Patent ID: 6089498
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: B65H,H01F

Abstract:
Monitoring means for an end of a thread-shaped material wound on a storage coil, the monitoring means forming part of a processing machine and comprising(a) a computer unit including(1) a first memory location for storing a predetermined desired value for a desired residual quantity of the thread-shaped material and(2) a further memory location for storing the tare weight of the storage coil; and(b) a weighing device including a measured value transducer, the weighing device at least intermittently receiving the storage coil for measuring the actual value of weight, and the meassured value transducer being coupled to the computer unit, the computer unit determining when the sum of the desired value of the desired residual quantity and the tare weight of the storage coil correspond to the actual value.