing injurious abrasion of the fiber by the liqui 16.
  • the step of spraying liquid against a surrounding mass of fiber during rotation of the latter to cause the sprayed liquid to pass through the mass and be discharged from its outer periphery by centrifugal force.
  • the stepsof surrounding a stationary spray device by an annular mass of fiber, simultaneously rotating the' spray device and fiber mass, and feeding liquid to the spray device to causeA the dispersal of the liquid in the form of a spray against the inner periphery of the4 surrounding mass of fiber and causing the sprayed liquid to pass through the fiber mass by centrifugal force.
  • the step of rotating a collapsible carrier having thereon an annular mass of fiber supplying liquid to the inner periphery of the mass during its rotation to cause the liquid to pass through the mass by centrifugal force, halting the 'carrier and permitting the. fiber mass 'to shrink incident to drying while ou said collapsible carrier.

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FR590392D FR590392A (fr) 1923-12-28 1924-11-06 Procédé et appareil pour la fabrication de soie artificielle
GB30500/24A GB226808A (en) 1923-12-28 1924-12-18 Improvements in the manufacture, or treatment, of artificial silk, or like fibrous material, and apparatus for use therein
GB31330/24A GB250303A (en) 1923-12-28 1924-12-31 Improvements in apparatus for use in the treatment of artificial silk and other fibrous materials
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US2464034A (en) * 1945-07-12 1949-03-08 Hinckley Myers Division Of Ken Centering mechanism
US2557510A (en) * 1941-05-09 1951-06-19 Sarl Fonderie De Prec Expanding coil carrying mandrel
US2768519A (en) * 1949-12-16 1956-10-30 Skenandoa Rayon Corp Apparatus for treating thread

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US2557510A (en) * 1941-05-09 1951-06-19 Sarl Fonderie De Prec Expanding coil carrying mandrel
US2464034A (en) * 1945-07-12 1949-03-08 Hinckley Myers Division Of Ken Centering mechanism
US2768519A (en) * 1949-12-16 1956-10-30 Skenandoa Rayon Corp Apparatus for treating thread

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