US3552555A - Apparatus for charging a textile machine with creel bobbins or the like - Google Patents

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US3552555A
US3552555A US741030A US3552555DA US3552555A US 3552555 A US3552555 A US 3552555A US 741030 A US741030 A US 741030A US 3552555D A US3552555D A US 3552555DA US 3552555 A US3552555 A US 3552555A
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Rudolf Jenny
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D45/00—Looms with automatic weft replenishment
    • D03D45/20—Changing bobbins, cops or other loom components carried by the shuttle
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H67/00—Replacing or removing cores, receptacles, or completed packages at paying-out, winding, or depositing stations
    • B65H67/06—Supplying cores, receptacles, or packages to, or transporting from, winding or depositing stations
    • 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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  • a pair of platform members are disposed in spaced and superimposed relationship with respect to one another.
  • Means serve to mount the platform members so as to be displaceable relative to the transport device.
  • These platform members are located transverse with respect to the transport device, for instance either substantially perpendicular thereto or in such a manner as to enclose an acute angle which opens towards the top.
  • a respective supply container for the bobbins is removably mounted at each platform member.
  • Each of the supply containers has an opening at the side facing the transport device.
  • positioning means controllable as a function of the depletion of bobbins in one of the supply containers and the loaded condition of the transport device with bobbins are operably connected with the platform members for bringing about in dependency upon one another an alternate positioning of the respective platform members and the respective supply containers located thereon at the transport device.
  • the present invention is concerned with the provision of an improved apparatus which allows for thecharging or loading of a textile machine with'creel bobbins or the like in a considerably more rational and controlled manner.
  • a further significant and more detailed object 'of the present invention relates to an improved apparatus for charging a textile machine with bobbins or the like in a highly efficient and reliable manner, resulting in less down times and a much better control of the charging operation, so that a supply of bobbins will always be available forthe associated textile machine.
  • Another important object of the present invention relates to an improved apparatus for reliably, quickly and positively charging textile machines with bobbins or the like, wherein the apparatus is relatively simple in construction, extremely reliable in operation, inexpensive to manufacture, requires a minimum of supervision, and is not readily subject to breakdown.
  • the inventive apparatus for charging or loading a textile machine with creel bobbins utilizes a lifting device or elevator for removing the creel bobbins from a supply container or the like
  • the lifting device or elevator may be in the form of an endless transport band or chain which is inclined with respect to the vertical.
  • the invention contemplates the provision of two-platforms which are superimposed and spaced from one another with respect to the inclinedarranged transport device. These platforms are mounted to be movable relative to the aforesaid transport device. Furthermore, theplatforms serve as support means for a respective removable supply container which isopen at the side confronting the transport device. Additionally, these platforms are preferably either disposed perpendicular to the transport device or enclose together with such transport device an acute angle which opens towards the top.
  • positioning means such as especially for instance switching lever means, kingpin means or electromagnetic means, which can be controlled as a function of the empty condition of one of the supply containers and the loaded condition of the transport device, are in operable association or connection with the platforms to bring about an alternate positioning of these platforms and the supply containers supported thereby at the transport device in dependency upon one another.
  • the inventive apparatus there can be provided at least one blocking or locking device for fixing the operable position of the one or the other platform which has been applied in proper working relationship to the transport device.
  • This locking device can engage with one of the platforms or with the positioning means for the platforms and can be controlled asa function of the empty condition of one of the supply containers and the loaded condition of the transport device.
  • the locking device can incorporate asolenoidThis solenoid is then arranged in the electric circuit of a first feeler member for supervising or monitoring the empty condition of one of the us supply containers, a second feeler member for supervising or monitoring the empty condition of the other supply container, and a third feeler member for supervising the loaded condition of the transport device.
  • This locking device is situated at least at the region or zone of engagement of the transport device with the supply container.
  • it is advantageous to provide a signaling device which is connected in parallel with the solenoid, in order to indicate each change of the supply containers with respect to the transport device.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic and perspective illustration of a preferred embodiment of the invention serving for charging or loading a textile machine with creel bobbins or the like and utilizing two supply containers;
  • FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram of the electric drive arrangement for thetransport band or the like of the apparatus depicted in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a circuitdiagram of the electric control device for carrying out an exchange of the supply container at the apparatus shown in FIG. I;
  • FIGS. 46 depict the movement of the bobbins from the supply containers into the transport band; and FIG. 7 schematically depicts the preferred construction of a typical supply container.
