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US 12,509,806 B2Granted
Braiding machine with a reserve zone
AssigneeArianegroup SAS
InventorsJulien Bardy, Cassandre Vince, Kevin Tymczuk, Aline Bollengier, Amélie Marduel
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Abstract
A braiding machine includes a plurality of yarn feed spindles movable along a guide path so as to participate in the braiding, a reserve zone able to receive at least one spindle such that its participation in the braiding is interrupted.
Claims9
A braiding machine comprising:
- a plurality of yarn feed spindles movable along of a main guide path so as to participate in the braiding,
- a reserve zone adjacent to the main guide path, situated around the main guide path and comprising at least one secondary guide path able to receive at least one yarn feed spindle and to retain it in the reserve zone so that its participation in the braiding is interrupted, each secondary guide path being associated with at least one switching element which is movable between a first position preventing the communication between the main guide path and the secondary guide path, and a second position allowing this communication and configured to enable passage of at least one yarn feed spindle between the main guide path and the secondary guide path, and
- a cutting device configured to cut a yarn coming from a yarn feed spindle present in the reserve zone while the braiding operation continues.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.