Object of the Invention
[0001] The object of present invention consists of a modular machine for spinning and doubling
with individual transmission elements for spindles with continuous and individual
conical or double conical folding system by means of conventional asynchronous alternative
current motors controlled by frequency converters and programmed by a control or microprocessor
unit.
Background of the Invention
[0002] The textile industry uses two types of the so called continuous spinning and doubling
machines whic, among other elements, are provided basically with some elements, called
spindles, in a number ranging from fiive units up to several hundreds in each machine.
Said spindles are turning continuosly at the same speed, driven by only one electric
motor by means of gear or pulleys assembly. Also, there is the possibility of having
each spindle driven by an individual electric motor, with all motors controlled by
a frequency variation unit so that all spindles turn at a same speed.
[0003] These machines, have a high efficiency, but since all spindles turn at a same speed,
they all have to use the same thread type and are unable to combine different thread
types in order to perform simultaneous short operations, so when it is necessary to
produce different spinning and doubling operations it will be required to adapt the
machine to the new process, causing an increase in production costs.
[0004] Furthermore, in spinning, doubling, textile spinning, spool roving frame, spool doubling
macines, etc., the thread obtained is being stored in spinning bobbins, while the
process for doubling the final product has suffered changes. The conventional process
consisted of the so called "reel" doubling where the product was wound around a cylindrical
reel provided in its upper and lower sides with rims to avoid the thread coming off
the cylinder. This process had several inconveniences; to carry out the unfolding
of the thread in the following process it was necessary to turn the reel to avoid
the breakage of the thread due to the strain caused by the pulling of the bobbin.
Another inconvenience is that the unfolding had always to be done perpendicularly
to the turning axis to avoid thread breakage due to fouling in the bobbin upper rim.
[0005] A new reel type was later developed, which was known as "conventional conical", having
reduced the upper rim to a diameter slightly larger than that of central axis so that
the bobbin obtained had a mixed shape, with conical upper portion. With this new pattern
some of previous inconveniences of the previous "reel" type model were eliminated.
However this new process also involves some problems in order to figure the bobbin
pattern it will be necessary to match the cone angle with the number of coats required
to obtain the required configuration. It will be necessary to repeat such process
for each reel type provided in the spinning machine in the case that thread of different
types and thicknesses are used, thus affecting the machine efficiency, another inconvenient
being that when finishing a manufacturing cycle the machine stops completely, and
therefore all spindles stop turning even if they have not completed their process
so that implies a considerable time waste and also it would not be possible to have
bobbins with the same pattern when processing different products in the different
spindles of the spinning machine, doubling machine, textile spinning, spool roving
frame, spool doubling macines, etc.
Description of the Invention
[0006] With the purpose to prevent all serious inconveniences indicated above, when it is
necessary to spin or double small amounts of product and to avoid wasting time in
the machine preparation, an improved modular machine for spinning and doubling with
elements for spindles individual transmission has been developed, and also a new system
for doubling threads and welts has been developed as a continous and individual conical
or double conical folding system with its correspondin programming and control unit,
as the object of the present invention.
[0007] The modular machine for spinning and doubling with elements for spindles individual
transmission with a continuous and individual conical or double conical folding system
is made of a frame composed by two metal cabinets, one at the left and the other at
the right hand side, with vertical cubic shape, made preferably in steel plate, each
cabinet provided in its exterior side with a pivoting access door. The central portion
of said frame, connecting the two cabinets fastened by bolts, is provided with cross
bars made preferably of welded steel tubes whic will act as a support for the different
moving elements that will be described hereinafter.
[0008] The central portion of said frame contains within the space between both cabinets
and held by the crossing tubes, from one to thirty spinning or folding spindles, each
having its own driving means. The spindles are turning vertical axis on which the
different types of spinning or folding reels will be mounted. Said spindles are held
by a twin roller system of the ball type bearing. The upper bearing unit is packed
in connection with a synthetic rubber ring to absorb the radial vibrations and the
lower bearing unit is mounted on a support of the swinging type which is allowed to
be displaced radially.
