US3742986A - Device for forming coils of thread - Google Patents

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US3742986A
US3742986A US00162188A US3742986DA US3742986A US 3742986 A US3742986 A US 3742986A US 00162188 A US00162188 A US 00162188A US 3742986D A US3742986D A US 3742986DA US 3742986 A US3742986 A US 3742986A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D47/00—Looms in which bulk supply of weft does not pass through shed, e.g. shuttleless looms, gripper shuttle looms, dummy shuttle looms
    • D03D47/12—Looms in which bulk supply of weft does not pass through shed, e.g. shuttleless looms, gripper shuttle looms, dummy shuttle looms wherein single picks of weft thread are inserted, i.e. with shedding between each pick
    • D03D47/26—Travelling-wave-shed looms
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  • the present invention relates to a device, having particular use in a loom, for forming coils of thread of a predetermined length, which device includes a rotating element which is located at one end of a coiling member so that rotation of the element winds a series of thread turns around the coiling member
  • coils of thread which consist of individual turns and which all contain the same length of thread.
  • the coils are formed by providing a rotating element which continuously winds a thread around the coiling zone of a coiling member for the thread. As soon as the prescribed number of turns has been wound on the coiling zone, these turns are shifted along the coiling member into a delivery zone of the coiling member as a coil of thread turns having a predetermined length of thread.
  • the coil of thread located in the delivery zone is passed to a shuttle and is inserted as a weft thread into the shed by the shuttle during the weaving process.
  • the present invention is intended to enable the device for forming coils of thread to be adapted in a simple manner to suit a very wide variety of types of yarn in the sense that, in all cases, the mode of operation involves as little friction as possible.
  • the present invention is characterized in that at least one piece of material is provided at the coiling zone of the thread coiling member as coiling member enlarging means to augment the periphery thereof, so that the peripheral extent of the device that is measured around the coiling member and the piece of material in a crosssectional plane of the coiling member is greater at that end of the coiling zone presented to the rotating element than the peripheral extent that is measured in a cross-sectional plane of the coiling member which is at that end of the coiling zone presented to the delivery zone.
  • the arrangement in accordance with the invention offers the additional advantage that the individual thread turns of the coils shifted from the coiling zone to the delivery zone remain neatly disposed in relation to each other. This is an unexpected phenomenon. To prevent the turns of thread, or thread turns, which are disposed side-by-side around the coiling member in the coiling zone from becoming superposed during their displacement, these turns have hitherto been wound relatively tautly. Experience has shown however, that the relatively slack turns, which are formed as the result of the use of the piece or pieces of material provided by this invention at the coiling zone for augmenting at least a portion of the periphery thereof, remain much more neatly arranged alongside each other along the coiling member during their displacement along this member than do the relatively taut turns.
  • Device 10 has a thread coiling member 11 of narrow, blade-like form containing a slot 12 extending through it in its longitudinal direction.
  • the member 11 is rotatably mounted in the rotating member or element 13 by means of the bearing 14.
  • the retaining member 15 prevents the coiling member 11 from turning.
  • the rotating element 13 turns in the direction indicated by the arrow 16 (FIG. 2).
  • the rotating element 13 is provided with an eye 17. Through this eye there runs the weft or weft thread 18 which is drawn from a supply bobbin, not illustrated, the thread passing from the bobbin towards the eye 17 by way of a longitudinal bore in the spindle of the rotating element 13.
  • the weft thread 18 is continuously wound onto the coiling member 11.
  • the retaining member 15 bears, through its two pins 19, on the blade-like coiling member 11.
  • the member 15 is carried by a retaining member rod 20. This rod can slide in its longitudinal direction in the bearing 21, and is continuously biased by the compression spring 22.
  • the coil transfer means or pin 23 is linearly displaceable in directions parallel with the coiling member 11, being movable in the guide 24 which is only shown in FIG. 2. This displacement of the pin 23 serves to displace or transfer the coils 25 of weft thread along the coiling member 11 from right to left in the drawings.
  • the guide 24 is carried by a rod 26 which is slidably mounted in the bearing 27 and can be displaced therein towards the coiling member 11 by the application of pressure as indicated in FIG. 2.
  • the compression spring 28 applies bias to the rod 26 in the opposite direction.
  • the coils 25 of thread are delivered to the weft-inserting elements 40 of a loom of the type in which a wave-like shed is formed. These weft-inserting elements 40 are delivered in a continuous sequence from the run-out box 29. The mechanism used for doing this is not illustrated since it forms no part of the present invention.
  • the weft-inserting elements or shuttles 40 are of mussel-like or conchoidal form. They have two side-walls 30, each of which has an inner lining 31 of plush material. The two sidewalls 30 are interconnected along the seam 32, but are not joined to each other over the remaining part of their peripheries.
