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US2257651A
US2257651A US231044A US23104438A US2257651A US 2257651 A US2257651 A US 2257651A US 231044 A US231044 A US 231044A US 23104438 A US23104438 A US 23104438A US 2257651 A US2257651 A US 2257651A
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Charles D Reynolds
Herman A Moe
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H54/00—Winding, coiling, or depositing filamentary material
    • B65H54/02—Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers
    • B65H54/10—Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers for making packages of specified shapes or on specified types of bobbins, tubes, cores, or formers
    • B65H54/14—Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers for making packages of specified shapes or on specified types of bobbins, tubes, cores, or formers on tubes, cores, or formers having generally parallel sides, e.g. cops or packages to be loaded into loom shuttles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/31—Textiles threads or artificial strands of filaments

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  • This invention relates to winding machines for winding cops; bobbins, pims and other forms of textile packages, for example, bobbins of yarn to be used as filling or weft in the shuttles of looms.
  • bobbin or wound yarn-carrier is employed for convenience of description to apply to any usual form of textile package and the term yarn is intended to designate all types of strand materials.
  • a particular object of the invention is to provide a machine of the type indicated which is entirely automatic in operation, requiring no attention on the part of the operator during its normal operation except to replenish the supplies of yarn and fill the magazines with yarncarriers or empty bobbins.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a machine of the type indicated having automatically-operated means for dofiing completed bobbins from the winding-spindles and replacing them with empty bobbins or yarn-carriers.
  • Another object of theinvention is to provide a machine of the typeindicated in which the bobbin-donning and -dofling mechanisms are electrically ope pated whereby to accelerate the operations and reduce the number of mechanical elementsto a minimum.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a machine of the type indicated n which the winding units are arranged in groups, preferably in pairs, with both units of each pair simultaneously starting and completing the winding of the bobbins.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a machine of the type indicated in which both bobbins of each pair are dofied simultaneously from their respective spindles and replaced. by fresh bobbins when either of the winding bobbins reaches a predetermined size.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a machine of the type indicated having separate donning and dofling mechanisms for each spindle of the group with the operation of the individual mechanismstimed and controlled by an electrical device common to both.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a machine of the type indicated having means adjacent each spindle of the group of winding units and adapted to be engaged and moved by the winding strand when the bobbin reaches a predetermined size to initiate the donning and group.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a machine of the type indicated in which thedonning and doiiing mechanisms are actuated by electromagnetic means whereby to simplify the construction of the machine by eliminating mechanical elements liable to become deranged or to get out of order.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a machine of the type indicated having improved driving mechanism capable of operating the winding units at a higher rate of speed than is possible with similar machines of previous types.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a machine of the type indicated in which the spindle-drive and thread-guide reciprocating means are operated continuously during the preferred form of construction of the machine,
  • Fig. 1 is a plan view of a pair of correlated Winding units showing the driving mechanism for the winding-spindles and thread-guide traversing means;
  • Fig. 2 is a part-sectional side elevation of the same showing the hopper or magazine for the yarn-carriers or empty bobbins and the chute for receiving the dofled wound bobbins;
  • Fig. 3 isa part-sectional front view of the pair of correlated winding units of a multi-splndle machine showing the position of the automatic donning and dofiing mechanism during the winding operation;
  • FIG. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view through the bobbin-supporting and driving means showing the position assumed by the bobbin during the winding operation;
  • Fig. 5 is a similar view illustrating the manner in which the wound bobbin is defied from I the winding-spindle;
  • Fig. 6 is a plan view of the mechanism for returning the thread-guide to initial position after dofiing a wound bobbin with the parts shown in inoperative position;
  • Fig. '7 is a similar view showing the upper portion of the enclosing casing removed to illustrate the position of the parts during the return of the thread-guide;
