TMT Machinery Patente

To provide a yarn feed package supplying device that can push out, from the peg shaft, the yarn feed package hooked on the peg shaft, without damaging the yarn layer of the yarn feed package. The yarn feed package supplying device includes: pegs 70 configured to allow a yarn feed package P, in which yarn is wound around a paper tube 160 to form a yarn layer, to be hooked thereon, distal end portions of the pegs 70 being free ends; and a push-out mechanism configured to push out the yarn feed package P, which is hooked on the pegs 70, from the distal ends of the pegs 70. The push-out mechanism includes a push-out member 92 and a cylinder 75 configured to move the push-out member 92 toward one end portion. The push-out member 92 is configured to come into contact with a first section and a second section of an end surface of the paper tube 160 of the yarn feed package P when the push-out member 92 is moved toward the one end portion, the first section and the second section being located at different positions in a height direction, and the push-out member 92 is configured to be capable of performing pendulum motion in the height direction by using a supporting shaft 87 as a turning fulcrum, the supporting shaft 87 being provided between a first portion and a second portion in the height direction, the first portion and the second portion respectively coming into contact with the first section and the second section.

To provide a yarn feed package supplying device that can suppress breakage of components when a yarn feed package is delivered or received and can also deliver or receive a yarn feed package, without any problem regardless of variations in distance to the delivery target or the distance from the receiving target. The yarn feed package supplying device includes: a push-out mechanism configured to push out a yarn feed package P hooked on pegs 70, from the distal end portions thereof; and a base part 62. The push-out mechanism includes a push-out member 92, a cylinder 75 configured to move the push-out member 92, and a reaction force absorbing mechanism 130. The push-out member 92 comes into contact with an end surface 161 of a paper tube 160 of the yarn feed package P, which is hooked on the pegs 70, when the push-out member 92 is moved toward the distal end portions. The cylinder 75 is supported by the base part 62, and exerts a pushing force F2 larger than a force necessary to push out the yarn feed package P. The reaction force absorbing mechanism 130 is actuated by a force smaller than the pushing force F2 of the cylinder 75 when a reaction force F4 larger than a force necessary to push out the yarn feed package P is exerted, thereby absorbing the reaction force F4 exerted on the push-out member 92.

To suppress the consumption of compressed air in a textile machine equipped with a yarn waste collection device. The winding device (4) is arranged in a plurality in a predetermined direction. The yarn waste collection device (5) includes a yarn waste transfer pipe (28) provided along the arrangement direction of the winding devices (4), a plurality of suction pipes (30) connected to the yarn waste transfer pipe (28), a compressed air switching valve for suction transfer (31) connected to each suction pipe (30) to switch the supply of compressed air for suction transfer, and an auxiliary compressed air switching valve (41) connected to the yarn waste transfer pipe (28) to switch the supply of auxiliary compressed air. The auxiliary compressed air switching valve (41) is switched to a state of supplying auxiliary compressed air when at least one of the compressed air switching valves for suction transfer (31) is in a state of supplying compressed air for suction transfer, and is switched to a state of stopping the supply of auxiliary compressed air when the plurality of compressed air switching valves for suction transfer (31) are in a predetermined switching state, even when at least one of the compressed air switching valves for suction transfer (31) is in a state of supplying compressed air for suction transfer.

To suppress the consumption of compressed air in a textile machine employing a sequence doffing method. Winding devices 4 are arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of stages. A yarn waste collection device 5 includes a yarn waste transfer pipe 28 provided in each stage, each yarn waste transfer pipe 28 is connected to a plurality of suction pipes 30. Each compressed air switching valve for suction transfer 31 connected to each suction pipe 30 is switched to a state of supplying compressed air for suction transfer during a doffing operation of the winding device 4. An auxiliary compressed air switching valve 41 connected to each yarn waste transfer pipe 28 is switched to a state of supplying auxiliary compressed air when the compressed air switching valve for suction transfer 31 is switched to a supply state. The doffing operations are performed, for each winding device 4, sequentially with a shift at predetermined intervals, and are performed partially overlappingly. The order of the doffing operations can be set such that the doffing operations are performed in the plurality of winding devices 4 in one stage, and thereafter, the doffing operations proceed to the plurality of winding devices 4 in another stage.

To provide a yarn feeding device that suppresses vibration of a driven roller while yarn is running without compromising the function of pressing the driven roller against a drive roller with an appropriate contact pressure and a function of switching the posture of an arm during yarn threading or maintenance. A driven roller support mechanism 20 configured to support a driven roller 12 includes: an arm 30; a support 50 that rotatably supports the arm 30; a lever 70 configured to switch the posture of the arm 30; a biasing member 80 configured to bias the arm 30 and to be switched from a release posture PY3 to a pressing posture PX1 with the posture of the arm 30 being switched from a separated posture PB3 to a contact posture PA1; and an anti-vibration member 90 having a contact portion 95. In a state where the arm 30 is switched to the contact posture PA1, the biasing member 80 having been switched to the pressing posture PX1 presses the contact portion 95 of the anti-vibration member 90 against a contacted portion 35 to be contacted of the arm 30.

