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US3013313A
US3013313A US819266A US81926659A US3013313A US 3013313 A US3013313 A US 3013313A US 819266 A US819266 A US 819266A US 81926659 A US81926659 A US 81926659A US 3013313 A US3013313 A US 3013313A
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Barr Albert Edward De
Linnert Arthur
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  • This invention concerns the production of textile yarns. More particularly it concerns the production of such yarns by a process which includes the steps of carding a mass of staple fibres on each of a plurality of carding machines and then drafting the carded masses (hereinafter called a process of the typedescribed).
  • Cotton fibres for example, are so carded and drafted as steps in the production of cotton yarn from heterogeneous masses of cotton staple fibre.
  • the invention also includes means for effecting the carding, superimposing and lap-forming steps.
  • FIG. l is a diagram of the layout of part of the system
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the movement of the web of material from a carding engine
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the exit roller system of the carding engine illustrated in FIG. 2 and inco-rporating control means for the lap-forming machine capable of compensating for run-out of lap;
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the feeding of the com- 3,l3,3l3 Patented ec. 19, ltl
  • FIG. 5 is Ia diagrammatic plan view of a feeding arrangement between a scutcher and a number of carding engines
  • FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic view in the direction of the arrows Vl-VI in FIG. 5, and
  • FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic view of an automatic creel for a carding engine.
  • a scutcherS operates in normal manner on the staple bre and supplies twelve carding engines C.
  • the lap is doffed automatically from the scutcher and conveyed, suspended from an overhead runway, over the back of the carding engines C, which are disposed parallel to each other in side-by-side alignment.
  • the conveying mechanism may be adapted to drop the laps into a reserve creel at the back of each carding engine in rotation or as required.
  • there may be appropriate control mechanism on each carding engine which indicates to the conveying mechanism whether there are one, two, three or more laps in the reserve creel thereof.
  • the conveying mechanism After each lap is doffed from the scutcher the conveying mechanism is arranged to begin a ⁇ circuit Q, of all the carding engines and only deposit the lap where there is only one -ljap in the reserve creel. If there is no car ing engine with only one lap in its reserve creel, the conveying mechanism is adapted to begin a second circuit and deposit the lap where there are only two laps in the reserve creel, and so on.
  • the next lap (the new lap) from the reserve creel is automatically moved onto the feed lattice or roller, and the end of the new lap separated from the body thereof and placed in such a position that it exactly abuts the end of the old lap as the latter moves from the feeding station.
  • the lap rod or shell for the old lap is removed land the new lap substituted therefor.
  • An endless moving conveyor 11 (FIG. 2) is disposed at right angles across the front ends of the engines and suitable guidingi and condensing means are provided on each so that a web'12, as distinct from a sliver is produced.
  • the web will have a width several times its thickness.
  • the drafting rollers 20, 21, 22, 23 bring the web up to the edge of the conveyor 11 and of course still moving at right angles to the direction of movement thereof.
  • a curved plate 26 is mounted between the exit region of the drafting rollers and the region immediately above the conveyor.
  • the drafting rollers are driven so as to give a small draft, say about 1.4.
  • the twelve webs thus become superimposed and pass together, without interruption, in this, manner from theconveyor to and through a lap forming machine L comprising, successively, a system of drafting rollers 27, 2S, 29, 30, 31, 32 geared to give the complete web N a draft of, sayl.5, calender rolls 33, 34, 3S, 36, and bobbin sup'- port rolls 37, 38.
  • the latter carry a hobbin 39 on which y the lap formed by the lap forming machine is wound under pressure to ensure tight winding.
  • Full bobbins from the lap forming machine L are doffed automatically when full and fed by circuit Q2 to eight draw frames F in the same manner as the laps from the scutcher are fed to the carding engine, as hereinbefore described.
  • the web coming from the scutcher is wound on a lap shell (hollow tube) and the lap being formed is supported for rotation on two other rollers, the axes of all three being parallel.
  • Means are provided to come into operation when the lap reaches the required size to speed up the drive to the lap, which causes the web to break, and in synchronism, to cause the lap shell carrying the lap to be moved away for feeding to the cards, and a new lap shell to take its place.
  • This can be arranged, for example, by providing an endless run-away system behind the back of carding engines, associated and operating in conjunction with an automatic creel behind each carding engine.
  • the run-way system 101 is disposed, as shown in the plan view (FlG. 5) behind the carding engines C. the front run thereof adjacent the carding engines is horizontal as are to the side runs, but a chain 102 is provided at these parts of the system capable of progressing pans 103 therealong in a clockwise direction around the system.
  • the back run of the system commences with a downwardly inclined portion 104 down which the pans 103 can run freely under the influence of gravity, a gate 105 being provided for a purpose to be described hereinafter. Then follows an upwardly inclined portion 106 which also is provided with a chain 107 by means of which the pans 103 are moved therealong. Finally there is a second downwardly inclined portion 108, similar to portion 104 and likewise provided with a gate 109.
