Abstract: A mechanical device for controlling the tension in a traveling textile yarn includes a base, a flutter member pivotably mounted on the base and a cylindrical post eccentrically mounted rotatably on the base adjacent the post, the flutter member and post being independently biased toward one another and yieldably movable independently away from and toward one another. A yarn monitoring arm is integral with the post and extends outwardly therefrom for engagement with a traveling yarn passing between the post and the flutter member. Tension increases and decreases in the yarn act on the monitoring arm to effect movement of the post in its rotational directions away from and toward the flutter member to increase and decrease the frictional drag and thereby offset the tension change. The flutter member yields to yarn thickness fluctuations and is adapted for flutter-like pivotal movement in response to yarn ballooning and untwisting actions to dampen same while maintaining the frictional drag on the yarn.

Abstract: The present yarn tension control device is adaptable for regulating and adjusting the tension being applied to a running yarn being fed along a predetermined path of travel. The device includes first and second plate members having adjacent inner faces positioned on opposite sides of the running yarn with one of the plate members being resiliently urged toward the other plate member and in engagement with one side of the running yarn to thereby apply tension to the running yarn passing therebetween. The inner face of one of the plate members is substantially smooth and flat while the other plate member is provided with an opening extending through the central portion and the inner face is provided with shallow grooves extending radially outwardly from and being communicatively connected with the opening. The opening and the grooves in the plate member cooperate to provide passageways for the passage of air and for the escape of lint from between the plate members.

Abstract: An automatically controlled twine-wrapping mechanism for a large round baler includes a hydraulically driven twine arm for feeding twine across the width of a bale during the last part of its formation in a bale chamber. The twine passes between a planar surface of the arm and a generally rectangular tensioner plate which is slidably received on a pin carried by the surface and is spring biased towards the surface. The tensioner plate includes contiguous beveled edges which respectively aid in the threading of and in the passage of twine through the tensioner. The tensioner plate also includes a straight edge on the side thereof from which the twine exits. This edge serves to impede reverse movement of twine through the tensioner.

Abstract: In a pneumatically threadable yarn brake, in which a substantially capsular brake cartridge (7) abuts against an upper (8) and lower (9) brake surface ring in a brake housing, the lower brake surface ring (9) is connected to an annular diaphragm (16) which is downwardly adjustable or movable under the action of a vacuum, at the same time carrying along the lower brake surface ring (9).

Abstract: A thread clamp for textile yarns or the like comprises two clamping jaw supports which can be moved relatively towards and away from one another. Each of the clamping jaw supports carries a respective clamping jaw. The clamping jaw of one of the clamping jaw supports is constructed as a clamping hood which is seated upon a substantially block-shaped intermediate layer formed of a rubber-elastic or elastomeric material. The intermediate layer has a portion thereof seated in a form-locking fashion in a recess provided at a base plate at said one clamping jaw support. These measures enable particularly realizing an optimum clamping action due to the oscillation-dampening properties of the intermediate layer supporting the clamping surface.

Abstract: An automatic twine-wrapping mechanism for a large round baler. The mechanism comprises a twine dispensing mechanism for dispensing twine into the bale-forming chamber of the baler, a reversible hydraulic drive means for cycling a twine arm of the dispensing mechanism back and forth in front of the chamber, a twine wrapping control mechanism for initiating a twine wrapping cycle by sensing the growth of a bale to a predetermined diameter, by automatically actuating a pump drive means for driving a hydraulic pump and by positioning a hydraulic control valve to condition the hydraulic drive means to cycle the twine arm and for terminating a twine wrapping cycle by deactivating the hydraulic drive means following the wrapping of twine around the bale. The twine is automatically severed by a twine cutter responsive to the movement of the twine arm following completion of the wrapping of the twine around the bale. The bale operator actuates a bale ejection mechanism following the cutting of the twine.

