The present invention relates to a transport vehicle for a textile mill having a driving unit which is designed to drive autonomously to a defined destination within a textile mill, a carrying unit which is arranged on the driving unit, the carrying unit having an upper carrying surface facing away from the driving unit for carrying a unit to be transported which can have a textile material loaded onto it and unloaded from it. The transport vehicle further has a loading and unloading device with a loading and unloading arm having a conveyor unit for loading the textile material onto the unit to be transported and unloading the textile material from it. In order to be able to handle textile material within a textile mill in an improved manner, there is provision for the unit to be transported to be formed by a package buffer fixed on the upper carrying surface and each having a plurality of storage points for storing at least one wound or non-wound tube body, and/or by a tube handling unit fixedly arranged on the carrying unit at least for autonomously handling the tube body which can be stored in at least one storage point arranged on the upper carrying surface. In this case, the loading and unloading device is fixed to the carrying unit, in particular to the upper carrying surface, or to the unit to be transported, in which case the storage point can be loaded and unloaded by the loading and unloading device with the tube body.
B66F 9/065 - Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks non-masted
B65H 67/06 - Supplying cores, receptacles, or packages to, or transporting from, winding or depositing stations
B66F 9/06 - Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks
A feed yarn joining system for joining a yarn tail end of a yarn package to a yarn head end of a reserve package at a package creel including package storage sites for receiving the yarn and reserve packages, with receiving units for receiving the yarn head end and the yarn tail end, positioning units for positioning a yarn portion joined to the yarn tail end and yarn head end in the yarn splicing device, the yarn splicing device for preparing and joining the yarn head end and yarn tail end, and a control unit for initiating the start of the splicing operation and executing the splicing operation. Furthermore, a package creel arrangement with a feed yarn joining system as well as a method of joining a yarn tail end of a yarn package to a yarn head end of a reserve package when using a feed yarn joining system.
A driverless transport vehicle for autonomous transport and replacement of at least one spinning can. In order to provide a driverless transport vehicle which reliably ensures an automated supply of the spinning machines fed with fibre band, the driverless transport vehicle has an autonomous travelling drive, a transport platform for accommodating the at least one spinning can, and a manipulator unit for taking up and setting down the at least one spinning can, the manipulator unit having a gripper for grasping the spinning can and an actuating device for adjusting the gripper.
The invention relates to a yarn feed apparatus for a workstation of a cabling machine for feeding a creel yarn from a feed package arranged on a bobbin creel or from a transport conveyor arranged above the cabling machine to a cabling apparatus equipped with a cabling spindle and/or for feeding a starter yarn from the cabling spindle to the creel yarn, a workstation of a cabling machine for producing a cabling twist and a method for feeding a creel yarn using a yarn feed apparatus of this type.
The invention relates to a traversing thread guide for causing a thread to traverse at a workstation of a textile machine that produces cross-wound packages, comprising a base carrier, which can be arranged on a traversing rod, and a thread-guiding element, which is arranged on the base carrier and which has two wall portions, which are arranged at a distance from each other and delimit a thread insertion slot and a thread-guiding channel.
The invention relates to a driverless transport vehicle (1) for a textile factory, comprising a traveling unit (20), which travels autonomously to a defined destination within a textile factory, and a carrying unit (30), which is arranged on the traveling unit (20) and is designed to carry a unit to be transported for textile material that can be loaded and unloaded by means of a loading and unloading device (60), said loading and unloading device being part of the transport vehicle (1). The unit to be transported is made of a bobbin store (40) that is fixed to the upper carrying surface (32) and comprises a plurality of store positions (42) for storing a respective sleeve body (2), which is loaded or is not loaded with a bobbin, and/or a sleeve handling unit that is fixed to the support unit for autonomously handling the sleeve body (2).
Spindle pot bearing for a twisting machine, in particular a two-for-one twisting machine or cabling machine, having a bearing bush for connecting a spindle pot base to a spindle in an interlocking manner in an axial direction. In order to provide a spindle pot bearing for a twisting machine that ensures that the position of the spindle pot on the spindle is reliably secured, it is provided that: a first bearing portion of the bearing bush for connecting, in an interlocking manner in the axial direction, to a first bearing member arranged on the spindle has, at a distance with respect to the direction of the longitudinal axis from a shoulder limiting the first bearing portion, latching protrusions which protrude from an inside of the bearing bush and are movable between a blocking position and an unblocking position; a second bearing portion of the bearing bush, said second bearing portion adjoining the first bearing portion in the direction of the longitudinal axis, is designed for interlockingly connecting to the spindle pot base in such a way that locking in the axial direction is possible; and a blocking is arranged on the spindle pot base, which blocking fixes the latching protrusions in the blocking position when the spindle pot base is in an operating position.
