US3366147A - Adjustable tensioning device for the back roller in looms - Google Patents

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US3366147A
US3366147A US476832A US47683265A US3366147A US 3366147 A US3366147 A US 3366147A US 476832 A US476832 A US 476832A US 47683265 A US47683265 A US 47683265A US 3366147 A US3366147 A US 3366147A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D02—YARNS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; WARPING OR BEAMING
    • D02H—WARPING, BEAMING OR LEASING
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    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
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  • constancy of wrap tension is aimed at by a judicious arrangement of the warp unrolling or dispensing motion in conjunction with adequate tensioning of the back roller, both these arrangements being integrated with a view to ensuring the best possible synchronism between warp dispensing and the pull of the cloth wind-up motion.
  • the present invention relates more particularly to back roller tensioning devices, especially to such tensioning devices using resilient means, the back roller being supported by a pair of bars mounted for swinging movement around the warp beam axis.
  • Swinging back rollers of this kind have already been provided with tensioning arrangements using counterweights or springs.
  • Such back roller arrangements mounted for swinging motion around the warp beam axis and using resilient tensioning means have the major drawback of the swinging back roller support bars being associated with the tensioning device in such a manner, that it is impossible to change the initial position of the back roller without changing at the same time the characteristics of the resilient tensioning device itself.
  • the present invention aims at providing an adjustable tensioning device for back rollers mounted for swinging movement around the warp beam axis, said device being essentially characterized by the provision of means for shifting the point of application of the resilient tensioning member along a curve which is the locus of the intersections of perpendiculars dropped from the rotation centre of the tensioning device on a family of nearhyperbolic curves.
  • near-hyperbolic curves should be understool to comprise true hyperbolae as well as slightly distorted hyperb-olae.
  • the tensioning device should be adaptable to wrap dispensing motions of all kinds and particularly to such warp dispensing motions which are driven by the picking motion and controlled by the warp beam sensing device.
  • adjustable tensioning device may be arranged to act directly upon the back roller support bars mounted for swinging movement about the wrap aXis.
  • said adjustable tensioning device according to the invention acts upon said support bars through the intermediary of a force converting transmission system of any suitable kind.
  • the tensioning device is also characterized in that the curve, on which the point of application of the tensioning spring may be shifted, can be determined either for the case in which the opposite end of the spring is attached to a fixed point of the loom, or for the case in which this other end of the spring is shifted concurrently so as to keep said spring parallel to itself in any of its predetermined positions in the tensioning device in question.
  • an adjustable resilient tensioning device which can be adjusted by judiciously positioning the point of application of the resilient member, said device being arranged for easy and reliable adaptation to the nature of the yarns and/ or the desired properties of the fabric by means of a simple and systematic action.
  • the invention comprises all possible embodiments of such adjustable tensioning devices comprising means for shifting the point of application of the tensioning spring along a characteristic curve as will be further defined in this specification.
  • FIGURE 1 represents the essential parts of an adjustable resiiient tensioning device according to the invention
  • FIGURE 2 illustrates in a polar diagram the procedure for plotting the characteristic curve on which must be chosen the points of application of the tensioning spring in the arrangement according to FIGURE 1;
  • FIGURE 3 represents a lever to be used in the tensioning device and which is shaped according to the curve as plotted in the polar diagram of FIGURE 2;
  • FIGURE 4 is a view similar to FIGURE 1, representing a modified embodiment of the invention.
  • FIGURE 5 illustrates in an orthogonal coordinate system the procedure for plotting the characteristic curve on which must be chosen the points of application of the tensioning spring in the arrangement according to FIG- URE 4;
  • FIGURE 6 represents a lever to be used in the tensioning device and which is shaped according to the curve as plotted in the orthogonal coordinate system in FIGURE FIGURE 7 schematically bodiment of the tensioning URES 1 to 3;
  • FIGURE 8 schematically bodiment of the tensioning URES 4 to 6;
  • FIGURE 9 is a sketch showing in broad outlines a weaving loom equipped with a resilient adjustable tensioning device according to the invention.
  • FIGURES and 11 are graphs useful for indicating the basic condition governing the design of the adjustable resilient tensioning device according to the invention.
  • FIGURE 1 there is shown the tensioning roller or back-roller 1, the shaft 2 of which rests in two bars 3 disposed on either side of the loom, and bars being mounted for swinging motion about the axis of the warp beam 4.
  • FIG- represents a modified emdevice according to FIG-
  • FIG- represents a modified emdevice according to FIG-
  • One of these bars 3 carries the warp beam dispensing motion.
  • this comprises a spiral gear 5 fixed on the axis of the warp beam; and endless screw 6 meshing with said spiral gear 5 and secured on the shaft 7; two laterally projecting arms 8-9 integral with said support bar 3 and mounting said shaft 7 of said endless screw for rotating movement therein; a brake disc 10 of known construction and a hand wheel 11 for manual motion mounted on one end of said shaft 7; a bevel gear 12 secured to the other end of said shaft '7 and meshing with a second bevel wheel 13, the shaft 14 of said second bevel wheel being driven by the warp beam dispensing motion proper connected to the crank 15, said motion being realized in any suitable form.
