US3406920A - Device for releasing the starting end of a coil-wound thread held fast by a reserve winding - Google Patents

Device for releasing the starting end of a coil-wound thread held fast by a reserve winding Download PDF

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US3406920A
US3406920A US616251A US61625167A US3406920A US 3406920 A US3406920 A US 3406920A US 616251 A US616251 A US 616251A US 61625167 A US61625167 A US 61625167A US 3406920 A US3406920 A US 3406920A
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  • An abrading member such as in the form of a plurality of inwardly directed elastic tongues, is provided on the inner surface of the sleeve and is engageable with the reserve winding of the coil.
  • the sleeve together with the abrading member, on the one hand, and the coil, on the other hand, are relatively rotatable so as to abrade the reserve winding and release the starting end of the wound thread therefrom.
  • My invention relates to device for freeing or releasing the starting end of a thread wound on a coil, such as a supply coil, which has been held fast by a reserve Winding such as a tip bunch or a foot bunch. More particularly, my invention relates to such a device having an abrading element relatively rotatable with the coil, and means for directing an air current in a direction substantially axial to the coil.
  • the aforementioned known devices are not adequate for releasing thread ends held fast by a tip bunch, especially with yarn that becomes easily entangled.
  • the operation of the known devices is completely insufiicient for removing the starting end of a thread held fast by a foot bunch, for example of a spinning cop, since, as is well known, the spool core of a spinning cop has a greater diameter at its lowermost end than at that location at which the thread end is held fast in the form of a foot bunch.
  • other dilficulties in that respect are presented because the starting end and the tail end of the thread of the cop are usually intertwined or twisted one with the other.
  • I provide a device for releasing the starting end of a thread by loosening the tip or foot bunch holding it fast, in which, for example, an abrading element is provided for destroying, tearing, pulpifying or similarly attacking the reserve winding or wherein an abrading element loosens the tightly wound structure of the winding by exerting a turning moment on the winding in the unwinding direction thereof, and the loosened winding is then removed by an air current.
  • an abrading element is provided for destroying, tearing, pulpifying or similarly attacking the reserve winding or wherein an abrading element loosens the tightly wound structure of the winding by exerting a turning moment on the winding in the unwinding direction thereof, and the loosened winding is then removed by an air current.
  • the coil or cop is inserted by an axial movement into the sleeve or the sleeve is slipped over the end of the cop. It has been found that the device according to my invention is particularly elfective when either the sleeve or the cop or both are mounted so that they are axially displaceable relative to one another whereby a plurality of the repeated axial displacements can be superimposed upon the relative rotary motion therebetween.
  • the sleeve is provided with an inner wall having a rough surface which serves as the abrading means.
  • the sleeve is disposed around the cop which is mounted eccentrically thereto, and the rough surface of the inner wall is engageable with the reserve winding, that may be either in the form of a foot bunch or a tip bunch, for abrading the same.
  • the rough surface can be formed, for example, of sandpaper or can have a structure similar to a kitchen grater, and the abraded or loosened thread windings can be removed by means of suction or air current passed through the sleeve.
  • the abrading elements of the sleeve can also consist of bristle brushes which are directed from the inner side of the sleeve against the foot of the cop. It is, moreover, particularly advantageous in accordance with the invention, for the abrading element of the sleeve to be in the form of inwardly directed elastic tongues, because these cannot soil and clog and the released starting end of the thread cannot be hooked thereon. It is also advantageous for the radial spacing of the tongues to correspond to at least the diameter of the coil core when the rotary motion takes place therebetween. These tongues strike against the foot or the tip of the cop and the tip or foot bunch wound thereon and loosen the bunch. The loosened thread windings of the tip or foot bunch are removed by the air current present in the sleeve.
  • a shield is located in front of the sleeve and is nonrotatable relative to the coil whose end is received in the sleeve.
  • the shield is resiliently mounted and extends over at least a portion of the main winding of the coil that is adjacent to the sleeve, and has a shape which corresponds in outline to that of the main winding.
  • the operation of the device constructed in accordance with my invention is improved by having the air current strike the tip or foot bunch, as the case may be, in a helical path within the sleeve.
