US3847098A - Yarn feed module for tufting machine - Google Patents

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US3847098A
US3847098A US00381866A US38186673A US3847098A US 3847098 A US3847098 A US 3847098A US 00381866 A US00381866 A US 00381866A US 38186673 A US38186673 A US 38186673A US 3847098 A US3847098 A US 3847098A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D05—SEWING; EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05C—EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05C15/00—Making pile fabrics or articles having similar surface features by inserting loops into a base material
    • D05C15/04—Tufting
    • D05C15/08—Tufting machines
    • D05C15/26—Tufting machines with provision for producing patterns
    • D05C15/32—Tufting machines with provision for producing patterns by altering the loop length

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  • a yarn feed mechanism in which a plurality of yarn feed rolls are individually clutch controlled by a pattern control mechanism so that each of the plurality of feed rolls is driven at different speeds, independently of any of the other feed rolls.
  • Each roll is adapted to control the speed of a yarn to a particular row of stitching within a repeat pattern, in order to effect the tufting of a rather intricate pattern in high and low nap tufted fabrics.
  • each feed roll is mounted upon a shaft extending perpendicularly to the row of needles, and each shaft carries a high speed clutch and a low speed clutch. All of the high speed clutches are driven by chain and sprocket mechanisms from a high speed shaft, while all of the low speed clutches are driven by another chain and sprocket mechanism from a low speed shaft.
  • the Clutch-in-Roll improvement included at least two drive shafts driven at different speeds, each of which carries for rotation independently of the drive shaft a yarn feed roll, the yarn feed rolls being coupled together for simultaneous rotation by meshing ring gears. Electromagnetic clutches within the yarn feed roll are selectively energized, one at a time, to create operative engagement between one feed roll and its corresponding shaft.
  • the yarn feed mechanism made in accordance with this invention includes a drive housing incorporating a number of parallel drive shafts, equal to the number of desired speeds, extending the entire width of the machine parallel to the line of needles.
  • a drive coupling member such as a drive gear, there being one drive gear on each shaft for each module.
  • a clutch module or module frame supporting at least one yarn feed roll and at least two clutch members, preferably electromagnetic clutches, one of which is preferably incorporated within the yarn feed roll.
  • Each clutch member is driven by its own drive transmission mounted on the clutch module and including a driven coupling member, such as a driven gear at the rear end of the module which is in registry with and adapted to be drivingly engaged by the corresponding drive gear on the corresponding drive shaft in the drive housing, when the module is inserted in operative position.
  • the electromagnetic clutches are energized one at a time by a pattern control mechanism so that the yarns carried by the set of yarn feed rolls on each module are driven at one of several speeds, but independently of the speed of the yarn feed rolls of any other module.
  • FIG. 1 is a fragmentary right end elevation of a tufting machine incorporating the yarn feed mechanism made in accordance with this invention
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary sectional elevation of the drive transmission at the left end of the machine, looking in the same direction as in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary front elevation of the yarn feed mechanism, with some of the clutch modules removed;
  • FIG. 4 is a section taken along the line 44 of FIG. 3, with the cover plate of the upper clutch module removed;
  • FIG. 6 is a fragmentary section taken along the line 6-6 of FIG. 5;
  • FIG. 7 is an enlarged section taken along the line 77 of FIG. 5
  • FIG. I discloses a typical multiple-needle tufting machine 10 including a frame 11, supporting a plurality of needles 12 disposed in a line transversely of the machine 10 for vertical reciprocal movement through a base fabric 13 moving longitudinally through the machine 10 in the direction of the arrow.
  • Each needle 12 cooperates with a looper or hook 14 for forming the tufted stitches through the base fabric 13.
  • the needles l2 and loopers 14 aresynchronously reciprocated, in a manner wellknown in the art, from the needle shaft 15.
  • the yarn feed mechanism 17 made in accordance with this invention includes a drive housing 18.
  • FIG. 5 is a section taken along the line 55 of FIG. I
  • the upper set includes a top low speed shaft 20, a middle, intermediate speed shaft 21 and a bottom, high speed shaft 22.
  • the lower set of three drive shafts 21' and 22' are identical to the upper set.
