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US2998694A
US2998694A US708802A US70880258A US2998694A US 2998694 A US2998694 A US 2998694A US 708802 A US708802 A US 708802A US 70880258 A US70880258 A US 70880258A US 2998694 A US2998694 A US 2998694A
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    • D07B3/08—General-purpose machines or apparatus for producing twisted ropes or cables from component strands of the same or different material in which the take-up reel rotates about the axis of the rope or cable or in which a guide member rotates about the axis of the rope or cable to guide the rope or cable on the take-up reel in fixed position and the supply reels are fixed in position
    • D07B3/10—General-purpose machines or apparatus for producing twisted ropes or cables from component strands of the same or different material in which the take-up reel rotates about the axis of the rope or cable or in which a guide member rotates about the axis of the rope or cable to guide the rope or cable on the take-up reel in fixed position and the supply reels are fixed in position with provision for imparting more than one complete twist to the ropes or cables for each revolution of the take-up reel or of the guide member
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  • This invention relates to methods and apparatus for producing twisted assemblies comprising two or more flexible elements or strands, of the type in which all the strands are twisted together simultaneously in a common direction and with a common pitch.
  • Systems for performing such operations are herein referred to as throwingsystems.
  • One particularly important application of throwing systems and methods is the production of twisted electric cable conductors, and it is in connection with this particular use that the invention will be more specifically described, although it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to that particular use.
  • Conventional throwing systems usually comprise a feed-out station comprising a stationary frame adapted to' carry a number of reels equal in number to that of they strands to be provided in the final twisted assembly and supported in spaced relation on the frame, and a throwing machine comprising a throwing frame rotatable about a horizontal axis and carrying a set of guide pulleys journalled on pivots extending transverse to and radially spaced from the axis of rotation.
  • the individual strands from the feed-out station are led through suitable inlet guide means wherebyv the strands are gathered together-and fed into the throwing frame axially thereof.
  • the gathered strands are then passed over the guide pulleys carried on the rotary throwing frame so as to follow a path which takesthem first radially outwards of the frame and then radially inwards again back to the axis of the throwing frame, and are then taken up on a receiver or take-up drum within the throwing frame.
  • the strands are thrown, i.e. the desired twist is imparted to them simultaneously, and the final twisted assembly is concurrently taken up on the receiver drum rotated at a suitable rate within the machine.
  • the relative rotational velocities are so predetermined with respect to each other as to provide either a single throw or twist of the strands per revolution of the throwing frame, or a double throw or twist per revolution, the latter arrangement obviously achieving a higher production rate than the former.
  • Conventional apparatus generally include electrical break or fault detectors acting to arrest the operation of the ma- Chine on. occurrence of a break in a strand. Since the action of such detectors cannot be instantaneous, it often happens that the defective strand has already entered the rotary frame of the throwing machine and has thus been made inaccessible before the latter has been brought to a stop. The loose end of the broken strand can thus remain in the twisted cable assembly resulting in wholly or partly defective end products. To avoid this, it may be necessary to untwist the entire length of cable until the break in the defective strand has been located and repaired, and such operation is long, tedious and costly.
  • a method of throwing twisted assemblies such as electric cable conductors, which comprises, in a first step, leading a predetermined length of the strands from an exterior feed-out station into a rotating throwing machine having an intermediate take-up station therein, the linear velocity imparted to the strands in a first direction (force exerted on the strands) being so predetermined in relation to the rate of rotation of the throwing frame rotation as to impart to the strands a twist pitch twice the length of the final desired pitch, then, in a second step, leading the intermediate twisted assembly in a reverse direction from said intermediate take-up station by way of the rotary throwing frame to a final take-up station located exteriorly of the machine, the linear velocity imparted to the strands in this second step being so predetermined with respect to the rate of rotation of the throwing frame as again to impart to the strands a pitch twice the length of I the desired pitch whereby to produce a final twisted assembly having the desired pitch.