  • Fig. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view of the guide returning mechanism shown in Figs. 6 and '1 taken in a vertical plane;
  • Fig. 9 is a transverse sectional view through the guide-returning mechanism taken on line 9-3 of Fig. 8;
  • Fig. 10 is a transverse sectional view taken on line Ill-l of Fig. 6 showing the solenoid for operating the guide-retuming mechanism;
  • Fig. 11 is a partial front elevation of the pair of winding units showing the chutes through which the dofled bobbins fall and the means actuated by the passage of either of the wound bobbins therethrough for operating an electrical switch for closing the electrical circuit to the means for returning the thread-guides;
  • Fig. 12 is a. side elevational view of the same illustrating the manner in which the passage of a full bobbin operates the circuit-closing means for the guide-returning means with the thread-guide shown in initial position;
  • Fig. 13 is a similar view showing the length of yarn from the doifed bobbin clamped in the chute and illustrating the manner in which the thread-is broken between the clamping means and th fresh empty bobbin replacing the wound "bobbin in winding position;
  • Fig. 14 is a front elevational view of the hubbin-magazine or hopper showing the means for transferring fresh bobbins from the magazine to the winding-spindle;
  • Fig. 15 is a similar view showing the means for operating the bobbin-transferring means which is illustrated in inoperative position;
  • Fig. 16 is a view similar to Fig. 14 showing the transferring mechanism in position to deliver a fresh bobbin to thewinding-spindle;
  • Fig. 17 is a viewv similar to Fig. 15 illustrating the operating means in action
  • Fig. 18 is a transverse sectional view taken on line l8-l8 of Fig. 16 and illustrating the bobbintransferring means in detail;
  • Fig. 18a is a perspective view showing the cooperative relationship of the'runway from the magazine chute and the ramp-finger of the bobbin-feeding frame;
  • Fig. 19 is a part-sectional plan view of the timing device for synchronizing the operation of the bobbin-darling and bobbin-delivering means;
  • Fig. 20 is a front elevation of the same
  • Fig. 21 is a side elevation of the same
  • Fig. 22 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 22-22 of Fig. 20; I
  • Fig. 23 is a sectional plan view of the timing deviceshaft taken on line 23-23 of Fig. 20 and showing the cam for setting the device for actuation by the thread-guide traversing means;
  • Fig. 24 is a transverse sectional view of the timing device taken on lime 24-24 of Fig. 21 and illustrating the cooperating contact-element and brushes for energizing the spindle-retracting means;
  • Fig. 25 is a similar view taken on line 25-25 i of Fig. 21'and showing' the-cooperating contactelement and brushes for energizing the bobbindelivery means;
  • Fig. 26 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 26-26 of Fig. 24 and illustrating the mountings for the contact-brushes in detail;
  • Fig. 2'7 is a further enlarged part-sectional plan view of the bunch-builder showing the parts thereof in operative position during the forthing of the bunch or reserve winding;
  • Fig. 28 is a partial plan view of the operating mechanism of the bunch-builder showing the parts in inoperative position
  • Fig. 29 is a front elevational view of the bunch-builder with the parts shown in the same position as in Fig. 27
  • Fig. 30 is a partial front view of the same with the parts shown in the same position as in Fig. 28;
  • Fig. 31 is a transverse sectional view through the bunch-builder taken on line 3l-3I of Fig.
  • Fig. 32 is a detailed sectional view taken on line 32-32 of Fig. 29 and illustrating the manner of rotating the yarn-retaining means;
  • Fig. 33 is a view similar to Fig. 32 showing the yarn-retainer operating means rotated to the full extent; 1
  • Fig. 34 is a cross-sectional view through the main operating element of the bunch-builder taken on line 34-34 of Fig. 27;
  • Fig. 35 is a side elevational viewof the donning and dofling mechanism viewed in the direction opposite to that of Fig. 2 and showing the timing device-resetting means and yarn-retrieving means in inoperative position;
  • Fig. 36 is a view similar to Fig. 35 showing the timing device-resetting means as having completed its action and the yarn-retriever as having been operated to carry the end of the yarn into position to b gripped between the spindlecup and the fresh bobbin;
  • Fig. 37 is-a transverse sectional view taken on line 31-31 of Fig. 35 showing the yarn-retriever in inoperative position;
  • Fig. 38 is a partial front levational ,view showing the yarn-retriever in operative position
  • Fig. 39 is a plan view of the means for tilting the yam-retriever showing the latter in inoperative position; I v
  • Fig. 40 is a view similar to Fig. 39 showing th yarn-retriever in operative position
  • Fig. 41 is a cross-sectional view of the yarnretriever supporting means taken on line ll-H of Fig. 35;
  • Fig. 42 is adiagrammatic view showing the electrical circuits for energizing the individual operating means for the donning and domng mechanisms.