  • drive gears 23, 24 and 25 Fixed upon each drive shaft 20, 21 and 22 are drive gears 23, 24 and 25, respectively.
  • the drive gears 23 25 are arranged in vertical sets, and as shown in the drawings, are of equal size.
  • a vertical slot 28 adapted to register with each set of vertically spaced drive gears 23 25.
  • a clutch module 30 including a vertically disposed frame or plate 31.
  • a set or pair of yarn feed rolls including the front feed roll 34 and the rear feed roll 33.
  • each feed roll 33 and 34 is a low-speed, electromagnetic clutch member 35 and an intermediatespeed, rotary electromagnetic clutch member 36.
  • a third or high-speed, rotary electromagnetic clutch member 37 is also rotatably mounted on shaft 38 on the left side of the module plate 31.
  • Yarn feed rolls 33 and 34 carry fixed ring gears 39 and 40 which intermesh with each other, so that both yarn feed rolls 33 and 34 are always driven at the same speed. Ring gear 40 also intermeshes with a ring gear 41 carried by the high-speed magnetic clutch member 37.
  • any one of the magnetic clutches 35, 36 or 37 is energized, it controls the speed ofthe yarn feed rolls 33 and 34.
  • the magnetic clutch 35 is energized, it is adapted to clutch or couple the'yarn feed roll 33 to its driven shaft 43.
  • the magnetic clutch 36 When the magnetic clutch 36 is energized, it is adapted to clutch or drivingly couple the yarn feed roll 34 to its driven shaft 44.
  • the upper driven shaft 38 is journaled in the module plate 31 and has its right end fixed to a driven sprocket 46 carrying an endless chain 47 trained about a drive sprocket 48 fixed to a shaft 49 carrying a driven gear 50.
  • the shaft 49 is rotatably mounted adjacent the rear end of the module frame 31.
  • driven shaft 44 is fixed to driven sprocket 51 driven through endless chain 52 from drive sprocket 53 fixed on rotary shaft 54 carrying the driven gear 55.
  • driven shaft 43 carries sprocket 56 carrying endless chain 57 trained about drive sprocket 58 on rotary shaft 59 fixed to driven gear 60.
  • All of the driven gears 50, 55 and 60 are preferably equal in size, vertically spaced and in vertical alignment in such a manner that the gear teeth project rearward past the rear edge 62 of the module frame 31.
  • a retainer flange 64 Spaced forward of the rear edge 62 and fixed to extend vertically and laterally from the left side of the frame 31 is a retainer flange 64.
  • the spacing between the retainer flange 64 and the rear edge 62 defines a tongue portion of the frame 31 and is of such dimension that when the retainer flange 64 is flush against the front wall portion 27 and the tongue portion projects through the slot 28, all of the driven gears 50, 55 and 60 perfectly intermesh with the teeth of the drive gears 23, 24 and 25, respectively.
  • the module 30 is held in its fixed operative position in driving engagement with the drive shafts 20, 21 and 22 by securing means, such as bolts 65 extending through registering bolt holes in the flange 64 and the front wall section 27.
  • the magnetic clutches 35, 36 and 37 may be of any conventional type.
  • the electromagnetic clutch 36 includes a disc-shaped clutch armature 67, splined at 68 to hub 69, which is fixed to the driven shaft 44 by a pin or other securing means, so that the armature 67 may move axially of the shaft 44 and yet rotate with the shaft 44.
  • the electromagnetic coil 70 is held in fixed position in a bracket 71 fixed to the frame 31.
  • the clutch rotor 72 is fixed to the feed roll 34 and journaled in bearings 73 for relative independent rotation about the shaft 44.
  • the clutch rotor 72 may be provided with an annular frictional surface 74 for engagement with the armature 67. As illustrated in FIG. 7, the armature 67 is engaging the clutch rotor 74 while the coil 70 is energized. When the coil 70 is de-energized, the armature 67 disengages the rotor 72 to permit the feed roll 34 to rotate independently of driven shaft 44.
  • the connector 78 is adapted to electrically engage a cooperating connector 79 fixed to the front wall 27 of the drive housing 18.
