Method and apparatus for facilitating loop take time adjustment in
multi-needle quilting machine
    1.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for facilitating loop take time adjustment in multi-needle quilting machine 失效
    用于多针绗缝机中的循环花费时间调整的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5505150A

    公开(公告)日:1996-04-09

    申请号:US259505

    申请日:1994-06-14

    摘要: A multiple needle double lock chain stitch quilting machine is provided with an adjustment or calibrating system by which the positions of loopers relative to the corresponding needles of each of a plurality of sets of stitching elements of a ganged array are capable of being precisely set. A control actuator is provided by which an operator, after observing the quality of the product and stopping the machine, actuates an adjustment control system. In response to the a signal from the actuator, a motor precisely advances the stitching mechanism. A sensor monitors the stitching mechanism position, for example, by reading indicia on the needle drive shaft, and generates a position signal when the stitching mechanism precisely in the loop-take-time position of its cycle. A controller stops the motor and activates a brake in response to the position signal locking the mechanism, including the needles and loopers, in the loop-take-time position. Simultaneously, the controller disables the stitching capability of the machine and releases service door locks to allow looper and needle adjustment, which the operator may perform. When the adjustment is complete and the doors are closed, a further operation of the actuator causes the controller to lock the service access doors and enable the machine to resume stitching.

    摘要翻译: 多针双锁链式绗缝机设有调节或校准系统,通过该调节或校准系统,可以精确地设置组合器相对于组合阵列的多组拼接元件中的每一组的相应针的位置。 提供了一种控制致动器,通过该控制致动器,操作者在观察产品的质量并停止机器之后致动调节控制系统。 响应于来自致动器的信号,马达精确地前进缝合机构。 传感器例如通过读取针驱动轴上的标记来监视缝合机构位置,并且当缝合机构精确地处于其循环的循环取出时位置时产生位置信号。 控制器停止电动机并响应于位置信号锁定包括针和环路的机构在环路取出位置的位置信号。 同时,控制器禁止机器的缝合能力,并释放维修门锁,以便操作者可以执行弯针和针头调整。 当调整完成并且门关闭时,执行器的进一步操作使得控制器锁定维修检修门并使机器能够恢复缝合。

    Program controlled quilter and panel cutter system with automatic
shrinkage compensation
    2.
    发明授权
    Program controlled quilter and panel cutter system with automatic shrinkage compensation 失效
    自动收缩补偿程序控制绗缝机和面板切割机系统

    公开(公告)号:US5544599A

    公开(公告)日:1996-08-13

    申请号:US271420

    申请日:1994-07-06

    IPC分类号: B65H35/00 D05B11/00 D06H7/02

    摘要: A quilting machine includes a multiple needle quilter with a panel cutter located in-line therewith and downstream thereof and having an accumulator therebetween. A programmable controller operates the quilter to stitch a programmed series of one or more patterns on a web. A feed roller angular encoder measures the quilted web length fed under tension to the accumulator. A detector signals when the accumulator is full, whereupon the controller causes web to be fed from the accumulator to the panel cutter, where it passes without tension thereon toward a photo sensor. The photo sensor signals the controller which activates the cutter to sever a predetermined panel length from the web. The controller then reads information from the encoder and the accumulator detector to determine the amount of stressed quilt required to replenish the cutoff panel length. The ratio of measurements is then processed to determine the elongation change or "shrinkage", which information is used to control the relative feed at the quilter, cutter and fabric supply and to track the quilted patterns and splices in the fabric of the web through the machine.