  • the present improved winding machine comprises, in general, means for winding bobbins or the like, including bobbin-rotating means and yarn-traversing means, means actuated by the yarn or thread being wound.
  • means for winding bobbins or the like including bobbin-rotating means and yarn-traversing means, means actuated by the yarn or thread being wound.
  • means controlled by the released wound bobbin for returning the thread-guide to initial position
  • a magazine or hopper for containing a supply of empty bobbins
  • means operable after the thread-guide has reached its initial position for transferring a fresh bobbin from the magazine to winding position means for rotatably gripping the fresh bobbin, means for severing the yarn leading from the previously wound bobbin.
  • the present embodiment of the invention comprises a series of pairs of wind.- ing units arranged along a frame, each unit of the pairs consisting of a continuously rotated spindle-cup for receiving the butt end of the bobbin or yam-carrier and a freely rotatable stub-spindle for supporting the tip end thereof.
  • Continuously reciprocating traversing means actuate the thread-guides, one for each unit, with means for advancing the guides along the bobbins as the latter-are wound.
  • Means engaged by the yarn when either bobbin of the pair reaches a predetermined length operate to close an electrical circuit, common to both winding units, to energize means for shifting the spindle cups axially to release the bobbins and permit them to drop into chutes arranged below the windingspindles.
  • Means within the chutes are actuated by one or the other of the falling bobbins to close a second electrical circuit, also common to both winding units of the pair, the latter circuit serving to energize electromagnetic means for returning both thread-guides to initial position.
  • An electrical time-control unit in the' form of a spring-actuated rotary drum-switch controls the action of the electromagnetic means for operating the spindle-cups and the means for transferring fresh bobbins from the magazines or hoppers to the respective spindles.
  • an escapement device actuated by the constantly reciprocating yarn traversing means the spring-actuated drumswitch is permitted to rotate to again open the circuits.
  • the electromagnetic means for withdrawing the spindle-cups are deenergized the cups are caused to rotatively grip the fresh bobbins and thereafter the bobbin-transferring means are shifted into inoperative relationship.
  • the yarns trailing from the thread-guides to the previously wound bobbins are gripped between the spindle-cups and the end of the bobbins and are also clamped at a point between the fresh bobbins and the previously-wound bobbins so that as the fresh bobbins are rotated the threads or yarns are severed.
  • Means are provided for withholding the yarns from traversing movement with the reciprocating thread-guides at the start of the winding whereby to wind so-called bunches or reserve lengths of the yarn, the bunch-building means being set in initial pos tion by the actuation of the bobbin-transferring means and caused to release the yarns by the operation of an escapement mechanism actuated by the yamtraversing mechanism.
  • winding units are provided at both sides of the frame but are arranged in separate groups, in this instance, in pairs of units, with each unit of the pair embodying individual donning and dofling mechanisms with the ,mechanisms of both actuated simultaneously. Since the several pairs of winding units are identical in construction and arrangement only one pair is herein shown and described.
  • Winding units and drive therefor Referring first to Figs. 1, 2 and, 3 of the drawings, the winding units of the machine are carried by a horizontal bed 2, usually supported from the floor by legs or standards 3. Mounted upon the .bed 2 are trough-like casings 4 in which the various driving elements are enclosed. Journaled in bearings in the opposite end walls of the casing 4 are two drive-shafts 5 and B which may be rotated by suitable means located at one end of the machine frame, but not herein shown.
  • the shafts 5' and 6 drive the individual winding- .spindles 9 and III which are journaled in bearings in the side walls of the casing 4 and project laterally therefrom;
  • four spindles 9, III, II and I2 are shown as journaled in the casing 4, one pair of spindles 9 and I0, projecting'from the left-hand wall, as viewed in Fig. 1, and the spindles H and I2 of the opposite pair projecting from the opposite wall. Since all the spindles are of the same construction and arrangement only one pair (9, ill) will be herein described.
