US2846833A - Apparatus for loading bobbins on pin-boards - Google Patents

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US2846833A
US2846833A US344627A US34462753A US2846833A US 2846833 A US2846833 A US 2846833A US 344627 A US344627 A US 344627A US 34462753 A US34462753 A US 34462753A US 2846833 A US2846833 A US 2846833A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H54/00—Winding, coiling, or depositing filamentary material
    • B65H54/02—Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers
    • B65H54/10—Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers for making packages of specified shapes or on specified types of bobbins, tubes, cores, or formers
    • B65H54/14—Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers for making packages of specified shapes or on specified types of bobbins, tubes, cores, or formers on tubes, cores, or formers having generally parallel sides, e.g. cops or packages to be loaded into loom shuttles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H67/00—Replacing or removing cores, receptacles, or completed packages at paying-out, winding, or depositing stations
    • B65H67/06—Supplying cores, receptacles, or packages to, or transporting from, winding or depositing stations
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/31—Textiles threads or artificial strands of filaments

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  • each wound bobbin be placed promptly on a separate upright pin in a so-called pin-board, which latter may hold upward of a hundred bobbins.
  • This storage arrangement prevents injury to delicate threadsby accidental contact.
  • FIG. 1 is a front elevation of my improved pin-board loading apparatus, together with a portion of a coacting bucket conveyor;
  • Fig. 2 is an end view, looking in the direction of the arrow 2 in Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 is a partial plan view, looking in the direction of the arrow 3 in Fig. 2;
  • Fig. 4 is an end view, partly in section, of certain pin-board replacing mechanism to be described
  • Fig. 5 is a partial side elevation, looking in the direction of the arrow 5 in Fig. 4;
  • Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic and partially perspective view of certain parts of the mechanism for removing full bobbins from the bucket conveyor and for transferring these bobbins to the carrier conveyor best shown in Figs. 2 and 7;
  • Fig. 7 is a perspective view of certain mechanism for intermittently advancing the carrier conveyor
  • Fig. 8 is a perspective view of certain mechanism for transferring a group of filled bobbins from a series of carrier conveyor units to an associated group of pins in a pin-board, and for thereupon releasing the pin-board for an advance or feeding movement;
  • Fig. 9 is a perspective view of mechanism for replacing a filled pin-board by an empty pin-board from storage
  • Fig. 10 is a detail view of a holding latch shown in Fig. 8;
  • Fig. 11 is a detail view of a holding latch shown in Fig. 9;
  • Fig. 12 is an exploded view of certain intermittent feeding mechanism shown in Fig. 6;
  • Fig. 13 is a detail sectional view of a conveyor bucket to be described.
  • Fig. 14 is a fragmentary detail of a portion of a loaded pin-board.
  • each conveyor bucket comprises a trough 22 (Fig. 13) having a depressible bottom plate 23 provided with an upright pin 24.
  • the depressed pin 24 engages and closes a switch S in a power circuit which contains a solenoid coil 27.
  • This coil when energized, raises a plunger 28 having a wedge member 29 associated therewith.
  • the wedge member 29 holds a swinging latch 30 out of engagement with a notched clutch disc 31 on a shaft 32 which is connected by a chain 33 to the conveyor shaft 20.
  • the shaft is continuously rotated as previously explained.
  • An offset portion or arm 42 (Fig. 2) of the member 41) is connected by a link 44 to an arm 45 pivoted at 46 and having an associated arm 47 which has a pinand-slot connection to a slide 48.
  • the slide 48 (Fig. 1)
  • Carrier conveyor feed The, means for intermittently advancing the carrier conveyor C is best shown in Figs. 6 and 7.
  • the intermittently-advanced shaft 50 is extended above the disc cam 54 and is provided with a gear 62 (Fig. 7) which meshes with an equal gear 63 on a parallel shaft 64.
  • a Geneva pinion 65 is secured to the shaft 64 and intermittently advances a Geneva gear 66 which is loose on the shaft 50 and which has a disc 67 and a sprocket 68 associated therewith.
