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US3552308A
US3552308A US779120A US3552308DA US3552308A US 3552308 A US3552308 A US 3552308A US 779120 A US779120 A US 779120A US 3552308D A US3552308D A US 3552308DA US 3552308 A US3552308 A US 3552308A
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  • variable speed drive mechanism 101/74; 101/248; 226/42 and a strand advancing mechanism drive respective signal [51] Int. Cl. .4 ..B4lf 17/10, generating devices, the signals of which are compared to 1341f 13/ 12: B65h 23/ 18 produce a coarse analog control signal representative of any [50] Field of Search l0l/36, 37, difference therebetween.
  • apparatus for measuring the length of the cable and for printing the sequential footage markings thereon have been proposed.
  • apparatus is known in which a measuring and printing wheel mechanism has its periphery frictionally engaged with the longitudinally advancing cable so that it is'rotatably driven by the cable.
  • a printing wheel mechanism rides in peripheral engagement with the cable, but one or more drive wheels are driven by the cable through frictional engagement therewith and these wheels then drive the printing wheel mechanism through a suitable drive system.
  • the printing wheel mechanism in order that the printing wheel mechanism will exert no drag on the cable and, cause slippage between the printing wheel mechanism and the cable, the
  • - printing wheel mechanism is rotatably driven by a motor an amount sufficient to overcome the effect of friction in the mountings for the printing wheel mechanism.
  • pressure rollers are used to urge the cable against the printing wheel and/or the drive wheels so as to increase the frictional resistance between the cable and the wheels and to reduce Apparatus as above-described have not proven satisfactory in the past because the measurement of the cables length and the sequential footage markings'printed on the cable have been found to be inaccurate. Accordingly, to insure that the required footage of cable was actually wound on'each reel it was necessary to utilize a relatively large safety factor and to wind an amount of cable on each reel in excess of the amount required on the reel.
  • An object of the invention is to provide a new and improved method and apparatus for synchronizing the movement of a first article and a second article.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a new and improved method and apparatus for synchronizing the movement of a rotating member and a linearly moving article.
  • a still further object of the invention is to provide a new and improved method and apparatus for synchronizing the movement of a rotating member and a longitudinally advancing strand.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a new and improved method and apparatus for measuring the length of a longitudinally advancing strand and marking the strand at preselected accurately spaced intervals.
  • synchronizing the speed of movement of a first article and a second article involves generating a coarse analogue control signal representative of any difference between the speeds of a power driven means 7 for causing movement of the first article and a variable speed drive means for causing movement of the second article, and generating an overriding fine analogue control signal representative of any difference between the speed of the variable speed drive means and the speed of a control member being driven in response to the actual speed of the first article.
  • the coarse and fine analogue control signals then are combined to produce a signal for controlling the speed of the variable speed drive means, and thus the speed of movement of the second article.
  • measuring the length of a continuously advancing strand and printing markings on the strand at accurate'ly spaced intervals with a rotatable printing wheel mechanism involves generating a coarse analogue control signal representative of any difference between the speed of a strand advancing means and a variable speed drive means for rotating the printing wheel mechanism. Further, a digital signal representative of the speed of a control wheel which is rotatably driven by the longitudinally advancing strand through frictional engagement therewith, and a digital signal representative of the rotational speed of the variable speed drive means, are compared and utilized to generate an overriding fine analogue control-signal representative of any difference therebetween. The coarse and fine analogue control signals then are combined to produce a signal for controlling the rotational speed of the variable speed drive means, and thus of the printing wheel mechanism.
  • FIG. 1 of the drawing shows the invention as applied to the measuring of the length of a continuous strand in the form of a jacketed communication cable 11, and to the printing of sequential footage markings 12 on the cable as illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • the cable 11 is advanced from left to right in FIG. 1 from a supply reel (not shown) and through an extruder (not shown) for extruding a plastic jacket thereon, by a tractor-type capstan l3. Ultimately, the jacketed cable 11 is wound on a takeup reel 14 by a power driven takeup mechanism 16.
