JPS6329014B2 - - Google Patents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a device for transferring full and empty bobbins of a pair of spinning machines in which two spinning machines are arranged in line in the longitudinal direction of the frame.

Conventionally, when a large number of pairs of spinning machines, each consisting of two spinning machines arranged in the longitudinal direction of the frame, are installed in parallel,
For example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 53-38336, a conveyor or other conveyor is installed in the middle of a pair of spinning machines, perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the machine, and full bobbins after spinning are carried by this conveyor. Some products are designed to be transported to the next winding process. However, if a transport device such as a conveyor is installed between a pair of spinning machines and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the machine frame, in particular, when conveying a Shino bobbin from a spinning machine, Shino stacking machine that stacks on the creel of
When using a Shino stacking machine, it is not possible to move the Shino stacking machine over the entire length of the pair of spinning machines.
It is necessary to enter the frame from the end of each of the spinning machines constituting the spinning frame pair on the side opposite to the conveyance device, which is not preferable in terms of conveyance efficiency. It is also conceivable to install the conveyance device underground or from the ceiling, but there is a problem that installation work is time-consuming and expensive.

In view of the above problems, the present invention provides peg conveyors that circulate horizontally along the spindle rows at the bottom of each spinning frame of a pair of spinning machines.
On the upper part of the creel of one spinning machine, a full bobbin conveyor that can be connected to the winder's full bobbin supply device and an empty bobbin conveyor that can be connected to the winder's empty bobbin discharge device are installed at least at the opposite end of the machine frame. Further, at opposite ends of the peg conveyors of both spinning machines, there is a full bobbin discharge device for discharging full bobbins onto the full bobbin conveyor, and a full bobbin discharging device for discharging the full bobbins onto the full bobbin conveyor, and a full bobbin discharging device for discharging the full bobbins onto the full bobbin conveyor. A pair of empty bobbin supply devices are arranged to supply bobbins onto the peg conveyor.
The object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive apparatus for transferring full and empty bobbins for a spinning frame pair, in which the Shino stacking machine can be moved over the entire length of the spinning frame pair.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention shown in the drawings will be described in detail.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numerals 1a and 1b are spinning machines, and these spinning machines 1a and 1b are arranged in a line with their out ends facing each other in the longitudinal direction of their machines.
It constitutes pair 2 of spinning machines. Each spinning machine 1a,
At the bottom of the machine 1b are the left and right spindle rows 3, 3.
Pezug conveyor 4, which circulates horizontally along
4 are deployed. This petug conveyor 4,4
In this embodiment, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 57-161133, a number of sliding bodies 4b having a length equal to the spindle pitch are fitted into the passage of the guide rail 4a, and a peg is attached to the upper part of the sliding bodies 4b. 4c is provided in a protruding manner, and this sliding body 4b is slid in the horizontal direction using an appropriate feeding device.
As in the past, a steel belt is stretched around pulleys placed on both the left and right sides in the longitudinal direction of the machine, a peg is provided on the upper surface of this steel belt in the same pitch as the spindle pitch, and one of the pulleys is driven by a motor, etc. It may be something that was designed to do so. The husband's spinning machines 1a, 1b are provided with creel pillars 5 hanging vertically at a predetermined interval in the longitudinal direction of the frame, and each creel pillar 5 has a creel bracket 6 as shown in FIG. It is permanently installed. A plurality of rows (three rows on each side in this embodiment) of creel bars 7, 8, and 9 are arranged in parallel on the creel brackets 6 at predetermined intervals in the machine width direction. A predetermined number of bobbin holders 10 are suspended from the creel bars 7 and 9, and a roving guide 11 is suspended from the intermediate creel bar 8 to form a creel 6A. In one spinning frame 1b (left side in Figure 1),
The center portion of the creel bracket 6 as described above is formed in a recess 6a, and an empty bobbin conveyor 12 and a full bobbin conveyor 13 are connected to the opposite ends (outside side) of the frame of the spinning frame 1b, respectively. ) to the other end (gear end side), and furthermore, the other spinning frame 1a (right side in Figure 1)
It extends toward the opposite end (out end side). As shown in FIG. 1, these conveyors 12 and 13 are provided with a tension unit 14 and a drive unit 15 at both ends, respectively, and a belt is inserted between a driven pulley 14a of the tension unit 14 and a drive pulley 15a of the drive unit 15. 12a,
13a respectively, and each drive motor 15
The belts 12a and 13a are wound around belts 12a and 13a by means of belts 12a and 13a, and convey full bobbins M discharged by a full bobbin discharge device 19, which will be described later, and empty bobbins E discharged from an autowinder 16. There is. These conveyors 12,1
3, the empty bobbin transport conveyor 12 includes a guide plate 12c that guides the empty bobbin E to an input port 33a of an empty bobbin supply chute 33 on the spinning machine 1a side, which will be described later.