  • a loading point opposite which the scutcher Sis disposed, and in operation one pan 103 is in position at this point.
  • a lap, on its hollow shell, as it is doffed from the scutcher, is deposited on the pan 103 (which pans have been shown, for the sake of clarity, rotated by from their operative position, in which the hook end thereof is presented so as to receive the lap dolfed from the scutcher).
  • the pan is constructed so that it is depressed by the weight of the lap and then operates a switch which i3 adapted to start the drive to chain 107, which progresses the pan to the top of the portion 108 of the run-way where it is accumulated by gate 109, along with any other full pans already on this portion of the runway, in a reserve of full pans.
  • the drive to chain 107 is arranged to stop automatically after a short period whereupon gate is arranged to operate automatically to release one empty pan from a series of empty pans 193 on the portion 104 of the run-way.
  • gate 109 is arranged to operate (in the manner shortly to be described) to release one of the full pans from the portion 108 of the runway, which pan is then carried by the chain 102, running continuously, to the appropriate carding engine to be deposited thereon, after which the empty pan is carried around to join the empty pans on portion 104- of the run-way.
  • Lap rollers 110, 111 are provided at the back of each engine C in normal manner except that they are spaced apart by a distance just greater than the diameter of the shell 112 which carries the lap 113 being fed to the respective carding engine C.
  • Rollers 114 and 115 are rollers similar to rollers and 111 disposed in the illustrated relationship thereto. These rollers are driven via an electrically operated clutch at the same surface speed as rollers 110, 111.
  • Roller 114 is arranged to be depressed slightly by the weight of the lap 116 and to operate a switch with an effect shortly to be described.
  • Roller 115 is arranged so that it may assume an alternative position indicated in dotted line.
  • An air nozzle 117 is provided, and suitable mechanism is associated therewith for the purpose of swinging the nozzle into and out of position.
  • the switch operated by roller 114 causes gate 109 to operate as previously described.
  • the switch operates a solenoid which moves a suitably disposed dellector so that the pan 103, released by gate 109 is tipped as it passes the carding engine C and the lap carried thereby rolls onto rollers 114, 11S.
  • the lap then begins to rotate and a jet of air blows on it from the nozzle 117 to separate the lap end as shown.
  • the lap end as it separates from the lap interrupts a light beam which is part of a photo-electric circuit, which circuit in turn operates switches causing the drive to rollers 114, 115 to disengage so that the lap 116 remains at rest in the position shown.
  • the falling lap shell 113 is arranged to operate a switch which restarts rollers 114, 115 and also causes the air nozzle mechanism to lift the nozzle 117 clear of the lap 116.
  • the end of the new lap 116 passes over rollers 115, 110, 111 to the carding engine C and abuts the end of the old lap 113.
  • the disposition of the various rollers and the speed of rollers 114, 115 are arranged t0 ensure this. The following sequence of operations is then started and carried out by a timing circuit and the necessary switches and mechanical arrangements.
  • roller 115 descends to its alternative position
  • roller 115 returns to its normal position
  • Roller 114 is now no longer depressed and so its associated switch operates gate 169 to start a new lap on its journey to the card, and the cycle is repeated.
  • An open loop control could be employed.
  • an additional pair of acurately machined rollers 201, 202 are provided at the feed end of the lap-forming machine L (FIG. 4).
  • the upper roller 2M is mounted so as to be sensitive to any change in thickness of the lap coming from the conveyor 11 to the lap-forming machine.
  • Such changes are adapted to cause a corresponding vertical movement of the roller 201 and this movement is Control of draft in the lap forming machine transmitted by lever 203 to a transducer 204, which in turn causes electromechanical system 265 so to operate a variable speed gear 266 in the drive 267 to rollers 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38 that the speeds of these rollers and thus the draft are adjusted to give an output from the machine of substantially constant characteristics.
  • a closed loop control could be used.
  • the top calendar roller 33 is mounted to be sensitive to any change in thickness of the lap coming from the draft rollers of the lap forming machine.
  • such changes are adapted to cause a corresponding vertical movement of the calender roller 33 and this movement is transmitted to a lever 208, to a transducer 299, which in turn causes an electromechanical system 210 to operate a variable speed gear Zti in the drive 207 to rollers 31, 32,133, 34, 35, 35, 37 and 33 so that the speeds of these rollers and thus the draft are adjusted to give an output from the machine of Substantially constant characteristics.
  • Both the open loop and closed loop controls have for convenience been illustrated diagrammatically in FIG. 4, and can be used as indicated above as alternative arrangements. However they can also be used together as the third example of draft control means namely (c) Combined open and closed loop control (d)
  • Another method of draft control of the lap-forming machine is a control associated with the carding engine C.
