Yarn storage system and method for producing textiles using such yarn storage system
AssigneeAladdin Manufacturing Corporation
InventorsHarlan Francis Morris, JR., Michael Gallman, Robert N. Bowen, JR.
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Abstract
A yarn storage container for storing a yarn, said storage container comprising a, preferably tubular, container, having an axial length, a, preferably tubular, wall and a first and second axial extremity, the first axial extremity of said container, having an opening for receiving an end of a yarn, said second axial extremity of said container being air-permeably closed, said wall is air permeable by means of a plurality of openings present along the axial length of said container. The invention further relates to a yarn storage system comprising a plurality of containers, to a textile production assembly and to methods of producing yarn and textiles.
Claims21
1-82. (canceled)
An apparatus for producing a plurality of textiles, comprising:
- a plurality of yarn storage systems, wherein:
- each yarn storage system comprises a plurality of yarn storage containers of N rows and M columns, such that each of M and N is greater than 1;
- a first yarn storage container of each yarn storage system is positioned at row X and column Y of the first yarn storage system, such that X is an integer from 1 to N and Y is an integer from 1 to M;
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- a first yarn storage system of the plurality of yarn storage systems, wherein the first yarn storage container of the first yarn storage system is configured to be filled with a first yarn that may be withdrawn;
- a second yarn storage system of the plurality of yarn storage systems, wherein the first yarn storage container of the second yarn storage system is configured to be filled with a second yarn that may be withdrawn;
- a robot comprising a control unit and a memory unit, wherein the memory unit comprises filling data for the first yarn storage container of the first yarn storage unit and filling data for the first yarn storage container of the second yarn storage unit.
An apparatus for producing a plurality of textiles, comprising:
- a plurality of yarn storage systems, wherein:
- each yarn storage system comprises a plurality of yarn storage containers of N rows and M columns, such that each of M and N is greater than 1;
- a first yarn storage container of each yarn storage system is positioned at row X and column Y of the first yarn storage system, such that X is an integer from 1 to N and Y is an integer from 1 to M;
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- a first yarn storage system of the plurality of yarn storage systems, wherein the first yarn storage container of the first yarn storage system is configured to be filled by a robot with a first length of yarn that may be withdrawn;
- a second yarn storage system of the plurality of yarn storage systems, wherein the first yarn storage container of the second yarn storage system is configured to be filled by the robot with a second length of yarn that may be withdrawn;
- a tufting machine comprising a first needle of a plurality of needles, and a backing material;
- wherein the robot is configured with a control unit and a memory unit;
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- wherein the tufting machine is configured to tuft a first portion of the first length of yarn with the first needle into a first portion of the backing material to produce a first textile, and to tuft a first portion of the second length of yarn with the first needle into a second portion of the backing material to produce a second textile.
An apparatus for producing a plurality of textiles, comprising:
- a yarn storage system, wherein the yarn storage system comprises a plurality of yarn storage containers positioned within the yarn storage system;
- a first yarn storage container of the plurality of yarn storage containers positioned within the yarn storage system at a horizontal distance and at a vertical distance from a second yarn storage container of the plurality of yarn storage containers positioned within the yarn storage system;
- a plurality of injectors, wherein:
- each injector is movably secured to the creeling system,
- each injector is configured to propel a yarn;
- a robot comprising a memory unit and configured to receive and store a filling sequence;
- wherein the memory unit comprises:
- a first data comprising a measure of a first length,
- a second data comprising a measure of a second length;
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- wherein the robot is configured to execute the filling sequence by at least:
- moving a first injector of the plurality of injectors to a first location proximal the first yarn storage container,
- activating the first injector for a first duration,
- moving the first injector to a second location that is the horizontal distance and the vertical distance from the first location, and
- activating the first injector for a second duration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.