  • the capstan 13 is conventional in nature and preferably is provided with slip clutches to preclude damage to the cable in the event that the takeup mechanism 16 should overdrive the capstan.
  • the mechanism 17 includes a printing wheel 18 having a printing head 19 incorporated therein and rotatable therewith, and the printing wheel is connected to drive a footage counter 21, in a manner well-known to those skilled in the art.
  • the mechanism 17 also includes an upper set of rotatably mounted cable guideidler wheels 22 and a lower set of rotatably mounted cable support idler wheels 23.
  • 'support wheels 23 are movable vertically in any suitable manner between a lower position as shown in dashed lines in 7 FIG. 1, in which the cable 11 can be strung over them, andan speed drive 24, through a suitable gear reduction system 26.
  • variable speed drive 24 is shownasincluding an AC motor 27, an eddy current clutch 28 and an eddy current brake 29;
  • the variable speed drive 24 could be aDC motor having its armature current and field excitation regulated to control its speed in a well-known manner.
  • the speed of the drive 24, and thus of the printing wheel 18, is controlled by a regulator circuit 30 connected to feed a speed increase or a speed decrease signal to the drive.
  • the eddy current brake 29 of the drive 24pmv ides rapid deceleration of the printing wheel 18 when a speed decrease signal is received from theregulator 30 and provides close regulation of the printing wheels speed during normal running conditions.
  • the speedincrease or speed decrease signal for the drive 24 is produced by the regulator 30 in response to a coarse analogue control signal from a comparator circuit 31 and/or a fine analogue control signal from a composite add-subtract digital counter and digital to analogue converter circuit 32, with any fine analogue control signal from this counterconverter circuit being amplified so as to override any coarse analogue control signal from the com-
  • the comparator 31, which may be of any suitable type, forms a part of a feedback system which also includes a first tachometer generator 33 (master) driven by capstan l3, and a second tachometer generator 34 (slave) driven by the variable speed drive 24 through the gear reduction system 26.
  • the reference signal from the first tachometer generator 33 which is representative of the drive speed of the capstan 13, and the feedback signal from the second tachometer generator 34, which is-representative of the rotational speed of the variable speed drive 24, both feed to the comparator 31.
  • the comparator 31 detects any difference between the two signals and produces a coarse analogue control signal which is representative of the difference and which feeds to the regulator 30;
  • the fine analogue control signal is produced by a system which includes a master reference or control wheel 36, preferably of the same circumference as the printing wheel 18, and having its periphery tangentially engaged with the advancing jacketed cable 11 so that it is rotatably driven by the cable through friction.
  • a master reference or control wheel 36 preferably of the same circumference as the printing wheel 18, and having its periphery tangentially engaged with the advancing jacketed cable 11 so that it is rotatably driven by the cable through friction.
  • the cable travels through a guide assembly 37 and the master control wheel is suitably biased into engagement with the cable from above in any suitable manner.
  • the guide assembly 37 includes a horizontally extending support 370 and a pair of guide rollers 37b (only one shown) arranged to form a V-shaped nest in which the cable is received.
  • a master control wheel 36 As the master control wheel 36 is rotated by the jacketed cable 11 it drives a footage counter 38 in a manner wellknown to those skilled in the art.
  • the master control wheel 36 also drives a first rotary transducer 39 (master) which generates impulses to provide a digital signal represeri'ta'ti 6f the rotational speed atfwhich the master control wheel is being driye'nby the advancing jacketed cable 11.
  • the variable speed drive 24, through the the gear reduction system 26, drives a second rio ⁇ tary transducer 41 (slave) which 'g'ene rates'impulses to pro ⁇ vide a digital signal representative of thfirotatibnals'peed of the drive, and thus of the printingavheel 1811 11: digital signals feed to the composite counterconverter circuit;3L 1
  • the composite counterconverten-circuit 32 provides'a pulse to pulse comparison of the digital isignalsgto determine whether the impulses being received from'the secondrotary transducer 41 are the same as, less than,:or greater than'the impulses being received from the first rotary transducer 39 and produces a resultant fine analogue control "signal representative of any difference.