  • Each such engine has its upper calender roll 18 mounted so as to be sensitive to the presence of the lap. If the lap runs out the roll moves downwards and causes a switch 211 in a circuit of a motor 212 to energize the motor.
  • the motor rotates a cylinder 213 provided with studs and the switch is also arranged to render an appropriate stud 214 electrically live.
  • the stud is so positioned that as the lap runs out at the drafting zone of the lapforming machine the stud 214 makes contact with a bar 215 and closes a further circuit which starts a motor 216 to drive the normally stationary side of a differential gear 217 through which the drafting rollers of the lap-forming machine are driven to alter the draft in such manner that the output from the lap-forming machine remains substantially constant.
  • a motor 216 to drive the normally stationary side of a differential gear 217 through which the drafting rollers of the lap-forming machine are driven to alter the draft in such manner that the output from the lap-forming machine remains substantially constant.
  • the lap can be run to waste until the weight has reached its constant value or arrangements can be made to ensure that the draft of the lap-forming machine returns gradually -to its original value.
  • Apparatus for carrying out steps in a process for producing yarn from a plurality of masses of staple fibre comprising means for carding each of said masses simultaneously, to produce a corresponding number of fibrous Webs, means for continuously superimposing said webs as they travel from the carding means and then drafting same together to form a single lap, and means whereby the drafting effect on said superimposed webs is adjusted according to the number of said webs at any given time so that a single lap of substantially constant characteristics is always produced.
  • Apparatus for carrying out steps in a process for producing yarn from a plurality of masses of staple fibre comprising a plurality of carding engines, each adapted to card one of said masses to produce simultaneously from each mass a corresponding number of fibrous webs, means for continuously superimposing said webs as they travel from the carding engines and then drafting same together to yform a single lap, and means whereby the drafting effect on said superimposed webs is adjusted according to the number of said webs at any given time so that a single lap of substantially constant characteristics is always produced.
  • Apparatus for carrying out steps in a process for producing yarn from a plurality of masses of staple fibre comprising a plurality of carding engines, each adapted to card one of said masses to produce simultaneously from each mass a corresponding number of yfibrous webs, roller means for drafting the individual webs as they are formed by each carding engine, means for continuously superimposing said webs as they travel from the carding engines and then drafting same together to forrn a single lap, and means whereby the drafting effect on said superimposed webs is adjusted according to the number of said webs at any given time so that a single lap of substantially constant characteristics is always produced.
  • Apparatus for carrying out steps in a process for producing yarn from a plurality of masses of staple fibre comprising a plurality of carding engines, each adapted to card one of said masses to produce simultaneously from each mass a corresponding number of fibrous webs, roller means for drafting the individual webs as they are formed by each carding engine, means for continuously superimposing said webs as they travel from the carding engines and then drafting same together to form a single lap, and open-loop control means whereby the drafting effect on said superimposed webs is adjusted according to the number of said webs at any given time so that a single lap of substantially constant characteristics is always produced.
  • Apparatus for carrying out steps in a process for producing yarn from a plurality of masses of staple fibre comprising a plurality of carding engines, each adapted to card one of said masses to produce simultaneously from each mass a corresponding number of fibrous webs, roller means for drafting the individual webs as they are formed by each carding engine, means for continuously superimposing said webs as they travel from the carding engines and then drafting same together to form a single lap, and closed-loop control means whereby the drafting effect on said superimposed webs is adjusted according to the number of said webs at any given time so that a single lap of substantially constant characteristics is always produced.
  • Apparatus for carrying out steps in a process for producing yarns from a plurality of masses of staple fibre comprising a plurality of carding engines, each adapted to card one of said masses to produce simultaneously from each mass a corresponding number of fibrous webs, roller means for drafting the individual webs as they are formed by each carding engine, means for continuously superimposing said webs as they travel from the carding engines and then drafting same together to form a single lap, and a knock-off control on each carding engine which is adapted to cause said drafting effect to be altered to compensate for the reduced thickness of the composite web occasioned by the taking out of commission of the respective engine.
  • Apparatus for carrying out steps in a process for producing yarn comprising means for automatically feeding web-like masses of staple fibre material to each carding engine of a plurality of such engines, said carding engines being disposed in side-byside alignment and adapted simultaneously to card the masses fed thereto to produce a corresponding number of fibrous webs, roller means associated with each said carding engine adapted to draft each said fibrous web, means for continuously superimposing all said fibrous webs as they are produced, means for continuously drafting said superimposed webs together to form a single lap, means whereby the drafting effect on said superimposed webs is automatically adjusted according to the number of said webs at any given time so that a single lap of substantially constant characteristics is always produced, and means for automatically feeding said single lap to subsequent processing means.

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