Patent GB-489682-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to yarn winding and similar machines
IPC: B65H54/10
Filed: 1937-08-23
Abstract: 489,682. Multiple unit winding- machines ; gearing for conveying rotary motion ; belt gearing ; adjusting chains. ABBOTT MACHINE CO. Aug. 23, 1937, No. 23066. Convention date, Aug. 24, 1936. [Class 120 (ii)] [Also in Groups XXIV and XXV] In a travelling multiple-unit yarn-winding machine of the type described in Specification 268,161, [Class 120 (ii)], in which each travelling winding unit includes a yarn traverse device and a roll for frictionally driving the winding package, each unit carries an individual variable speed device whereby the synchronism between the traverse device and the roll is continually interrupted to prevent " ribbon " winding. The head portion of the winding unit comprises a hollow casing 16 enclosing the traverse cam 17 driven by an electric motor 22 mounted on the shaft 21. The cam follower 26 is pivoted to a slider 28 travelling along a rod 27. An extension 30 of the slider is guided in a slit between the accurately finished surfaces 34, 35 of the casing 16, whereby it is prevented from turning about the rod 27. A concavity 38 in the casing 16, corresponding to the peripheral curvature of a driving-roll 39 of about ¥ inch diameter, enables the nip between the package 14 and the roll 39 to be very close to the path of the traverse guide 31. The roll 39 is provided with a loose, undriven portion 40 to avoid rubbing the tip of conical packages. The casing 16 serves as an oil reservoir whence are lubricated all the high speed parts of the traverse and driving mechanism. The ribbon-breaking mechanism comprises a driving connection between the roll and the cam including frictional driving and driven elements between which there is slip, providing a relatively slow variation of the ratio between the traverse cam speed and the driving roll speed, In the various embodiments described (1) the shaft 21 of the cam, Figs. 1 and 3, carries fast thereon the right half 53 of a split V-pulley ; the left half 54 is loose and is forced to the left by the action of the belt 55, causing it to bear against a cap 58 fast on the shaft and provided with a contoured groove 59 in which run spaced balls 57, such that relative movement of the half pulley 54 and the cap 58 causes the two halves of the pulley to move towards and then away from one another, thereby altering the effective diameter of the pulley, which drives the package driving roll through . the pulley 60 : (2) in the modification shown in Fig. 7, the loose half pulley 53a has embedded in it three balls which ride on the contoured surface of a cap 58a ; (3) in the modification of Fig. 10, the edge of the half pulley 54b is contoured similarly to the edge of the cap 58b on which it rides ; (4) in the modification of Figs. 13 and 14, the shaft 21 carries keyed to it a cam cylinder 70, on which is loosely mounted a ring gear 72 connected thereto by three pins 74 entering the cam groove 71 ; the ring gear meshes with the gear 78 on the roll shaft, and owing to the angular inclination of the teeth the axial movement of the ring gear caused by the cam groove results in acceleration and deceleration of the drive ; (5) in Figs. 16 and 18, the cam-shaft 21 drives the roller by means of a belt and crown-shaped pulleys ; the larger pulley consists of two halves, one keyed and one loose, each having flat portions 80 in its circumference, so that as the two halves rotate relatively the effective diameter of the whole pulley is changed periodically. In all the above modifications of the drive, - the pulleys or gears are detachable from their shafts to allow ready change of speed ratio. Each winding unit of the machine is connected by a bracket 85 and pivot pin 86 to a link of a chain 87 running in an endless path round the machine on sprockets 88 of which one is driven. Wear in the chain is taken up by means of adjustable link pins 90, Figs. 3 and 4, rotatable in the forks of the link and having an eccentric middle portion 91 engaging the next link. The pin is slotted for rotation with a screw-driver and can be locked in position by a pin 93 fitting in a corresponding hole in the link engaging one of several recesses 94, 95 in the head of the pin.