US3628030A - Broken end detection system for warpers utilizing novel optical system - Google Patents

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US3628030A
US3628030A US80943A US3628030DA US3628030A US 3628030 A US3628030 A US 3628030A US 80943 A US80943 A US 80943A US 3628030D A US3628030D A US 3628030DA US 3628030 A US3628030 A US 3628030A
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Lawrence Creigh Nickell
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • D04B27/00—Details of, or auxiliary devices incorporated in, warp knitting machines, restricted to machines of this kind
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H63/00—Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions ; Quality control of the package
    • B65H63/02—Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions ; Quality control of the package responsive to reduction in material tension, failure of supply, or breakage, of material
    • B65H63/024—Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions ; Quality control of the package responsive to reduction in material tension, failure of supply, or breakage, of material responsive to breakage of materials
    • B65H63/028—Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions ; Quality control of the package responsive to reduction in material tension, failure of supply, or breakage, of material responsive to breakage of materials characterised by the detecting or sensing element
    • B65H63/032—Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions ; Quality control of the package responsive to reduction in material tension, failure of supply, or breakage, of material responsive to breakage of materials characterised by the detecting or sensing element electrical or pneumatic
    • B65H63/0321—Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions ; Quality control of the package responsive to reduction in material tension, failure of supply, or breakage, of material responsive to breakage of materials characterised by the detecting or sensing element electrical or pneumatic using electronic actuators
    • B65H63/0324—Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions ; Quality control of the package responsive to reduction in material tension, failure of supply, or breakage, of material responsive to breakage of materials characterised by the detecting or sensing element electrical or pneumatic using electronic actuators using photo-electric sensing means, i.e. the defect signal is a variation of light energy
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D02—YARNS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; WARPING OR BEAMING
    • D02H—WARPING, BEAMING OR LEASING
    • D02H13/00—Details of machines of the preceding groups
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D51/00—Driving, starting, or stopping arrangements; Automatic stop motions
    • D03D51/18—Automatic stop motions
    • D03D51/20—Warp stop motions
    • D03D51/28—Warp stop motions electrical
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • D04B35/00—Details of, or auxiliary devices incorporated in, knitting machines, not otherwise provided for
    • D04B35/10—Indicating, warning, or safety devices, e.g. stop motions
    • 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 broken end detector for a warper wherein a detector head unit has a light source, a phototransistor and a beam splitter mirror and first and second lenses with a front surface mirror therebetween to intercept light traveling from the source through the first lens and redirect the light at right angles through the second lens as a monitoring beam spanning the width of the yarn sheet immediately below the warper measuring roll.
  • a target unit having a lens. a 45mirror. and a retroreflective surface at the other edge of the yarn sheet retroreflects light from the beam back along the beam axis to the detector head lenses and mirrors and the phototransistor 2th 2 .1
  • a target unit having a lens. a 45mirror. and a retroreflective surface at the other edge of the yarn sheet retroreflects light from the beam back along the beam axis to the detector head lenses and mirrors and the phototransistor 2th 2 .1
  • the present invention relates to a broken end detector system for use with warpers, and more particularly to an optical system for producing a narrow light beam close to the measuring roll of a warper between the measuring roll and the warper beam adjacent the yarn sheet formed of a large group of yarns moving substantially in unison in side by side relation downwardly from the measuring roll, together with means to produce an electrical signal when a broken yarn end passes through the light beam to cause stopping of he warper.
  • Feeding of yarns in large groups as yarn sheets occurs in many different types of yard-handling apparatus, such as knitting machines, particularly of the tricot or warp-knitting machine type, in weaving machines, in feeding of yarns from a warping machine or warper to the beam or beams of knitting machines, and similar yarn making and textile manufacturing installations.
  • knitting machines particularly of the tricot or warp-knitting machine type
  • weaving machines in feeding of yarns from a warping machine or warper to the beam or beams of knitting machines, and similar yarn making and textile manufacturing installations.
  • warpers introduce particular problems, because they produce vibration which would be hard for conventional transmitter and receiver-type photoelectric systems to tolerate, and it has been most difficult to find appropriate locations where such conventional photoelectric systems could be mounted on a warper.
  • An object of the present invention is the provision ofa novel broken end detector system for use with warpers, which provides a high signal-to-noise ratio and is capable of tolerating the vibration encountered in warpers, and which is constructed so as to be accommodated on a warper in a configuration suitable for mounting in the space available near the measuring roll of the warper.
  • the system of the present invention involves a detector head having a light source and a phototransistor located at one side of the yarn sheet, and a retroreflective target unit located at the other side of the yarn sheet, collectively producing a narrow light beam which is positioned very near the surface of the yarn sheet closely adjacent the warper measuring roll arranged so that a broken end traveling at several hundred yards per minute will go through the light beam and cause an electrical signal to be produced while the normal yarn sheet bends around the measuring roll and goes to the warper beam.