A control unit for pneumatic actuation of a cylinder, in particular an active creel of a textile-processing machine or a cabling machine, having a compressed air inlet for connecting a compressed air supply, a working air outlet for operating the cylinder, which acts at least on one side, a valve unit arranged between the compressed air inlet and the working air outlet, and an operating element for opening the valve unit to trigger a lifting movement of the cylinder. In order to provide a control unit for pneumatic actuation of an active creel, the actuation of the creel being particularly simple by the control unit, so that an operator can use the creel more easily, quickly and safely, and in addition the creel is protected from damage by incorrect operation, the control unit for achieving a self-retaining valve function, in which the lifting movement of the cylinder is fully executed with a single and/or brief actuation of the operating element, and for the control unit is connected to an end position sensor of the cylinder such that, when the end position sensor is activated, the valve unit is closed and/or the cylinder connected to the working air outlet is automatically depressurized when or after an end position is reached.
F15B 15/14 - Fluid-actuated devices for displacing a member from one position to anotherGearing associated therewith characterised by the construction of the motor unit of the straight-cylinder type
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Yarn-tension influencing device for a twisting or cabling machine
Yarn-tension influencing device for a twisting or cabling machine for feeding a yarn via a traversing yarn guide to a take-up package, the yarn-tension influencing device having a first deflection roller, arranged downstream of a yarn handling device in the yarn transport direction and is provided for guiding the yarn from a balloon yarn guide through the yarn handling device and for deflecting the yarn; a second deflection roller, arranged downstream of the first deflection roller in the yarn transport direction and is provided for further deflection of the yarn; a third deflection roller, arranged downstream of the second deflection roller in the yarn transport direction and is provided for adjusting the angle of wrap of the yarn around an advance roller; and an advance roller, arranged downstream of the third deflection roller in the yarn transport direction and is provided for regulating the yarn tension. The yarn handling device is a yarn clamping and cutting device, and a sensor device is provided for monitoring the yarn, the second deflection roller being arranged on a plane different from a horizontal plane formed by the axis of rotation of the first deflection roller.
Yarn delivery device for a twisting or cabling machine having a first deflection roller for deflecting a yarn; a driven godet, arranged downstream of first deflection roller in yarn transport direction; a separator roller, arranged relative to the godet such that a yarn can be laid several times around the separator roller and the godet, said yarn being wrapped around separator roller and godet jointly; and a pitch lever, having a second deflection roller arranged downstream of godet in the yarn transport direction, for deflecting the yarn again. A cantilever, having a third deflection roller, which, in the yarn transport direction, is arranged downstream of second deflection roller and upstream of traversing yarn guide for feeding the yarn onto a take-up package, second deflection roller being arranged on a different side of a vertical plane extending through axis of rotation of the separator roller from the third deflection.
Workstation of a two-for-one twisting or cabling machine for production of carpet yarn, including winding device having package cradle with two frame arms for rotatable mounting of an empty tube or twisting package, package drive roller for frictionally driving twisting package, yarn traversing device for traversing transfer of a yarn to the twisting package, advance roller for regulating a yarn tension, and cover in area of the advance roller with an opening for yarn guided through the yarn traversing device to the twisting package. Package cradle has at least one movable, partially rotatable frame arm and designed so an empty tube with length of at least 315 mm is insertable, that the package drive roller has length of at least 286 mm, that yarn traversing device has traversing stroke of at least 11 inches, and that opening in cover corresponds with the yarn path arising due to the traversing stroke.
A method for starting a spindle of a cabling or two-for-one twisting machine, wherein a yarn reserve is formed on a take-up package, the machine has a workstation having a spindle pot for holding a first feed package and having a spindle rotor with a lateral outlet below the spindle pot, an outer yarn from one feed package is wound around an inner yarn from another feed package and the outer yarn is guided through the spindle shaft and its lateral outlet in a balloon orbiting the spindle pot to a yarn-guiding device above the spindle which merges the two yarn supplies, and a winding device in which the produced twist is wound onto the take-up package. A ratio of the take-up speed of the twist to the rotation speed of the spindle rotor is increased in comparison with the production data is used during creation of the yarn reserve.
