Abstract: A shaft on which a restraint belt is wound is rotatably mounted in the side walls of a U-shaped frame. A plastic belt guide is connected by side arm belt edge protectors to tubular flanges that form bushings for the shaft. A driving hub mounted on the shaft drives a locking hub through a clutch formed of ball bearings mounted in recesses in the faces of the hubs. Belt payout rotation of the shaft at a predetermined acceleration will cause the locking hub to rotationally lag. This causes the locking hub to move axially and further causes locking teeth on the locking hub to engage holes in the sidewall of the frame. This prevents further rotation until the belt extension load on the belt is removed. A synchronization spring arrests rotation of the locking hub as it moves axially into locking position.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the winding of a thread onto a reel.A thread is guided by a thread guide fastened to a cord.The cord is driven by a drive part, which, under the action of a transfer roller engaging in a slot, executes a harmonic oscillation. A transfer roller is attached to a disc-shaped bearing part, driven by means of a driving wheel, and can, for changing the amplitude of the harmonic oscillation, be displaced in the radial direction by utilizing an electric motor.

Abstract: A pusher system (12) extracts a wire (11) from a reservoir (10) and feeds the wire through a wire guide (13) to a puller system (14). The puller system then feeds the wire (11) through a tip (15) to the welding operation represented by an arc (16) and a work piece (17). The pusher system (12) has a motor (20) adjusted so as to feed the wire (11) at the desired rate. A pair of rollers (22), which are driven by the motor (20), are designed to slip on the wire (11) if the wire becomes jammed or blocked. The puller system (14) has a limited torque motor (30). The limited torque motor (30) drives a pair of rollers (32) which firmly grip the wire (11) and do not slip on the wire (11). If the wire (11) becomes blocked or jammed then the motor (30) will stall. The combination of the pusher system (12) and the puller system (14) provides a wire feeder which does not damage the wire (11) and which does not cause birdnesting if the wire is jammed or blocked.

Abstract: A centerflow dispenser for dispensing a rolled paper product which includes a device for varying the diameter of the dispensing orifice to accommodate rolled paper products of various weights, widths, bulks and tensile strengths. The dispenser includes a rear housing, a front housing pivotally attached to the rear housing, the rear housing having extending therefrom a support member or bottom housing upon which a rolled paper product is placed. In one embodiment, the support member has attached thereto a rotatable disk with a plurality of a different diameter orifices disposed in the periphery thereof. The disk can be rotated such that each orifice in turn comes in at a vertical overlapping relationship with an exit port in the support member. In such manner, the desired orifice can be selected for the particular paper product being dispensed.In a second embodiment, interchangeable U-shaped members are supplied, each having a different diameter orifice therein.

Abstract: A device used for winding line from a bulk supply onto a reusable spool. The empty spool is placed on a shaft having a plate on one end to hold the spool and a threaded portion on the other end. Then, the shaft is positioned through a sleeve with an integral plate for holding the spool. The sleeve rests in a bearing member supported by a base. A hub with internal threads screws onto the shaft pulling the two plates together. Once the spool is held tightly between the two plates, the hub engages the sleeve and the spool begins to rotate with the hub, sleeve, plates, and shaft.

Abstract: In a thread brake, which comprises at least one brake element (B) adapted to be moved relative to a counter brake element (B.sub.G), said brake elements acting on the thread in braking positions and being adapted to be displaced up to and into a threading position in which the thread can be moved undecelerated through the thread brake, and in the case of which a brake element adjustment device is provided, the threading position of the thread brake (F.sub.K, F.sub.L, F'.sub.L) can be established with the aid of a drive means (A) of said adjustment device, said thread brake having provided therein air guide surfaces (L), which, in the threading position, define an air guide passage used for automatic, pneumatic threading of the thread (Y) by means of a stream of air.

Abstract: A two-piece pay-out tube is secured through an outlet opening of a cable box such that cable being fed from the box can be threaded through the assembled pay-out tube. One piece of the pay-out tube includes an elongated tube having an inner flange. This tube is designed to be inserted into the opening within the cable box from inside the box such that the inner flange abuts against the inside wall of the cable box. A second piece, referred to as a locking collar, is designed to be snapped into engagement with the inner flange from outside of the box. In particular, the locking collar includes a plurality of locking tabs that project from the outside of the box, through the opening within the box, and into engagement with the inner flange resulting in a locking relationship between the inner flange and its associated elongated tube and the locking collar.