An object of the present invention is to reliably cut yarns (Y). In a yarn cutting-sucking device (7), a movement mechanism (712) is able to perform: first movement in which a yarn gathering member (711) is moved so that a yarn holding portion (711h) is moved leftward at a first speed to gather and guide yarns (Y) to a cutter; and second movement in which the yarn gathering member (711) is moved so that the yarn holding portion (711h) is moved at a second speed faster than the first speed and presses the yarns (Y), which are gathered and guided to the cutter (75) in the first movement, onto the cutter (75) to cut the yarns (Y).

The invention relates to a long-member vibration suppression system comprising: a long member (22) which is long in one direction and which is bent due to vibration; and an attenuation member (130) which is pipe-shaped and which is used in an attached state of being attached to the long member (22) so as to extend in the one direction for suppressing vibration of the long member (22), the attenuation member (130) including: a fixed portion (132) which is positionally fixed to the long member (22) in the one direction while the attenuation member (130) is in the attached state; and a contact portion (131) which is positionally different from the fixed portion (132) in the one direction, which is configured to make contact with and press an elongated surface (22b), and which is movable relative to the elongated surface (22b) in the one direction while the attenuation member (130) is in the attached state, the elongated surface (22b) being an outer side surface of the long member (22) and extending along the one direction, at least one slit (35) being formed in the attenuation member (130), the at least one slit (35) extending in the one direction and being open at least at one end portion of the attenuation member (130) while the attenuation member (130) is in the attached state, the one end portion of the attenuation member (130) being provided on one side in the one direction, the contact portion (131) of the attenuation member (130) in the attached state being formed in a region where the at least one slit (35) is formed in the one direction, and the attenuation member (130) being fitted to the outer side surface of the long member (22) while the size of the contact portion (131) in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the one direction is expanded by the at least one slit (35).

The possibility of allowing a yarn end on the package side where the formation of a package has been completed to be entangled on the empty bobbin side is reduced. A spun yarn take-up machine 1 includes bobbin holders 24A and 24B, a switching unit, a partition plate 65, and a controller 26. In a completed state in which a switching operation is completed, a package P is held by the bobbin holder 24A, and the partition plate 65 is at a partition position, a first virtual line segment VLS1 is defined. Two virtual tangents (a first virtual tangent VLT1 and a second virtual tangent VLT2) in contact with the outer circumferential edge of the bobbin holder 24B, which are parallel to the first virtual line segment VLS1, are defined. The partition plate 65 traverses across both of the two virtual tangents and is spaced apart from a yarn holding guide 44. The controller 26 positions the partition plate 65 at the partition position after the switching operation is completed, and starts to move the yarn holding guide 44 from a holding position toward a retracted position before the partition plate 65 reaches the partition position.

A yarn winding machine includes a pair of bobbin holders (41, 42), a first bobbin holder motor, a turret plate (40), and a control apparatus. Each bobbin holder of the pair of bobbin holders holds a bobbin. A drive apparatus rotationally drives the bobbin holder to wind a yarn onto the bobbin to form a package. The turret plate (40) moves the bobbin holders (41, 42) between a winding position, a collection position, a first switching position, and a second switching position. The control apparatus performs control for starting rotation of the first bobbin holder (41) in a direction to wind the yarn, after the yarn switching and before the first bobbin holder (41) reaches the collection position, such that the first bobbin holder (41) is rotating in the direction to wind the yarn at least when the first bobbin holder (41) reaches the collection position.

An information processing apparatus (100) capable of estimating dyeing quality regarding a draw textured yarn produced by false-twisting a raw yarn includes a control device (101). The control device (101) performs processing for acquiring an estimation model (124) generated by machine-learning a correlation between explanatory variables (EV) and a target variable (DV) that are specified in each of a plurality of sets of learning data (122), and the explanatory variables (EV) include a plurality of physical properties measured regarding a raw yarn for learning. The target variable (DV) includes dyeing quality measured regarding a draw textured yarn for learning produced by false-twisting the raw yarn for learning. Processing for acquiring a plurality of physical properties regarding a raw yarn that is an estimation target and processing for outputting dyeing quality obtained from the estimation model (124) by inputting the plurality of physical properties acquired regarding the raw yarn that is the estimation target to the estimation model (124) are performed.

