JPH059820A - Winder capable of dealing with various kinds of products - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a winder capable of dealing with various kinds of products and enabling sure discrimination of various kinds of trays at a low cost. CONSTITUTION:A metallic member is fixed at a position having an engaging groove for the discrimination of plural kinds of products. A metal detector is attached to tray-transfer paths 35, 36 and a transfer line is switched between two lines with a switching means 34 according to the presence or absence of the metallic member. Various kinds of trays can be surely discriminated at a low cost by the use of the winder having the above structure.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a winder using trays for inserting and transporting bobbins, and when a tray corresponding to the type of bobbin is used, a discriminating means is applied to the tray to discriminate the type. Regarding a multi-product winder.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a finely spun bobbin is placed on an automatic winder, the bobbin is inserted into a tray peg and the tray is conveyed to the automatic winder by a belt conveyor. Many kinds of bobbins are conveyed to the automatic winder from the spinning machine, and the automatic winder selects bobbins of a specific type according to each type and forms packages while splicing many bobbins. ing.

As described above, in order to feed a tray on which various types of bobbins are inserted up to a predetermined winding unit, a groove is formed at a predetermined height on the outer periphery of the tray, and a branch portion of the tray transfer conveyor is conventionally used. It has been practiced that a separator having a specific height is provided on the tray, only the tray that can be engaged with the separator is changed in its transport path, and the tray is taken into a predetermined winding unit.

[0004]

In the above conventional apparatus, when the groove for engaging the separator is formed on the outer periphery of the tray, the tray has a predetermined height and a predetermined thickness with sufficient strength. There is a limit to the number of grooves for engaging the separators, and at most three grooves can be formed. That is, in order to increase the number of grooves more than this, it is necessary to narrow the groove intervals or to reduce the groove width, but if the groove intervals are narrowed, the strength of the tray outer circumference between the grooves will be weakened and damage will occur. Will increase.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a multi-product winder capable of reliably and inexpensively identifying multi-product trays.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, the present invention fixes a metal member at a predetermined position where a plurality of product type identification engagement grooves are formed, and detects a metal in the tray transport path. Equipped with a container, depending on the presence or absence of metal members 2
A multi-product-compatible winder is configured by providing a distribution means for distributing the transfer line to the system.
This makes it possible to reliably and inexpensively identify a wide variety of trays.

[0007]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, the presence or absence of the metal member fixed at the predetermined position of the tray is detected by the metal detector provided in the tray transport path, and the transport of two systems is performed depending on the presence or absence of the metal member. Allocate to one of the lines. Only the tray that has a groove that can fit into the separator protruding at the height provided on the transfer line of each system can be moved to the separator side in the transfer path. Similarly, all the trays of various kinds are sorted and transported to the predetermined winding unit side.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, a tray 3 having a peg 2 for inserting the bobbin 1 has a base portion 5 to be placed on a belt conveyor 4, and a neck portion 6 is guided by a guide groove 8 of a guide plate 7. It is conveyed by the belt conveyor 4. An engaging groove 10 is provided on the outer periphery of the base portion 5, and an iron ring 11 is fitted and fixed to the neck portion 6. The engaging groove 10 shown in FIG. 1 is provided at a position of height H1 from the bottom surface of the base portion 5, and in other trays, the engaging groove 1 is at a position of height H2 or H3, respectively.
0, and some other trays do not have the iron ring of the neck 6.

As a result, as shown in FIG. 2, the neck portion is roughly divided into a group in which an iron ring is not provided and a group in which an iron ring is not provided. In each group, A, B, and
There are a total of 6 types of trays, each type of C and D, E, and F. Therefore, it is possible to identify the type of yarn of the bobbin by identifying the type of the tray by previously associating the bobbins of the six types of yarn with the trays A to F.

When the tray is conveyed by the belt conveyor, the sorting member 12 protruding on the side of the conveying path has a height corresponding to any one of the heights H1, H2 and H3 of the groove 10 of the tray base 5. 1 and the selection member 12 of FIG. 1 is provided at a position corresponding to the height of the groove of height H1,
It engages with the groove 10. Such a sorting member 12 is provided at a side portion of the branch portion 16 of the transport path 15 as shown in FIG. 3, and when the groove 10 and the sorting member 12 are engaged with each other, as shown by a solid line in FIG. It is located at the lower side in the figure and is conveyed. On the other hand, the tray not provided with the groove corresponding to the sorting member 12 is pushed by the sorting member and is positioned above in the figure and conveyed as shown by the chain line in FIG.