    摘要翻译: 一种绗缝机包括一个多针绗缝机,一个面板切割机与其一起位于其下游,并具有一个储液器。 可编程控制器操作绗缝机,将一系列一个或多个图案缝合在网上。 进料辊角度编码器测量在张力下进给蓄能器的绗缝卷材长度。 当蓄能器充满时,检测器发出信号,于是控制器使纤维网从蓄能器进给到面板切割器,其中它通过而不向其照射传感器。 光传感器用信号通知控制器,该控制器激活切割器以从纸幅切断预定的面板长度。 然后,控制器从编码器和累加器检测器读取信息,以确定补充截止面板长度所需的受力被子的量。 然后处理测量的比率以确定伸长率变化或“收缩”,该信息用于控制在绗缝机,切割机和织物供应处的相对进料,并且跟踪幅材织物中的绗缝图案和接头通过 机。

    Optical fiber polishing machines, fixtures and methods
    3.
    发明授权
    Optical fiber polishing machines, fixtures and methods 有权
    光纤抛光机,夹具及方法

    公开(公告)号:US08708776B1

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-29

    申请号:US12630483

    申请日:2009-12-03

    申请人: James T. Frazer

    发明人: James T. Frazer

    IPC分类号: B24B19/22

    CPC分类号: B24B19/226

    摘要: Polishing machines, fixtures and methods for polishing one or more optical fibers upon distinct wear paths are provided. For example, in some embodiments a polishing fixture is provided with a number of ports for fixing optical fibers. The ports may be positioned within the fixture to follow a number of distinct wear paths when the fixture is moved relative to a platen retaining an abrasive film. In some embodiments, the ports may have an angular separation or be positioned at one or more radial distances in order to provide distinct wear paths on the abrasive film.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于在不同磨损路径上抛光一根或多根光纤的抛光机,夹具和方法。 例如,在一些实施例中,抛光夹具设置有用于固定光纤的多个端口。 当夹具相对于保持研磨膜的压板移动时,端口可以定位在固定装置内以遵循许多不同的磨损路径。 在一些实施例中,端口可以具有角度间隔或者被定位在一个或多个径向距离处,以便在研磨膜上提供不同的磨损路径。

    Multiple horizontal needle quilting machine and method
    4.
    发明授权
    Multiple horizontal needle quilting machine and method 有权
    多台卧式针绗缝机及方法

    公开(公告)号:US07143705B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-12-05

    申请号:US11040499

    申请日:2005-01-21

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00

    摘要: A multi-needle quilting machine (10) and method in which provided bridges (21,22) are provided having selectively operable stitching element pairs (90). Either the material or the bridges or both may be moved relative to the frame. Control schemes are provided to quilt continuous patterns, discrete patterns, linked multiple patterns, 360 degree patterns, closely spaced patterns. A plurality of small presser feet (158) are provided, each for one or more needles (132), with a wide spacing for material passage between the needle and looper plates. Combinations of intermittent and continuous feed and feed transition are employed during tack sequence sewing and other direction reversals in sewing, as well as double needle guards and thread deflection.

    摘要翻译: 一种多针绗缝机(10)和方法,其中设有提供有桥梁(21,22),其具有选择性地操作的缝合元件对(90)。 材料或桥梁或两者可以相对于框架移动。 控制方案提供给被子连续图案,离散图案,链接多个图案,360度图案,紧密间隔的图案。 提供多个小压脚(158),每个用于一个或多个针(132),具有宽的间隔,用于在针和打圈板之间通过材料。 间歇连续进给和进给过渡的组合在缝纫顺序缝合和缝纫中的其他方向反转以及双针保护和线偏转时使用。

    Quilting method and apparatus
    5.
    发明授权
    Quilting method and apparatus 失效
    绗缝方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5640916A

    公开(公告)日:1997-06-24

    申请号:US497727

    申请日:1995-06-30

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05B41/00 D05B21/00

    摘要: The quilting of rectangular comforter bags, mattress cover panels or other similar panels is provided without the need to premount the panel on a rectangular frame. A leading edge clamp is preattached along the leading edge of a panel and the clamp is fed from an operator station to the upstream end of a shuttle movably mounted on the frame of a programmed single needle quilting machine. Opposed belt conveyors on opposite sides of the shuttle advance the clamp and pull the panel onto the shuttle, with the belts gripping the side edges of the panel as it is pulled. A trailing edge clamp bar frictionally engages the panel to provide trailing edge securement to the panel, with the belts and leading edge clamp providing securement around the other edges to stretch the panel on the shuttle. The shuttle reciprocates longitudinally under a sewing head that moves transversely on the frame at a quilting station, while the sewing head operates to stitch a pattern in the panel. A pickup head then engages the clamp and directs it along a conveyor across an outfeed table at the top of the frame, pulling the quilted panel over the table where the clamp is released to drop the panel on the table, where it is folded and conveyed to a stacker. When a first quilted panel is free of the shuttle, another front edge clamp similarly pulls another panel onto the shuttle. When a clamp has released a panel at the outfeed table, it is returned by the conveyor to the operator station for reuse.