Abstract: A transport system for transporting textile bobbins to winding stations of a textile winder on individual bobbin tube support members having a reciprocating supply conveyor extending along the winding stations for supplying bobbins on tube support members to the winding stations, a plurality of generally parallel winding station conveyors having entrances at the supply conveyor for receiving tube support members reciprocating on the supply conveyor and a plurality of control members disposed for engagement by tube support members, each control member having a first portion normally disposed in the tube support member path for engagement by tube support members and being displaced by the engagement and a second portion adjacent the winding station conveyor entrance normally disposed out of engagement with the tube support members and being connected at the first portion for movement into a position for engaging tube support members reciprocating on the supply conveyor to guide the tube support members past the

Abstract: A textile machine producing cross-wound bobbins or cheeses includes a number of work stations having a creel with a bobbin changing position for holding a yarn package having an outer surface and an end surface and being disposed on a tube having an end, and a movable servicing device serving the work stations for changing takeup bobbins and having a drive apparatus for a bobbin in the changing position and a yarn suction device for seeking, aspirating and pulling off a yarn end that has run up onto the outer surface of the yarn package. An apparatus for forming a yarn reserve on a bobbin at a winding station includes a yarn guide element being disposed on the creel and movable toward and away from the bobbin for clasping the tube over a sector of at least 90.degree. in the circumferential direction of the tube and winding the yarn end on the end of the tube to make a yarn reserve. The yarn guide element has a yarn guide surface to be placed against the end face of the yarn package.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for picking up an yarn end so as to fix the same on a yarn package comprising picking up an yarn end from a yarn package by a suction means so as to hold the yarn end therein in a drawn state, inserting an yarn end handling bar between the held yarn end and the package surface, revolving the yarn end handling bar along the package surface while maintaining the bar beneath an outermost layer yarn connected to the yarn end until a layered portion is formed, in which the end yarn held in a drawn state coincides with the outermost layer yarn, and ejecting a jet of pressurized fluid onto or in the vicinity of the layered portion so as to entangle the yarn end with the outermost layer yarn so that the yarn end is fixed on the package.

Abstract: A bobbin having a drum for winding thereon of filamentary materials such as fishing tackle. The bobbin includes a flat, circular disc having a first surface from which a cylindrical wall extends, and a second surface from which the drum and hub means extend. The wall means of one bobbin mates with the hub means of an identical bobbin with a releasable, interference, snap fit to permit interconnection of a plurality of such bobbins in coaxial, side by side, relatively rotatable relation.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for transporting empty yarn winding tubes from a tube supply magazine, and then loading the tubes onto the transport: mandrel, of a service carriage. A rake removes the empty tubes in layers from a cardboard carton and delivers the tubes in a predetermined orientation to a channeled tube receiving tray, and the tubes are then individually dispensed from the tray and moved coaxially onto the transport mandrel of a service carriage.

Abstract: A yarn winding apparatus for winding a cross wound package, and comprising a cutting blade arranged below the traversing triangle and a yarn lifting member which is adapted for movement between positions below and above the traversing triangle. When the winding of a package is completed, the lifting member is lifted, which in turn lifts the advancing yarn from its traversing triangle, and in addition, the lifting member captures and retains the advancing yarn in a laterally fixed position. Upon the subsequent lowering of the lifting member, the captured yarn is brought into the engagement with the cutting blade and severed. In the lifted position of the lifting member, the advancing yarn also may be lifted from its reciprocating yarn guide so that a plurality of circumferential final winds are formed on the completed package.

Abstract: In a winder provided with a control device capable of independently controlling rotational speeds of both motors for a friction roller having a winding package placed thereon and a traverse mechanism, a driving method for a winder comprising: obtaining a difference between an output of a first sensor for detecting a rotational speed of a package and an output of a second sensor for detecting a rotational speed of a friction roller, attenuating the difference to an adjustable value to prepare a correction value, subtracting the correction value from the output of the second sensor, and using the result obtained therefrom as a control input of the both motors to enable selection of a plurality of winding patterns.