  • FIG. I the exemplary embodiment of'inventive apparatus for loading or charging a textile machine with creel bobbins or the like, which machine has not been shown by way of convenience in the drawings in order to preserve clarity in illustration, embodies a lifting device or elevator means, here shown in the form of an endless transport band or chain 1.
  • This transport band 1 is equipped with entrainment ledges 2 or the like and is guided or trained over drum or roller members 3 and 4, Furthermore, the transport band 1 is driven by a suitable drive motor, such as the electric motor 5 which is operably coupled with one of the drum members, such as drum member 4, as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the transport band 1 is mounted via the drum members 3 and 4 in a nonillustrated frame of the machine and possesses a sli ht inclination with respect to the vertical.
  • the inclined arrangement of the transport band l is provided for the purpose of preventing the creel bobbins 30 or the like bearing upon the entrainment ledges 2 from dropping out of their associated compartments at the transport band 1 during such time as these bobbins 30 are transported or conveyed upwardly by such transport band 1.
  • platform members 6 and 7 neighboring the aforementioned transport band 1 are two superimposed and spacedly arranged platform members 6 and 7 which are mounted, as will be explained further shortly, to be displaceable transversely with respect to the transport band 1.
  • These platform members 6 and 7 serve as displaceable support means for a respective supply container 8 such as is more clearly illustrated in FIG. 7, or the like.
  • the platform members 6 and 7 are mounted so that they preferrably possess a slight inclination with respect to the transport band 1, and, specifically in such a manner that, the platform members 6 and 7 form or enclose together with the transport band 1 an acute angle which opens towards the top.
  • lever members 9 are rotatably mounted by means of their centrally arranged bearing journals or pins 10 at the nonillustrated machine frame.
  • the lever members 9 which extend approximately vertically carry at each upper free end the platform member 6 and at their opposite lower free end the platform member 7, whereby the connections are always carried out to be pivotable.
  • a rocking or pivoting of the lever members 9 in clockwise direction brings about an application of the upper platform member 6 at the lifting device or elevator 1, for instance in the form of the transport band, and a removal of the lower platform member 7 from such lifting device.
  • a rocking or pivoting of the lever members 9 in the counterclockwise direction causes the upper platform member 6 to be moved away from the lifting device 1 and simultaneously applies the lower platform member 7 to such lifting device.
  • the armature of a solenoid 14 or the like selectively engages with lockinggrooves 12 or 13, for the one or the other position, provided at a segmental disc 11 located at least at one of the lever members 9.
  • This locking device can be, of course, replaced by a dilTerent type of locking arrangement, for instance a lever system.
  • These feeler members 16 and 17 are capable of signaling'the empty'condition of the associated supply container 8.
  • a further feeler member 18 provided at the transport band 1, as shown in FIG. 1 is capable of directly determining the loaded condition of the transport band 1 above the region of the upper supply container 8 and to signal this condition.
  • the solenoid 14 is advantageously arranged in an electric circuit which is supplied by a suitable voltage source 15, such as the battery means As will be recognized by referring to FIG. 3, the solenoid 14 is connected in series with a contact 118 and with the parallelly arranged contacts 116 and 117 of the feeler members 16 and 17 respectively.
  • a suitable voltage source 15 such as the battery means
  • these supply containers 8 are each provided at their end faces directed towards the transport band 1 with a cutout or recess portion 50 which slightly exceeds in width the lengthwise extension of the entrainment ledges 2 of the transport band 1 which enter into the containers 8.
  • the marginal regions of the cutaway walls of the cutout portion 50 of the containers prevent the bobbins from falling laterally out of the associated container.
  • the feeler members l6, l7 and 18 are each equipped with a respective contact 116, 117 and 118, respectively, the closing of which results in the transmission of a signal.
  • the feeler members 16 and 17 are provided with a suitable switch key pin or the like just as the feeler member 18 is provided with the switch key or feeler element 19.
