Abstract:
This cam motion machine comprises several cams each defining at least one running track for a follower roller. Each cam is provided with a centring reaming on a drive shaft, while means are provided to apply a tightening force parallel to this drive shaft with a non-circular section. At least one washer-spacer, for which the internal edge is non-circular and designed to enable an axial displacement along the shaft and to fix the washer-spacer and the shaft in rotation, and is arranged around this shaft bearing in contact with at least one of the cams. The washer-spacer may be fixed to the cam by adherence and to the shaft by cooperation of shapes due to complementary projections provided respectively on the shaft and on the washer-spacer.
Abstract:
A shed-forming device and a method for using it are provided for creating a shed of warp yarns in a weaving machine. The shed-forming device includes a plurality of yarn separating elements operably disposed to one another within the weaving machine. The yarn separating elements individually separate the warp yarns into operational zones between the yarn separating element. A fluid supply apparatus supplies fluid to the yarn separating elements in the shed-forming device. The yarn separating elements direct the fluid to contact the warp yarns, forcing the warp yarns to form changeable sheds to allow proper weaving.
Abstract:
A novel rod linkage for driving a heddle shaft includes at least one strap (16), which for damping oscillation has a sandwich structure (37) oriented in the longitudinal direction (L) of the strap assembly (16). The sandwich structure includes at least one rigid element (27), extending in the longitudinal direction, which is joined to one end (17) of the strap assembly (16); a second rigid element (31), likewise extending essentially in the longitudinal direction, which is joined to the other end (19); and a two-dimensional damping element (34), again extending in the longitudinal direction, disposed between the first two. The element (34) exclusively effects the mechanical connection of the two parts (16a, 16b) of the strap assembly (16). Preferably, no additional connecting elements, such as rivets, screws, or other rigid connections, between the rigid elements (27, 31) are provided. Preferably, the rigid elements (27, 31) are embodied as wedges pointing in opposite directions, which thus define a wave resistance that varies in opposite directions in the longitudinal direction. This wave resistance brings about an intentional coupling misadaptation with respect to the oscillation transmission. The element (34) disposed between them damps the oscillations additionally, so that the strap assembly (16) transmits driving motions like a filter and destroys or absorbs interfering oscillations.
Abstract:
An electrical rotating apparatus for controlling a harness cord associated with the shed of a weaving loom which includes an actuator including a rotor and a stator. The rotor is formed of at least two permanent magnets which are mounted within a tube so as to be spaced axially with respect to one another and wherein a plurality of stator elements are also provided offset axially relative to an axis of rotation of the rotor such that each of the plurality of rotors corresponds with a separate one of the plurality of stators. The polarities of one or the other of the permanent magnets or the stator elements are offset angularly relative to the axis of rotation.
Abstract:
A device for driving the ring levers that control the keys of a high-speed rotary dobby. In the device, a metal rocker armature is hinged to each lever along the axis of symmetry of the device. The axis passes through the fulcrum about which the levers rock. The levers have at their lower ends teeth that cooperate with corresponding grooves in two digging tracks that move with a reciprocating motion and in mutual opposition perpendicular to the axis of symmetry. The upper rocker armature surface, moreover, cooperates with one of two overlying electromagnets that are arranged symmetrically about the axis of symmetry.
Abstract:
A loom harness having nested pairs of cylinders. The pairs of cylinders are arranged in parallel fashion and offset in relation to one another on a rigid, stationary frame. Pillow blocks spaced along the frame support the cylinders. Flexible cables, connect the pairs of nested cylinders and support heddle eyes at their approximate midpoints. Alternatively, the cables can support heddle frames which, in turn, carry wire heddles. Control cables are attached to the upper and lower cylinders, and are moved upwardly or downwardly by a dobby. An alternative control includes an A-C servo motor and drive shafts to move the cylinders. The selective rotation of the various pairs of nested cylinders causes the translation of the heddle eyes. This movement of the heddle eyes causes a shed to be created in the warp yarn passing through the eyes.
Abstract:
A device for producing shedding motion in a loom includes two assembled guides disposed parallel in the loom. Each of the guides includes a shaft to which a plurality of blocks are mounted. The blocks not only cross feed yarn in the loom but transfer the yarn from the block to block during rotation of the shafts to produce a shedding motion for weaving multi-shaft woven fabric.
Abstract:
A device for shedding warp yarns in a weaving loom, such as a jet loom, comprises: cranks supported on machine frames of the loom rotatable in synchronization with the weaving operation of the loom; synchronizing levers swingably pivoted; connecting rods connecting the cranks with synchronizing levers so that the rotational movement of the cranks is transmitted as a swinging motion of the synchronizing levers; synchronizing links linked with the synchronizing levers; rocking levers linked with the synchronizing links so that the rotational movement of the cranks is transmitted as a swinging motion of the rocking levers through the swinging motion of the synchronizing levers; and heddle frames, for the upper and lower warp yarns, operated by the rocking levers. The synchronizing levers and synchronizing links are so arranged that, when the connecting rods are located at their dead points which correspond to the uppermost or lowermost position of the heddle frame, one of linking pivots linking synchronizing levers with the synchronizing links is near a line formed by the synchronizing levers and links when they are at their dead points. As a result, the time period wherein the warp yarns serve as upper warp yarns is made different from the time period wherein the warp yarns serve as lower warp yarns, and a difference in tension is created in the upper and lower warp yarns when the beating operation is effected.
Abstract:
The eccentric mechanism includes deflecting levers which are rotatably mounted on a fixed spindle and which bear against bearing elements in order to preclude an accumulation of tilting forces along the line of the levers. Each bearing element has a disc-shaped portion located between two levers and cooperates with a bushing, separate or integral, or a shaft portion to mount a lever.
Abstract:
The invention relates to apparatus wherein loom harnesses are operated by cams driven intermittently by respective drives rather than by cams fixed on a driven shaft. The harnesses are illustrated as being lowered by cams against yieldable resilient means tending to raise the harnesses, and the cams as being aligned with treadles carried longitudinally of the loom. Co-acting means are also provided for connecting respective chain drives at predetermined intervals to bearing members, rotatable on a fixed shaft, which carry cams fixed thereto as well as chain carrying sprockets rotatable thereon. The method contemplates operating the harnesses by timing the steps of rotating each cam in a predetermined sequence, and exerting a yielding force upon each cam tending to resist further rotation after the cam has turned on the fixed shaft through a predetermined arc.