Creel apparatus
AssigneeWest Point Foundry & Machine Co.
InventorT. Cooper Perry
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Abstract
An improved creel assembly for use with strand winding devices such as warpers or the like. The creel has modules supporting yarn packages on both an active side and an inactive side, and also has yarn tensioning devices separately associated with both sides of the modules. The modules and yarn tensioning devices rotate as an entire assembly. Fresh yarn packages thus can be preloaded on the inactive side of the creel, and prethreaded through the tensioning devices associated with the inactive side, before the creel modules are rotated to the active side of the creel. Also disclosed is an improved balloon guard having a yarn opening sufficiently large to accommodate a person's hand for threading yarn through the opening, yet which accomplishes the anti-ballooning function of the balloon guard.
Claims6
Creel apparatus for supporting a plurality of yarn packages feeding yarns to a yarn receiving apparatus such as a warper or the like, comprising in combination:
- support means for mounting in predetermined relation to a yarn receiving apparatus;
- frame means having first and second yarn package supporting sides, and having means mounting said support means for rotation between first and second positions respectively placing either of said sides in active yarn feeding relation to the yarn receiving apparatus while the other side is in an inactive relation thereto;
- a first plurality of yarn tensioning means associated with the first side of said frame means and operative to engage the yarns from the yarn packages received on said first side;
- a second plurality of yarn tensioning means associated with the second side of said frame means and operative to engage the yarns from the yarn packages received on said second side;
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- said first and second pluralities of yarn tensioning means mounted for movement with said frame means as the frame means rotates between said first and second positions, so that the yarns from the yarn packages on the said side positioned in inactive relation to the yarn receiving apparatus can be threaded to engage said tensioning means associated with that inactive side while yarns from the yarn packages on the other said side positioned in active relation to the yarn receiving apparatus are being drawn from said active side by that apparatus,
- whereby said frame means including said tension means can be rotated to reposition the previously-threaded inactive side into the active yarn feeding relation to the yarn receiving apparatus as the previously-active side is repositioned to inactive relation ready for loading and threading a fresh supply of yarn packages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.