D01H 7/86 - Multiple-twist arrangements, e.g. two-for-one twisting devices
D01H 15/007 - Piecing arrangements for two-for-one twisting machines
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Device and method for determining the diameter of a yarn balloon formed by a continuous yarn at a workstation of a yarn balloon forming textile machine
A device as well as a method for determining the diameter of a yarn balloon (B) formed by a continuous yarn at a workstation (1) of a yarn balloon forming textile machine. The workstation (1) comprises an electromagnetically functioning sensor means (33), designed and arranged in such a way that at least two interruptions of a measuring beam (42) of the sensor means (33) are caused by the yarn (5, 25) forming the yarn balloon (B) during every rotation of the yarn balloon (B) during the operation of the workstation (1), and in that the time interval between the interruptions of the measuring beam (42) can be recorded by the sensor means (33) and used for calculating the diameter of the yarn balloon (B).
B65H 63/028 - Warning or safety devices for use when unwinding, paying-out, forwarding, winding, coiling, or depositing filamentary material, e.g. automatic fault detectors or stop-motions responsive to reduction in tension, failure of supply, or breakage, of material responsive to breakage of materials characterised by the detecting or sensing element
B65H 59/00 - Adjusting or controlling tension in filamentary material, e.g. for preventing snarlingApplications of tension indicators
B65H 49/02 - Methods or apparatus in which packages do not rotate
B65H 63/00 - Warning or safety devices for use when unwinding, paying-out, forwarding, winding, coiling, or depositing filamentary material, e.g. automatic fault detectors or stop-motions
B65H 63/08 - Warning or safety devices for use when unwinding, paying-out, forwarding, winding, coiling, or depositing filamentary material, e.g. automatic fault detectors or stop-motions responsive to delivery of a measured length of material, completion of winding of a package, or filling of a receptacle
D01H 7/18 - Arrangements on spindles for suppressing yarn balloons
D01H 1/42 - Guards or protectors for yarns or threads, e.g. separator plates, anti-ballooning devices
A cabling spindle 2 comprising a spindle pot 5 and an upper part which is constituted as a conical cabling hood 1, wherein a yarn brake 7 is arranged in the cabling hood 1. According to the invention, the cabling hood 1 merges in its upper region from the conical shape into a convex shape.
D01H 1/244 - Driving or stopping arrangements for twisting arrangements, e.g. spindles each spindle driven by an electric motor
D01H 9/18 - Arrangements for replacing or removing bobbins, cores, receptacles, or completed packages at paying-out or take-up stations for supplying bobbins, cores, receptacles, or completed packages to, or transporting from, paying-out or take-up stations
An outer-yarn brake (14) for a cording or cabling machine with at least one workstation comprising a bobbin rack (2) for holding at least one feed bobbin (4), a spindle (12) for the rotation of a yarn (6) withdrawn from the feed bobbin (4) around a bobbin pot associated with the spindle (12), and a yarn-guide channel (10) for guiding the yarn (6) received via a free end-portion (8) of the yarn-guide channel (10) to the spindle (12). The outer-yarn brake (14) can be arranged in the yarn running direction of the withdrawn yarn (6) between the feed bobbin (4) and the yarn-guide channel (10) to guide through the withdrawn yarn (6) and comprises a clamping portion for defined braking of the running yarn (6). The outer-yarn brake (14) can be coupled to the free end-portion (8) in order to form a yarn input for the yarn-guide channel (10).
2) dependent upon production parameters and a resting position (RS) advantageous in the case of production interruptions and transient operating phases associated with the latter. A device (21, 23, 24, 25) is present for detecting a measured value (i), which is made available to the control device (20) and which causes the control of the drive (18, 29) to change the position of the balloon-yarn-guide-eye (9).
D01H 1/244 - Driving or stopping arrangements for twisting arrangements, e.g. spindles each spindle driven by an electric motor
D01H 9/18 - Arrangements for replacing or removing bobbins, cores, receptacles, or completed packages at paying-out or take-up stations for supplying bobbins, cores, receptacles, or completed packages to, or transporting from, paying-out or take-up stations
Device for keeping an inaccessible element to be stabilised stationary in a required angular position and use of the device in a machine for processing textile threads
At least two pairs of magnets are arranged near one another on supports, the pairs of magnets and the supports form, when an item to be stabilized is in a required angular position, a closed magnetic circuit (except for the air gap), with magnets placed in such a direction that their north and south poles successively alternate with one another along the magnetic circuit, an item, sensitive to the magnetic field, is attached to the fixed part and placed inside the closed magnetic circuit, the sensitive item supplies a logic output state corresponding to the “item to be stabilized in the required angular position” when the detected field is less than a predetermined maximum threshold, and a logic state corresponding to the “item to be stabilized not in the required angular position”, when the detected field is greater than a minimum predetermined threshold.