    摘要翻译: 提供矩形被子袋,床垫罩面板或其他类似面板的绗缝,而不需要将面板预先安装在矩形框架上。 沿着面板的前缘预先连接前缘夹具,并且夹具从操作员站被馈送到可移动地安装在编程的单针绗缝机的框架上的梭子的上游端。 在梭子的相对侧上的相对的皮带输送机推进夹具并将面板拉到梭子上,带被拉动时抓住面板的侧边缘。 后缘夹紧杆摩擦地接合面板以向面板提供后缘固定,带和前缘夹具围绕其他边缘提供固定以拉伸梭子上的面板。 梭子在缝纫头下纵向往复运动,该缝纫头在绗缝站处横向移动到框架上,而缝纫头操作以在面板上缝合图案。 然后拾取头接合夹具并沿着输送机将其引导到框架顶部的出料台,将绗缝的面板拉过夹具被释放的桌子上,将面板放在桌子上,在那里折叠和传送 到堆垛机。 当第一个绗缝面板没有穿梭时,另一个前边缘夹具同样将另一个面板拉到梭子上。 当夹具在出料台上释放面板时,由输送机返回到操作员站以便重新使用。

    Multiple horizontal needle quilting machine and method
    6.
    发明授权
    Multiple horizontal needle quilting machine and method 有权
    多台卧式针绗缝机及方法

    公开(公告)号:US07073453B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-07-11

    申请号:US10804833

    申请日:2004-03-19

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00

    摘要: A multi-needle quilting machine (10) and method are provided, in most embodiments of which needles (132) reciprocate horizontally through material (12) supported in a vertical quilting plane (16). Two or more bridges (21,22) are provided having separate motion control. Each bridge (21,22) has a row of selectively operable stitching element pairs (90), which may be fixed to or transversely moveable on the bridges (21,22). Either the material or the bridges may be moved relative to the frame. The bridges (21,22) each move transversely and vertically with the stitching elements (90) on each bridge can operate at different speeds. Each of the needle drives (25) and, in some embodiments the looper drives (26), can be selectively activated and deactivated. Control schemes are provided to quilt continuous patterns, discrete patterns, linked multiple patterns, 360 degree patterns, closely spaced patterns. A plurality of small presser feet (158) are provided, each for one or more needles (132). Looper adjustment, thread cutting and thread tension control are provided, as well as other features set forth in the specification. Thread tail wipe and tuck techniques, missed stitch avoidance, stitching element timing, tacking sequences, and other features are disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种多针绗缝机(10)和方法,在大多数实施例中,针(132)水平地往复运动穿过支撑在垂直绗缝平面(16)中的材料(12)。 提供两个或更多个桥(21,22),具有分开的运动控制。 每个桥梁(21,22)具有一排可选择性地操作的缝合元件对(90),其可以固定到桥梁(21,22)上或横向移动。 材料或桥梁可以相对于框架移动。 桥梁(21,22)各自横向和垂直地移动,每个桥上的缝合元件(90)可以以不同的速度操作。 每个针驱动器(25)以及在一些实施例中都可以选择性地激活和停用活套驱动器(26)。 控制方案提供给被子连续图案,离散图案,链接多个图案,360度图案,紧密间隔的图案。 提供了多个小压脚(158),每个用于一个或多个针(132)。 提供线圈调整,螺纹切削和线张力控制,以及说明书中列出的其他功能。 公布了螺纹尾部擦拭和折叠技术,错过针迹回避,缝合元件定时,粘合顺序和其他特征。

