Patent GB-711501-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for detecting and correcting irregularities of thickness ofa textile sliver
IPC: D01H5/40
Filed: 1951-08-14
Abstract: 711,501. Drafting textile slivers. T.M.M. (RESEARCH). Ltd., and RAPER, G. F. July 29, 1952 [Aug. 14, 19511, No. 19160/51. Classes 120(2) and 120(3). In apparatus for detecting and correcting irregularities in thickness of a textile sliver of the type in which a sliver passes through a drafting unit controlled by a relay of the type and functioning as described in Specification 710,957, the projection of the axially-movable rods of the relay in each direction beyond a datum setting is measured by a transmitting element arranged so that the direction of its movement in relation to the rod with which it is in contact is such that the major axis. of the rod does not pass through the point, line, or surface of the contact between the rod. and the transmitter; the reactive force between the rod and the transmitter element always acts at an angle to the rod axis, and the component of such reactive force which is aligned with the rod axis is always less than the component normal thereto. In a drafting head of a spinning machine, Figs. 1 and 2, worsted sliver X is drawn between front rollers 10, 11 and back rollers which form the detector of variations in the sliver and consist. of a fixed, grooved, roller 12 and a flanged roller 13 carried by one arm of a lever 16, 17, which is. pivoted on a stud 18 and of adjustable effective length, and loaded by a weight 23; movement of the roller 13 due to variations in sliver thickness are transmitted by a bowl 19 carried on the arm 17 to a lever 27 which carries a setting element 29 by which the relay is influenced to transmit corrective signals as indicated by a pointer 30 against a scale 31. In the relay, as a cage rotates, axially slidable rods 36 carried thereby each in turn comes under the influence of an arcuate adjustable portion 291 of the element 29 so that the rods are moved into the above-defined contact with the underside of a pivoted plate 40 (the contact surface of which is preferably inclined to the rod axis at an angle not exceeding fifteen degrees), the consequent movement of an arm 42 of which by means of an adjustable set-screw 43 is transferred via a pivoted tappet arm 44 to a pushrod 45 which actuates mechanism controlling the position of a driving belt running on oppositely disposed cone pulleys to adjust the speed of the roller 12, Fig. 4 (not shown), and so correct the error in the sliver: after the rods 36 have travelled past the plate 40 they are restored to datum position by guide plate 57. The pivotal axis of the transmitter plate 40 may occupy any position that will ensure that the contact surface of the plate bears more on the side of the rods than on their ends. An alternative form of transmitter (not shown), consists of thin blades disposed vertically edgewise in closely packed formation, the blades being mounted for free individual movement on a common pivot axis and arranged so that their ends ride over the sides of the projecting end of each rod 36: the blades may be of progressively increasing height in the direction of the ends of the rods and. so arranged that at any given time the tallest lifts a bar which transmits a corrective signal according to the height to which it is raised, or the blades may be of uniform height and the bar of varying depth. The rollers 12, 13 may take the form of plain, narrow. cylindrical discs rotating in edge contact between side faces for retaining the sliver, and conventional devices such as intermediate rollers and aprons may be provided. The lever 16, 17 may be swivelled by means of a hand-lever 60 connected to a link 61 to raise the roller 13 out of operative position. Fig. 8 depicts the application of the invention to a gill-box in which variations in the thickness of a sliver passing between detector rollers 121 and 131 moves the latter to actuate through a linkage 81 a setting element lever 271 of a relay unit 361. A transmitter plate 402 is connected with a fork 501 which is adapted to adjust a belt 79 sc as to vary the effective speed ratio between cones 78, 80, in order to govern the speed of one roller 72 of a pair of rollers 71, 72, between which and rollers 73, 74, drafting occurs. and also of the fallers 75: alternatively the speed of the roller 74 only may be governed. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 656,135.