  • impulses from the two rotary transducers 39 and 41 are counted and compared in a suitable add-subtract digital counter portionof the composite counterconverter circuit 32, thus eliminating the need for a time base in establishing an error signal.
  • the resultant error signal from the add-subtract digital counter portion of the counterconverter circuit 32 then is transformed into the fine analogue control signal in a digital to analogue converterport'ion of thecounterconverter circuit.
  • The'fine analogue control signal ' will be of positive or negative polarity, depending on whether the slave rotary transducer 41' is producing more or less impulses than the master rotary transducer 39, respectively, and will continue tobe produced until the impulses fromthetwo rotary transducers are equal.
  • the fine analogue control signal isfed tothe drive regulator 30 through a suitable DC amplifier 42 which amplifies ,the
  • variable speed drive 24 is running too 'fastiand'the composite counterconverter circuit 32 produces a *signaiaot proper polarity callingfor a decrease in the drives speed, whereas if the impulses from the slave rotary transducer are less than those from the master rotary transducenthe drive is running too slow and the composite counterconverterycircuit produces a signal of proper polarity calling for an increase -in the drives speed. If the number of impulses from the .two. r0"- tary transducers 39-and 41. is the same,the compositecounterconverter circuit 32 :Iproduces no signal atits output and the variable speed drive 24 continues to run at its existing speed,
  • the drive regulator 30, which is responsive to the coarse and fine analogue control signals from the comparator 31 and the composite counterconverter circuit 32 to produce the speed increase and speed decrease signals for the variable speed drive 24, may be of a conventional .type such as the Model MD-2CB controller of the Louis Allis Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the composite counterconverter circuit 32 may be the Model 18 D40 unit (known as a digital ratio controller") of the Dynapar'Corporation of Gurnee,.ll
  • the illustrated embodiment of the invention is designed to produce the sequential. footage markings 12 on the cable 11 every 2 feet, and for this purpose the printing wheel '18 and the master control wheel 36 preferably are both 2 feet in circumference. With wheels 18 and 36 0f this size, favorable results in measuring and marking accuracy. have beenachieved'with the rotary transducers 39 and 41-set to produce 1200 impulses per revolution (600impulses per foot). In the event that the circumference of the master control wheel 36 is not exactly equal to thedesired marking interval (such as 2 feet) the accuracy of the system can be improved by programming a compensating error count verter circuit 32.
  • the cable 11 is advanced from left to right in FIG. 1 by thecapstan 13 and subsequently is wound on the takeup reel 14 by the takeup mechanism 16.
  • the printing wheel 18 of the printing mechanism 17 is rotatably driven by the variable speed drive 24 through the gear reduction system 26.
  • themaster control wheel 36 drives the first ro-- tary transducer 39, which generates impulses to provide a digital signal representative of the speed at which the master control wheel is being rotatably driven by the cable 11.
  • the variable speed drive 24, which is driving the printing wheel 18 and the first tachometer generator 34 through the gear reduction system 26, also drives the second rotary transducer 41*through the gear reduction system.
  • rotary transducer 41 generates impulses to provide a digital signal representative of the driving speed of the variable speed drive 24, and thus of the rotational speed of the printing wheel 18.
  • the digital signals both feed to the composite countercon- If the composite counterconverter circuit 32 detects that a difference of one or more impulses exists between the digital signals from the rotary transducers 39 and 41, .it produces a fine analogue control signal representative of the difference. This control signal then feeds from the output of the composite counterconverter circuit 32 to the drive regulator through the DC amplifier 42 and overrides any coarse analogue control signalbeing received by the regulator fromthe comparator 31.
