Method and apparatus for automatically exchanging cloth rollers in a loom
AssigneeTsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMitsuru Suwa, Shoichi Kuwabara
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for automatically exchanging cloth rollers without stopping the loom, including: transferring a cloth roller from a truck to a loom when the cloth roller has taken up a given amount of cloth; mounting an empty roller on the loom while the cloth roller continues the take-up motion on the truck; and cutting the cloth between the truck and the loom to allow it to be taken up by the empty roller.
Claims9
A method for automatically exchanging first, and second, cloth rollers between a loom and a truck disposed adjacent to the loom, comprising the steps of:
- (a) transferring a first, cloth roller during a take-up motion of cloth woven from the loom to a take-up device on the truck, wherein the first, cloth roller continues the take-up motion;
- (b) transferring a second, empty roller from the truck to the loom;
- (c) mounting the second, empty roller on the loom;
- (d) transversely cutting the cloth being taken up by the first, cloth roller transferred to the truck;
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- (e) causing the second, empty roller to take up the loom-side end of the cut cloth.
An apparatus for automatically exchanging cloth rollers in a loom, comprising:
- (a) a first, cloth roller mounted on the loom to take up cloth;
- (b) a truck including a take-up device to which the first, cloth roller is transferred from the loom and on which the first, cloth roller takes up the cloth;
- (c) a second, empty roller loaded on the truck;
- (d) means for transferring the first, cloth roller from the loom to the truck;
- (e) said means further being operative to transfer the second, empty roller from the truck to the loom;
- (f) means for transversely cutting the cloth;
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- (g) means for directing the loom-side end of the cut cloth to the second, empty roller mounted on the loom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.