Grommet for roving machine
OwnerWilliam Argereuinventor
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Abstract
A grommet for leading the roving to a flyer of a roving machine which grommet is composed of an oil impervious plastic material which may be molded and which has an upwardly flaring opening with a friction means therein for contacting the roving. The conical outer surface is substantially parallel to the conical inner surface of the grommet and fins or ribs project outwardly from the outer surface of the grommet.
Claims1
A roving machine grommet comprising an oil impervious non metallic body having a top and bottom and a hole therethrough opening into said top and bottom and flaring outwardly from bottom to top along a generally inverted frusto-conical surface, said surface having friction means adjacent its upper end so located as to be contacted by yarn leading to said opening at an acute angle to the axis of said opening greater than the angle of said surface to said axis, the outer surface of said body being generally parallel to the surface of said hole, and ribs extending radially from the inclined outer surface to a point the same as the radius of the outer edge of the top of said body.
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