  • the invention in another aspect provides a throwing system comprising in combination a stationary feed-out station for feeding out separate strands of a desired twisted assembly, an inlet guide gathering the individual strands, a throwing machine comprising 'a rotatable throwing frame receiving the gathered strands from said input. guide and a rotatable intermediate take-up drumin said throwing machine adapted to receive a pro-twisted assembly of strands from said throwing frame, a final take: up drum disposed exterio-rly of said machine and'adapted, to receive the finally, twisted assembly from said intermediate take-up drum by Way of the throwing frame, and:
  • the final take-up or receiving station is. disposed exteriorly of the throwing machine, and pref-' erably a substantial distance from it insofar as the path of travel of the intervening length of twisted assembly is concerned, it is very convenient to dispose suitable fault detectors along said intervening length operative automatically to arrest the operation of the machine every time some fault or defect in the twisted assembly is sensed (as manifested for example by a slight excess. thickness of said assembly or a protruding end of a broken strand). The fault is thus immediately-located and can be repaired at once, thereby saving costly shut-. down in subsequent machinery and other expensive operations as well as waste and rejects.
  • FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a throwing system according to the invention
  • FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are similar, partial diagrams illustrating different stages of the novel throwing process
  • FIG. 5 is an axial cross sectional view of an improved throwing machine for carrying out the method of the invention.
  • FIG. 6 is an enlarged end view on the line VI-Vl of FIG. 8;
  • FIG. 7 is a fragmentary section on line VIIVII of FIG. 8;
  • FIG. 8 is an enlargement of a portion of FIG. 5.
  • the novelthrowing system comprises a fixed feed-out station 4 supporting a number of reels 3 thereon, each carrying one of the individual strands of the desired twisted assembly, e.g. a cable conductor.
  • the number of strands and hence reels is three in the illustrated example.
  • the strands 1 rom the reels 3 are led through an input guide 5 which gathers the three separate strands together and the gathered strands are then passed into a throwing rnachine which comprises a rotating throwing frame 6 driven in rotation about a horizontal axis.
  • the throwing frame may comprise as shown four guide pulleys including an input pulley 32 and an output pulley adjacent to the axis of rotation of the frame and a pair of axially spaced intermediate pulleys 33 and 34 displaced radially from said axis.
  • the gathered strands from guide 5 are passed to and trained over said guide pulleys 32, 33, 34 and 35 so as to extend over a path in the throwing frame leading first radially outward then radially inward thereof, as shown.
  • Said strands are then passed into a relatively stationary frame or cradle 7 within the throwing machine, being first trained over a dual pair of multi-groove draft wheels or sheaves 8 and then being fed to a take-up reel or drum 9 supported in the cradle 7, said drum 9 constituting the intermediate or internal receiving station of the system.
  • the reason for providing a dual draft sheave assembly 8 will be made clear later.
  • this pro-twisted assembly is led out from drum 9, over draft pulleys 8, over the guide pulleys of the throwing frame in the reverse order from that in the first stage, out of the throwing machine by way of an output guide pulley 58, then over further guide pulleys 59 and 60 shown in FIG. 1 as journalled above the feed-out frame 4, and to a final take-up or receiving reel 10.
  • the throwing frame 6 is again driven in rotation in the same direction about its horizontal axis as in the first stage, and the draft sheaves 8 are rotated in the reverse sense from that in the first stage, i.e. counterclockwise herein.
  • Drum 9 in its rotation now lags behind the rotation of the draft sheaves 8. Final.
  • take-up drum 10 is likewise rotated to take-up the 4 finally twisted cable, its rate of rotation being automatically regulated in response to the draft speed of the twisted assembly 2 as determined by the draft sheaves 8.
  • This automatic regulation may be accomplished, as schematically shown in FIG. 1, by driving the take-up drum 10 from a motor 11 by way of a drive belt 12 and adjusting the tension of said belt by means of a tension.
  • roller journalled on a pivoted lever arm 13 which tends to be displaced in a direction to increase the tension on drive belt 12 in response to a slackening of the twisted conductor 2, and which is urged in the opposite direction by a spring 14, so as to decrease the tension on drive belt 12 in case of an increase in the tension of the twisted conductor 2.
  • a fault detector 15 is schematically shown as being. interposed on the path of the final twisted conductor 15 between the throwing machine and the take-up reel 10.
  • FIGS. 2 to 4 are preferably used according to the invention for facilitating the practical performance of the novel two-step throwing process.
  • a flexible element 16 preferably in the form of a chain having axially interpivoted or swivelled links is attached to the body of the internal or intermediate take-up drum 9.
  • the length of the chain is such that when the chain is led out over the guide pulleys of the throwing frame and over the further guide pulleys above the station 4 the free end 2 of said chain in its fully unwound state will just reach to the outer drum 10, as indicated at M in FIG. 2.
  • the end of the swivel chain attached to drum 9 is then wound around the drum 9 by an amount such that the free end of the chain is retracted and is positioned substantially at the point P just short of the guide 5, as shown in FIG. 2.