This tray collides with a branch point 18 at the tip of a branch plate 17 provided so as to face the transport path 15. The position of the branch point 18 is located between the center O1 of the tray conveyed downward in the figure and the center O2 of the tray conveyed upward in the figure, and among the trays colliding at the branch point. The tray provided with the groove engageable with the sorting member 12 is sorted and transported to the lower branch transport path 20 in the drawing. The other trays are sorted and transported to the main transport path 21 side in the upper part of the figure, and proceed to the next sorting unit.

On the other hand, a metal detector 22 is provided in the guide groove portion of the guide plate 7 on the conveying path.
Detects when the iron ring 11 is fixed to the neck of the tray passing through the guide groove, and outputs a signal to the control device 23. A push rod 25 that advances and retreats with an air cylinder 24 is provided on a side portion of the transport path where the metal detector 22 is provided, and a solenoid valve 26 provided in a pipeline that supplies air to the air cylinder 24 is a control device. When a signal is output from 23, the air cylinder 24 is opened, and the air cylinder 24 pushes out the push rod 25 so that the conveyance path can be changed by pushing the tray.

In the above embodiment, the metal member provided on the tray is provided on the neck portion of the tray, but it may be fixed on the upper surface 27 of the base portion 5 of the tray in a flat plate shape, and the metal member is fixed at this position. Even if the metal detector 22 is present, the presence or absence of the metal detector 22 can be detected.

When the tray and the conveying path distributing means as described above are used in the conveying path of an actual automatic winder, as shown in FIG. 5, the six kinds of bobbins are mixed on the conveyor 30 from the spinning machine or the like. Then, each tray is inserted and conveyed in the corresponding tray, and is conveyed on the main conveyance path 32 in which the yarn end is subjected to the yarn end ejection processing. First branch 33
Is provided with a distribution means 34 using the metal detector 22 shown in FIG. The tray provided with the metal at the first branch portion 33 is carried on the first carrying path 35 by the sorting means 34, and the tray not provided with the metal is carried on the second carrying path 36.

The tray transported on the second transport path 36 is
At the second branch portion 37, the tray having the groove at the lower stage of the tray base is taken into the take-in path 38 side, and the winder-side carrying path 41 for carrying the tray to the automatic winder in which a large number of winding units 40 are lined up. Transfer. In each winding unit 40, an empty bobbin in which all the yarns of the bobbin are unwound is transferred to the transport path 42, the actual bobbin is taken in from the winder side transport path 41, and yarn splicing is performed to form a package.

A branching means using a separator similar to the above-mentioned second branching part 37 is sequentially provided along the second conveying path 36 as a third branching part 43 and a fourth branching part 44, and a third branching part 43. The tray B is identified, and the tray C is identified by the fourth branching unit 44. Then, the second transport path 36 merges with the first transport path 35.

The distribution means using the metal detector is the first
It is also provided at the point P on the transport path 35, and a tray provided with metal is taken into the third transport path 39. Also on the third transport path 39, a fifth branch portion 45, a sixth branch portion 46, and a seventh branch portion 47 similar to the second to fourth branch portions are provided, and the fifth branch portion 45.
Tray D, the sixth branching section 46, Tray E,
At the branching portion 47, the trays F are identified and transferred to the winder side transport path of each winder unit. Third transport path 39
The trays that are not transferred to the winder side transport path of each winder unit are merged with the first transport path 35 and discharged.

Further, since the electrical sorting system is adopted by using the metal detector, the presence / absence of the tray at the point Q on the first transport path and the metal on the tray are provided for checking the mixture in case of an emergency stop. It is possible to provide a safety measure for stopping the machine base in the event of an abnormality by providing a means for identifying whether or not there is a signal. Further, instead of the metal detector, various sort means such as sort based on the thickness of the neck can be adopted.

[0019]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above,
After being roughly divided into two groups depending on the presence or absence of metal, the identification can be performed according to the position of the groove of the tray, so that the identification type is doubled and it is possible to support more types of automatic winders. Further, the metal detector is widely used in various fields, is inexpensive, and has a high discrimination ability, so that it is possible to discriminate inexpensively and surely.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a part of a distribution unit using a groove of a tray according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing types of trays according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a top view of a distribution unit using the groove of the tray.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing a part of a distribution unit using a metal member of a tray according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a transport system diagram of a multi-product type winder according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3 Tray 5 Base part 6 Neck part 8 Guide groove 11 Ring 12 Sorting member 16 Branch part 18 Branch point 22 Metal detector 23 Control device 25 Push rod 34 Sorting means 35 First transport path 36 Second transport path 39 Third transport path 40 Winding unit

Claims (1)

Claims: 1. A metal member is fixed at a predetermined position of a tray having a plurality of product type identification engagement grooves, and a metal detector is provided in the tray transport path. A multi-product type winder characterized by being equipped with a sorting means for sorting the transport lines in the system.