Abstract: A thread tensioning module for use on a sewing machine is provided with a plastic housing and with mechanism at the rear of the housing for receiving and applying frictional resistance to the movement of thread therethrough. The mechanism includes a pair of thread engageable members, one of which extends beyond the other and the side wall of the module on the thread entering side thereof to catch and enable thread to be positioned between the members.

Abstract: Central connectible yarn brake mechanism for doffed threads from a creel, including a profiled metal bar having at least one groove formed therein, stationary first brake elements being mutually spaced apart along the metal bar outside the groove and each being associated with one of the threads, a first device for individually connecting the first brake elements to the metal bar, movable second brake elements each being associated with one of the threads and being movable between a braking position in which the second brake elements are biased against a thread and against a respective one of the first brake elements and a detached position in which the second brake elements are lifted from a respective one of the first brake elements, bearings disposed on the metal bar in the groove, a central rotatable bar movable in the bearings in the groove, levers each being fastened to the rotatable bar, and a second device for individually connecting each of the levers to a respective one of the second brake elements

Abstract: In a thread brake having two coaxial braking surface rings 2, 3 arranged in spaced relationship to one another and a capsule-shaped braking cartridge 7 whose hemispherical ends bear against the braking surface rings, to make it easier to thread a thread through the brake and the two braking surface rings are each provided with an axial threading slot 2', 3' so that a thread which is inserted sideways into the threading slots in the two braking surface rings can be automatically introduced between the braking surfaces in a simple and reliable manner by tightening or tensioning the thread.

Abstract: An improved warp knit fabric that can serve as a base fabric for producing full weight, self-lined drapery material as well as sheer drapery material and the process and apparatus therefor. The base fabric is primarily comprised of three groups of yarns knit together to form a sheer fabric that creates the visual effect of being woven. The full weight is formed by incorporating one or more additional groups of yarns into the base fabric. One group is added to produce a self-lining on the rear side of the material while another group can include a "laid-in" top effect yarn. This top effect yarn can be fed with varying tension control so that a relatively wide variety of effects can be created.

Abstract: A thread tensioning device for a sewing machine is provided with a rigid beam which pivots on an adjustable fulcrum in engagement with a mounting plate. The device includes an adjustable tension selector movable along the plate and beam for varying the tension on needle thread disposed between the plate and beam.

Abstract: A yarn brake for applying tension to a yarn at the entrance end of a tube as the yarn moves through the tube and which may be utilized in a hollow spindle assembly of a textile yarn processing machine, such as a two-for-one twister. The yarn brake includes a first braking surface formed on a yarn entrance end of the tube and a movable brake member resting on the yarn entrance end of the tube and having a second braking surface on the underside thereof for cooperating with the first braking surface to apply tension to the yarn moving therebetween. The yarn brake includes a threading slot formed in the entrance end of the tube for threading of the yarn through the tube without moving the braking member from the entrance end of the tube.

Abstract: A method for snubbing or restraining a cable. A cable is threaded through a sleeve which has brush bristle-like elements extending from the sleeve wall inwardly towards the center of the sleeve. The ends of the bristle-like elements are placed in contact with the surface of a portion of the cable and the frictional force resulting from the movement of the cable in contact with the bristle-like elements restrains movement of the cable through the sleeve.

Abstract: A yarn tension control apparatus for tensioning a running length of yarn such as textile yarns or the like, wherein a plurality of tensioning devices form a controlled channel and are controlled by an electronic control circuit having a manually adjustable tension setting potentiometer for adjusting a circuit to provide output voltages to the tension devices of the channel adding selecting tension values to the yarn. The tensioning devices each comprise an electromagnet coil and core structure alongside which a pair of wear surface members in the form of plates or discs are supported in parallel vertical planes with the yarn running between and engaging the confronting surfaces of the wear surface members and the wear surface member located beyond the yarn plane from the coil and core structure being of magnetic material to be drawn toward the companion wear member by magnetic attractive forces to vary the tensioning of the yarn leaving the yarn tension devices.