[Problem to be Solved] Provided is a false-twisting machine and fiber waste collection device configured to separate fiber waste from air appropriately thereby capable of suppressing the discharge of the fiber waste to an exterior thereof.[Solution to Problem] In a false-twisting machine, a fiber waste collection device 1 configured to collect fiber waste includes: a fiber waste transfer pipe 11 arranged with a plurality of suction units 15 for suctioning fiber waste such that the fiber waste suctioned from the plurality of suction units is transferred along with air through the fiber waste transfer pipe; a fiber waste collection unit 13 for collecting therein the fiber waste transferred through the fiber waste transfer pipe; a cyclone separator 30 arranged between the fiber waste transfer pipe and the fiber waste collection unit configured to separate the fiber waste from the air transferred through the fiber waste transfer pipe so as to collect the separated fiber waste in the fiber waste collection unit; and an air discharge unit 50 connected to the cyclone separator for discharging the air obtained after having been separated from the fiber waste. The fiber waste includes a polyester fiber or a polyamide fiber. The cyclone separator includes a body portion 32 in a tubular shape connected with the fiber waste transfer pipe such that a longitudinal direction of the fiber waste transfer pipe follows an inner peripheral wall of the body portion, the body portion being configured to cause the fiber waste transferred through the fiber waste transfer pipe to travel downward along the inner peripheral wall due to a centrifugal force; a fiber waste transfer portion 42 connected to a lower portion of the body portion; and a fiber waste discharge unit 46 for discharging the fiber waste separated from the air to the fiber waste collection unit. The fiber waste transfer portion has an inclined portion 44 whose diameter decreases from a point of connection with the body portion toward the fiber waste discharge unit. The inclined portion is formed in a tapered shape having an angle formed with respect to a vertical direction within a range of larger than or equal to 7° and smaller than or equal to 10°.

An object of the present invention is to effectively cool a motor even when the motor moves relative to a fixed fan, while the motor is protected by a cover member.The following components are provided: a first movement mechanism and second movement mechanism configured to move a contact roller 25; a contact roller motor 32 which is attached to a front end portion of the contact roller 25 and which is configured to rotationally drive the contact roller 25; and a front cover 26 including a base portion 26a which opposes the contact roller 25 over the contact roller motor 32 in a front-rear direction and which is provided with an opening 26a1; and a fan 33 which is attached to the front cover 26 while being provided in the opening 26a1 and which is configured to send cooling wind to the contact roller motor 32 side in the front-rear direction. When viewed in the front-rear direction, the fan 33 is provided so that at least a part of an outlet overlaps the contact roller motor 32 positioned in a traveling range of the contact roller motor 32.

An object of the present invention is to cool a motor while wasteful electric power consumption is suppressed.The following components are provided: a contact roller motor 32 configured to rotationally drive a contact roller; an inverter 32a configured to adjust the rotation speed of the contact roller motor 32; a fan configured to send cooling wind to the contact roller motor 32; a fan motor 33 configured to rotationally drive the fan; an inverter 33a configured to adjust the rotation speed of the fan motor 33; an input unit 27 into which the winding speed of winding a yarn Y can be input; and a controller 29. When the yarn Y is wound, the controller 29 controls the inverter 32a based on the winding speed of winding the yarn Y so as to control the rotation speed of the contact roller and controls the inverter 33a based on the winding speed of winding the yarn Y so as to control the rotation speed of the fan. In this regard, the winding speed of winding the yarn Y is input into the input unit 27.

After one bobbin holder supporting a package stops rotating, a yarn end included in the package is suppressed from being caught on the other bobbin holder side. A spun yarn take-up machine 1 includes a bobbin holder 24A, a bobbin holder 24B, a switching unit (a turret 23, a first partition 27, and a shift guide 29) configured to be able to perform a switching operation, a first partition 27, and a second partition 28. The spun yarn take-up machine 1 is provided with a slide mechanism 60. When the switching operation has been completed and a package P is held by the bobbin holder 24A, the slide mechanism 60 performs a reducing operation of narrowing a gap Gl when viewed in an alignment direction, as compared to a case where a yarn Y is connected between a bobbin B2 and the package P in the switching operation. After the completion of the reducing operation, the slide mechanism 60 prohibits the yarn Y from passing through the gap Gl.

Contact pressure is suppressed from being different between packages even if the setting of the contact pressure applied to the packages is changed. A yarn winder 4 includes a base 20, a bobbin holder 24, a contact roller 25, an air cylinder 35, a tilting mechanism 40, a postural change sensor 66, and a controller 26. The controller 26 controls the tilting mechanism 40 such that an actual angle-related value detected by the postural change sensor 66 is equal to a target value that is determined in accordance with the weight of yarns Y wound onto bobbins B and independently from a set value of a contact pressure.