    Web-fed chain-stitch single-needle mattress cover quilter with needle
deflection compensation
    7.
    发明授权
    Web-fed chain-stitch single-needle mattress cover quilter with needle deflection compensation 失效
    网状链式单针床垫套筒带针偏转补偿

    公开(公告)号:US5832849A

    公开(公告)日:1998-11-10

    申请号:US831060

    申请日:1997-04-01

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05B19/14 D05B69/24

    CPC分类号: D05B69/24 D05B11/00 D05B19/14

    摘要: A quilting machine is provided having at least one set of single needle stitch forming elements for forming chain stitched patterns on a thick multilayered material such as a mattress cover. The machine is preferably web fed, with a panel of the continuous web being clamped and held stationary on a frame. The elements include a needle and a looper mounted on separate heads that are independently moveable transversely on a bridge, which is moveable longitudinally on the frame. The bridge is longitudinally moved by a servo and the heads are transversely moved on the bridge by separate servos. Each head is driven by a separate servo. A controller drives the servos to chain stitch patterns and differentially moves the heads transversely to account for transverse needle deflection. The drives of the needle and looper are phased to compensate for longitudinal needle deflection. The controller stores empirically determined data and responds to control signals or sensors to determine deflection and calculate the needle deflection compensation from which it generates deflection compensation signals to drive the servos.

    摘要翻译: 提供一种绗缝机,其具有至少一组用于在诸如床垫盖的厚的多层材料上形成链式缝合图案的单个针迹形成元件。 机器优选地是纸幅进给的,连续卷材的面板被夹紧并保持在框架上。 这些元件包括安装在分开的头部上的针和弯针,其可以在桥上横向独立地移动,桥可在框架上纵向移动。 桥通过伺服机构纵向移动,并且头部通过单独的伺服器在桥上横向移动。 每个头由单独的伺服驱动。 控制器将伺服驱动器链接到线迹图案,并横向移动头部以考虑横向针头偏转。 针和打针器的驱动器被定相以补偿纵向针偏转。 控制器存储经验确定的数据并响应于控制信号或传感器以确定偏转并计算针偏转补偿,由此产生偏转补偿信号以驱动舵机。

    Quilting material handling and feeding method and apparatus
    8.
    发明授权
    Quilting material handling and feeding method and apparatus 失效
    绗缝材料处理和送料方法及装置

    公开(公告)号:US5603270A

    公开(公告)日:1997-02-18

    申请号:US441607

    申请日:1995-05-15

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05B35/04 D06H5/00

    摘要: A quilting method and apparatus in which ticking or facing material changes are effected, preferably under the control of a programmed computer or controller, by automatically retrieving, and preferably also splicing onto a web, selected materials from a facing material supply. The controller preferably also controls a quilter in the stitching of selected patterns along a web, and coordinates the positions of the patterns and material splices between the patterns, in response to measurements and calculations of dimensional changes between infeed webs, quilted tensioned web and cut untensioned panels. Storage compartments are provided for a variety of facing materials, preferably rolls thereof. A retrieval mechanism moves webs selected by the programmed controller to a feed position adjacent the quilter. Preferably, the storage compartments are moveable and suspended from an endless conveyor, and the retrieval mechanism also includes a two holder transfer arm that can exchange webs between the conveyor and a quilter feed position. In a fully automated embodiment, the transfer arm includes V-shaped troughs formed of moveable belts that unwind and rewind the ticking supply rolls.