Abstract: When forming a transfer tail, a pair of ends extending from a pair of weft packages supported through a supporting member by weft feeding means are moved to a working area of a knotter, and both the ends are knotted together by the knotter while each supporting member or a surface of the weft package holds intermediate portions of both the weft ends. There is provided a transfer tail formation apparatus comprising catching means for picking up the weft end extending from one package and the weft end of the other package, and the knotter for knotting both the weft ends picked up by the catching means together, wherein the catching means is arranged such that an operating portion thereof is positioned on or in the vicinity of a movement locus of the weft end extending from each package when both the weft packages are moved. A suction force of the catching means when forming the transfer tail is set as follows:______________________________________ (suction force at a time of drawing the weft end) .gtoreq.

Abstract: A turret type yarn winder comprising a first detecting means (32) for detecting the arrival of an empty bobbin at a yarn-transfer position (F) and outputting a signal, a second detecting means (46) for detecting the arrival of a traverse guide (5) at one turning point and outputting a signal, a third detecting means (47) for detecting the arrival of the traverse guide (5) at another turning point and outputting a signal and a pneumatic cylinder mechanism (42-45) for axially shifting a yarn traverse cam (4a) momentarily by a predetermined distance, whereby the traverse guide can be traversed while exceeding a yarn holding device (38) on the base end of a bobbin. The respective bobbin chucks (1a, 1b) are driven by a common motor via a respective clutch mechanism (50, 167); the clutch mechanism (50, 167) being selectively maintained at one phase of either a full engagement, half engagement, or disengagement during the path of an orbital motion.

Abstract: An apparatus for imparting a braking force to an advancing strand is disclosed, and which includes a mechanical compensating arm brake followed in series by a movement dependent brake. The movement dependent brake may take any one of several forms, including an eddy-current brake which is directly connected to a roll which is driven by the strand, a hysteresis brake which is directly connected to a roll which is driven by the strand, or a brake of any type which is connected to a roll which is driven by the strand via a clutch, such as a centrifugal clutch, which is operated as a function of the speed of the movement of the strand.

Abstract: The invention disclosed here is a pin hub that is to be used in conjunction with interchangeable wire reels for taking individual wire segments from a continuous wire feed. In use, an empty reel is first mounted to the pin hub. The pin hub has a plurality of pins which are arranged in a circular pattern, and are retracted relative to the hub at the time the reel is mounted. After mounting, the pins are extended through corresponding side openings in the reel, and thereby define a winding hub or circle within the reel itself. Instead of being wound directly against sidewall or hub structure of the reel itself, the wire is instead wound about the pins, and they take up the physical stresses associated with the winding process. After winding is completed, the pins are retracted, and the filled reel is thereafter removed from the pin hub.

Abstract: A textile yarn spinning apparatus for the continuous production of a plurality of synthetic filament yarns is described, which comprises a plurality of winding machines arranged in rows along a service aisle, and a doffer adapted for movement in the service aisle from winding machine to winding machine. The doffer receives at each contacted and serviced winding machine full packages from the winding spindles and delivers the full packages to a transport carriage. In addition to the doffer, a back-up system is provided for manually removing full packages from the winding spindles, and which comprises an independent service carriage for loading the full packages, and an elevator for lifting the full packages so that they can be transferred to the mandrels on a transport carriage.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a strip of ply or belt stock reinforced with steel monofilaments fed from a plurality of reels (60,60', 60") mounted on the spindles (54) of a reel support structure (18). The article of manufacture which results from the method is a uniform strip of reinforced ply or belt stock of higher epi, smaller gauge and fewer splices than possible with prior method and apparatus. A plurality of the reels for feeding the monofilaments are mounted on a spindle secured at one end, with friction means (64,66) disposed between each of the reels located adjacent to each other for applying an axial braking force to each of the reels. A spring biasing means (68) is disposed between each of the reels located adjacent to each other for pressing the friction means (64,66) against the adjacent reels.