H01F 7/18 - Circuit arrangements for obtaining desired operating characteristics, e.g. for slow operation, for sequential energisation of windings, for high-speed energisation of windings
A device for shaping at least one thread-like material (1), which is formed in a forming unit and is deposited on a transporting device (6) for the subsequent thermosetting process, wherein a retaining means (4, 14, 15, 22) and a drivable, curved depositing tube (5) are arranged one after the other in the thread transporting direction.
A method for continuously processing a thread-like material with a plurality of method steps and a device for carrying out the method, wherein a feed mechanism (10), a treating (35) and depositing device (36), a transporting device (14), a thermosetting mechanism (32) and a length compensating mechanism (37) are arranged in a common closed system (5) and the closed system (5) differs from the surroundings in its interior by at least one first physical property and sub-systems (31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37) that are shielded from one another are present within the system (5) for the various method steps, to which sub-systems supply mechanisms (25, 26, 27) are connected, which produce at least partially different temperatures in the sub-systems (31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37) as the second physical property.
D02J 13/00 - Heating or cooling the yarn, thread, cord, rope, or the like, not specific to any one of the processes provided for in this subclass
D06B 17/02 - Storing of textile materials in association with the treatment of the materials by liquids, gases, or vapours in superimposed, i.e. stack-packed, formJ-boxes
D02G 1/20 - Combinations of two or more of the above-mentioned operations or devicesAfter-treatments for fixing crimp or curl
D02G 1/12 - Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns or threads, giving them latent characteristics using stuffer boxes
D02J 11/00 - Combinations, not covered by any one of groups , of processes provided for in such groupsPlant for carrying-out such combinations of processes
D06B 3/04 - Passing of textile materials through liquids, gases, or vapours to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing, impregnating of yarns, threads, or filaments
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Multi-station textile machine, in particular two-for-one twisting or cabling machine
Multi-station textile machine, in particular two-for-one-twisting or cabling machine, produces a high degree of flexibility with a simple structure by a respective double spindle unit (1) having a centrally arranged carrier (2), with a carrier (2) having a cross-member (20), which extends from one workstation to the other of the double spindle unit (1), supported by means of adjustable feet (26) on the ground, the carrier (2) furthermore having a centrally arranged hollow profile (21), which extends vertically from the cross-member (20), the hollow profile (21) being at least configured to receive a bobbin removal device (31, 33) and for fastening a winding device (3).
A yarn brake for a two-for-one twisting spindle has a brake element mounted in the region of a hollow axle of the spindle between an upper and a lower brake face, the braking force being predeterminable in a defined manner by means of the pretensioning of at least one spring element, which acts on an axially displaceably mounted upper piston, in which the upper brake face is integrated, and the yarn brake being pneumatically releasable to introduce a yarn. The upper piston (27) receiving the upper brake face (28) is configured in such a way and guided with play (S) within a housing (16) of the yarn brake (14) in such a way that it can move aside if necessary into a position (I), in which its center longitudinal axis (37) forms an angle (α) with the center longitudinal axis (38) of the housing (16).
Equipment and devices for treatment of synthetic filaments,
fibres, yarns or threads, especially equipment and devices
for wetting and/or intermingling of synthetic filaments,
fibres, yarns or threads.
A device for treatment of a traveling yarn with a steam-creating medium includes a column of several chambers provided with yarn inlet- and yarn outlet-channels and arranged one over the other, of which one of the chambers is a steam treatment chamber provided with a steam inlet and a condensate outlet with respect to which mixing chambers are respectively operated upstream and downstream thereof, with each such mixing chamber respectively having an air inlet and a condensate outlet. The yarn inlet- and yarn outlet-channels have an opening cross section that, on the one hand, makes possible a pneumatic yarn threading-in and, on the other hand, controls the exchange of air and steam between the chambers such that a steam-air-mixture atmosphere sets in that substantially forecloses the entrance of air into the steam treatment chamber.