  • at least one eccentrically disposed opening is provided at the base of the sleeve opposite the end in which the cop end is inserted, and a suction tube is connected, for example, at that opening in the base of the sleeve.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 are diagrammatic fragmentary views, partly in longitudinal section, of two diflferent embodiments of sleeves constructed in accordance with my invention into which a coil end is inserted;
  • FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are more detailed views of the device of my invention, FIG. 3 being a longitudinal sectional view taken along the line IIIIII in FIG. 4 and FIG. 4 being a cross-sectional view taken along the line IVIV in FIG. 3; and
  • FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic view partly in section of the device of my invention incombination with a readying device having a coil supply and removal system.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 there is shown a sleeve H, through which an air stream represented by the wavy lines terminates in an arrowhead is passed.
  • the sleeve H extends over the end of a cop, in this case the foot 1 of a coil 1, and is mounted for rotation about the cop.
  • a band 2 of emery cloth or sandpaper is secured by any suitable means to the inner surface of the sleeve H as shown in FIG. 1, whereas the sleeve H of FIG. 2 has the shape of a kitchen grater on the inner surface thereof.
  • the sandpaper, emery cloth or grater surface rotates respectively in an opposite direction to the direction in which the thread F is wound.
  • the cops 1 are respectively inserted in the sleeves H of the embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2 eccentrically to the sleeves so that the rough surfaces inside the sleeves engage and destroy the foot bunch 3, and the abraded or unraveled thread portions of the foot bunch 3 are removed by a suction air current conducted through the opening 4 provided in the base of the sleeve H.
  • a particularly intense and rapid removal of the abraded thread portions or pulp occurs due to the fact that the air can pass through openings 5 provided in the sleeve H.
  • cop 1 can also be expedient for the cop 1 to be subjected to a slow rotary motion so that other locations respectively of the foot bunch 3 are engageable by the rough surface of the sleeve H.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 there is shown the sleeve H which is rotatable about the cop 1 that is inserted coaxial to the sleeve H.
  • the rotary direction of the sleeve H is opposite to the direction in which the thread is wound on the cop 1.
  • the abrading element of the sleeve H is in the form of inwardly directed elastic tongues 6, 7, 8, 9 having a radial spacing there between, when the sleeve H is in rotary motion, which is at least equal to the diameter of the coil core 1', i.e. these tongues 6 to 9 extend longitudinally in the radial direction so that they each rub against the foot 1 of the coil core at all times.
  • the tongues consist of elastic material and are threaded between the sleeve H and an additional sleeve 10, which is slotted so as to permit passage about the tongues in the radial direction.
  • the tongues 6 to 9 have a slope 6, 8' toward the inner edge thereof.
  • a shield 11 is provided having a form corresponding to the lower portion of the main winding of the coil 1 and having an opening 12 coaxial to the sleeve H which is of such dimention that even the most thickly wound foot bunch can be passed therethrough when the foot 1' of the coil core is inserted into the sleeve H.
  • the shield 11 is supported by at least two bolts 13 and 14 which are mounted displaceably in a supporting member 15, and is subjected to the biasing force of helical compression springs 16 and 17 disposed respectively around the bolts 13 and 14.
  • the shield 11 When no coil 1 is inserted in the device, the shield 11 is held by the springs 16 and 17 at such a level that the stop members 18 and 19 of the bolts 13 and 14 abut the lower surface of the support member 15 as shown in FIG. 3. If, however, a coil 1 is inserted in the device or the device is placed over the foot 1' of the coil core, the shield 11 is shoved so far downwardly by the lower portion of the main winding of the coil 1 that the tongues 6 and 9 engage the foot bunch 3.
  • the abrading element is in the form of elastic tongues which engage the foot 1 of the cop' or the foot bunch 3 wound thereon and, due to the fact that they exert a turning moment on the foot bunch in the unwinding direction thereof, they loosen the structure ofthe bunch or reserve winding.
  • the tail end P which is intertwinted or twisted in most cases with the starting end F" of the thread, is loosened by the rotating tongues and torn off and removed by the suction air current.
  • the individual layers of thread of the foot bunch 3 are sucked away by the suction air current into the suction opening 20 located at the base of the sleeve H. It has been found to be particularly effective when the air current travels in a helical path engaging the foot bunch 3 inside the sleeve H.
  • the bore 20 in the base of the sleeve H is located eccentric thereto.
  • FIG. 5 there is shown the device of my invention in combination with a readying device having mechanism for supplying coils 1 thereto and removing them therefrom.
  • the hollow cores of coils 1 are stuck onto pegs or pins 21 located on a conveyor belt 22.