Abstract: The improved yarn brake mechanism of this invention is provided with a tubular brake housing having axially spaced apart inlet and outlet openings for passage of a yarn therethrough and an enlarged cavity formed in the tubular brake housing between the inlet and outlet openings. A pair of cooperating brake platelets is mounted in the enlarged cavity of the brake housing, the brake platelets having surface portions positioned in opposing contacting relation for applying tension to a yarn passing therebetween, and having peripheral portions which cooperate with one another to form a V-shaped groove for guiding the yarn between the opposing contacting surface portions.

Abstract: The yarn brake of this invention is useful in a textile yarn processing machine, such as a two-for-one twister, and includes a stationary permanent magnet arranged at one end of a brake housing and spaced from a fixed braking surface in the direction of movement of the yarn. A braking body is movably positioned within the housing between the braking surface and the permanent magnet, with the braking body including a permanent magnet having a magnetic polarization oriented in repelling relation to the stationary permanent magnet for thus biasing the braking body toward and into engagement with the braking surface to apply tension to a yarn passing therebetween. The magnetic repelling forces allow the braking body to be reliably moved out of engagement with the braking surface when necessary, as for example by a pneumatic flow applied to thread a yarn through the brake, or to accommodate knots or other variations in thickness in the yarn.

Abstract: A static wire tensioning device, of the kind comprising a pair of metal brake shoes between which the wire is clamped at a set pressure, the brake shoes being mounted on respective holders through means allowing to adjust the brake shoe surfaces in perfect parallelism relative to one another. The adjustment is obtained by oscillation of at least one of the shoes around two mutually perpendicular axes. At least one shoe has a central bore through which compressed air is supplied to the clamping surfaces of the shoes.

Abstract: A yarn brake which may be utilized on a textile yarn processing machine, such as a two-for-one twister, for applying tension to a moving yarn and wherein a movable braking body is held in applied position against a braking surface and is separated therefrom during threading of the yarn through the yarn brake. An intercepting means is provided for receiving and holding the braking body, upon separation thereof from the braking surface during threading, in a position in which the braking body and braking surface remain substantially aligned for easily returning to braking engagement after the yarn threading.

Abstract: A reusable guide device for use in guiding elongate filament such as wire from a coil contained within a package or carton, the guide device including a tubular guide member adapted to be inserted radially into the coil and having means for securing an outer end of the guide member within an opening in the carton so that the elongate filament may be paid out from the coil through the guide member. Restraint means in the form of a plurality of finger barriers are provided within the guide member and cooperate with the elongate filament to prevent its retraction or withdrawal back into the package.

Abstract: A roving brake having a pair of flat-bladed leaf springs extending toward one another into engagement at their ends in a mutually opposed relationship to pinch roving or cordage passing between the leaf springs. The leaf springs are attached to a mounting bracket having a flange for securing the ends of the leaf springs in a separated relationship. The flange includes a guide means for guiding the roving between the abutting or pinching ends of the leaf springs. The bracket also has a parallel flange on the opposite end with an aperture for guiding the roving to prevent any binding. Posts attached to the bracket and abutting opposite sides of the leaf springs maintain the end of the leaf springs in a mutually biased relationship. The roving brake bracket may be mounted at any convenient location where delivery of roving to a cutter and spray gun is desired.

Abstract: An improved weft control device for shuttleless looms in which weft is drawn between a pair of friction plates mounted on individual post elements in a manner whereby their free ends are disposed in contiguous relation. The device provides a control lever fixed to the lower end of each post element which are operatively connected one to the other. One of the control levers is of greater length than the other and defines an indicating arm that is disposed in operative association with a band of indicating indicia provided on a support member for the post elements. By manually moving the indicating arm in one direction or the other to a pre-selected graduation of the indicating indicia, the post elements will rotate simultaneously and in opposite directions and the force with which one friction plate engages the other can be increased or decreased as desired.