is projecting diagonally from the conveyor side plate 12b above the belt 12a with a slight gap between it and the belt 12a, and a notch 12f is formed in the conveyor side plate 12b facing the guide plate 12c. In addition, a movable guide plate 12e that guides an empty bobbin E to an input port 33a of an empty bobbin supply chute 33 on the spinning machine 1b side, which will be described later, is moved onto and retracted onto the belt 12a by the operation of a cylinder 12d attached to the conveyor side plate 12b. It is designed to do so. Also, a conveyor side plate 12 facing this movable guide plate 12e
A notch 12f is also formed in b. The moving direction of the empty bobbin E is changed by moving the movable guide plate 12e in and out. For example, the empty bobbin E is moved to the stocking device 3 on the spinning frame 1a side without the movable guide plate 12e projecting above the belt 12a.
When the stock amount of the stock device 34 reaches its limit, the cylinder 1 is fed to the cylinder 1 by an appropriate command.
2d to move the movable guide plate 12e to the belt 12.
The stock device 3 on the spinning machine 1b side is protruded upward.
It is set to send to 4. Further, the empty bobbin transport conveyor 12 may include a belt 1 as the case may be.
2a is stopped, and feeding of the empty bobbin E is temporarily interrupted. Further, 17 is an empty bobbin discharge conveyor of the autowinder 16, and 18
is a full bobbin automatic supply device of the autowinder 16.

A full bobbin discharge device 19 and an empty bobbin supply device 32 are disposed at opposite ends of the peg conveyors 4, 4 of each pair of spinning machines 2, respectively. The full bobbin discharge device 19 is composed of a full bobbin chute 20 and a full bobbin unloading device 21, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. The full bobbin chute 20 is configured to guide the full bobbin M discharged by the full bobbin unloading device 20 onto the full bobbin conveyor 13, and the full bobbin unloading device 21 is configured as shown in FIGS. It is configured as shown in . In this full bobbin unloading device 21, 2
Reference numeral 2 denotes a chain wound around chain sprockets 24, 24 which are rotatably provided at the upper and lower parts of the machine frame 23, respectively.The lower chain sprocket 24 is connected to a drive motor 26 via a clutch 25. , a photoelectric switch 27a for checking whether a full bobbin gripping device 28, which will be described later, has rotated to a gripping position, which will be described later.
and the clutch 25 is turned on and off in response to a command from the full bobbin confirmation photoelectric switch 27b for checking whether the full bobbin M is directly under the full bobbin unloading device 21.
The chain 22 is made to rotate intermittently. 23a is a chain 22 of the upper transition part which will be described later.
This is a chain guide board to guide you. This chain 2
2, a plurality of full bobbin gripping devices 28 are attached to each other at a predetermined interval. This full bobbin gripping device 28 is connected to the chain 2 as shown in FIG.
The L-shaped fixing claw 28a is fixedly attached to the holder 2, and the tip of the fixing claw 28a is swingably supported by a pin, and is biased by a spring 28b in the direction of full bobbin gripping (in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 10). L whose position is restricted
It consists of a letter-shaped movable claw 28c. The fixed claw 28a and the movable claw 28c are connected to the full bobbin gripping device 2.