  • FIG. I is a perspective view of a typical warper having the broken end detector system of the present invention mounted thereon;
  • FIG. 2 is a somewhat diagrammatic, fragmentary vertical sectionview through the warper measuring roll and adjacent portions of the yarn sheet, taken along the line 2-2 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a complete broken end detector system ofthe present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic view of the optical system of the present invention, with the detector head and the target unit shown in section, taken along the line 4-4 of FIG. 2; and
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the preamplifier circuit employed in an embodiment of the detector head.
  • the broken end detector system of the present invention includes the basic components of a detector head unit I0 and a target unit II, which are designed to be mounted on the frame portions 120 and 12b in which the ends of the shaft ofa warper measuring roll 13 of a typical warper 14 are journaled.
  • the supply yarns 15 are drawn to the measur ing roll I3 where they bend around the measuring roll and travel as a yarn sheet, indicated at 16 to the warper beam I7.
  • the optical system of the detector head unit 10 and target unit 11 is designed to produce a narrow light beam closely adjacent the surface of the yarn sheet 16 just beyond the point where the yarn sheet leaves the surface of the measuring roll 13 and begins its downwardly inclined travel to the warper beam I7.
  • the monitoring light beam 18 is so located that a broken end ofyarn, indicated at 19, in FIG. 2, which is traveling at several hundred yards per minute, will pass through the light beam I8 while the rest of the yarn making up the yarn sheet I6 travels around the measuring roll and down the inclined planar path 16a to the warper beam.
  • the broken end detector system is able to detect any broken ends that have been missed by other detection systems such as the drop wire type or any broken ends that have occurred between such detection systems and the measuring roll of the warper.
  • a narrow light beam 18 is desirable so that the broken end will block as much of the total light beam as possible in order to produce a good signal-to-noise ratio.
  • a broken end passes over the measuring roll 13, it may not go forward very far and thus not block very much of a large diameter light beam. This would result in a poor signal-to-noise ratio.
  • a relatively small lens can be used in the reflector target unit which helps reduce the size of the target.
  • a front surface mirror mounted at a 45 angle to change the direction of the light beam by and a suitable hollow mounting block for each mirror is provided for each of the detector head and target unit to permit the head and target to be made in a configuration suitable for mounting in the space available near the measuring roll and to produce the small diameter light beam at the desired location relative to the yarn sheet and measuring roll.
  • the detector head unit 10 comprises an outer casing 20 of generally box-shaped configuration open at one end to receive an apertured plate member 21 forming a wall which is secured to the outer casing 20 by suitable screws.
  • the plate member 21 is provided with an opening forming an optical aperture, which in the illustrated embodiment comprises a smaller diameter opening portion 21a and a larger diameter opening portion 21b, the latter being designed to receive and support a planoconcave lens 22, for example a 25 mm. focal length planoconcave lens, and a resilient O-ring 23. Secured to and extending above the plate member 21 as viewed in HO.
  • the mounting block 24 is a mounting block 24 to be disposed within the casing 20 and rigidly support in proper alignment the lamp 25, a photodetector such as a phototransistor 26, and the semitransparent beam splitter mirror 27.
  • the mounting block 24 is drilled to provide a first bore 28 which is axially aligned with the aperture portion 21a in the plate 21 and has a constricted opening at its upper end near the lamp 25, and to provide a second bore 29 extending at right angles to and communicating with the first bore 28 for receiving the phototransistor 26.
  • a mirror-mounting block 30 is secured to and extends downwardly from the plate member 21 as viewed in FIG. 4, and in the illustrated embodiment is provided with a first bore 3] which in the illustrated embodiment is formed of an upper bore section of smaller diameter corresponding to the diameter of the opening portion 21a and bore 28 and a lower bore section of larger diameter, and a second bore 32 extends through the front wall 300 of the mirror-mounting block and has its axis located at right angles to the bore 31.
  • the mounting block has a surface at its lower end disposed at a 45 angle to the axes of the bores 31 and 32 on which a front surface mirror 33 is supported, for example, by a removable-mounting plate 330 fastened by screws to the block 30.
  • a front planoconvex lens 34 is seated in an enlarged diameter portion of the bore 32 opening through the front surface 30a of the mounting block and is retained in position by an O-ring 35 and lens-mounting ring 36.
  • the lens 34 may be an 87 mm. focal length lens and, in one satisfactory example, the lamp 25 is a tungsten lamp GE number 1876.
  • a small printed circuit board indicated at 37 providing a preamplifier circuit, the schematic diagram for which is illustrated in FIG. 5.
  • the function of the preamplifier circuit 37 is to provide a low-input impedance at the output of the detector head without appreciably loading the phototransistor circuitry.
  • lt includes a calibrating resistor R2 for making the sensitivity of all the detector heads the same.
  • the retroreflective target unit ll comprises an elongated mounting block 40 of rectangular external configuration having a first bore 41 therein extending vertically as illustrated in FIG. 4 from the upper end of the block 40 and joining at its lower end a second bore 42 arranged with its axis at right angles to the axis of the bore 41 and opening through the front wall 400 of the mounting block 40.
  • the end portion of the second bore 42 opening through the front surface 40a is slightly enlarged in diameter to provide a seat for supporting a planoconvex lens 43 which is held in position by an O-ring 44 and a lens-mounting ring 45 secured, for example, by screws to the mounting block 40.