  • said support bars 3 are each provided with a laterally downward projecting arm 16 having a certain number of hook-on notches ab-cd-ef for one end of the tensioning spring 17, thus other end of which is secured to a fixed point 18 of the loom.
  • R the radius vector taken from the point Q as origin to the hook-on point considered (a-b-c-d-eor f), and a is the angle between said radius vector and the axis QM.
  • a polar diagram can be constructed.
  • a family of curves is selected, equal in number to the number of hook-on points abcd-eeach of them similar in shape to a hyperbola asymptotically approaching the axis GET and the circular are C around the centre Q, the radius L of which is equal to te length of the spring 17 at zero stress.
  • each hyperbola has an equation of the type xyET, where constant T is the torque desired for one setting of spring 17.
  • the hook-on points for the spring of the tensioning device are determined, one on each curve H, by drawing a normal on said curve from the point S, which is the rotation centre of the resilient tensioning device according to the invention.
  • this point S coincides with the axis 4 of the warp beam.
  • Point S (FIGS. 2 and 5) coincides with a position of the axis of the shaft 4.
  • Point Q coincides with a point where the other extremity of spring 17 is hooked, the line QS being an axis joining points Q and S.
  • the curve P can easily be drawn, which makes it possible to give the lever 16 (FIGURE 1) its required shape, or to determine the shape of any suitable lever (FIGURE 3) which can be incorporated in a force multiplying leverage coupled between the back-roller 1 and its tensioning spring.
  • the curves U are circle arcs centered on point S and tangent to the hyperbola H.
  • the lines H are hyperbolae or hyperbolic curves established in the above-described manner.
  • the line connecting the axis of the warp beam 4 with the hooking end 18 of the spring 17 is represented by the line SQ in the diagram of FIG. 2.
  • This line cannot shift during the operation of the loom.
  • the hook-on points a, b, c, d, e, and f of the lever 16 are determined by normals drawn on the hyperbolic curves from the point S.
  • the permissible limits for the swinging of the back roller 1 in the course of which the hook-on points will carry out their circular movements depend in each case upon the sizes and connections of the various parts and must be established experimentally. It should be pointed out in this connection that under normal operational conditions the swinging movements of the back roller 1 will be well within these permissible limits.
  • the spring 17, when shifted from one to another of said hook-on points abcde-f, is always kept parallel to itself.
  • the other end of said spring 17 is also displaced each time to the corresponding one of a series of hook-on points a'b'c'- e provided on a supporting member 19 secured on a fixed part of the loom.
  • the same members and parts 1 to 17 are found as in the embodiment of FIGURE 1.
  • the different hook-on points ab-cdej are on a curve which is the locus of the intersection points between a family of true hyperbolae and the normals dropped on said hyperbolae from the above-mentioned point S, which is the rotation centre of the adjustable tensioning device according to the invention.
  • this curve P corresponds to the equation As indicated in FIGURES 5 and 6, the same as in the first example, this curve P can also be obtained by means of a graphical construction. In this case it suffices to trace a family of hyperbolae H, which have the axes W and 61 as their asymtotes.
  • the distance Q. O is equal to the length of the spring 17 at zero stress.
  • the curve P, on which the hook-on points a bcde-f are to be located, may be obtained by determining the intersection points between said curves H and the normals dropped on said curves from the point S, said point S being the rotation centre of the resilient tensioning device according to the invention.
  • said force-multiplying leverage can be readily designed in such a way that, apart from its force-multiplying function, it also permits substantial modification of the initial position of the back-roller, if such be required in special cases, particularly when special yarns are to be woven.
  • FIGURE 7 A first application of a device according to FIGURES 1, 2 and 3, but combined with a force-multiplying leverage, is shown schematically in FIGURE 7. It comprises substantially the same members and parts as shown in FIGURE 1, with the exception of the arm 16.
  • the spring 17 is fastened on the one hand to a fixed point 18 and on the other hand to one of the points a-b-c-d-e-f provided on one of the arms 20 of a toggle joint lever rocking about a fixed pivot 21 the second arm 22 of which is connected by means of a pivot joint to the end of a connecting rod 24, the latter being hinged at its other end, by means of a pivot joint 25, to the bars 3 that support the shaft 2 of the back-roller 1, said bars being mounted for swinging movement about the axis 4 of the warp beam.
  • the hook-on points a-b-c-d-e-f are established in the way as described before.
  • the connecting rod 24 may be of constant or variable length. In the latter case it can be made in two parts, arranged to be secured one to the other in such a way as to obtain any wanted distance between the pivots 23-25.
  • the pin 26 of said crank 15 is connected to a latch 27 capable of oscillating movement about a pivot 28 fixed on a support bracket 29.