  • the weft-inserting elements 40 can therefore be pushed down over the blade 11 from the position shown in the drawing. (See FIGS. 1 and 2) When, during operation of the loom, a weft-inserting element 40 is pushed down over the coiling element or member 11, the latter, carrying a coil 25, passes between the two plush linings 31 and these are thus applied to the coil 25 so as to engage it on both sides.
  • the weft-inserting element 40 is moved to the left in FIG. 1, where it enters the shed of the loom, the linings 31 retaining the coil 25 of thread in the interior of the weft-inserting element 40, so that this thread coil 25 is thus drawn off the free end of the coiling member
  • the weft-inserting element40 is pushed downwards, it is steadied or held by walls of the run-out box 29 so it remains during such movement through the box, in the same relative position shown in the drawing, i.e., it is displaced parallel with itself as indicated by the arrow in FIG. 1. As soon as it is positioned over the blade or coiling member 11, the latter is thus held by the weft-inserting element 40.
  • the rotating element 13 turns continuously and winds the weft thread 18 around the coiling member 11.
  • the individual thread turns slide down along the inclined sides 33 of the coiling member II and move into contact with each other in the zone 34.
  • Each new turn pushes the already formed turns slightly to the left. This results in the creation of a single-ply coil of thread,'which extends over the zone 34 of the coiling member 11.
  • This zone 34 is herein referred to as the coiling zone.
  • the weft-inserting element 40 will have been pushed over the blade-like coiling member 11, and the pin 23 brought into the position 23' in which it extends through the slot 12.
  • the pin 23 will at the same time also be moved to the left along the carrier or guide 24 from the position 23 shown in FIG. 1.
  • the coil 25, which is located in the delivery zone of coiling member 11 designated by the numeral 35, is pulled off the coiling member 11 by the weft-inserting element 40, i.e., by the plush inner linings 31 therein and is thus passed to the element 40.
  • This weft-inserting element 40 then participates in the weaving process and inserts the thread from coil 25, as a weft thread, between the warp threads.
  • the pin 23 is pushed leftwards from the position 23', and thus pushes or delivers, a new coil 25 to the left and into the delivery zone 35.
  • the pins 19 of the retaining member 15 are lifted from the coiling member 11 during this phase, so that a coil 25 can be readily pushed along.
  • this displacement further turns of thread are continuously being formed on the member 11 in its coiling zone 34. If a coiling member 11 of uniform cross-section were used, a number of turns of the fresh coil being formed would have to be extended in the direction of the delivery zone 35 of the coiling element by the displacement of the coil 25.
  • a piece of material or coiling member enlarging means 36 is fitted at the coiling zone 34 of the coiling member 11 as means to augment or increase the peripheral extent of the device in the area of the coiling zone.
  • This piece of material is replaceable and is secured to the coiling member 11 by means of the screw 37. It extends over part of the coiling zone 34.
  • the piece of material 36 takes the form of a rod or strip. It contains a vertical slot 39, as seen in FIG. 1, so that by loosening the screw 37 it can be adjusted to any required position in the direction transverse of the coiling member 11.
  • the piece of material 36 can be caused to project to any adjustable extent beyond the lower edge of the blade-like coiling member 11.
  • a coil 25 of thread is shifted from the coiling zone 34 to the delivery zone 35, the length or portion 38 of thread, that extends between the shifted coil and the coil being formed, is delivered in that for drawing out one-half to a complete turn in the longitudinal direction of the coiling member 11, those turns of the coil being formed,
  • the pin 23 is controlled in such manner that after each predetermined number of revolutions of the rotating element 13 it is pushed through the slot 12 in the blade-like coiling member 11 and then pushes a coil 25 from the coiling zone to the left.
  • all the coils 25 contain the same length of thread.
  • the pins 19 on this member are again applied to the coiling member 11 and thus prevent the coiling member from moving from its vertical position after the weft-inserting element 40 has been pushed away from the coiling member 11.
  • the pins prevent the extreme left-hand turns on the coiling zone 34, as seen in FIG. 1, from sliding away to the left in the event of the weft-thread material used being of the kind that can readily slip or slide.
  • the arrangement described however also offers the additional advantage that the individual turns of the coil 25 do not become superposed during displacement along the coiling member 11.
  • it has been assumed that such superposition of the turns of the coil is best avoided if the turns are applied to the coiling member 11 in a relatively taut manner
  • the piece of material 36 being adjustable inposition, can be set by means of the screw 37 at different vertical positions along the slot 39, so that it projects to varying extents beyond the lower edge of the coiling member 11, as seen in FIG. 1. It can also be so adjusted that it does not project beyond this lower edge at all.
  • the length of each turn is determined by the cross-section of the blade 11 and that of the piece of material 36 at that cross-sectional position or point along the coiling zone 34 where the inclined sides 33 terminate at the coiling zone.
