Patent GB-915943-A (GB)
IPC: D01H1/00
Filed: 1959-10-02
Abstract: 915,943. Double twist take-up spindles. TEXTILE & CHEMICAL RESEARCH CO. Ltd. Oct. 2, 1959 [Oct. 6, 1958], No. 44915/61. Divided out of 915,942. Class 120 (2). A horizontal double-twist take-up spindle having a cage of bars surrounding the takeup package, comprises a gear train driving a traverse-guide, which gear train is driven from the spindle-shaft and is so disposed as to prevent the cage rotating. Preferably a second gear-train frictionally driven from the first is geared to the bobbin, the two trains together providing an eccentrically-disposed mass holding the cage against rotation. The spindle may be used in the cabling - assembly of Specification 915,942 and is generally of the form of the spindle of Specification 915,944. It comprises a shaft 19, Fig. 1, axially-bored at 34, carried on biasings 23, 24, driven by a pulley 13 and having a frusto-conical part 31 fast with a plate 33; yarn apertures 35, 36 are provided in the parts 31, 33 and a roller 91 as shown in Fig. 2 of Specification 915,944 is disposed between aperture 35 and the bore 34. The gear trains are carried in the lower parts of housings 51, 76 arranged on either side of a plate 48 mounted on bearings 150, 151 on the shaft and serving with a ring 86 to support bars 50 and a cross-threaded bar 153 for traversing a guide 185. Pivoted at 187 to ring 86, Fig. 2, is a cross-member 186 which can be secured in position by a spring-catch 189; it carries a cylinder 192, a grooved roller 193 and a guide 191, other guides 197, 198 being carried on either face of the ring near an aperture 195. In operation, yarn to be twisted (or yarns to be cabled) balloons between an external guide and orifice 36 where the first twist is imparted; it then passes via the roller 19 to the bore 34 to guide 191 for the second twist. Guided several times around cylinder 192 and grooved roller 193, it then travels to the traverse-guide via guide 197, aperture 195 and guide 198. Cylinder 192 is driven by gears 194, 159, Fig. 3, from a pinion 155f which is the slowest gear of a reducing-train 155f . . . 155a mounted in housing 51 and meshing with external teeth 155 on a sleeve 154 keyed to shaft 19 which serves to separate bearings 150, 151 on which plate 48 is mounted. The traverse-bar 153 is similarly driven by a reducing-train 160g . . . 160a in the other housing 76; the ring 160a is driven through a toothed ring 160 from a gear 157 (the arrangement of these two parts is diagrammatically shown), gear 157 being driven from gear 155e by a friction-plate 156 of which the springs can be changed. Toothed ring 160 is fixed to a bobbin-sleeve 54 so that the traversespeed is correlated with the take-up speed, and by changing the springs at 156, the take-upspeed can be rotated as desired to the deliveryspeed so that winding takes place under minimum tension. Some of the pinions may be of plastic to reduce noise, and pinions 155b and 155c and plate 156 are in front of plate 48 for ready access. Bobbin securing arrangements-Superposed on sleeve 54 is a sleeve 167 having a fluted recess 168 with a grip-ring 68 and a cylindrical extension 169 with an internal partition 171 and a tubular part 172 encircling the front end of the shaft 19 and carrying a spring 184 and a stop 183; extension 169 also has three apertures 175 each filled with a shoe 176 urged towards the shaft-axis by spring-rings 179 in grooves 177. Inside the extension 169 and urged against the partition 171 by spring 184 is a mandrel 173 secured to a ring 181 with inwardly-directed fingers when a bobbin is to be donned, the ring is so positioned that the fingers engage the endface of the extension 169 and hold the mandrel against the action of the spring in a retracted position to the right of that shown, so that the springs 179 are able to retract the shoes radially to allow the bobbin to be slid on the sleeve where it rolls the ring 68 along the flutes at 168. With the bobbin in position, the ring 181 is rotated until the fingers enter apertures provided in the end face of the extension; the spring 184 now moves the mandrel to the left so that the shoes are forced outwardly to grip the bobbin.