  • the spindles 9 and I0 are journaled in bearing bosses l3 and 14 on the sides of the casing 4, the bearings being shown in detail inFigs. 2 and 4.
  • each spindle forms a shoulder which abuts the recessed end of the bearing l3 and a collar H5 at the opp'osite end of the bearing abuts the side of an arm i1, formed as a part of a braoiketfll to be glescribed later, to take the axial thrust of the spindle in opposite directions.
  • the rearward end of each spindle is journaled in a bushing iii in" the boss l4 and the end of the boss is closed by means of a plug or cap l9.
  • the drive-shaft 6 carries a series of helical gears 20 which mesh with smaller similar gears 2
  • are held against axial movement in one direction by collars 24 secured to the spindles and against movement in the opposite direction by sleeves 25, also secured to the spindle.
  • a clutch-member 26 Keyed to each sleeve 25 and arranged for axial sliding movement thereon is a clutch-member 26 having a tapered periphery adapted to engage The clutch-member 26 may be shifted manu ally to release it from engagement with the gear 2
  • the finger 30 is formed integral with arockable member 32, shown most, clearly in Fig. 2, having its rearward end journaled on a stud-33 in the side wall of the casing 4.
  • the forward end of the member 32 is joined to a horizontal rod 34 by means ofta coupling 35 shown in detail in Fig. '8.
  • the forward or outer end of the rod 24 extends through a bearing in the upright arm 26 of a bracket 31, to be described later, and is bent at right-angles to form a handle 38 for rocking the clutch-control member 32.
  • the bracket 31 is attached to the casing 4 by means of a nut 39 screwed onto'thethreaded extremity

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NL68584D NL68584C (xx) 1938-09-21
NL67760D NL67760C (xx) 1938-09-21
FR51985D FR51985E (fr) 1938-09-21 Perfectionnements aux machines à bobiner du fil ou aux machines analogues
US231044A US2257651A (en) 1938-09-21 1938-09-21 Winding machine
GB29455/38A GB520038A (en) 1938-09-21 1938-10-11 Improvements in or relating to yarn or like winding machines
CH220183D CH220183A (de) 1938-09-21 1938-10-12 Spulmaschine.
FR844643D FR844643A (fr) 1938-09-21 1938-10-12 Perfectionnements aux machines à bobiner du fil ou aux machines analogues
BE430954A BE430954A (fr) 1938-09-21 1938-11-04 Perfectionnements aux machines à bobiner du fil ou aux machines analogues
US385346A US2302715A (en) 1938-09-21 1941-03-26 Winding machine
GB15735/41A GB548654A (en) 1938-09-21 1941-12-05 Improvements in or relating to yarn or like winding machines
BE463447A BE463447R (xx) 1938-09-21 1941-12-17
CH230674D CH230674A (de) 1938-09-21 1942-02-06 Spulmaschine.

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US2445998A (en) * 1944-09-11 1948-07-27 Barber Colman Co Bobbin handling mechanism
US2609156A (en) * 1945-10-08 1952-09-02 Celanese Corp Yarn-winding machinery
US2609997A (en) * 1946-03-07 1952-09-09 Celanese Corp Yarn winding machine
US2763443A (en) * 1953-04-15 1956-09-18 Universal Winding Co Automatic bobbin winding machine
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DE1210512B (de) * 1953-01-15 1966-02-10 Universal Winding Co Spulenspinnmaschine fuer kuenstliche Faeden
BE537214A (xx) * 1954-04-08
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US2445998A (en) * 1944-09-11 1948-07-27 Barber Colman Co Bobbin handling mechanism
US2609156A (en) * 1945-10-08 1952-09-02 Celanese Corp Yarn-winding machinery
US2609997A (en) * 1946-03-07 1952-09-09 Celanese Corp Yarn winding machine
US2763443A (en) * 1953-04-15 1956-09-18 Universal Winding Co Automatic bobbin winding machine
CN112719444A (zh) * 2020-12-05 2021-04-30 湖南宇晶机器股份有限公司 一种节材紧凑型多线切割机

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