In a yarn winding apparatus, the state of a yarn is accurately detected with a simple structure. In a traverse device, a fulcrum guide 61 serving as a fulcrum of traversal is conductive or intermediate-conductive at least at a contact portion with a yarn. A static electricity quantity detection circuit 51 outputs a signal corresponding to the quantity of static electricity generated in the fulcrum guide 61. When the maximum change quantity ΔE of the static electricity quantity indicated the signal output from the static electricity quantity detection circuit 51 during a period from a time point before a predetermined time to the present is equal to or less than a threshold ΔEa (S102: YES), a controller 52 outputs a first signal which indicates that the state of the yarn at the fulcrum guide 10 is a predetermined state (S103). When the maximum change quantity ΔE is above the threshold ΔEa (S102: NO), the controller 52 outputs a second signal which indicates that the state of the yarn at the fulcrum guide 61 is not the predetermined state (S104).

In a yarn processing apparatus, the state of each of yarns is accurately detected with a simple structure. Yarn guides 45 of a yarn guide unit are conductive or intermediate-conductive at least at contact portions with yarns. A static electricity quantity detection circuit 51 is configured to output a signal corresponding to a voltage value of voltage generated in each yarn guide 45 by static electricity generated in the yarn guide 45. When a voltage difference Dv between the voltage value indicated by the signal output from the static electricity quantity detection circuit 51 and the voltage value of a signal output from a static electricity quantity detection circuit 51 provided for a neighboring yarn guide 45 is equal to or less than a threshold Dva (S102: YES), a controller 52 outputs a first signal which indicates that the state of the yarn at the yarn guide 45 is a predetermined state (S103). When the voltage difference Dv is above the threshold Dva (S102: NO), the controller 52 outputs a second signal which indicates that the state of the yarn Y at the yarn guide 45 is not the predetermined state (S104).

In a yarn processing apparatus, the state of a yarn is accurately detected with a simple structure. An oil supply guide 10 configured to apply oil to a yarn formed by binding filaments spun out from a spinning unit is conductive or intermediate-conductive at least at its contact portion with the yarn. A static electricity quantity detection circuit 51 is configured to output a signal corresponding to the quantity of static electricity generated in the oil supply guide 10 due to contact between the yarn and the oil supply guide 10. When the maximum change quantity ΔE of the static electricity quantity indicated the signal output from the static electricity quantity detection circuit 51 during a period from a time point before a predetermined time to the present is equal to or less than a threshold ΔEa (S102: YES), a controller 52 outputs a first signal which indicates that the state of the yarn at the oil supply guide 10 is a predetermined state (S103). When the maximum change quantity ΔE is above the threshold ΔEa (S102: NO), the controller 52 outputs a second signal which indicates that the state of the yarn at the oil supply guide 10 is not the predetermined state (S104).

In a yarn winding apparatus, the state of a yarn is accurately detected with a simple structure.In a traverse guide, a guide rail 63 arranged to guide a yarn which is being traversed is conductive or intermediate-conductive at least at a contact portion with the yarn. A static electricity quantity detection circuit 51 outputs a signal corresponding to the quantity of static electricity generated in the guide rail 63 due to the contact between the yarn and the guide rail 63. When the maximum change quantity ΔE of the static electricity quantity indicated the signal output from the static electricity quantity detection circuit 51 during a period from a time point before a predetermined time to the present is equal to or less than a threshold ΔEa (S102: YES), a controller 52 outputs a first signal which indicates that the state of the yarn at the guide rail 63 is a predetermined state (S103). When the maximum change quantity ΔE is above the threshold ΔEa (S102: NO), the controller 52 outputs a second signal which indicates that the state of the yarn at the guide rail 63 is not the predetermined state (S104).

In a spinning apparatus (2) including spinning units (20), both a material cost of a supplying unit (32) and the increase in power consumption are suppressed. A spinning apparatus (2) of the present invention includes spinning units (20). Each of the spinning units (20) includes: a heating box (21) to which a spinning pack (22) is attached; a piping (241) in which molten polymer flows toward the spinning pack (22) in the heating box (21); a gear pump (25) which is provided at the piping (241) and which is a target of maintenance; a cooled unit (X) which is provided upstream of the gear pump (25) in the piping (241) in a flow direction (A), the cooled unit (X) being cooled so as to decrease a flow rate of the molten polymer flowing in the cooled unit (X); a cooling unit (31) which defines a cooling space (V) in contact with the cooled unit X; and a housing (29) which accommodates the heating box (21). The cooling unit (31) includes an upper end (31a) to which a supplying unit (32) including a supplying path for supplying air functioning as a refrigerant is attachable and from which the supplying unit (32) is detachable. Each of the spinning units (20) is structured so that, when the supplying unit (32) is attached to the upper end (31a), the supplying path is connected to the cooling space (V). The upper end 31a does not protrude as compared to an outer surface of the housing (29).

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