  • the separate strands from reels 3 are then passed through the guide 5 and attached to the free end of the swivel chain 16 positioned at the point P and the first step of the throwing process is performed.
  • the axially swivelled links thereof can accommodate the throwing action of frame 6 as applied to the chain without any interference from said links, and the first-step throwing operation is performed until the desired length of strands has been fed out from the feed-out reels 3.
  • the strands are severed at the point P and one end of another similar swivel chain 17, fed out from an auxiliary reel 18 (FIG. 2), is attached to the severed ends of the strands extending out of the throwing machine.
  • the first throwing step is then continued until the full desired length of the strands has been subjected to the first throwing operation and the pre' twisted assembly or cable has been taken up on intermediate drum 9. This condition is illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • the sense of rotation of the draft wheels 8 and drum 9 is now reversed to start the second throwing step.
  • the swivel chain 17 is taken up on its auxiliary drum or reel 18 until the free end of the twisted cable has reached a point adjacent to the drum 10. Said free end of the cable is then unfastened fiom the chain 17 and fastened to the periphery of the drum 10 (see FIG. 4).
  • the second step of the throwing. process is then continued until the full desired length of the twisted cable has been wound up on the reel 10.
  • the first swivel chain 16 has its end positioned at point M at the periphery of the drum 10 and the condition is the same as that in FIG. 2.
  • the chain 16 is unfastened from the length of cable just completed on drum l0 and the operating cycle can be repeated as described.
  • the initial step of the fresh cycle will consist of winding up again the chain 16 about the inner drum 9 until the free end of the chain has reached the point P and fastening the ends of the strands 1 from reels 3 to'the chain.
  • the fault detector is disposed at a fully accessible position and makes it possible readily to check that the full length of twisted cable has been correctly thrown and is free of defects.
  • the outer take-up drum 10 can be replaced without loss of time during performance of the first throwing operation and that the inner take-up drum 9 does not in the novel process require replacement at any time but may be retained permanently in its position within the throwing machine.
  • This not only represents a saving of time as mentioned above but has additional advantages.
  • the useful capacity of the drum can be increased so as to permit the take-up of greater lengths of cable than in a comparable machine of conventional type, or conversely for a given useful capacity, the diameter of the throwing frame 6 can be reduced and at the same time its rotational velocity correspondingly increases.
  • the frame of the machine comprises two spaced posts 21 and 22having end journals 23 and 24 of the rotatable throwing frame 6 rotatably mounted in suitable hearings in said posts.
  • a multi-groove drive pulley 25 Secured to the outer end of journal 24' beyond post 22 is a multi-groove drive pulley 25 for rotating the frame 6 through a suitable belt drive, not shown.
  • Journal 24 is extended inwardly from post 22 towards post 21 to provide a tubular shaft portion 24 which has a gear 40 secured on its inner end. Gear 40 serves as a movement take-off for driving various components of the machine later described.
  • pairs of axially spaced discs or flanges including the flanges 26 and 27 adjacent post 21 and flanges 28 and 29 near post 22.
  • the flanges are interconnected by tubular members such as 30 and 31 to provide a rigid frame.
  • -Four guide pulleys are journalled on this frame between the pairs of discs in a generally common axial plane about axes transverse to the rotational axis of shaft 24.
  • the guide pulleys include input pulley 32' and output pulley 35 both of which are so positioned that a bottom circumference of the groove in each pulley is substantially tangent to the center axis of the shaft 24 which for this purpose is suitably recessed and is axially bored, as indicated in the drawing.
  • the guide pulleys further include the intermediate pulleys '33 and 34 which are radially offset from the axis of the frame and are respectively positioned in common transverse planes with the pulleys 32 and 35.
  • the frame 7 is supported from an inner shaft 36 which is received within the tubular shaft 24, the latter being rotatably supported about the inner shaft 36 through spaced bearings 36:; and 36b as shown.
  • Inner shaft 36 is axially bored in alignment with the axial bore in the end journal portion 24 of shaft 24.
  • Inner shaft 36 has an end projecting axially beyond the inner end of the tubular shaft 24 and rotatably supported adjacent'to the journal portion 23 through a further bearing 360. In this way it will be seen that the inner shaft 36. is able to retain 'a relatively stationary condition on rotation of the throwing frame assembly 6.
