Device for depositing cable into a receiving container

#This invention relates to cable feeding devices in general and, in particular, to a new and useful device for depositing a cable having a plurality of filaments, in particular, a cable of chemical fibers in a can or container, with the cable being wound from the outside on a receiving body by means of a sorting arm or distributor, with the spirals thus produced being detachable from the receiving body by means of a transport device, and with the receiving body, which is in itself rotationally movable in the rotating distributor, being prevented from rotating, contactlessly or respectively with the use of force- or form-locking means.

#In the production of staple fibers, the filaments spun from a nozzle are, in a manner known per se, joined to cables in a first step and then deposited in cans or containers. In known can depositions, which operate at speeds up to 1500 m/min., the cables are deposited directly into the cans by means of toothed rollers.

#At higher operating speeds, which are desirable from the viewpoint of reducing the staple fiber manufacturing costs, the impingement energy of the cable is so great, however, that the cable spirals already deposited in the can would be churned. Owing to this, it is practically impossible to draw the cable properly from the can during the next following operation. To counteract such undesirable phenomena or to avoid them, it is customary to reduce the deposition speed by either upsetting the cable or depositing it in wave shapes. Particularly at great cable thicknesses, however, this method has proven to be impractical.

#FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of a cable forming and cable depositing device, constructed in accordance with the invention;

#FIG. 2 is a partial side elevational view, partly in section, indicating the receiver shown in FIG. 1;

#FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 1 of another embodiment of the device;

#Referring to the drawings in particular, the invention embodied therein in FIG. 1, comprises a cable forming and cable depositing device, generally designated 50, in which a cable 5, after it is formed of many chemical fibers 2, from the different spinning chimneys 1, which are guided through spin finish means 3 and then into the cable depositing device portion of the machine.

#In FIG. 1, the filaments 2 emerging from the spinning chimneys 1 are passed over spin finish means 3 and godets 4 and are lastly joined to form a cable 5. Cable 5 is then passed over additional godets 6 and 7 of a can depositing device. More specifically, the device consists of an injector nozzle 8, a rotary distributor 9, a receiving body 10 and several endless belts or chains 12 having pins distributed at spaced locations along its circumference. The chains are guided over guide sprockets 12a and 12b. The injector nozzle 8 projects contactlessly into the rotary distributor 9 and blows the cable at the beginning of the deposition process through a rotating tube 13 of the rotary distributor 9. Tube 13 is rotated with the distributor 9 to deposit the cable 5 on the stationary receiving body 10.

#In FIG. 1, the detaching of the individual spirals of cable 5 from the receiving body 10 occurs, for example, by means of pins 11, which are fastened on the moving chains 12 and engage in longitudinal slots 14 (FIG. 2) of the receiving body 10. The number of chains 12 and their arrangement around the circumference of the receiving body 10 can be chosen and designed as desired. The drive of chains 12 is combined positively, in a manner which has not been shown, with the drive of the rotary distributor 9, namely, so that a pin 11 penetrates into a slot 14 of the receiving body 10, only after tube 13 of the rotary distributor 9 has passed the respective slot 14.