US1485531A - Guide means for warpers and similar machines - Google Patents

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March 4 1924. 1,485,531

A. E. RHOADES GUIDE MEANS FOR WARPERS ANDSIMILAR MACHINES Filed May 21, 1923 Fig.1.

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Patented Mar. 4, 1924.

ALOIN'ZO E. RHOADES, 0F HOPEDALE, MASSACHI TSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO DRAIPER COR-Q PORATION, OF HOPE-DALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF ELAINE.

GUIDE MEANS ro a whereas AND SIMILAR MACHINES.

Application filed May 21, 1823. Serial No. 640,431;

To all whom it may concern: 7 7

Be it known thatI, ALONZO E. RHoAnEs, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Hopedale, county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Guide Means for Warpers and Similar Machines, of which the fol-' lowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to a yarn winding machine wherein the yarn is Wound upon a core in a cylindrical mass by means of one or more driven winding drums mounted in parallelism with the core and acting by peripheral engagement with the yarn mass on the core to effect the winding operation,

ticularly designed for a balling machine wherein a number of yarns taken from spools or bobbins on a creel are gathered together in a chain or rope and wound separately on a yarn receiver in the form of a beam or roll, but in its broader aspects the invention is not limited to the particular type of yarn winding machine.

The present invention in its broader aspects is subsidiary to the invention-dis- BU closed in my application filed concurrently herewith, Serial No. 640,429, and in some respects is also subsidiary to the invention disclosed in my application filed concurrently herewith, Serial No. 640,430.

The object of the invention is primarily to provide guides supported rigidly from the frame of the machine at right angles to the axis of the yarn receiver which act to guide the yarn receiver in its transverse movement during the winding operation and thus to prevent longitudinal movement In the case of a of the yarn receiver. balling machine it is of great importance that the yarn receiver shall remain during the entire winding operation in the same longitudinal position relatively to the frame of the machine, the winding drums, and the limits of traverse of the trumpet or other device from which the chain or rope of yarn passes to the yarn receiver. Otherwise there is danger of overlapping of the yarn at the ends of the yarn receiver and the formation of an imperfect ball.

With the present invention the yarn receiver beam or roll on which the chain or rope .of yarn is wound is accurately main- .tained in a fixed longitudinal position so that during'the' winding operation and during the relative transverse movement which" takes place between" it and the winding drum or drums the chain or rope of yarn is placed accurately and there is no danger of overlapping at the-ends.

These and other objects and features of the invention will appear more fully. from the accompanying description and drawings and will be the claims. y In the drawings:

particularly pointed out in Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the' 'main portions of a familiar type of ballingv machine with a preferred form of the'present invention embodied therein; The invention in its preferred form is parconstrucof the present invention is ofa similar type to that shown in my prior Patent No. 867 ,153, granted September 24, 1907, and as the general construction and operation of" such machine is well-known and'familiar'to those skilled in the art, it is only necessary here to describe those parts particularly concerned with the present invention;

Such a machine usually comprises a frame 1 having side members 1. Each side mem ber has extendingupwardly therefrom the upright standards 2 provided with elongated open-vertical slots 3 to receive the journals 40f the beam, roll or cylinder '5 on which the ball of yarn is wound. Theseopen slots are closed by arms 6 fulcrumed tive position by a lock or'catch 8.

Theball or mass of yarn Q-during the winding operationrests upon a pair of driven winding drums 10' arranged beneath at 7 on the frame and each held in operaand in parallelism with the'axis-of the'roll 5 and having the journals 11 mounted in bearings in the side members of the frame.

The winding drums, being driven at the same speed and in the same direction, in the usual manner, serve to wind the yarn upon the roll 5 and as the diameter of the yarn mass 9 increases, the journals 4 of the roll 5 move transversely away from the winding drums and ride alongthe slots 3.

The yarns, which are usually taken from spools or bobbins mounted in a creel, are

gathered into a chain or rope and passed through a trumpet 12 which has a traverse motion in front of and adjacent the beam or roll 5. This causes the chain or rope of yarn to be wound evenly in spirals of the proper pitch in the formation of the ball. The trumpet 12 is usually mounted on a carriage 18 sliding on a transverse rod 14: mounted in the side member 1 of the frame. At its lower end the carriage 13 is provided with a follower 15 fitting in the double or cross threads 16 of a traverse shaft 17 journalled in bearings in the side members 1 of the frame and also extending in parallelism with the journals of the winding drums and the beam or roll.

It is very important that the longitudinal position of the beam orroll 5 shall be accurately maintained with respect to the limits of traverse of the trumpet 12. Otherwise the yarn may overlap at the ends of the ball and thus form an imperfect ball.

This difliculty is obviated in the present invention by providing, in the preferred form illustrated, apair of guides 18 in the form'of flat plates'supported rigidly from the frame-and extending at right angles to the axis of the yarn receiver in its-transverse movement during the winding I operation and thus preventing longitudinal movement thereof relatively to the frame and to the limits of traverse of the trumpet. These plates 18 preferably co-act with the yarn receiver by abutting the-ends of the journals at so that as the beam or roll 5 moves away from or toward the winding drums the ends of its journalsi are guided by the guide plates 18.

In order to provide the necessary adjustment of'the guides relatively to the journals 4: these guides are made bodily adjustable longitudinally of the axis of the beam or roll 5. This adjustment is secured by a plurality of screw threaded supports 19 secured in and projecting longitudinally from the sidemembers of the frame and preferably arranged one -nea-r the upper end and one near the lower end of each guide 18. The guides 18 fit over these screw threaded supports and are held in the required adjusted position by lock nuts 20 at opposite sides of each guide.

There is thus presented a simple and efficient construction by means of which the yarn receiver is guidedduring its transverse movement so as to prevent any longitudinal movement thereof and by means of which the guides may be readily adjusted to correspond with the desired conditions.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is:

1. A yarn winding machine comprising a frame, a yarn receiver having a core, roll and journals, a winding drum in parallelism with the roll and acting by peripheral engagement with the yarn mass on the roll to effect the winding operation, means to permit transverse movement of the roll with respect to the drum as the winding operation proceeds, andguide plates abutting the ends of the roll journals and supported rigidly from the frame at right angles to the roll axis whereby longitudinal movement of the yarn receiver is prevented during transverse movement of the roll in the winding operation. v

2. A yarn winding machine comprising the constructiondeiined in claim 1 together with means for adjusting the guides bodily longitudinally of the yarn receiver axis.

3. A yarn winding machine comprising the construction defined in claim 1 in which the guides are supported by threaded supports extending from the frame passing through the guides and lock nuts adjustably holding the guides in position on the thread ed supports.

4. A balling machine comprising a frame having uprights presenting parallel vertical slots, a beam having journals mounted in said slots, a winding drum journalled inthe frame in parallelism with the beam and acting by peripheral engagement with the yarn mass on the beam to effect the winding operation, a yarn trumpet, means for giving a traverse motion, between different limits parallel with the axis of the-beam, to the trumpet during the winding operation, and guide plates supported rigidly from the frame at right angles tothe axis of the beam and parallel with the slots in the frame, and

means for adjusting the said guide plates In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ALONZQ E. RHOADES.

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