  • the carrier units 60 mounted to swing on the conveyor C associated with the Geneva gear 66, are intermittently-advanced by the sprocket 68.
  • the shaft 64 (Fig. 7) receives one full revolution each time a full bobbin B is dropped onto the transfer member 40, and the associated parts 66, 67 and 68 are advanced Vs of a revolution or 45.
  • the conveyor C is thus advanced one space at each operation of the transfer member 40, So that successive carrier units 60 with full bobbins B move across the front of the carrier assembly as viewed in Fig. 2 until eight adjacent carrier units 60 have been filled and advanced and are in transverse alignment.
  • the bobbins B in these aligned carrier units rest on an angle iron or cross bar 70 (Figs. 1 and 8), which normally supports the full bobbins B in the position shown in Fig. 2.
  • the lower ends of the swinging carrier units 60 are positioned by a fixed guide bar 71.
  • Bobbin release mechanism Mechanism best shown in Fig. 8 is provided for depositing a row of bobbins B on a row of pins P in a pin-board D.
  • the disc 67 (Figs. 7 and 8) is provided with a notch 72 in its under side.
  • the disc 67 normally holds down an arm 74 (Fig. 8) on the shaft 75 which supports the cross bar 70.
  • the notch 72 allows the arm 74 to swing upward, and the cross bar 70 is then moved backward by a spring 73 and gravity to release the bobbins B' resting thereon.
  • These eight bobbins thereupon slide downward and are received and held upright by the pins P on an operatively-positioned pin-board D, as
  • a cam disc 80 (Fig. 8) is mounted on the upper part of the Geneva pinion shaft 64 and rotates above an arm 81 on the shaft 75 which supports the cross bar 70.
  • the cam disc 80 rotates once with every revolution of the Geneva pinion 65, and on each rotation it swings the cross bar 70 back to supporting position if it has been displaced therefrom. Consequently, when the cross bar is released by the notch 72 and is moved back to discharge its load, it is promptly thereafter returned to holding position by the action of the cam disc 80.
  • Pin-board release and feed The pin-boards D rest upon a pair of conveyor chains 90 and 91 (Fig. 6) driven by sprockets 92 on a cross shaft 93 which is connected by a chain 94 and sprocket 95 to a shaft 96 aligned with the shaft 35 previously described.
  • the shaft 35 has an arm 97 supporting a pawl 98 (Fig. 12) which rotates about a fixed annular disc 99. This disc is cut away for a relatively short segment to uncover certain teeth of a ratchet wheel 100 secured on the end of the shaft 96.
  • the pawl 98 thus advances the ratchet wheel 100 a limited number of teeth and correspondingly advances the chains 90 and 91 which support the pin-board D.
  • Pin-board replacement I will now describe the mechanism for replacing a loaded pin-board D.
  • the pin-board D is released for a limited forward movement each time a row of pins P is filled.
  • the full pin-board D is thus released after the last row of pins has been filled, it continues to travel forward with the chains 90 and 91, and an open space is left at the rear of the pin-board.
  • a lever 110 (Fig. 9) normally engages the under side of the pin-board but when this open space appears, the lever 110 is rocked by a spring- 114 to close a switch S2 which controls a solenoid 111 (Figs. 4 and 5) associated with a one-revolution clutch similar in construction to the clutch -31 previously described.
  • This second clutch comprises a notched disc 112 (Fig.
  • a disc 115 is motmted '4 on a short shaft 116 and has a swinging latch 117, normally held out of action by an arm 118.
  • the switch S2 is closed, the arm 118 is drawn upward, releasing latch 117, which then engages the disc 112.
  • the shaft 116 thereupon makes a single revolution.
  • a stack of empty pin-boards D (Fig. 9) are held in superposed storage between guide-bars 120, and the lowest board is held in slightly raised position by a plurality of latches 122 shown in detail in Fig. 11.
  • An eccentric 125 (Fig. 9) is mounted on the shaft 116 and engages a roll 126 on a lever 127 mounted on a listed pivot 128.
