Patent GB-664435-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electrical driving systems for textile machines
IPC: B65H20/00
Filed: 1949-02-09
Abstract: 664,435. Control of D.C. motors. ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION CO., Ltd., and MILNE, J. C. Jan. 30, 1950. [Feb. 19, 1949] No. 3594/49. Class 38 (iii). [Also in Groups XXXV and XXXVI] In a driving arrangement for a textile machine the warp threads are drawn from storage beams through a sizing or processing tank and thence through a drying chamber by means of a pair of pinch rollers driven by a direct-current motor 9, and then are taken on to a beam or large bobbin driven by a direct-current motor 11. The motor 9 is controlled to provide constant linear thread-speeds adjustable between wide limits, the motor 11 being regulated to maintain the thread-tension constant. Two bobbins may be provided, driven by separate motors. The armature of the motor 9 is supplied from transformer secondary winding 16 through anodes 17 of rectifier 18. The motor 11 is supplied directly from transformer primary winding 15 through anodes 19. The motors have field windings 20, 21, connected between cathode 22 and the neutral point of a transformer secondary winding 23 which supplies excitation electrodes 24. The rectifier 18 may be replaced by two separate rectifiers having their cathodes directly connected. The speed of the motor 9 is adjusted by means of taps 25 which may all be shifted simultaneously. A shunt field regulator 26 also being provided. An armature resistor 26A may be adjusted manually, or by means of an adjustably-excited electro-magnet moving the resistor-tap under control of a dash-pot, so as to regulate closely the acceleration of the motor 9. The motor 11 has a series field winding 27, its shunt field winding 21 having a regulator 29. Choke coils 28, which are connected to anodes 19, provide the necessary sloping characteristic of the anode current to yield substantially constant horse-power operation of the motor 11. A regulating resistor 29A provides means for adjusting the thread tension. The speed of the motor 9 may be further adjusted by means of grids 31, connected to an induction regulator 33-34 which may be manually or automatically adjusted. As shown, the speed of the motor 9 is made responsive to the dampness of the threads on leaving the drying chamber. The threads are passed between the plates of a capacitor 8 which is connected across the tank coil 36 of a Hartley oscillator (Fig. 4) comprising triode T. If the degree of moisture of the threads varies and alters the timing of the tank circuit of the oscillator, the anode current of the valve T is changed to alter the voltagedrop across resistor 48 which is in the grid circuit of a triode T1. If the anode current of valve T increases, for example, the triode T1 is biased to cut-off, its anode potential becomes positive, and triode T2 passes current to energise contactor A. When the moisturecontent of the threads changes in the opposite direction, valve T1 conducts, triode T3 is blocked, and valve T4 passes current to energise contactor B. The arrangement may be such that if the moisture-content of the threads is too low relay A is energised, if too great the relay B is closed. Lamps indicate the condition of operation of the relays which are adapted to control the energisation of reversing relays R, L, for a direct-current shunt motor 80 which positions the rotor of the induction regulator and so maintains the speed of the motor 9 at a value providing the required degree of moisture in the threads. Speed regulation may be effected only at recurrent time intervals to allow the thread between the drying chamber and condenser plates to pass through the latter before another automatic speed-change is effected. The relays R, L, are therefore energised through the contacts of a timing relay which is adapted to close its contacts for set periods and is controlled by cam-operated contacts driven by a pilot motor (Fig. 5, not shown). This pilot motor may be supplied from an alternator driven by the motor 9 so that the frequency of operation of the cam-driven contacts is related to the speed of the thread. Specification 550,387 is referred to.