8 is the upper transition part of chain 22 (chain 2 in FIG.
2), the peg conveyor 4 is moved so that the head M1 of the full bobbin M, which is moved horizontally by the peg conveyor 4, can be inserted therein.
It is configured to open in the direction of travel. In addition, when the full bobbin holding device 28 releases the full bobbin M held and pulled upward by the full bobbin gripping device 28 at the upper transition portion of the chain 22,
A receiving tray 29 is attached to each of the bobbins, which can receive the lower end M2 of the falling full bobbin M and tilt it from the head M1 in the discharge direction. In this embodiment, the right side plate of this tray 29 shown in FIG. 9 is cut out, and the lower end M of the falling full bobbin M
2 in the opposite direction to the discharge direction (direction of arrow A in FIG. 8), and is provided with an inclined surface 29a for quickly tilting the full bobbin M in the discharge direction. Further, a projecting piece 29b is fixed to this saucer 29 so as to face a position eccentric from the center of the lower surface of the full bobbin M,
It is designed to receive the lower end M2 of the full bobbin M. The protruding piece 29b also prevents the lower surface of the full bobbin M from being placed horizontally on the bottom surface of the receiving tray 29. Furthermore, this protrusion 2
As shown in FIG. 11, a bar 129b is used instead of 9b.
The saucer 2 is placed opposite the inclined surface 29a of the saucer 29.
It may be attached to 9. Further, the saucer 29 may omit the inclined surface 29a, and the protruding piece 29b or the bar 1 may be omitted.
29b alone can tilt the full bobbin M in the discharge direction. Of course, it is also possible to use only the inclined surface 29a, and what is required is that the lower end M2 of the full bobbin M falling down is received and the bobbin is tilted from its head in a predetermined discharge direction. The engaging means for operating the movable claw 28c is a cam 30 for operating the movable claw 28c of the full bobbin gripping device 28.
and a receiver 31 that prevents the full bobbin gripping device 28 from being pushed and escaping when the cam 30 and the movable claw 28c are engaged, and this engagement means is located above the upper transition part of the chain 22. Movable claws 28 at the bottom two locations
They are respectively arranged at positions where c is applied. This cam 30 is raised upward as shown in FIG. The lower engaging means is in a position (hereinafter referred to as the gripping position) where the head M1 of the full bobbin M conveyed by the peg conveyor 4 is gripped by the full bobbin gripping device 28, and the upper engaging means is in the position where the full bobbin gripping device 28 is held. They are respectively attached at positions (release positions) for releasing the head M1 of the full bobbin M. In this embodiment, the positional relationship between these engaging means and the full bobbin gripping device 28 is such that when any full bobbin gripping device 28 is located in the gripping position and the movable claw 28c is opened, the upper part of the movable claw 28c is opened. A full bobbin gripping device 28 is also located at this position and set to open the movable claw 28c (FIG. 9). Incidentally, instead of the cam 30 and its receiver 31, the engaging means is, for example, a solenoid or a small cylinder, etc., which engages the movable pawl 2.
8c may be activated.

Next, the empty bobbin supply device 32 will be explained. This empty bobbin supply device 32 is comprised of an empty bobbin supply chute 33 and a stock device 34 as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. This storage device 34 is formed by bending a guide path 35 so that a large number of empty bobbins E can be stored.