  • the lever 127 is connected by a link 129 to a plunger 130 which is provided with a plate 131 which underlies the lowermost pin-board D.
  • the shaft (Figs. 6 and 7) makes' a'corresponding revolution, and the cam disc 54 operates through the slide 48 to swing the transfer member 40 upward, thus placing the full bobbin B deposited from the bucket 22 in one of the carrier units in the carrier conveyor C, the bobbin being shown at B in Fig. 2.
  • the carrier conveyor C is then advanced one space by the Geneva pinion and Geneva gear 66 as indicated in Fig. 7.
  • the pin-board supporting chains 90 and 91 are also given an intermittent advance movement, but the pinboard is held from corresponding advance movement by the star wheels 102.
  • the arm 74 enters the notch 72, the cross bar is withdrawn, and a row of full bobbins B from the filled carrier units 60 is dropped on a transverse row of pins P in the pin-board D.
  • the latches 103 are momentarily released by the backward movement of the bar 70, and the pin-board D is free to frictionally advance one step by the chains and 91 but is held from further advance by return of the latches 103 to locking position.
  • the eccentric. (Fig. 9) opcrates initially through the lever 127 to lift the plunger weighted latches 122, so that on the subsequent return downward movement of the stack, the lowermost pinboard is deposited on the cha. IS 90 and 91. At the same time, the next higher pin-board in the stack is caught and supported in slightly raised position by the latches 122.
  • This deposited and empty pin-board is then frictionally advanced by the chains 90 and 91 until the first row of pins P is in position to receive bobbins dropped from the carrier units 60. Then the board D is locked and held in this position by the star wheels 102 until its first row of pins 1? is filled, after which it is advanced one space as previously described.
  • the operation of the mechanism is thus entirely automatic and the attendant merely removes the filled boards from the right-hand end of the conveyor chains 90 and 91 and sees that the stack of empty boards in storage is replenished from time to time.
  • Pin-board loading mechanism comprising a carrier conveyor having a plurality of bobbin-holding carrier units, means to advance said carrier conveyor step-bystep, a continuously-moving collecting conveyor having buckets to receive and transport full bobbins, a single means to transfer a full bobbin direct from a bucket to a carrier unit, a pin-board, friction chains suppporting said pin-board beneath said carrier conveyor, and means to intermittently advance said chains, and said latter means including a normally-stationary but rotatable ratchet wheel, a concentric stationary shield having a limited cut-away portion, an arm supporting a pawl which yieldingly engages said ratchet wheel, and means to give said arm and pawl a single revolution each time said transfer means is operated.
  • Pin-board loading mechanism comprising a carrier conveyor having a plurality of bobbin-holding carrier units, means to advance said carrier conveyor step-bystep, movable transfer means, a continuously-moving collecting conveyor having buckets to receive and transport full bobbins and to present them separately and successively to said transfer means, and said movable transfer means separately receiving each full bobbin from a conveyor bucket as it reaches transfer position and in a horizontal position and separately raising and depositing said separate bobbin in a carrier unit in a substantially upright position.
  • Pin-board loading mechanism comprising a carrier conveyor having a plurality of bobbin-holding carrier units, means to advance said carrier conveyor step-by-step, movable transfer means, a continuously-moving collecting conveyor having buckets to receive and transport full bobbins and to present them separately and successively to said transfer means, and said movable transfer means comprising a pivoted transfer arm having a bobbin-receiving trough, means to swing said arm and trough from an upright bobbin-depositing position to a horizontal bobbin-receiving position, and means to thereafter raise said arm and trough from said horizontal bobbin-receiving position to said upright bobbin-depositing position while said carrier conveyor is at rest.

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FR1080141D FR1080141A (fr) 1953-03-25 1953-05-27 Dispositif pour charger des bobines sur un tableau à chevilles
CH316690D CH316690A (de) 1953-03-25 1953-06-10 Vorrichtung zum Aufstecken von Spulen auf Aufsteckrahmen in einer Spulmaschine
US523298A US2794532A (en) 1953-03-25 1955-07-20 Transfer mechanism operable between successive bobbin conveyors

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