[0009] The spindle bottom part has fastened a pulley arranged to receive a transmission
flat belt, for connection to the output of an induction electrical motor mounted on
a pair of crossing tubes placed in the back side of frame.
[0010] A ring rail, having a vertical up and down displacement, on which a sliding piece
rotates to create the twisting of the thread, is mounted coaxially on the spindle
head. Above this ring rail there is a thread guide having a similar movement but with
a different speed, said thread guide having the purpose of guiding the different threads
towards the sliding piece coming from the hake box or feeding assembly.
[0011] The feeding assembly for each spindle comprises a pair of feeding rollers, an inlet
thread roller and a pressure cylinder. The feeding rollers, made preferably of chromed
carbon steel, are driven by means of two horizontal shafts, which are also driven,
through a flat belt transmission system by an alternate current motor controlled by
a conventional frequency variator controlled by a potentiometer, the whole assembly
being located in the right hand side cabinet. Said shafts are made of carbon steel
and go through from one cabinet to the other supported by said cabinets, and a shaft
is located vertically above the other, connected to each other by means of a chain
that makes them turn in the same direction. The pressure roller is located between
the two feeding rollers and exerts a pressure on the thread in order to obtain a better
draw, said pressure roller being held by means of ball bearings, the pressure arm
is also fastened by means of bearings to another vertical shaft placed on top of those
supported by the feeding rollers. Said pressure arm is allowed to move radially when
actuated by a neumatic piston as to exert more or less pressure on threads moving
through the pressure roller and feeding rollers. The neumatic pistons acting on the
pressure rollers of the feeding system in each spindle are driven by the pressured
air flow coming from the air pressure piping system, with pressure regulated by a
pressure control valve located in the left hand side cabinet.
[0012] In the modular machine for spinning and doubling with elements for spindle individual
transmission with conical or double conical continuous and individual folding system,
spindles are the main elements that are in continuous movement, and are able to turn
at different speeds; the ring rail has a vertical up and down movement, with the sliding
pieces and thread guides turning around and having, as in the case of the ring rail,
a vertical up and down movement, the feeding rollers, the pressure rollers and the
inlet thread rollers.
[0013] Each spindle turns around its own shaft driven by an alternate current induction
motor by means of a belt preferably of the flat type with interior teeth.. Each motor
is individually controlled by a frequency variator, preferably of the conventional,
vectorial or other type, which is programmed independently for each spindle by means
of a potentiometer located in each spindel control panel, so that each spindle can
turn at a different speed and have a opposite turning direction.
[0014] The ring rail can move vertically along two vertical guides, one in each side cabinet.
Said guides are of cylindrical shape and are made of carbon steel and fastened in
the bottom to each cabinet forming the machine frame. Said ring rail moves vertically
up and down with a stroke equivalent to the spindle reel height, being possible to
regulate the length of said stroke. The thread guides move above the ring rail, following
a similar motion pattern, along said guides.
[0015] The ring rail as well as the thread guides are driven by an alternate current electric
motor provided with a speed variator of the manual regulation disc type. Said variator
transmits the turning movement to a speed reduction unit by means of said flat teethed
belt, the output of said reduction unit being an horizontal shaft driving two drums
with a different diameter on which steel cables are wound which hold the thread guides
and the ring rail. The vertical up and down displacement is created as a consequence
of the reverse in the motor turning direction by means of the control provided by
limit switches mounted on said drums. The thread guides and the ring rail are driven
by same means and the same motor with reduction unit, so all have the same frequency
of movement.
[0016] The feeding rollers are mounted on two horizontal cross shafts vertically one on
top of the other and are driven through a flat belt transmission system by an alternate
current motor controlled by a conventional frequency variator controlled by a potentiometer.
