Patent ID: 6450212
Filing Date: 2002-09-17
Classification: D03D

Abstract:
An off-loom take-up for winding a cloth roll from woven cloth coming from a loom comprising:a frame; a pair of spaced take-up rollers carried by said frame, at least one of said take-up rollers being a driven take-up roller; a drive motor having an output shaft for driving said driven take-up roller; a motor controller for controlling the speed of said output shaft of said drive motor; a pivotal dancer roll assembly carried by said frame including a pivotal dancer roll under which said cloth travels from said loom to said cloth take-up roll; a voltage sensor responsive to the movement of said pivotal dancer roll for outputting a plurality of voltage signals correlated to a plurality of different pivotal positions of said dancer roll; and an electronic limit processor for receiving said voltage signals, said processor processing said voltage signals to generate a control signal which is output to said motor controller for controlling said drive motor.