Abstract: The device for feeding yarn in a textile machine comprises a set of feed driving rollers rotating at a speed exceeding the maximum yarn processing speed in the machine, a first yarn brake downstream of the driving rollers, a first swing support upstream of the rollers, a second yarn brake and a second swing support. Each swing support includes a movable member exerting by its weight a tension against the yarn which causes the latter to engage frictionally the driving rollers. The frictional force exceeds the force of the first yarn brake and advances the yarn about a length which is sufficient to cause the moving member of the first swing support to abut against a fixed stop member so that the tension is released from the yarn and the holding friction changes to a sliding friction which is lower than the braking force of the first brake and thus stops the decoiling of the yarn.

Abstract: A device for weft tensioning adjustment in weaving looms of the type having continuous weft feed, to be applied at the side of the loom. The device comprises - mounted on a single support - a pair of elastic resilient laminae, biased into mutual contact with an adjustable pressure knob and arranged in the path of the weft thread being supplied, for engaging said thread between them and providing for the braking thereof, and an oscillating lever ending with a threadguide, through which eye is passed the weft thread, after engagement between said laminae and before reaching carrying members, said oscillating lever being adjustably urged by spring means to move away from said laminae and from said members, in order to take up slack in said weft thread when it exists.

Abstract: A thread brake for a double-thread twister comprises a housing defining a relatively narrow thread passage and having a relatively wide compartment defined by at least one of the housing walls. A braking element provided in the compartment normally lies in a braking portion against the wall at the passage and is displaceable laterally of the passage into a position clear of this passage. Thus a thread extending along the passage is normally pinched by the braking element against the wall. A threading element is also provided in the housing and has an elongated relatively narrow open course. This threading element is displaceable between a position with the course out of alignment with the thread passage in the compartment and into a threading position with the course aligned with the passage in the compartment.

Abstract: A strand advanceable from a supply spool to a weaving machine of the shuttleless type under variable tension is routed through an adjustable braking mechanism. The braking mechanism includes a flat guide plate along which the strand advances, the strand being contacted at longitudinally spaced portions of the guide plate by means of a succession of angularly depending leaf springs which are carried at longitudinal intervals in an overlying holding member. The input end of the holding member is pivotally supported on a frame member that carries the guide plate, and a helical spring biases the holding member obliquely relative to the underlying guide plate so that the distance between the holding member and the guide plate increases in the direction of advance of the strand.

Abstract: A wire drag unit having a pair of relatively shiftable jaws. One jaw is mounted rigidly to a support and the other jaw is pivotally secured intermediate its ends to the support. The other jaw has a wire engaging a portion at one end and is provided with an L-shaped rod at the other end, the rod extending longitudinally of the jaws and provided with an adjustable weight thereon between said one end of the other jaw and the pivot point thereof.

Abstract: A textile yarn processing machine, such as a two-for-one twister and the like, having spindle assemblies for the processing of yarn and each including a carrier mechanism for carrying a pacakge of yarn to be withdrawn and processed and defining a passageway therethrough for yarn withdrawn from the package and an enlarged cavity forming a part of the passageway, includes the combination therewith of an improved, self-threading, yarn brake mechanism positioned in the cavity, as follows. A stationary braking member forms an inclined braking surface generally around the passageway at the entrance to the cavity and a movable braking plate cooperates therewith and generally covers the passageway at the entrance to the cavity and is adjustably biased toward the inclined braking surface for applying a desired tension to the yarn passing therebetween.

Abstract: Yarn tensioning apparatus particularly suitable for receiving essentially tensionless yarn and giving it a generally uniform output tension level includes friction surfaces across which the yarn is drawn to progressively raise the tension level and work out tangles. The tension surfaces are long, so that, in passing transversely over them, the yarn may take a variety of paths to accommodate the abrupt fluctuations associated with tangle release events. Near the output, a member having a friction nose at one end is pivoted at its opposite end and includes a curved intermediate portion that may swing down to contact a yarn engaging portion of a friction pin; the arrangement being such that an increase in yarn tension causes movement of the member relative to the pin in a direction to produce tension-reducing effects, and vice versa.