  • the position of the crosssection that controls the length of a turn is indicated in FIG. 1 by the numeral 46.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a further embodiment.
  • the bladeshaped coiling element 11 again contains a slot 12 along which a pin 23 can 'be displaced and through which said pin can be pushed and withdrawn again in order to displace coils 25 of thread from the coiling zone 34 to the delivery zone 35.
  • the two pieces 42 instead of'the single piece of material 36 there are provided the two pieces 42 for accomplishing a similar function thereto. These pieces 42 take the form of small elongate plates. They are positioned on different sides of the coiling member 11 as can be seen from the cross-sectional view provided by FIG. 3a. This view is along the line III III of FIG. 3.
  • the piece of material is again formed by a plate, i.e., the plate 44.
  • This can be swung about the pin 45 and immobilized at any required angular position in relation to the edges of the coiling member 11.
  • the length of the individual turns which is dependent upon the cross-section of the coiling member 11 and the piece of material 44, and upon the position of the latter, can be adapted to suit the conditions that exist.
  • the length of the individual turns is dependent upon the cross-section at the point or position 46.
  • the piece of material is designated 48 and has at that of its ends presented to the delivery zone 35 of the blade 11, an inclined edge 49 or a generally tapered form whereby a reduction, in this direction, of the peripheral extent of the combined cross-section of the coiling member 11 and the piece of material 48 is obtained.
  • the piece of material 48 is displaceable along the slot 50, i.e., parallel with the longitudinal axis of the coiling member 11, and can be immobilized by means of the screw 51.
  • a zone of constant cross-section, having the length 52 can be adjusted as required.
  • the present invention is not limited to use on a type of loom that forms wave-like sheds, but that it is also suitable for other weaving processes in which portions of weft thread of predetermined length are inserted into the shed.
  • An example of such a process is that wherein the weft threads are inserted by means of a jet of water.
  • the pieces of thread of predetermined length can be sprayed directly into the shed from the coiling member, or first passed to a thread store.
  • the coiling member is in this case of cylindrical form and has an at least approximately circular cross-section.
  • the pieces of material 36, 42, 44 and 48 form periphery augmenting or coiling member enlarging means which increase the size of at least a portion of the area of the coiling zone in thickness and/or height dimension and thus the length of its cross-sectional periphery relative to that of the delivery zone.
  • the height, length, and thickness of the pieces of material 36, 42, 44, and 48, which can be of metal similar to member 11, can be varied and these pieces of material can take various configurations.
  • the pieces of material can be variously positioned with respect to the coiling zone so as to provide the good arrangement of the thread turns that have the desired degree of slackness.
  • a device for forming successive coils of thread on a loom, each coil having a predetermined length and a pluralityof thread turns therein and capable of being transferred with respect to thread turns of a succeeding coil being formed whichcomprises: an elongated coiling member for receiving thread turns wound about the periphery thereof, said coiling member having; a coiling zone for forming successive windings of thread turns continuously thereon and a delivery zone for receiving the formed coils of thread turns transferred thereto from said coiling zone; a rotating means positioned at one end of said coiling member and adapted to be rotated with respect thereto for continuously winding thread in a series of thread turns around said member in said coiling zone; said coiling zone having one end adjacent said rotating means and its other end directed towards said delivery zone; coil transfer means operative between said coiling zone and said delivery zone for periodically displacing a predetermined number of the thread turns in the form of a coil from said coiling zone to said delivery zone, so that the coil transferred remains connected to and spaced from thread turns of
  • attachment means are provided for replaceably securing said coiling member enlarging means to the coiling member.
  • attachment means is a screw and slot arrangement for adjustably securing said coiling member enlargement means to the coiling member at different positions in relation to said coiling zone.
  • a device for forming coils of thread of predetermined length which device comprises: a blade-like coiling member for receiving thread turns wound about the periphery thereof, said coiling member having a coiling zone for forming windings of thread turns thereon and a delivery zone for receiving formed coils of thread turns from said coiling zone; a rotating element positioned at one end of said coiling member and rotatable with respect thereto for winding a portion of thread around the coiling member in a series of turns to form coils of thread turns thereon; said coiling zone having one end adjacent said rotating means and its other end directed towards said delivery zone; coil transfer means operative to periodically displace a predetermined number of said turns along the coiling member from said coiling zone to said delivery zone; and at least one coiling member enlarging means that takes the form of a strip at the coiling zone for augmenting a portion of the periphery thereof, said strip secured to said coiling member with one of its side faces bearing against a side wall of said coiling member; whereby the peripheral extent
  • a second coiling member enlarging means is provided in the form of a strip which is secured to the coiling member with one of its side faces bearing against the other side wall of said coiling member.

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US3411548A (en) * 1965-06-25 1968-11-19 Sulzer Ag Weft thread supply apparatus for gripper shuttle looms
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