  • the connector 79 in turn is connected through the cable 80 to the switches in the switch box 91, which in turn is controlled by the pattern control mechanism 82.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate the drive train for the drive shafts 20 22 and 20' 22.
  • the intermediate-speed drive shafts 21 and 21 are connected through respective chain-and-sprocket transmissions 84 and 84' to a gear box 85, driven by chain-and-sprocket transmission 86 from a right-angle gear box 87, which in turn is driven from the needle shaft 15 by chain-and-sprocket transmission 88.
  • the low-speed shafts 20 and 20' and the high-speed shafts 22 and 22 are driven at the left end of the machine 10 as best disclosed in FIG. 2.
  • the low-speed shafts 20 and 20 are driven through respective chainand-sprocket transmissions 90 and 90' from a smaller sprocket, not shown, on the opposite or left side of the gear box 91.
  • the high-speed shafts 22 and 22 are driven from the right side of the box 91 by a larger sprocket 92 through chain-and-sprocket transmissions 93 and 93'.
  • the input to the gear box 91 is produced through chain-and-sprocket transmission 94 from right-angle gear box 95, which in turn is driven by needle shaft 15 through chain-and-sprocket transmission 96.
  • the drive shafts 22 and 20' 22' are driven at their respective low, intermediate and high speeds. Because of the drive couplings with the drive gears 23, 24 and 25 through the various chain-and-sprocket transmissions 47, 52 and 57, respectively, the shafts 38, 44 and 43 are driven also at corresponding low, intermediate and high speeds.
  • the pattern control mechanism 82 is so designed that only one electromagnetic clutch 35, 36 or 37 is energized at any one time, in order to engage the corresponding feed roll 33, 34 or high-speed clutch member 37 with corresponding shafts 43, 44 and 38.
  • the yarn 100 By selectively energizing or actuating the other magnetic clutches, the yarn 100 will be fed at the corresponding low, intermediate, or high-speed to the needles 12.
  • a yarn feed mechanism comprising:
  • a drive housing of substantial length having a front wall portion
  • each module frame having front and rear end portions and a width substantially less than the length of said drive housing
  • each of said driven coupling members being adapted to register with and drivingly engage a corresponding drive coupling member, in operative position, and to drivingly disengage said drive coupling member in inoperative position
  • detachable securing means on each of said module frames for attaching the rear end portion of each of said module frames to the front wall portion of said drive housing for driving engagement of each of said driven coupling members with a corresponding drive coupling member, in operative position, and for detaching the rear end portion of said module frame from said front wall portion for driving disengagement of the driven coupling members on said module frame from said corresponding drive coupling members, in inoperative position, and
  • said means for limiting the entry of said tongue portion comprises a flange projecting laterally from said module frame spaced forward of the rear end of said frame and adapted to fit flush against said front wall portion in operative position.
  • each clutch member is an electromagnetic clutch
  • said means for selectively actuating said clutch members comprises an electrical pattern control means electrically connected to said electromagnetic clutches.
  • each of said drive transmission means comprises a driven sprocket coaxially fixed on said drive coupling member, a drive sprocket coaxially fixed on one of said rotary clutch members and a chain coupling said driven and drive sprockets.
  • each of said drive coupling members and driven coupling members is a gear, said corresponding drive and driven gears being adapted to drivingly intermesh in operative position.

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GB2788074A GB1473872A (en) 1973-07-23 1974-06-24 Tufting machines
AU71107/74A AU483673B2 (en) 1973-07-23 1974-07-11 Yarn feed module for tufting machine
DE19742435126 DE2435126C3 (de) 1973-07-23 1974-07-22 Kupplungseinheit zum wahlweisen Antrieb eines Satzes von Fadenlieferwalzen einer mit verschiedenen Antriebsgeschwindigkeit betreibbaren Tufting-Maschine
FR7425340A FR2238794B1 (ja) 1973-07-23 1974-07-22
CA205,309A CA1012415A (en) 1973-07-23 1974-07-22 Yarn feed module for tufting machine
BE146849A BE817988A (fr) 1973-07-23 1974-07-23 Module d'alimentation en fil pour machine a touffeter
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