An empty bobbin supply control device 36 is provided at the final end of the bobbin. This empty bobbin supply control device 36 is
The cylinder 36b is rotatably supported by the machine frame 37.
two empty bobbin stop plates 36c, which are supported by pins on the disk 36a and retract into the guide path 35 to drop the empty bobbins E onto the peg conveyor 4 one by one; It consists of 36c. Further, this guide path 35 is provided with a width plate for the empty bobbin E (not shown), and this width plate guides the large diameter portion of the empty bobbin E to the narrow diameter portion side, The small diameter portion (head) is received by a catch 38, and using the head as a fulcrum, the large diameter portion is always dropped into the drop chute 39. A notch 40a is formed at the tip of the dropping chute 39 so that the empty bobbin E that has been dropped can be moved from inside the dropping chute 39 to the outside, and a notch 40a is formed at the tip of the dropping chute 39 to ensure that the empty bobbin E that has been dropped is A guide plate 40 is attached to the notch 40a so as to be openable and closable so as to be inserted onto the peg 4c, and is biased by an extremely weak spring force in a direction opposite to the traveling direction of the peg conveyor 4, thereby forming a guide passage 41. are doing.

Next, the operation in such a configuration will be explained. The full bobbin gripping device 28 has its movable claw 28
c engages with the cam 30 at the gripping position, and the bobbin M is full.
The head M1 of the head M1 is ready to be inserted. On the other hand, the full bobbin M doffed on the PETSUG conveyor 4,
The peg conveyor 4, which is activated by an unloading command from the autowinder 16 or the like, transports the full bobbin one pitch at a time, and when the full bobbin M reaches the gripping position, its head M1 is inserted into the full bobbin gripping device 28, and The full bobbin confirmation photoelectric switch 27b is blocked. The peg conveyor 4 is stopped by the signal from this full bobbin confirmation photoelectric switch 27b that is interrupted, and the clutch 25 is energized to drive the drive motor 26.
rotation is transmitted to the chain sprocket 24. As a result, the chain 22 rotates, and the movable claw 28c of the full bobbin gripping device 28 disengages from the cam 30 at the gripping position and grips the head M1 of the full bobbin M.
This gripped full bobbin M is pulled upward and lifted. The rotation of this chain 22 is followed by the next full bobbin gripping device 28.
reaches the gripping position and blocks the photoelectric switch 27a with its light blocking portion 28d, the signal causes the clutch 25 to
is cut and stops. At the same time, the peg conveyor 4 moves one pitch again in response to a signal from the photoelectric switch 27a. In this way, the full bobbins M are pulled out one after another in a short period by the plurality of full bobbin gripping devices 28, but when the full bobbin gripping device 28 that grips the full bobbin M reaches the release position (in this embodiment, it is just The chain 22 stops at this position.) The full bobbin gripping device 28 has its movable claw 28c.
climbs up on the slope of the cam 30, the movable claw 28c is moved in the releasing direction against the spring 28b, the head M1 of the full bobbin M that was being gripped is released, and the full bobbin M falls. do. The lower end M2 of the fallen full bobbin M is scooped up by the inclined surface 29a of the receiving tray 29 directly below in the opposite direction to the discharge direction, and the protruding piece 2
9b, the head M1 is tilted in the ejection direction. At the same time as it falls down, the full bobbin M rolls along the slope of the full bobbin chute 20 and is placed onto the full bobbin conveyor 13 from the discharge hole 20a at the tip of the full bobbin chute 20. The full bobbin M placed on the full bobbin conveyor 13 passes over the creel 6A of the spinning machine 1b and is conveyed to the full bobbin supply device 18 of the autowinder 16 in the next step. In this way, one spinning machine (e.g. spinning machine 1)
When the unloading of the full bobbins M in a) is completed, the full bobbins M of the other spinning machine 1b are then unloaded one after another in a short period as described above by the unloading command of the autowinder 16 or the like. Incidentally, if the full bobbin M doffed onto the peg conveyor 4 is conveyed in advance to just before the gripping position and is kept on standby at that position,
It is preferable that a full bobbin M can be immediately unloaded when an unloading command is given to the autowinder 16 or the like.