  • gearing ar-- rangement including two gears 80, 81 secured on the ends of a lay shaft 37 journalled across the discs 26 and 27 andmeshing respectively with a fixed gear 82 secured to post 21 and with a gear 83 secured to the adjacent end of inner shaft 36 whereby the inner shaft 36 is held stationary on rotation of the throwing frame 6.
  • Any other suitable means might be used for restraining the inner shaft 36 against rotation with the throwing frame,
  • a depending lever arm 57 is pivoted on frame 7 coaxially with the sheave 38 and has a secondary draft sheave or wheel 38 journalled on its lower end.
  • the lever arm 57 is resiliently restrained against rocking motion by an adjustable bias spring device 55 adjustably supported by a piece 56 fixed on the frame 7. The purpose of this arrangement will be later described.
  • the strands to be twisted are introduced from the reels of the feedout frame (not shown in FIG. 5 but positioned to the left of the machine there shown) through inlet guide 5, through the axial bore in journal 23, around guide pulleys 32. and 33, through tube 30, around guide pulleys 34 and 35, through the aligned axial bores in shaft 24 and inner shaft 36 and around the multiple grooves in the draft sheaves 38 and 38 and issue from the radially outer sheave 38 towards a coil distributor arrangement '48, 49' and intermediate drum 9 as later described.
  • the inner or main draft sheave 38 selectively is driven from take-off pinion 40 in one sense or the other by way of a reversible transmission which includes con-- ventional gearing and belt drives only schematically indicated in FIG. 6;
  • the transmission includes a reversing jaw clutch 42 operable by a manual lever 43 between two positions.
  • the jaw clutch 42 When the jaw clutch 42 is in the position shown, the sheave 38 is driven through the following gear train.
  • a pinion 101 fixed on-a shaft 102 meshes with and is driven by the main drive pinion 40 on the inner end of the rotating shaft 24.
  • the pin-ion 101 on shaft 102 also meshes with a pinion 103 on a hollow stub shaft 104 carrying a pulley 105.
  • a belt on pulley 105 drives a pulley 106 fixed to one driving element of clutch 42.
  • the driven element of clutch '42 is non-- rotatable but axially slidable on a shaft 167 which extends through, but is not fixed to, the pulley 105 and carriesa pinion 108 meshing with a pinion H39 on a shaft 110 which-extends rotatably through the hollow shaft 164 and pinion 103 and carries the sheave 38.
  • gears 108, 109 are readily replaceable for determining the drive ratio from throwing frame 24 to draft sheave 38 and thereby determining the throwing or twisting pitch.
  • the intermediate take-up drum 9 comprises a cylindrical body 9a and end flanges 9b and 9c rotably mounted on bearings around axially spaced points of the shaft 24, and is driven from the take-elf pinion 40 on said shaft through a friction clutch and overrunning means presently described.
  • the possibility of providing the coil distributor means about to be described in the machine of the invention is a direct consequence of the novel feature according to which the take-up drum 9 within the throwing machine need not be removable and hence can have relatively complex equipment associated with it which obviously is not feasible in the case of conventional throwing machines.
  • the relatively stationary frame 7 supports a pair of guide bars 50 extending parallel to shaft 24 at equal radial distances therefrom and having their remote ends supported at the outer ends of a spider member 84 rotatably supported through hearings on a portion of shaft 24.
  • a sliding coildistributor assembly comprising a pulley 48 and roll 49.
  • the arrangement is such that the twisted cable issuing from the outer draft sheave 38' can be trained around pulley 48 journalled at right angles to it and then around the roll 49 journalled at right angles to the pulley 48, to be guided towards that point of the periphery of drum 9 opposite to which the sliding assembly including pulley 48 and roll 49 happens to be positioned at the time.
  • the entire sliding assembly is reciprocated back and forth along the guide bars 50 at a relatively slow rate correlated with the rate of rotation of the drum 9 in order to achieve the desired even helical coiling of the pre-twisted cable around the drum.
  • Any suitable means may be used to achieve this reciprocatory motion of the coil distributor assembly, e.g. a screw-shaft with crossed threads as known per se.
  • the arrangement used comprises a cylindrical cage or casing 53 rotatably mounted through bearings 53b and 53c around shaft 24 at one end and shaft 36 at the other end.
  • a helical guide groove 51 is formed in the inner periphery of the cylindrical casing 53 and is engaged by a following roller 52 journalled ccaxially with the pulley 48.
  • the casing 53 is driven in rotation from the main draft sheave 38.