The turning movement is transmitted, between both of them, by means of a driving chain
so that both shafts turn in the same direction.
[0017] The driving motor as well as the frequency variator and the control potentiometer
are located in the right band side cabinet. Finally, the swing arm of each pressure
roller is actuated by means of a neumatic cylinder.
[0018] For a better understanding of the new continuous, individual conical or double conical
folding system, first we will explain the process to obtain a conventional simple
conical folding as it is used now. A conventional reel, comprising a cylindrical central
body with its bottom provided with disc having a diameter from two to five times de
central body diameter to support the processed thread, will be inserted in spindles
of spinning and doubling machine, said reel havingin its upper part another disc with
a diameter slightly larger than that of central body. The processed thread is inserted
in the central body bottom part of said reel, driving the spinning and doubling machine
so the reel turns driven by the spindle. By means of the up and down displacement
of the sliding piece, driven by the ring rail, in which the processed thread is inserted,
said thread will be wound or folded around the reel in upwards direction so that once
the reel central body is covered with a first coat, a second coat is folded in downwards
direction, this process being repeated sucessively to get a diameter slightly smaller
than that of reel bottom disc, in a manner such that each coat presents a height slightly
smaller to previous coat as to obtain a mixed pattern bobbin, with approximately two
thirds of it with cylindrical shape and truncoconical shpa in its upper portion in
order to obtain an improved stability od folded material.
[0019] With the new continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, the
process to obtain a bobbin is totally different from the conventional process. In
the conventional process the thread or welt is folded in accordance with a bobbin
simple pattern with most of its lenght being of cylindrical shape and truncoconical
upper portion, while with the new continuous, individual, conical or truncoconical
folding system the folding pattern corresponds to a bobbin made up of multiple concentric
cylinders and truncocones, forming assemblies called "subcycles", each of said subcycles
comprising a smaller given number of thread or welt coats, with respect to the conventional
system, and each subcycle having a height slightly lower than that of previous subcycle.
The assembly comprising a given number of subcycles is called "repeated great cycle".
[0020] With this improvement, the modular machine for spinning and doubling with individual
transmission elements for spindles is provided with a control unit comprising a microprocessor
which enables said machine to program, on a display, the length required to be stored
in each reel, the reel length, the height (h) of the cone or truncocone, and by means
of a display restricted to the user, the number of subcycles (m) and number of thread
or welt coats in each subcycle (n) in accordance with the features of the processed
products.
[0021] The difference in height between a coat and next coat (Ca) and the difference in
height between a subcycle and nex (Cb), computed by means of the microprocessor algorithm,
establishes the corresponding parameters.
[0022] Also, said microprocessor provides said machine with capability to program different
bobbin shapes: single cone, double cone or cylinder, all these patterns obtained under
same process of subcycles and coats as previously described.
[0023] With the improvement introduced with the new control unit, the spinning machine,
doubling machine, textile spinning, spool roving frame, spool doubling macines, etc.,
having the capacity to apply the above described programs, individually to each spindle
of the machine.
Detailed Description of Drawings
[0024] For a better understanding of the object of present invention, a practical preferential
embodiment of the improved modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission
elements for spindles, object of present invention, and based on enclosed figures:
Fig. 1 Front view of the modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission
elements for spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding
system.
Fig. 2 Plan view of the modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission
elements for spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding
system.
Fig. 3 Sectional view of assembly.
Fig. 4 Section view of detail of spindles bearing system.
Fig. 5 Front and plan views of right hand side cabinet.
Fig. 6 Front and plan views of left hand side cabinet.
Fig. 7 Fron view of a completely cylibdrical reel with two ientical discs.
Fig. 8 Front view of a reel folded in accordance with conventional process.
Fig. 9 Front schematic view of continuous conical foldinf process.
Fig. 10 Front view of bobbin once it has been configurated in accordance with the
continuous conical folding process.
