Patent ID: 6131841
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
A yarn supply apparatus for a textile machine having a rotary pulley over a holder body and a yarn supply reel under the holder body, both of the rotary pulley and the yarn supply reel being secured to a rotary shaft, so that a yarn passing through a yarn guiding eyelet and a disk, respectively, is wound around a number of elongated metallic rods located between two flanges to form a plurality of loops of yarn windings and the yarn stored on said metallic rods of the yarn supply reel is continuously let off from the lower side thereof to a let off guiding membersaid yarn supply apparatus comprising:a cover removably mounted to said holder body so as to form an extension thereof, said cover having an upper surface coextensive with an upper surface of said holder body said upper surface facing away from said holder body and, being free of a bottom surface, and having a hollow portion at an interior thereof;a first pulley rotatable around a first pulley shaft secured to said holder body, said first pulley shaft including an assistant pulley member thereon and rotatable with said first pulley;a second pulley rotatable around a second pulley shaft mounted to said holder body;a first engagement device formed around said rotary shaft and said first pulley, whereby rotation of said rotary shaft imparts a drive to said first pulley;a second engagement device formed around said assistant pulley and said second pulley, whereby rotation of said first pulley imparts a drive to said second pulley; anda disk part having a first disk positioned under said holder body and secured to said second pulley shaft and an idle disk located facing said first disk,wherein said cover member surrounds each of said first pulley, said second pulley, said engagement devices, and said shafts.