  • Said latch 27 is also articulated to one of the ends of an angle lever 30, the other end of which is articulated to one end of a connecting rod 31, the other end of which may be fixed in any one of a number of prepare-d positions 32 spaced along one of the arms of a V-shaped lever 33 having its top angle rotatably mounted on a fixed pivot 34.
  • the second arm of said V-shaped lever 33 carries a roller 35 acting as cam follower riding on the peripheral edge of the cam 37 secured on the picking motion drive shaft 38, said roller 35 being permanently urged against said peripheral edge of said cam by the action of spring 36.
  • said angle lever 30 in a point near its bend, is rotatably mounted on a pivot 39 mounted on one end of the arms of a rocking lever 40, which is mounted for free rotational movement about the axis 4 of the warp beam drive gear.
  • the second arm of said rocking lever 40 is connected by means of a pivot joint to one end of connecting rod 41, the other end of which is pivotally connected to one end of the warp beam sensing device, the later consisting of a lever 42 rotatably mounted at an intermediate point of its length and having at its other end an appropriate roller or roller pair 45 in permanent contact with the warp beam 46, said rollers being thrust against the circumference of said warp beam by the action of a tensioning spring 44.
  • the pivot 43 may be replaced by a rod on which the sensing device would be mounted, said rod being supported by short links which would be articulated to said connecting rods 41.
  • FIGURE 8 shows a similar embodiment as shown in FIGURE 7, but using the arrangement of an adjustable resilient back-roller tensioning device according to the FIGURES 4, 5 and 6.
  • hook-on points to be employed for the spring 17 will be determined in accordance with the qualities of the warp threads and the properties of the tissues to be produced. All of these preliminary adjustments, as is well known by those skilled in the weaving art, are to be 7 established in accordance with the desirable weaving conditions.
  • the picking shaft 38 drives cam 37 which produces oscillating or rocking movement of the leverage consisting of V'shaped lever 32-33, connecting rod 31, angle lever 30, latch 27, crank 15.
  • the latter drives the bevel gears 13-12 so as to rotate shaft 7, endless screw 6 and finally, via the spiral gear 5, shaft 4 of warp beam 46.
  • the rotation of the wrap beam is derived from that of the picking motion drive shaft of the loom.
  • the sensing roller 45 via the levers 42-41 and the rocking lever 40, shifts the position of the point of application of the angle lever 30 to the latch 27. In this way the liner dispensing speed of the warp beam is maintained practically at a constant value in spite of the steady reduction of the warp beam diameter.
  • the bundle of warp threads 47 tugs at the back-roller 1 so as to produce oscillating movement of the latter about the warp beam axis 4.
  • said back-roller is acted upon by the resilient constant tension device as described above in such a way that, whichever oscillating movements the support bars 3 and the back-roller are subject to, said tensioning torque remains constant and consequently the tension in said warp threads is also constant.
  • FIGURE 9 shows the relative position of the adjustable tensioning device with respect to the warp dispensing mechanism in an automatic weaving loom.
  • the invention extends to such warp dispensing motion in itself or combined with any other suitable auxiliary mechanism, as well as to any loom having such adjustable tensioning device incorporated therein.
  • a back-roller tensioning device means supporting said tensioning device for oscillating movement about the warp beam axis, a displaceable resilient member adapted to adjust said tensioning device, means causing the displacement of one extremity of said resilient member along a curve corresponding to the tension imparted by said tensioning device, and means attaching said resilent member R 2 cos 2.
  • Adjustable tensioning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said resilient member is always displaced so as to remain parallel to itself, one end of said member being displaced along a curve having the equation:
  • an adjustable tensioning device comprising bars mounted for oscillating motion about the warp beam axis and supporting said back roller, a spring having one end attached to a fixed part of said loom, a force-multiplying leverage connected to said bars, the other end of said spring being attached to said force-multiplying leverage, said forcemultiplying leverage comprising a lever having a curved edge, said other end of said spring being hitched on to said curved edge of said lever, said curved edge being delineated by the locus of all points of minimum distance on a family of hyperbolae with respect to the rotation center of said tensioning device.
  • Adjustable tensioning device as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that said lever having said curved edge for movable attachment of one end of said spring constitutes one arm of a toggle joint lever, the other arm of which is connected to said oscillating back-roller support bars by means of a connecting rod.
  • Adjustable tensioning device as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that said arm having said curved edge for movable attachment of one end of said spring constitutes one arm of a toggle joint lever, the other arm of which is connected to said oscillating back-roller support bars by means of a connecting rod.
  • Adjustable tensioning device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the one end of said spring is hitched on to a bracket secured on a fixed part of said loom, in such a way that when said spring is displaced along said curved edge, it is always kept parallel to itself.
  • Adjustable tensioning device as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that said connecting rod joining said oscillating back-roller support bars with said toggle member having one end of said spring attached thereto, is of adjustable length so as to permit shifting the initial position of said back-roller without changing the characteristics of said tensioning device.

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