US3810494A - Device to supply a thread - Google Patents

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US3810494A
US3810494A US00311393A US31139372A US3810494A US 3810494 A US3810494 A US 3810494A US 00311393 A US00311393 A US 00311393A US 31139372 A US31139372 A US 31139372A US 3810494 A US3810494 A US 3810494A
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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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H51/00—Forwarding filamentary material
    • B65H51/02—Rotary devices, e.g. with helical forwarding surfaces
    • B65H51/04—Rollers, pulleys, capstans, or intermeshing rotary elements
    • B65H51/08—Rollers, pulleys, capstans, or intermeshing rotary elements arranged to operate in groups or in co-operation with other elements
    • B65H51/10—Rollers, pulleys, capstans, or intermeshing rotary elements arranged to operate in groups or in co-operation with other elements with opposed coacting surfaces, e.g. providing nips
    • B65H51/105—Rollers, pulleys, capstans, or intermeshing rotary elements arranged to operate in groups or in co-operation with other elements with opposed coacting surfaces, e.g. providing nips one of which is an endless belt
    • 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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  • the invention relates to devices adapted to positively supply a thread or like elongated article under an approximately constant tension to a processing machine as it is pulled by the latter, of the kind comprising a thread advancing mechanism driven by a variablespeed electric motor, and two supports, such as pivoted levers, movable with respect to each other and urged apart by appropriate means such as springs, each carrying a number of guiding means between which the thread passes in zig-zag fashion, while means are provided to control the angular speed of the motor in such manner that it increases as the supports come nearer to each other and that it decreases when they move apart.
  • the thread guiding means are carried by the movable supports through the medium of spring loaded pivoted arms of quite negligible inertia which follow closely the variations of the pulling speed of the thread without causing appreciable additional tensions.
  • the supports are practically only responsive to the variations in the average pulling speed of the thread.
  • the present invention relates to devices adapted to supply a thread, ribbon or other flexible elongated article under an approximately constant tension to a processing machine of any kind, as for instance to a loom with stationary weft supply or to a knitting machine.
  • Such devices which deliver positively a thread from a bobbin or the like under the effect of the variations of its tension downstream of the device.
  • Such devices comprise a thread advancing mechanism actuated by a variable speed electric motor and a thread tensioning system formed of pulleys, eyelets or like thread guiding means carried by two supports movable with respect to each other and which are urged apart by spring means or equivalents, the thread following a zigzag path between the thread guiding means of one and the other supports,'while means are provided for controlling the motor speed in proportion to the relative position of the supports, in such manner that this speed decreases when the distance between the said supports increases and, conversely, that the said speed increases when this distance decreases.
  • the guiding means are carried by the movable supports through the medium of individual pivoted arms which are biassed by spring means in the direction corresponding to the tension of the thread or like article.
  • FIG. 1 is a view in elevation illustrating an embodiment of a device. according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is the corresponding plan view.
  • FIG. 3 is a fragmental perspective view showing a pivoted arm and the parts associated therewith.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the electric circuitry of the device.
  • reference numeral 1 designates two supporting levers carried by two parallel shafts 2 which are rotatably supported in the same horizontal plane by an appropriate frame diagrammatically indicated by reference numeral 3.
  • Levers I extend above their pivoting shafts 2 as indicated at 1a and each extension 1a carries a counterweight 4 due to which the lever is balanced about its pivot.
  • Springs such as 5 are interposed between these extensions la and the frame 3 in such manner as to urge apart the supporting levers l.
  • Each lever 1 supports a number of flat spiral springs 7 made for instance of steel wire, the geometrical axes of these springs being substantially parallel to the pivoting axes of the levers.
  • the last convolution of each spring 7 extends radially in' the form of a small arm 7a when they are submitted to the tension of. the thread,
  • Two abutments 8 are associated with each arm 7a in order to limit its angle of oscillation on the correspond- 1 ing lever 1.
  • the device further comprises a bobbin 9, mounted on the shaft of a variable speed electric motor 10 carried by the frame 3.
  • the thread 11 issuing from this bobbin 9 passes alternately in zig-zag fashion through the eyelets 7b carried by one and the other lever l, and
  • the speed of the electric motor 10 is positively controlled by the respective position of the supporting levers 1 in such manner that this speed decreases down to zero when the levers are far apart, and on the contrary that it increases progressively when their distance decreases.
  • the electric motor 10 is of the direct current type having a fiat armature or rotor void of any iron and consequently of quite small inertia, the speed of such a motor following quite closely the voltage applied thereto.
  • the motor speed is controlled by means of two circular rheostats l3 respectively mounted on the pivoting shafts 2 of the supporting levers 1, these rheostats being connected in series in order to obtain an additive effect on the motor.