On the other hand, the full bobbin E is placed on the empty bobbin conveyor 12 from the autowinder 16 via the empty bobbin discharge conveyor 17, and is conveyed on the upper part of the creel 6A, and then moved to the guide plate 12c or the movable guide plate 12.
e to the notch 12f and the input port 33a, pass through the empty bobbin chute 33, and are sent into the respective stock devices 34. Betsugu 4c from which the full bobbin M has been pulled out and fried as described above,
When the limit switch LS1 confirms that the bobbin is positioned directly below the empty bobbin supply device 32, the cylinder 36b moves back and forth, dropping the empty bobbins E in the guide path 35 of the stocking device 34 one by one onto the peg 4c. Insert. When the empty bobbins E are inserted into all the pegs 4c after the full bobbins M have been unloaded, the peg conveyor 4 returns to the position facing the spindle 3 of the spinning machine and waits until the next doffing.

In the above embodiment, a combination of one pair of spinning machines and one autowinder was described, but it goes without saying that a combination of a plurality of pairs of spinning machines and one autowinder can also be used. Further, the full bobbin unloading device is not limited to the above embodiment, and may be one in which a full bobbin gripping device is attached to a chain, and the empty bobbin supplying device is also disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 51-18525, for example. As disclosed in the publication, the small diameter part of the empty bobbin is pushed inside the circular arc of the push guide plate while the empty bobbin is being delivered by the empty bobbin delivery groove of the rotating drum, so that the large diameter part of the empty bobbin always falls first. You may also use

As described above, in the present invention, it is possible to transport full and empty bobbins of a spinning frame pair consisting of two spinning machines. Since the entire empty bobbin transfer device is accommodated within the width of the machine and the empty bobbin transfer conveyor is fully installed above the creel, it is difficult to use precision when transporting Shinomaki bobbins using the Shino stacking machine. The Shino stacking machine can be moved along the entire length of the spinning machine pair, improving the efficiency of Shino conveyance and preventing the adhesion of fluff while conveying full bobbins. , the creel pillar of a spinning machine can be used, and it can be carried out at low cost.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a schematic plan view of a pair of spinning machines, and Figure 2 is a schematic plan view of a pair of spinning machines.
3 is a relational view of each conveyor at the upper part of the creel, FIG. 4 is an enlarged plan view of the opposing ends of the pair of spinning machines, and FIG. 5 is a side view with a part of FIG. 4 omitted. , Figure 6 is the XX view of Figure 4, Figure 7 is the view of Figure 4.
A Y-Y view with some parts omitted, Figure 8 is a side view of the full bobbin unloading device, Figure 9 is a front view of Figure 8,
FIG. 10 is an enlarged view of the Z--Z sectional view of FIG. 8 with a part omitted, and FIG. 11 is another embodiment of the saucer. 1a, 1b...Spinning machine, 2...Spinning machine pair, 3...
...Spindle row, 4...Petsug conveyor, 12...
...Empty bobbin transport conveyor, 13...Full bobbin transport conveyor, 19...Full bobbin discharge device, 32...
Empty bobbin supply device, M...Full bobbin, E...Empty bobbin.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a full and empty bobbin transfer device for a pair of spinning machines in which two spinning machines are aligned in the longitudinal direction of the machine frames, a peg conveyor is provided at the bottom of the machine frame of both spinning machines, and that runs horizontally along the left and right spindle rows. At least a full bobbin conveyor connectable to the winder's full bobbin supply device and an empty bobbin conveyor connectable to the winder's empty bobbin discharge device are installed above the creel of one of the spinning machines. The conveyors are arranged in parallel from opposite ends of the stands to the other ends, and both of the conveyors are extended toward the opposite ends of the other spinning machine, and further, the conveyors are arranged in parallel from opposite ends of the frames to opposite ends of the peg conveyors of both spinning machines. a full bobbin discharging device for unloading the full bobbins doffed on the peg conveyor and discharging them onto the full bobbin transport conveyor; and an empty bobbin supply device for supplying the empty bobbins on the empty bobbin transport conveyor to the empty pegs of the peg conveyor. A device for transferring full and empty bobbins for a pair of spinning machines, characterized in that one set of each are arranged.