    摘要翻译: 优选地在编程的计算机或控制器的控制下,通过自动地从面对的材料供给中自动地检索并且优选地将所述材料拼接到卷材上,进行滴答或面对材料变化的绗缝方法和装置。 控制器还优选地控制沿着幅材缝合所选择的图案的绗缝机,并且响应于进料幅材,绗缝张紧卷材和未剪切切割之间的尺寸变化的测量和计算来协调图案之间的图案和材料接合位置 面板。 为各种面向材料,优选其辊提供储存隔室。 检索机构将由编程的控制器选择的纸幅移动到与绗缝机相邻的进给位置。 优选地,存储隔间可从环形输送机移动和悬挂,并且回收机构还包括两个保持器传送臂,其能够在输送机和绗缝器进给位置之间交换腹板。 在完全自动化的实施例中,传送臂包括由可移动的皮带形成的V形槽,该皮带能够卷绕和倒带滴答提供辊。

    Servo driven quilter
    9.
    发明授权
    Servo driven quilter 有权
    伺服驱动绗缝机

    公开(公告)号:US07191718B1

    公开(公告)日:2007-03-20

    申请号:US09686041

    申请日:2000-10-11

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00

    CPC分类号: D05B69/24 D05B11/00 D05B19/14

    摘要: A quilting machine has at least one needle and looper set for forming chain-stitched patterns on a thick multilayered material such as a mattress ticking, preferably a panel of the continuous web clamped stationary on a frame. The stitch forming elements are mounted on separate heads that move independently transversely relative to the panel on a bridge that moves longitudinally relative to the panel. The bridge is longitudinally moved by a servo and the heads are transversely moved on the bridge by separate linear servos. The needle and looper are each driven by a linear servo having an armature to which the element is directly fixed to reciprocate without intervening mechanical linkage assemblies. A controller drives the servos to chain-stitch patterns, differentially move the heads transversely to account for transverse needle deflection and to phase the needle and looper to compensate for longitudinal needle deflection. The controller determines or predicts needle deflection, either based on stored empirically determined data or optical sensing, and generates deflection compensation signals to drive the servos.

    摘要翻译: 绗缝机具有至少一个针和弯针套,用于在厚的多层材料上形成链式缝合图案,例如床垫刻薄,优选地将夹持在框架上的连续腹板夹紧。 缝合形成元件安装在独立的头部上,该头部相对于面板在相对于面板纵向移动的桥上相对于面板独立地移动。 桥梁由伺服机构纵向移动,并且头部通过单独的线性伺服在桥上横向移动。 针和弯针各自由具有电枢的线性伺​​服机构驱动,元件直接固定到该衔铁上,而不会中断机械连杆组件的往复运动。 控制器将伺服系统驱动到链式针迹图案,横向移动头部以考虑横向针头偏转,并使针和弯针相位以补偿纵向针头偏转。 控制器基于存储的经验确定的数据或光学感测来确定或预测针偏转,并且产生偏转补偿信号以驱动舵机。

    Composite pattern multiple needle quilting method and apparatus
    10.
    发明授权
    Composite pattern multiple needle quilting method and apparatus 有权
    复合图案多针绗缝方法及装置

    公开(公告)号:US6026756A

    公开(公告)日:2000-02-22

    申请号:US259483

    申请日:1999-02-26

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05B19/10

    CPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05B19/10

    摘要: A method of quilting patterns is provided in which pattern files are generated containing quilting machine control data for use by a controller of a quilting machine to produce different quilted patterns. Product information is generated that identifies pluralities of patterns. In response to the product information, the quilting machine controller sequentially reads the pattern files for each of the patterns of the identified plurality and sequentially quilts the plurality of patterns in the form of sub-patterns on the same panel of multi-layered material to form a combination pattern. A multi-needle quilting apparatus is provided with a controller programmed to carry out the method as part of a quilting system in which pattern and product databases are generated and linked for the production of a variety of individual and combination patterns.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种绗缝图案的方法,其中生成包含绗缝机控制数据的图案文件,供绗缝机的控制器使用以产生不同的绗缝图案。 产生识别多个模式的产品信息。 响应于产品信息,绗缝机控制器顺序地读取所识别的多个图案中的每个图案的图案文件,并且以相同的多层材料面板上的子图案形式顺序地将多个图案形式 组合模式。 多针绗缝装置设置有控制器,其被编程为执行该方法作为绗缝系统的一部分,其中生成图案和产品数据库并链接以生产各种单独和组合模式。