  • a closure plate 46 is removably secured, as by screws, to the top of the mounting block 40 as viewed in FIG.
  • retroreflective tape for example the retroreflective tape manufactured under the trade name SCOTCHLlTE, by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, at the upper end of the first bore 41.
  • the retroreflective tape has the property of returning light along the same path as the incidence light rays regardless of the angle of incidence.
  • the lower end of the block 40 is also provided with a surface inclined at 45 to the axes of bores 41 and 42, against which a front surface mirror 48 is mounted, for example by removable mounting plate 48a fastened to the block by screws.
  • the detector head unit is mounted to one side of the yarn sheet on portions of the warper frame, for example as illustrated in FIG. 1, to produce a monitoring light beam 18 positioned very near the surface of the measuring roll 13 of the warper.
  • the lamp 25 serves as the light source, and light from this lamp passes through the beam splitter mirror 27 to the planoconcave lens 22.
  • the lens 22 produces a virtual image of the lamp filament greatly reduced in size, which approaches a point source, for the front planoconvex lens 34.
  • the light beam which passes through the planoconcave lens 22 is reflected by the front surface mirror 33, mounted at 45 to the axis of the light beam, to the front lens 34.
  • the lens 34 in the preferred example is a 87 mm. focal length lens, and in conjunction with the planoconcave lens 22 produces a small and fairly uniformed diameter light beam of a length suitable for use on the warper.
  • the light beam 18 projected across the width of the yarn sheet from the detector head unit 10 is positioned approximately in the center of the planoconvex lens 43 of the target unit ll and passes through the lens 43 to the surface of the front surface mirror 48 of the target unit 11 which is mounted at a 45 angle to the axis of the light beam and to the axes of the first and second bores 41 and 42.
  • the light beam is reflected from the front surface mirror 48 to the retroreflective tape 47 mounted between the removable plate 46 and the mounting block 40.
  • the focal length of the planoconvex lens 43 is mm. and would normally focus an image of the light source filament on the tape.
  • the dimensions of the target unit are chosen so that the light path from the lens 43 to the tape 47 is about 87.5 mm.
  • Nonuniform tape would cause noise signals to be generated unless they were averaged out by using a sufficient area of the tape.
  • the light reaching the retroreflective tape 47 in the target unit is redirected back along the incident light ray path and returned to the detector head unit where it passes through the front planoconvex lens 34, reflects off the front surface mirror 33, passes through the planoconcave lens 22, and is reflected off the beam splitter mirror 27 to the phototransistor 26.
  • the light beam be fairly constant in diameter from the detector head to the reflector in order to have uniform sensitivity and to maintain a constant distance from the light beam to the measuring roll.
  • the use ofthe optical system of the present invention permits a broken end detector installation on a warper near the measuring roll, which produces a narrow light beam having good uniformity and producing a good signal-to-noise ratio. If the lens 43 had not been used with the target unit 11, much of the reflected light from the retroreflective tape 47 would never have returned to the detector head due to the fact that the tape 47 is not a perfect retroreflector and produces considerable divergence of the light beam at the distances involved.
  • an optical systemproducing a monitoring light beam along said inspection axis and spanning the yarn sheet comprising a detector head mounted at one end of the measuring roll outwardly adjacent one edge of the yarn sheet; said detector head including a lamp having a filament of selected size for producing light, a semitransparent mirror, and a first lens located along a first optical axis segment, a first reflecting mirror inclined at 45 to said first optical axis segment and to a second optical axis segment paralleling said inspection axis, and a second lens located along said second optical axis segment, said lenses and first reflecting mirror coacting to project light from said lamp passing through said semitransparent mirror and lenses and redirected 90 by said
  • said detector head includes a substantially rectangular casing housing the lamp and phototransistor and said first lens and semitransparent mirror, and a hollow mirror mounting block extending therefrom having a first bore along said first optical axis segment terminating in a surface at 45 thereto supporting said first reflecting mirror and having a second bore perpendicularly intersecting the first bore at said first reflecting mirror, said second lens being supported across said second bore.
  • said first lens is a planoconcave lens disposed along said first optical axis segment for receiving light from said lamp transmitted through said semitransparent mirror and said second lens is a planoconvex lens spaced along said second optical axis segment from said second reflecting mirror toward said target assembly for collecting light from the planoconcave lens and focusing the same on said target lens.
  • said first lens is a planoconcave lens disposed along said first optical axis segment for receiving light from said lamp transmitted through said semitransparent mirror and said second lens is a planoconvex lens spaced along said second optical axis segment from said second reflecting mirror toward said target assembly for collecting light from the planoconcave lens and focusing the same on said target lens.

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US3859538A (en) * 1972-11-22 1975-01-07 Stroemberg Oy Ab Fault detector for paper webs
US3906239A (en) * 1974-05-08 1975-09-16 Gte Sylvania Inc Light measuring apparatus for apertured material
US4538536A (en) * 1983-05-11 1985-09-03 Erwin Sick Gmbh Optik-Elektronik Optical apparatus for monitoring for thread breakage
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