Preferential Embodiment of the Invention
[0025] The modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system is
made of a frame composed by two metal cabinets, one at the left (2) and the other
at the right (1) hand side, with vertical cubic shape, made preferably in steel plate,
each cabinet provided in its exterior side with a pivoting access door. The central
portion of said frame, connecting the two cabinets fastened by bolts, is provided
with cross bars made preferably of welded steel tubes whic will act as a support for
the different moving elements that will be described hereinafter.
[0026] The central portion of said frame contains within the space between both cabinets
(1, 2)and held by the cross tubes (4) from one to thirty spinning or folding spindles
(5), each having its own driving means. The spindles (5) are turning vertical axis
on which the different types of spinning or folding reels will be mounted. Said spindles
(5) are held by a twin roller system of the ball type bearing. The upper bearing unit
(8) is packed in connection with a synthetic rubber ring (9) to absorb the radial
vibrations and the lower bearing unit (10) is mounted on a support (11) of the swinging
type which is allowed to be displaced radially.
[0027] The spindle bottom part is fastened to a pulley (12) arranged to receive a transmission
flat belt(13), for connection to the output of an induction electrical motor (14)
mounted on a pair of crossing tubes placed in the back side of frame.
[0028] A ring rail (15), having a vertical up and down displacement, on which a sliding
piece (16) rotates to create the twisting of the thread, is mounted coaxially on the
spindle (5) head. Above this ring rail (15) there is a threads guide (17) having a
similar movement but with a different speed, said thread guide having the purpose
of guiding the different threads towards the sliding piece (15) coming from the hake
box or feeding assembly.
[0029] The feeding assembly for each spindle comprises a pair of feeding rollers (19), an
inlet thread roller (18) and a pressure cylinder (21). The feeding rollers (19), are
made preferably of chromed carbon steel, are driven by means of two horizontal shafts
(22), which are also driven, through a flat belt (23) transmission system by an alternate
current motor (24) controlled by a conventional frequency variator controlled by the
control unit or microprocessor (29). Said shafts are made of carbon steel and go through
from one cabinet to the other supported by said cabinets, and a shaft is located vertically
above the other, connected to each other by means of a chain (25) that makes them
turn in the same direction. The pressure roller (21) is located between the two feeding
rollers (19) and exerts a pressure on the threads (26) in order to obtain a better
draw, said pressure roller being held by means of ball bearings, the pressure arm
(20) is also fastened by means of bearings to another horizontal shaft (27) placed
on top of those supported by the feeding rollers (19). Said pressure arm (20) is allowed
to move radially when actuated by a neumatic piston (28) as to exert more or less
pressure on threads moving through the pressure roller (21) and feeding rollers (19).
The neumatic pistons (26) acting on the pressure rollers (21) of the feeding system
in each spindle are driven by the pressured air flow coming from the air pressure
piping system, with pressure regulated by a pressure control valve located in the
left hand side cabinet.
[0030] In the modular machine for spinning and doubling with elements for spindle individual
transmission with conical or double conical continuous and individual folding system,
spindles (5) are the main elements that are in continuous movement, and are able to
turn at different speeds; the ring rail has a vertical up and down movement, with
the sliding pieces (16) and thread guides (17) turning around and having, as in the
case of the ring rail (15), a vertical up and down movement, the feeding rollers (19),
the pressure rollers (21) and the inlet thread rollers (18).
[0031] Each spindle (5) turns around its own shaft driven by an alternate current induction
motor (14) by means of a belt (13, preferably of the flat type with interior teeth..
Each motor (14) is individually controlled by a frequency variator, preferably of
the conventional, vectorial or other type, which is programmed independently for each
spindle (5) by means of the control unit or microprocessor (29) located in each spindel
control panel, so that each spindle can turn at a different speed and have a opposite
turning direction.