  • a belt drive 86 is provided from a pulley coaxial with sheave 38 to a pulley 88 iournalled in frame 7 and having a bevel gear 88:: secured coaxially with it which meshes with another bevel gear 885 secured on a lay-shaft 9t journalled parallel to the frame axis to rotate the lay-shaft in a sense corresponding to the sense of rotation of sheave 38.
  • a belt drive 86 is provided from a pulley coaxial with sheave 38 to a pulley 88 iournalled in frame 7 and having a bevel gear 88:: secured coaxially with it which meshes with another bevel gear 885 secured on a lay-shaft 9t journalled parallel to the frame axis to rotate the lay-shaft in a sense corresponding to the sense of rotation of sheave 38.
  • gear 92 Formed on the inner end of drum 9 is a gear 92 which, through an intermediate gear 92a mounted on frame 7 meshes with a gear 94 rotatably mounted on the outer end of lay-shaft 90 mentioned previously.
  • Gear 94 is adapted to be driven from shaft 98 by way of a friction clutch assembly 45 supported on said shaft.
  • Assembly 45 includes a slidable friction clutch element 45a having a hub portion engaged by the forked upper end of a lever arm 96 integral with lever arm 57 and extending upwardly from it.
  • a clutch element 45b of the friction assembly 45 is connected with shaft 94) by way of a one-way drive or free wheel element 46 shown in the cross sectional view of FIG. 7, and so disposed that on rotation of shaft 90 in the counterclockwise direction which is the direction in which shaft 90 is rotating when draft wheel 38 is rotated '8 to drawcable towards the drum 9, said clutch element is driven positively with the shaft '98.
  • the clutch element is further connected with a surrounding boss 7a of frame 7 by way of another one-way or freewheel element 47 disposed oppositely from element 45.
  • lever 43 is operated to throw reverser clutch 42 to the position shown in FIG. 6 whereupon draft wheel 38 is rotated from drive pinion 40 in a counterclockwise sense (as in FIG. 5) to feed cable to the coil distributor pulley 48 and hence to drum 9 as already described.
  • lay-shaft is rotated and hence coil-distributor casing 53 is slowly rotated as also described above to reciprocate the distributor pulley 48 and roll 49 to feed the cable evenly from draft wheel 33 to the drum 9.
  • the twisted cable is led out of the throwing machine by way of the axial bore in journal 23 as will be understood from the fore going disclosure and is passed by way of guide pulleys t 58, 59 and 60 to the final take-up drum 10 provided externally of the machine and driven through a belt drive from electric slip motor 11.
  • the cable tension regulating means described above with reference to FIG. 1 is not illustrated in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 5 does illustrate however the auxiliary pulley 18 also driven from motor 11 9 and serving to operate the swivel-chain 17 as previously described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4.
  • Fault detecting means are associated with the horizontal portion of the path of outgoing cable 2 between the guide pulleys 59 and 60.
  • the fault detector 15 comprises an apertured guide 69 and an apertured plate 70 of conductive material through which the cable 2 is threaded.
  • Guide 69 and plate 70 are secured in depending relation from an insulating support member 68 which is slidably mounted upon a horizontally extending conducting rod 65 supported at its ends through insulator members 66, 67 from frame posts of the system, Support 68 is normally restrained in a predetermined position on guide rod 65 by means of a spring 72.
  • Guide 69 and plate 70 are each preferably provided in two separable, e.g. interpivoted, parts to enable the swivel chain and connecting portions to be passed without operating the shutdown means.
  • the draft sheave assembly 38 may be provided outside the throwing machine rather than inside as shown.
  • the draft sheave assembly may take the place of the guide pulley 58 in FIG. 5.
  • the final receiver system for the finished twisted assembly may comprise coiling means for taking up the cable Within stationary cylindrical drums rather than on rotatable reels or drums as shown herein. While the novel process is herein shown as applied to a double-twist throwing machine, its applicability to single-twist and to multiple-twist systems is evident.
