US2335880A - Slasher - Google Patents

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2 Claims.

The present invention relates to nowand useful improvements in textile machines and morev particularly to the treatment of strands of yarn with a sizing solution before winding on the loom beams.

Heretofore it has been th practice to draw the yarn from the creels onto warper beams, remove the warper beams from the warper winding machine and remount the warper beams on the sizing and drying machine. These various operations consume considerable time and waste and accordingly it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus whereby the strands are drawn directly from a battery of creels direct to the solution tank and thence to the loom beam, without the usual intermediate step of first drawing the strands from the creels to a warper beam and then drawing the strands from the warper beam to the solution tank for eventual winding on the loom beam.

A further object is to provide an adjustable slasher lease reed to separate the strands so as to take lease strings before entering the sizing solution and to also provide a means for guiding the strands under a walk-Way disposed transversely of the machine in order that an attendant may Work from a position directly in front of the lease reed for feeding the strands to the reed and for repairing broken strands when necessary.

A further object is to provide a slasher lease reed of this character of simple and practical construction, which is efficient and reliable in performance, relatively inexpensive to manufacture and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the machine.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary top plan View showing the position of the gathering rolls and comb with respect to the slasher lease reed and the vertical adjusting means'for each side of the reed.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary enlarged vertical sectional view through the adjustable frame for the reed.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary end elevational view of one end of the reed frame.

Figure 5 is a front elevational view of the reed and reed frame with parts broken away and shown in section. 7

Figure 6 is a front elevational view of, the gath'T ering comb.

Figure 7 isva vertical sectional view through the walk-way extending transversely of the machine, and

Figure 8 is a transverse sectional view thereof.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, Figure 1 represents the side elevational View of an assembled yarn sizing machine which includes the 4 magazine creel 5, the rear gathering comb viigthe the loom beam ill mounted on the end thereof in which the yarn is wound after sizing.

The comb G and lease reed l are mounted on a frame structure, designated generally at H, on the rear upper portion of which is mounted a pair of vertically spaced guide rollers 12 for gathering the strands of yarn [3 from the battery of creels for traveling in a horizontal plane through the teeth M of the rear comb 6, the comb being supported in an upright position on a base [5 on the upper edge of the frame I l. The teeth of the comb separate the yarn transversely.

From the comb 6 the yarn travels to the slasher lease reed, designated generally at l, which includes a plate member l5 having a plurality of vertically extending slots l1 formed therein; the slots being arranged in groups of varying lengths, as shown to advantage in Figure 5 of the drawings, the upper ends of the slots of the respective groups terminating in staggered relation to space the strands l3 vertically when lease reed is lowered to insert lease strings as the strands pass through the reed.

The plate I6 is slidably mounted in a frame I! extending transversely of the machine, the frame having upper and lower channel guides 11 8 and I9 slidably receiving the upper and lower edges of the reed plate, one end of the plate having an adjusting screw 20 attached thereto and threaded through an adjacent leg 2| of the frame for adjusting the plate transversely.

Each end of the frame ll is secured to a leg 2i by screws or the like (not shown), the legs projecting downwardly from the frame and are provided with teeth 22 formed on the inner faces thereof engaging pinions 23 secured on shafts 24 and 25 journaled at opposite sides of the frame ll. Each of the shafts 24 and 25 is provided with worm wheels 2% operatively engaged by worms 2'! on a transversely extending shaft 28 projecting from one side of the frame and having an operating wheel 29 on the outer end thereof. The legs or rack bars 2| are slidably mounted in guides 30 at the respective opposite sides of the frame ll.

Immediately adjacent the frame II and forwardly of the reed 1 is a transversely extending walk-way indicated generally at 3|, which comprises a transversely extending rear shield 32 and a transversely extending front shield 33 extending vertically in spaced relation to each other and connected at their lower ends by a bridge portion 34;

A roller 35 is journaled at the upper end of the rear shield 32, while a roller 36 is journaled at the bottom portion thereof, and the front shieldi- 33 is likewise provided with an upper roller 31 and lower roller 38. The yarn 13 travels from: the reed 1 over the upper roller 35. under the roller 36, and under the bridge portion 34 to the lower roller 38 and then upwardly over theupper roller 31 and then over rollers 39, in and.around a submerged roller 40 in the sizing vat 8'. From. theroller 40, the yarn travels between squeezing rollersfl' to the drying machine 9.

From the dryer 9, the yarn travels to the separatorfrods 420i conventional construction before being wound on the loom beam [0.

From. the foregoing it will be. apparent the strand'si3are effectively gathered from thebattery of'creels by the rollers I2 and maintained in" a transversely spaced position. by the comb 6 before. reaching the. slasher lease reed 1, and the. walk-way 3| provides convenient means for the attfindanttdinitially draw the strands through the reed into position for guiding through the sizing solution.

It is believed the details of construction and manner of use of the device will be readily understood from the foregoing without further detailed explanation.

Having thus described the invention what I claim is:

1. A textile machine comprising in combination, a creel magazine, a sizing apparatus for treating strands of yarn from the creels and winding the same on a loom beam, means for gathering the strands of yarn for traveling in a horizontal transversely separated position, means between the gathering means and the sizing apparatus for separating the strands vertically, a walk-way extending transversely of the machine adjacent the, last-named means, and means for guiding the strands from said last-named means under'tlie'walk-way to the sizing apparatus.

2. A textile machine comprising in combination, acreel magazine, a sizing apparatus for treating; strands of yarn. from the creels and winding; the same on a 100m beam, means for gatheringthe strands of yarn for traveling ina horizontal transversely separated position, a slasher lease reed between the gathering means and the sizing apparatus for separating the strands vertically, a Walk-way extending trans,- versely of the machine adjacent the reed, and

means for guiding the strands from the reed under the walk-way to the sizing apparatus.

STACY P. OUZTS.

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