  • These switch keys or pins are contacted by the spools or bobbins 30 located in the containers 8, resulting in the associated contact being retained in its open position. Consequently, an absence of bobbins in the relevant container 8 or in the compartments of the transport band 1 located above the uppermost container 8 results in the delivery of a signal.
  • the mode of operation of the aforedescribed apparatus is as follows:
  • the drive of the transport band 1, as a general rule, occurs in stepwise fashion through the height or width of a compartment of the transport band, in accordance with the requirement for creel bobbins at the machine and in accordance with the loaded condition of the compartment at the transport band 1 which serves to deliver a bobbin to the machine.
  • reference numeral 22 designates a preparatory container. If this preparatory container 22 requires a bobbin, then this will be indicated by closing the associated contact 122, whereupon the electrical circuit for the electric drive motor S'is closed and the transport band 1 moves further through the spacing of one compartment.
  • the uppermost or, so-called preparatory compartment 2a disposed at the top of the transport band of FIG. 1 can deliver its creel bobbin or the like to any suitable transport means such as depicted in U.S. Pat. No. 3,380,677 which delivers such bobbin to the preparatory container 22.
  • a feeler member 21 (FIG. 1) scans this compartment.
  • the feeler member 21 by means of its contact 121, which is arranged parallel to the contact mat the electric circuit of FIG. 2, causes the transport band 1 through the agency of the drive motor 5 to remain in motion forsuch length of time until this feeler member 21 indicates or senses the presence of a creel bobbin 30 at the preparatory compartment of the aforementioned transport band 1.
  • this containerfi is, for instance, placed upon the lower platform 7 at the transport band i, in the position shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 4, and is locked in this position by means of the solenoid l4.
  • the entrainment ledges 2 of such band 1 individually enter into the associated operably disposed supply container 8, and as depicted in FIG. 6, remove one bobbin after the other out of such supply container and convey such towards the-top.
  • the inclined position of the supply container 8 insures that the bobbins which are spaced from the transport band 1 will automatically move towards the transport band 1 until even the last bobbin is engaged and carried away by such transport hand 1'. Furthermore, the previously mentioned close positioning of the upper edge of the container 8 at the transport band 1 renders possible a relatively gentle pressing of the entrainment ledges 2 into the bobbin stack within the associated supply container 8, as is test illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6.
  • the lever members 9 automatically pivot in clockwise direction without the aid of any additional means. This causes the upper full supply container 8 to be placed in operable association with the transport band I and the lower empty container to be removed away from such transport band 1.
  • the transport band 1 is capable of removing further creel bobbins from the upper full supply container 18, whereby at the same time the solenoid 14 is also switched out or deenergized and such solenoid once again locks the lever member 9 equipped with the grooved segment member 11 in the groove position 12.
  • the switching operation at the solenoid 14 can furthermore be simultaneously indicated by a parallelly connected lamp 35 or the like and/or by means of an acoustical signaling device. This will indicate to the operator the depleted condition of one of the supply containers 8, and he can then exchange such depleted supply container 8 for a full one, in order to prepare the apparatus for a new exchange operation of the containers in the aforedescribed manner.
  • each platform member could-be constructed to provide a sled which can be properly positioned at the transport band or the like by means of runners or wheels, or equivalent structure, whereby a kingpin or alternately engaging electromagnetic means bring about the alternate proper positioning or placement of the sleds in dependency of one another.
  • An apparatus for charging a textile machine, especially a winding machine or loom, with creel bobbins or the like; comprising lifting means for the removal of bobbins from a supply container, said lifting means comprising a transport device arranged at an inclination with respect to the vertical, a pair of platform members disposed in spaced and superimposed relationship with respect to one another, means for displaceably mounting said platform members relative to said transport device, said platform members being positioned substantially transverse with respect to said transport device, a respective supply container for bobbins removably mounted at each platform member, each of said supply containers having an opening at the side facing said transport device, positioning means controllable as a function of the depletion of bobbins in one of said supply containers and the loaded condition of said transport device with bobbins, said positioning means being operably connected with said platform members for bringing about in dependency of one another an alternate positioning of the respective platform members and the respective supply containers carried thereby at the transport device.
  • said positioning means comprises at least one double-armed lever member which is pivotably mounted, said double-armed lever member having one arm connected with one of said platform members and the opposite arm connected with the other of said platform members.

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