[0032] The ring rail (15) can displace vertically along two vertical guides (30), one in
each side cabinet. Said guides (30) are of cylindrical shape and are made of carbon
steel and fastened in the bottom to each cabinet (1, 2) forming the machine frame.
Said ring rail (15) moves vertically up and down with a stroke equivalent to the spindle
reel height, being possible to regulate the length of said stroke. The thread guides
(17) move above the ring rail, following a similar motion pattern, along said guides.
[0033] The ring rail (15) as well as the thread guides (17) are driven by an alternate current
electric motor (31) provided with a speed variator (32) of the manual regulation disc
type. Said variator (32) transmits the turning movement to a speed reduction unit
(34) by means of said flat teethed belt (35), the output of said reduction unit being
an horizontal shaft (36) driving two drums (37) with different diameter on which steel
cables (38) are wound which hold the thread guides (17) and the ring rail (15). The
vertical up and down displacement is created as a consequence of the reverse in the
motor (31) turning direction by means of the control provided by limit switches mounted
on said drums. The thread guides (17) and the ring rail (15) are driven by same means
and the same motor with reduction unit, so all have the same frequency of movement.
[0034] The feeding rollers (19) are mounted on two horizontal cross shafts (27) vertically
one on top of the other and are driven through a flat belt transmission system by
an alternate current motor (24) controlled by a conventional frequency variator controlled
by a control unit or a microprocessor (29). The turning movement is transmitted, between
both of them, by means of a driving chain (25) so that both shafts turn in the same
direction.
[0035] For a better understanding of the new continuous, individual conical or double conical
folding system, first we will explain the process to obtain a conventional simple
conical folding as it is used now. A conventional reel (7), comprising a cylindrical
central body (53) with its bottom provided with disc having a diameter from two to
five times de central body diameter to support the processed thread, will be inserted
in spindles (5) of spinning and doubling machine, said reel havingin its upper part
another disc with a diameter slightly larger than that of central body (53). The processed
thread is inserted in the central body (53) bottom part of said reel (7), driving
the spinning and doubling machine so the reel (7) turns driven by the spindle. By
means of the up and down displacement of the sliding piece (16), driven by the ring
rail (15), in which the processed thread is inserted, said thread will be wound or
folded around the reel (7) in upwards direction so that once the reel central body
is covered with a first coat, a second coat is folded in downwards direction, this
process being repeated sucessively to get a diameter slightly smaller than that of
reel bottom disc, in a manner such that each coat presents a height slightly smaller
to previous coat as to obtain a mixed pattern bobbin, with approximately two thirds
of it with cylindrical shape and truncoconical shpa in its upper portion in order
to obtain an improved stability od folded material.
[0036] With the new continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, the
process to obtain a bobbin, Fig. 9, is totally different from the conventional process.
In the conventional process, Fig. 8, the thread or welt is folded in accordance with
a bobbin simple pattern with most of its lenght being of cylindrival shape and a trunco-conical
upper portion, while with the new continuous, individual, conival or trunco-conical
folding system the folding pattern corresponds to a bobbin made up of multiple concentric
cylinders and trunco-cones, forming assemblies called "subcycles" (45), each of said
subcycles (45) comprising a smaller given number of thread or welt coats (44), with
respect to the conventional system, and each subcycle (45) having a height slightly
lower than that of previous subcycle. The assembly comprising a given number of subcycles
is called "repeated great cycle" (46).
[0037] With this improvement, the modular machine for spinning and doubling with individual
transmission elements for spindles is provided with a control unit (29) comprising
a microprocessor which enables said machine to program, on a display, the length required
to be stored on each reel (7), the reel length, the height (h) (49) of the cone or
trunco-cone, and by means of a display restricted to the user, the number of subcycles
(m) and the number of thread or welt coats in each subcycle (n) in accordance with
the features of the processed products.
The difference in height between a coat and next coat (Ca) (48) and the difference
in height between a subcycle and nex (Cb) (47), computed by means of the microprocessor
algorithm, establishes the corresponding parameters.
