US 4,304,169 A · Braiding machine

Abstract

A braiding machine for use in the manufacture of braided hose. The machine has the rear deck interconnected to the front deck which front deck is composed of three separate elements, the inner deck plate, the outer deck plate and the quoits. The respective elements are of a sandwich construction, wherein a viscoelastic material is bonded to outer plate members to provide a dampening of the noise. In addition, the carrier members are similarly constructed to dampen the noise by a sandwich construction, wherein the flanges of the carrier have an inner layer of viscoelastic materials. The carriers which support the wire spools are driven in a criss-crossing pattern to provide a braiding action of the wire as it is layed onto a longitudinally moving hose.

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Dependent claims

In a braiding machine for manufacturing braided hose having at least a front deck and a rear deck, said rear deck mounted on a base;

each of said decks having a central bore defining a longitudinal pass line for a hose onto which wire strands are wound to braid said hose;
said front deck having a pair of crisscrossing sinuous grooves that extend circumferentially around and through said front deck to provide an inner deck plate, an outer deck plate and a plurality of circumferentially spaced oval plates;
all of said plates secured to said rear deck in spaced parallel relationship;
a plurality of wire strand carriers slidably mounted in said grooves, drive means operatively connected to said carriers to move said carriers in timed relationship in said groove in crisscrossing manner to provide a braiding action from dispensed wires onto said hose;
all of said plates having a layer of viscoelastic material bonded and sandwiched between two metal plates to dampen noise.

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In a braiding machine having a braider deck;

said braider deck having a front deck and a rear planar deck;
said front deck having an inner deck plate, an outer deck plate and a plurality of oval plates;
said inner deck plate having a central bore therethrough defining a longitudinal pass line;
said rear deck having a central aperature whose centerline is coincident with said longitudinal pass line;
said inner deck plate having an outer periphery with a series of interconnected semi-circular recesses having apexes equidistant from said pass line;
said inner deck plate secured in spaced relationship to said rear deck with a plurality of spacer support members;
said outer deck plate having an inner periphery with a series of interconnected semi-circular recesses defining a plurality of spaced apexes that are closely adjacent to said apexes of said inner deck plate having a small gap therebetween;
said outer deck plate and said oval plates secured in spaced relationship to said rear deck;
said semi-circular recesses of said inner deck plate and said outer deck plate define a series of oval recess;
each of said oval recesses receives one of said oval plates with a clearance space therebetween to define a groove;
a plurality of wire strand carriers slidably mounted in said grooves, means operatively connected to said carriers to move said carriers in timed relationship in said grooves;
the frontal surfaces of said inner deck plate lying in the same plane as the frontal surface of said oval plates and the frontal surface of said outer deck plate;
and each of said inner deck plate, each of said outer deck plate and all of said oval plates constructed of a pair of spaced metal plates bonded to an intermediate elastomeric sheet member to provide a sandwich constructed inner deck plate, a sandwich constructed outer deck plate and oval sandwich constructed plates.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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