  • a throwing frame rotatable about an axis, guide means on said frame defining a path for said twisted assembly including a portion extending radially away from said axis followed by a portion extending radially toward said axis, intermediate take-up means in said frame, input guide means for leading said strands in a first sense from the feed-out means to said frame along said axis thereof to be passed over said path on the frame to said intermediate takeup means, final take-up means exteriorly of said frame, output guide means for leading said twisted assembly in a second sense from said frame along said axis thereof to said final take-up means, and a draft unit reversibly operable to a selected one of two conditions for selectively applying a draft force to said twisted assembly to pass said assembly in said first sense to produce an intermediate twisted assembly on said intermediate take-up means, and
  • a throwing frame rotatable about an axis, guide means on said frame defining a path for said twisted assembly including a radially outward portion and a radially inward portion, a first takeup reel rotatable within said frame coaxially therewith, input guide means for leading said strands in a first sense from the feed-out means to said frame along said axis and over said path to be pre-twisted by said frame, second take-up means exteriorly of said frame, output guide means for leading the twisted assembly in a second sense'from said frame to said second take-up means, a draft unit engageable with said twisted assembly reversibly operable to a selected one of two positions for applying a draft force to said assembly for passing said assem bly in said first sense and in said second sense respectively, and means for rotating said frame.
  • a rotatable twisting frame means feeding out a plurality of strands to be twisted, first reeling means within said frame, second reeling means outside said frame, means leading the strands in an incoming path from said feeding means over said either one of two conditions for applying a draft force to said strands to draw them selectively over said incoming and said outgoing paths respectively.
  • a rotatable twisting frame means feeding out a plurality of strands to be twisted, first reeling means within said frame, second reeling means outside said frame, means leading the strands in an incoming path from said feed-out means over said frame to said first reeling means, means leading twisted strands in an outgoing path from said first reeling means over said frame to said second reeling means, a draft unit engageable with said strands and operable selectively to a first and a second condition for drawing said strands selectively over said incoming path and said outgoing path, power means for rotating said frame in a predetermined sense, and means connected with said draft unit and said first reel means and operative in said first condition of said drafting unit to rotate said first reeling means from said power means and operative in said second condition of said draft unit to release said first reeling means for free rotation.
  • a rotatable twisting frame means feeding out strands to be twisted, first reeling means within the frame, second reeling means outside the frame, means leadingsaid strands in an in coming path from the feed-out means to the frame, means for leading twisted strands in an outgoing path from the frame to thes second reeling means, power means for rotating said frame, a draft sheave engageable with said strands for applying a pulling force thereto and rotatable in one sense to pull said strands over said incoming path and in the opposite sense to pull the twisted strands over said outgoing path, and a drive transmission from said power means to said draft sheave including a reversing gear means.
  • a rotatable twisting frame means feeding out strands to be twisted, a first reel within the frame, a second reel outside the flame, means for leading the strands in an incoming path from the feed-out means to the frame, means for leading twisted strands in an outgoing path from the frame to the second reel, power means for rotating the frame, a draft sheave engageable with the strands and rotatable in one sense to draw the strands over said incoming path and in the opposite sense to draw the twisted strands over said outgoing path, a drive transmission from said power means to said draft sheave including a reverser gear therein operable to a first and a second position for rotating said draft sheave in said one sense and said opposite aces-,sar
  • said draft unit comprises a first sheave, a rocker arm pivoted coaxially with said first sheave, a second sheave journalled on said rocker arm and spaced from said first sheave, grooves on said sheaves adapted to have said strands trained therearound whereby rotation of said first sheave will apply a draft force to said strands and the resulting draft tension will tend to rock said arm angularly about its pivot, spring means restraining the rocking movement of said arm, a driving connection from said powermeans to said first reeling means, said driving connection including a friction clutch therein, and said rocker arm being connected with said friction clutch for controlling the friction of said friction clutch in accordance with the angular position of the arm.
  • first free-wheel means for enabling said friction clutch on rotation of said first and second sheaves in said first condition to drive said first reeiing means therefrom and for disabling said friction clutch on rotation of said first and second sheaves in the second condition
  • second free-wheel means for blocking an element of said friction clutch on rotation of said first and second sheaves in said second condition whereby frictionally to restrain the rotation of said first reeling means.
  • fault detecting means engaging said twisted strands in said outgoing path therethrough in said outgoing path of the strands between said frame and said second reeling means, an electric circuit means connected with said plate and responsive to contact between a laterally protruding portion of said twisted strands and said apertured plate for arresting operation of the system.
  • an apertured member receiving the twisted strands therethrough in said outgoing path of the strands between said frame and said second reeling means, means normally restraining said apertured member against displacement with said twisted strands, said apertured member being adapted for displacement by said twisted strands against said restraining means on occurrence of an excess thickness in said twisted strands, and means actuated on displacement of said apertured member for arresting the operation of the system.

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