Patent GB-1058669-A (GB)
Title: Drive arrangement with stepwise power take-off, particularly adapted for utilization with weaving looms
IPC: D03D43/00
Filed: 1964-02-27
Abstract: 1,058,669. Toothed gearing. VERWALTUNGSGESELLSCHAFT DER WERKZEUGMASCHINEN FABRIK OERLIKON. Feb. 27, 1964 [March 8, 1963], No. 8199/64. Heading F2Q,. [Also in Divisions D1 and E2] In a drive arrangement for the harness of a weaving loom comprising mutilated driven gears 1 ... 5 adapted to be driven intermittently from driving gears 12 ... 16, starter means for effecting the drive between each mutilated gear and its driver are connected in series in such a manner that a sequential time delay occurs between the times of operation of adjacent driven gears. The mutilated gears 1 ... 5 are secured to shafts 6... 10, each of which carries a primary cam disc 22 and a secondary cam disc 23. Each cam disc 22 carries a projection 22a which is adapted to engage a projection 23a on a cam disc 23 on the adjacent shaft. The driving gears 12... 16 rotate continuously in synchronism. A predetermined indexing sequence may be introduced by way of a cam 22 of a starter mechanism 21 and this may be fed back from the last cam 22<SP>1</SP> to the first cam 22 of mechanism 21 to form a closed cycle. The mechanism may be applied to the warp thread control or weft thread control of weaving looms, particularly wave weaving looms. Various arrangements of operating cells, 26, each comprising a mutilated driven gear and its associated starter mechanism, are described including the arrangement shown in Fig. 10 in which operating cells 26 are arranged in a circle and drive a loom harness 32. In a modification, Fig. 19 (not shown), the starter mechanism comprises a plate-like primary portion 41 carrying a lug 42 which: is adapted to engage a slot 43 in a secondary portion 44, the periphery of portion 41 also acting as a lock on secondary portions 44 before the parts become coupled. In another modification, a primary element 55, Fig. 24, has three peripheral portions 59, 60, 61 which cooperate with portions 62, 63, 64 of a secondary element 53. In a further modification, Fig. 25 (not shown), primary starting elements such as 58, 55 are loosely mounted upon a stationary shaft 65, secondary elements 50, 53 are rigidly secured to hollow shafts 49, 52 of partly mutilated driven gears 45, 46, and a drive-shaft 71 carries drive gears 47, 48 and has driven gears 70, integral with eccentrics 72, rotatably mounted thereon. The driven gears 70 mesh complete toothed rim portions of the drive gears 45, 46. Each eccentric 72 is coupled to an associated harness 32 by a coupling rod 73. A feed-back connection comprises a shaft 66, on which the hollow shafts 49, 52 are rotatably mounted, the shaft being rigidly connected to the last driven gear 67 and coupled to the first primary element 58 by gearing 68, 69. The shaft 65 and a plurality of shafts 66 may be arranged concentrically about a common driveshaft 71, as shown in Fig. 28, and two such arrangements may be coupled to one another, as shown in Fig. 34. In a closed storage system, as depicted in Fig. 16, a hollow shaft 103, Fig. 35, carries at its ends gears 104, 105, and is keyed to a drive-shaft 71. The gear 104 drives, through an intermediate gear 107, an internally and externally toothed annulus 109 around which are arranged mutilated driven gears 112, Fig. 37, integral with shafts 116 which carry primary elements 117 and secondary elements 118. Mutilated driven gears 121 are arranged around the gear 105, and their associated primary elements 122 and secondary elements 119, are carried on hollow shafts 120 keyed to shafts 123 through which the indexing command is transmitted to rows of operating cells according to Fig. 28. Figs. 40 and 43 show drive arrangements for weaving looms with weft thread control Eccentrics 170, 171, Fig. 40, are driven by rows of operating cells 174, 175, respectively. and operate on a selector element 173 through the agency of a connecting lever 172. In Fig. 41. epicyclic gearing 180-183 effects a summation drive to a rack 185. A combination of epicyclic gearing and eccentrics is shown in Fig. 42 whilst a compound epicyclic summation drive to a rack 185 is shown in Fig. 43. In an arrangement of a different kind, shown in Fig. 44, harness carriers 144 are adapted to be sequentially released for downward movement under the influence of springs 145 on the sequential release of locking levers 146, the members 144. carrying arms 147 which engage inclined surfaces 148 on adjacent levers 146 to effect unlocking. The action is initiated by a control cam 149. A shaft 140 carries eccentrics 141 which are connected to sliders 143 having portions 143<SP>1</SP> adapted to engage under heads 144<SP>1</SP> of harness carriers 144. A keying-in mechanism is shown in Fig. 45 wherein depression of a key 152 causes downward movement of a slider 153 which acts upon a locking pawl 146 to disengage it from a harness carrier 144. In a modified keying-in mechanism, shown in Fig. 46, a key 167 is held depressed by an arm 171 to engage a locking pawl 175 with a gear 45 until it is released by actuation of a cam 184 on a pivoted arm 180.