Stop motion for narrow width needle looms
AssigneeChampion International Corporation
InventorRobert Doyal Frazier
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Abstract
A floating electrode is positioned in the nip between a pair of tape pull rollers on a needle loom for sensing the presence of excess yarn in the nip caused by improper winding of the tape on a take-up roll or a wrap around one of the pull rollers to an undue extent. Upon contact of the electrode by the excess yarn, the electrode is raised to contact a screw to establish an electric circuit to a relay to stop operation of the loom. The distance between the contact screw and electrode is adjustable by threading or unthreading the screw in its support to accommodate acceptable slack on the take-up roll and wrap around the pull roller.
Claims4
In a loom for forming a woven tape from yarn material and including a pair of woven tape pull rollers spaced to form a nip therebetween with the woven tape passed through the nip under tension and a stop motion device for stopping the loom when an excess of woven tape occurs in the nip such as with the commencement of a full wrap of woven tape around a tape pull roller the improvement including
- conductive electrode means reciprocally mounted on said loom in the nip between said tape pull rollers for sensing the presence of excess yarn in said nip through physical displacement thereby;
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- conductive stop means adjustably mounted on said loom in the path of the reciprocal motion of said electrode means for establishing an electric circuit to actuate said stop motion device and stop operation of said loom in response to contact by said electrode means .
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.