[0038] Also, said microprocessor (29)provides said machine with capability to program different
bobbin shapes: single cone, double cone or cylinder, all these patterns obtained under
same process of subcycles and coats as previously described.
[0039] With the improvement introduced with the new control unit (29), the spinning machine,
doubling machine, textile spinning, spool roving frame, spool doubling macines, etc.,
having the capacity to apply the above described programs, individually to each spindle
of the machine.
[0040] In order to start the process a operation cycle is programmed for each spindle by
means of the display (29) of the control unit or microprocessor by introducin the
following data: twist degree, bobbin shape (simple cone, double cone or straight),
length to be processed in each spindle, conical (49) and the reel height (50).
[0041] Following that process the different threads (26) are inserted to form the final
thread or welt through the inlet rollers (18), then through the feeding rollers (19)
and pressure roller (21), through the thread guides (17) and sliding piece (16) and
wound on the reels (7).
[0042] With the pressure arms up (20) and the spndles (5) stopped, the feeding rollers (18),
the ring rail (15) and the thread guide (17) are started by means of the feeding system
start switch (51). Further to that the motors driving the spindles are started in
sequence by means of individual switches.
[0043] The twist index is given by the control unit or microprocessor (29) to the frequency
variator in each motor based on turning speed of each spindle provided by the encoder
or motor pulse generator and by the turning speed of the feeding rollers, also provided
by the pulse generator or encoder of the frequency variator of feeding rollers driving
motor.
[0044] Simultaneously, the operation cycle is started winding or folding the thread or welt
on the reel central body (53) with upwards movement and when reaching the maximum
reel height by the action of the ring rail sliding piece, the thread or well starts
folding next coat in downwards direction, in this case of smaller height since it
is conditioned by the programmed dimension of high cone (48), and so on to configurate
a complete subcycle (45) with n coats (44) which will start the configuration of a
new subcycle, with the same number of coats than the previous one, which in accordance
with the low cone (47) dimension, it will be of smaller height than previous one,
and so on, to the point in which, as a consequence of the programmed length to be
folded on each reel, said reel will stop whereas the remaining spindles will continue
the process without being required to stop. Once the filled reel is replaced with
an empty reel, the individual starting switch (52) is turned on to initiate the reel
operation, then starting a new folding process.
[0045] Once the nature of the present invention, as well as an embodiment of same have been
described suficiently, we only have to add that it will be possible to introduce changes
in shape, arrangement and constitution in the assembly and its components as long
as those alterations do not affect substantially to the characteristics of the invention
as claimed below.
1. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system is
made of a frame composed by two metal cabinets, one at the left (2) and the other
at the right (1) hand side, with vertical cubic shape, made preferably in steel plate;
by a central body connecting said cabinets by means of cross bolted bars (4) made
preferably of welded steel tube; by a series of moving elements: the spindles (5)
with associated driving system (6), the ring rail (15) on which the sliding pieces
(16), the thread guide (17), the inlet rollers (18), the feeding rollers (19) and
the pressure rollers (21) characterized in that it has the capacity to provide a different
twist degree, for each spindle (5) in the machine is driven by an individual power
system (6) comprinsing a pulley (12), a transmission belt (13) of the flat type connected
to an alternate current induction electric motor (14), fed through a frequency variator
which is programmed by a control unit or a microprocessor (29) providing said spinning
and doubling machine, trough its display, with capacity to configurate tue different
parameters affecting to the twist degree and to the computaion algorthim of the continuous,
individual, conical or double conical folding system; spindles (5) supported by a
twin bearing system, Fig. 4.
2. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claim 1, characterized in that the asynchronous motors (14) meeting standards IEC,
CENELEC, VDE and DIN having an output from 0.75 to 3.0 Kw, for driving the spindles
(5), are provided with a frequency variator, preferably of the conventional, vectorial
or similar type, programmed individually through the control unit or microprocessor
(29), which allows said motor to reverse the turning direction and the turning speed
in a range 0 - 150 Hz corresponding to a speed range 0 - 3,500 r.p.m.
3. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a control unit or microprocessor (29)
which allows the spinning and doubling machine, through its display, to configurate
the different parameters considered with respect to the twist degree of each product
processed and to the computation algorithm for the folding system.
4. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, in
accordance with claim 1, characterized in that the spindles (5) are supported by a
twun bearing system of the ball type; the upper bearing (8) is packed together with
a synthetic rubber ring (9) capable of absorbing the radial vibrations produced, and
tue lower bearing (10) is mounted on a support (11) of the swinging type capable of
radial displacement, the distance between bearings being from 150 and 350 mms.
5. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claim 1, characterized in that in the winding and folding process, the following
parameters are considered: the final shape of the bobbin, Fig. 10, (the rrel with
the processed product) as a simple, double or straight cone; the thread length required
on each reel, the number of coats in each subcycle (44) =
n, number of subcycles (45) =
m required for each repetitive cycle (46),
n and
m being a number between 1 and 40 units; the low cone (47) =
Cb, the high cone (48) =
Ca, the height of the trunco-cone or "conical" (49) =
h, between 1 and 1,500 mm., and the reel length (59) all related in accordance with
following formulae:
6. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claim 1, characterized in that the winding or folding operations a process is followed
to insert the thread into the different spindles (5) of said machine through the control
unit or microprocessor display unit (29) by introducing data such as bobbin shape
(simgle cone, double cone or straight), the length of thrad to be processed, the conical
(49) and the reel height (50); it is started by means of a start main switch (51)
and the operation cycle initiates the winding and folding the thread or welt around
the reel central body (53) in upwards direction, once the reel maximum height is reached
by means of the ring rail sliding piece, the thread or welt initiates in downwards
direction the folding of next coat with smaller height since it is conditioned by
the programmmed dimension of the high cone (48), and so to configurate a complete
subcycle (45) with n coats (44) which will initiate the configuration of a new subcycle,
having the same number of coats that previous one, so that in accordance with the
dimension of the low cone (47) it will have samaller height than the first one and
so on, up to the point that as a consequence of the programmed length to be folded
on each reel, said reel will stop whereas the remaining spindles will continue the
process; once the filled reel is replaced with an empty reel, the individual starting
switch (52) is turned on to initiate the reel operation, then starting a new folding
process.
7. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claim 1, characterized in that said folding system gives the spinning and doubling
machine the capacity for folding in a continuous process, without having to stop said
machine when atarting or completing a cycle.
8. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claims 1 and 7, characterized in that said system provides the spinning and doubling
machine with the capacity to continue folding in all existing reels except with the
stopped reel, for said reel has completed the programmed length and requires to be
replaced with an empty reel., always obtaining the same exterior shape even when processing
different threads.
9. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claim 1, characterized in that it is provided with a control unit or microprocessor
(29) which gives the spinning and doubling machine the capacity to configurate, by
means of the display unit, the different parameters considered in the computation
logarithm of said system.
10. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claim 1, characterized in that for m = 1 and n is from 2 to 50 units, and in that said machine will be able to produce a bobbin
with a single subcycle and n coats, obtaineng a conventional bobbin.
11. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claim 1, characterized in that when n = 1 and m is from 2 to 50 units, said machine will be able to produce a bobbin, Fig. 10, with
m subcycles (45) of a single coat, obtaineng a conventional bobbin.
12. A modular spinning and doubling machine with individual transmission elements for
spindles with continuous, individual, conical or double conical folding system, according
to claim 1, characterized in that the program allows for changes in the sequence of
the operation process, obtaining the same final result, or, in other words, within
a great operatiion cycle it will be possible to change the sequence of the folding
subcycles and, within said subcycles, the sequence of the coats, and obtaining the
same final result.