  • FIG. 4 shows how the speed of motor 10 may be controlled byrheostats 13 in the conventional manner.
  • motor 10 is preferably of the direct current type and therefore the source S of electrical energy has been diagrammatically illustrated in the form of an electric battery.
  • Rheostats 13 are connected in series with each other and with motor 10.
  • Each comprises in the conventional manner an arcuate resistor and a pivoted slider cooperating therewith, the said sliders being driven by the shafts 2 of levers 1.
  • the arrangement is such that the resistance of rheostats 13 increases when levers 1 move apart, in order to decrease the speed of motor 10, as above noted.
  • the supporting levers oscillate in an imperceptible manner on each side of an average position for which the angular speed of motor 9 corresponds to the average linear pulling speed of the thread.
  • the device is preferably so adjusted that this average position of the supporting levers is substantially vertical, the position illustrated in full lines corresponding for instance to the standstill of motor 9 and the position diagrammatically indicated in dash and dot lines to its maximum angular speed for which the thread is supplied at a linear speed well above the aforesaid average linear pulling speed.
  • the respective elasticities of springs 5 and 7 are preferably such that the pivoted arms 7a oscillate on each side of a substantially vertical average position what-' ever may be the angular position of the supporting levers 1.
  • the pivoted arms are substantially perpendicular to the successive lengths of thread and therefore, for a given position of levers 1, the variations of the quantity of thread stored in the device are substantially proportional to the angles of oscillation of the said arms, which would not be the case if the average position of the latter were at a marked angle to the vertical.
  • controlling rheostats 13 could be replaced by any other transducer adapted to control the speed of motor 10 under the action of the relative angular position of the supporting levers l, as for instance by a variable capacitor or a variable inductance associated with an appropriate electronic circuit.
  • the device could include a braking system actuated by the supporting levers themselves when they approach their spaced position of FIG. 1, or by an electric signal derived from rheostats 13 or like transducers.
  • the threaded bobbin 9 could be driven frictionally as this is conventional in the textile industry.
  • the thread to be supplied could be drawn axially from a non-rotating bobbin, the motor then driving appropriate thread-advancing rollers.
  • the arms 7a could be formed as separate members mounted on pivots and receiving the action of springs such as 7.
  • the thread guiding eyelets 7b could be replaced by small pulleys.
  • the device according to the invention could also be used with ribbons or more generally with any kind of flexible elongated articles, the guiding members carried by arms being of course provided in accordance.
  • a device to positively supply a thread or like flexible elongated article under an approximately constant tension to a processing machine such as a loom with stationary weft supply or a knitting machine including an advancing mechanism for said article, a variable speed electric motor to drive said advancing mechanism, guiding members through which the article issuing from said advancing mechanism passes before reaching said processing machine, two supports movable with respect to each other, said supports supporting said guiding means with said article following a zig- Zag path between the guidjng means carried by one and the other of said supports, means to urge apart said supports, and means to control the angular speed of said motor in correspondence with the relative position of said supports in such manner that this speed increases when said supports come nearer to each other and decreases when said supports move apart;
  • said device further comprises arms pivoted to each of said supports with each of said arms carrying one of said guiding means, and spring means interposed between said supports and each of said arms to urge said arms together with said guiding means in a direction corresponding to the tensioning of said flexible article between said guiding means.
  • each of said spring means being in the form of a spiral spring having successive convolutions of increasing diameter with the corresponding one of said arms being formed of a radial extension of the last convolution of said spiral spring.
  • each of said guiding means being formed of the outer end of the corresponding one of said arms, said outer end being coiled on itself in the form of an eyelet.
  • each of said supports being formed of a lever pivoted about an axis, the axes of said levers being substantially situated in a common horizontal plane, and said levers oscillating about a substantially vertical position.
  • said supports being in the form of pivoted levers, and said means to urge apart said supports and said spring means acting on said arms being such that said arms oscillate about an average position substantially perpendicular to the successive zig-zags of said flexible article between said guiding means.

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GB675185A (en) * 1947-12-31 1952-07-09 Gisberto Vallaguzza Loom for weaving ribbon
US3330304A (en) * 1965-09-24 1967-07-11 Crompton & Knowles Corp Weft take-up mechanism
FR1510153A (fr) * 1966-12-02 1968-01-19 Perfectionnements aux métiers à tisser sans navette pour la réalisation de tissusà trame en forme de ruban
US3734368A (en) * 1970-11-27 1973-05-22 S Kudelski Magnetic tape recorder with constant tape tension

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GB675185A (en) * 1947-12-31 1952-07-09 Gisberto Vallaguzza Loom for weaving ribbon
US3330304A (en) * 1965-09-24 1967-07-11 Crompton & Knowles Corp Weft take-up mechanism
FR1510153A (fr) * 1966-12-02 1968-01-19 Perfectionnements aux métiers à tisser sans navette pour la réalisation de tissusà trame en forme de ruban
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