  • the drive regulator 30 in response to any coarse and fine analogue control signals received from the comparator 31 and the composite counterconverter circuit 32, produces an analogue speed increase or speed decrease signal, as the case may be, which signal then is fed to the variable speed drive 24.
  • the eddy current brake 29 helps insure greater printing accuracy by providing fast deceleration of the drive and the printing wheel 18.
  • the printing wheel 18 drives the footage counter 2i and the master control wheel 36 drives the footage counter 38.
  • the readings on the footage counters 21 and 38 in addition to providing an indication of when the required length of the'cable 11 has been wound on the reel 14, can be compared during and at the end of a cable run and used as a check on whether the measuring and printing system is functioning accurately.
  • analogue control signal representative of the combined coarse and fine analogue control signals to control the driving speed of the drive means for the rotatable marking mechanism.
  • Apparatus for synchronizing the speed of movement of a first article and a second article which comprises:
  • variable speed drive means for-causing movement of the second article
  • first signal producing means for producing a coarse analogue control signal representative of any difference between the speed of said power driven means and said variable speed drive means
  • control member driven in response to the actual speed of movement of the first article
  • second signal producing means for producing a fine analogue control signal representative of any difference between the speed of said control member and the speed of said variable speed drive means and of a magnitude such that it will override any coarse analogue control signal produced by said first signal producing means
  • controlling means for controlling the speed of said variable speed drive means and thus of the movement of the second article, said controlling means being responsive to any coarse and fine analogue control signals produced by said first and second signal producing means.
  • said first signal producing means includes-signal generating devices driven by said power driven means and said variable speed drive'means;
  • said second signal producing means includes digital signal generating devices driven by said control member and said variable speed drive means.
  • said power driven means moves the first article in a linear patlr
  • variable speed drive means rotates the second article.
  • said power driven means moves the strand longitudinally
  • said power driven means advances the strand longitudinally; said variable speed drive means rotates the second article;
  • Apparatus for marking an article which comprises: power driven means for advancing the article; a rotatable article marking mechanism; variable speed drive means for rotating said article marking mechanism; first signal producing means for producing a coarse analogue control signal representative of any difference between the speed of said article advancing means and the rotational speed of said variable speed drive means; a control member driven in response to the actual speed of advancement of the article; second signal producing means .for producing a fine analogue control signal representative of any difference between the speed of said control member and the rota tional speed of said variable speed drive means, and of a magnitude such that it will..override any coarse analogue control signal produced by said first signal-xproducing means; and g means for controlling the rotational speed of said variable speed drive means and thus of said article marking mechanism, said controlling means "
  • Apparatus for marking an article inwhich: I said first signal producing means inente's "sig'iia'l devices driven by said article adva'ningmeansand said variable speed drive means; and 1 f'- said second signal producing means includes digital signal generating devices driven by said control inembe'r and said variable speed drive means.
  • Apparatus for marking an article as recited in claim- 12, in which the article is an elongated continuous strand which is to be marked at accurately spaced intervals, and in which:
  • said article advancing means advances the strand longitudinally;
  • said rotatable article marking mechanism includes a printing head carried by a printing wheel having a preselected circumference and having its periphery engaged with the longitudinally advancing strand; and said control member is a? rotatable wheel having a preselected circumference and having its periphery fric tionally engaged with the longitudinally advancing strand whereby it is rotatably driven by the strand,
  • first and second signal generating devices drivenby the first I strand advancing means and said variablespeed drive means, respectively, to produ Sfipara'te signals representative of the speed of the first strand advancing means and the rotational speed of said variable speed drive means;
  • v 1 first circuit means forcomp'aring the signals from first and second signal generating devices and for producing a Q coarse analogue control signal representative of any difference between the signals;
  • second rcircuit means for comparing thedigital signals and for converting any difference between the-digital signals "to a fine analogue control signal which is representative of the difference and which is of a magnitude such that it mechanism, said controlling means being responsive to any coarse and fine analogue control signals produced by said first signal comparing circuit means and said digital to analogue signal converting means.

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