  • the conveyor belt is operated by a stepping switch 23 respectively for distributing or separately feeding the coils 1 individually to the device of my invention.
  • the stepping switch 23 has an eccentric or cam 24 which acts on a roller 25 of a pivotable double lever 26, 27 and pivots the same in a direction opposing the biasing force of a spring 28.
  • a switching pawl 29 is located at the end of the lever 27 and meshes in a ratchet 30.
  • the rotary ratchet 30 is advanced respectively a single division at a time.
  • a spur gear 31 rigidly secured to the shaft.
  • the spur gear 31 meshes with another gear 32 rigidly mounted on a shaft 33,
  • the conveyor wheel 34 over which the conveyor belt 22 is guided is rigidly mounted on the shaft 33.
  • the transmission ratio between the spur gears 31 and 32 is so chosen that, as the ratchet wheel 30 is advanced one tooth, the conveyor belt 22 is advanced one coil division.
  • a stop 35 is located on the lever arm 26 of the double lever 26, 27 and actuates a switch 36 when the lever 26 is pivoted in the counterclockwise direction shown by the associated arrow in FIG. 5, thereby closing the circuit of the current source 37 to the motors 38 and 39.
  • the circuit of the current source 37 remains closed as long as the roller 25 is in engagement with the circular portion of the eccentric or cam 24.
  • An additional motor can be connected in the circuit of the current source 37 for operating a blower to produce vacuum pressure.
  • An eccentric 41 mounted on a shaft 40 of the motor 38 is driven thereby to carry out a single rotation during the period that the contact 36 remains closed.
  • a roller 42 secured to a lever arm 43 of a double lever 43, 44 engages the eccentric or cam 41.
  • the lever arm 43 is subjected to a biasing action of a tension spring 45.
  • the eccentric or earn 41 is rotated and the double lever 43, 44 is pivoted in a counterclockwise direction.
  • the free end of the lever arm 44 engages in a recess 46 of the support member 15.
  • the support member 15 surrounds the outer race of a pair of ball bearings 47, 48 whereas the inner race thereof is mounted on the hollow shaft 49 which carries the sleeve H.
  • a spacer bushing or sleeve 50 is disposed between both bearings 47 and 48, and the bearings are held in the position indicated in FIG. 5 by a nut 51 and another spacer member 52.
  • a guide sleeve or bushing 55 serves as the means for guiding the support member 15 and is rigidly secured to a plate 56 and provided with a slot 57 to allow for the movement of the lever arm 44.
  • a key 58 is inserted in the guide sleeve 55 and a groove 59 is provided in the support member 15, the key 58 being located in the groove 59.
  • the eccentric or cam 41 has adjacent a large lobe 41a three additional though small lobes 41b to 41d. These cause the sleeve opposite the cop to be axially displaced several times during the operation of the device, that is, during the rotary movement of the sleeve H about the foot 1' of the cop and during the action of the suction air current which is conducted from the suction tube 60 through the bore 20, one or more of these axial movements being of such length that the sleeve H is entirely raised from the foot 1' of the cop.
  • the device operates on the cop shown located above 1, the thread end F being severed and removed by suction and the starting end F" of the thread which has been held fast by the foot bunch is released.
  • the starting end P of the thread held in the bore 20 which is traversed by suction air can be severed in any suitable known manner by a severing device such as a scissors, a knife, or the like, and can thereafter be gripped by mechanical or pneumatic means and made ready for further processing.
  • Device for releasing the starting end of a coil-wound thread held fast by a reserve winding comprising a sleeve member adapted to receive the end of a coil therein and to guide an air current therethrough in a direction substantially axial to the coil, and abrading means provided on the inner surface of said sleeve and engageable with the reserve winding of the coil, said sleeve together with said abrading means on the one hand and the coil on the other hand being relatively rotatable so as to abrade the reserve Winding and release the starting end of the wound thread therefrom.
  • said abrading means comprises a plurality of inwardly directed, elastic tongue elements.
  • said abrading means comprises a plurality of inwardly directed, elastic tongue elements, said tongue elements having an end facing toward the end of the coil received in said sleeve, said end of said tongue elements having a slope corresponding substantially to the contour of the main winding of the coil.
  • Device including a shield located adjacent said sleeve and being nonrotatable relative to the coil whose end is received in said sleeve, said shield being resiliently mounted and extending over at least a portion of the main winding of the coil adjacent said sleeve.

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