Faulty picking diagnosing system for a fluid jet loom
AssigneeTsudakoma Corp.
InventorYujiro Takegawa
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Abstract
A faulty picking diagnosing system for a fluid jet loom equipped with a fluid jet picking device. The faulty picking diagnosing system is capable of diagnosing a faulty picking cycle while the loom is in operation, to specify the causative parts of the faulty picking cycle among the functional parts of the loom, through the detection of acutal weft yarn unwinding times when coils of the weft yarn stored on the measuring and storing drum of the loom are unwound, respectively, and actual weft yarn arrival times when the free end of the picked weft yarn arrives at predetermined detecting positions, respectively, and comparing the detected data with the corresponding target values.
Claims5
A faulty picking diagnosing system for a fluid jet loom which measures and stores a weft yarn (2) by winding the weft yarn (2) around a stationary drum (5) through the rotary motion of a rotary yarn guide (4), releases the weft yarn (2) wound on the drum (5) by retracting a restraining pin (6), and jets a picking fluid with a main picking nozzle (7) and auxiliary nozzles (11, 12, 13) to pick the weft yarn (2), which comprises:
- an unwinding detector (14) disposed adjacent to a weft yarn unwinding position to detect a time when each of the coils of the weft yarn (2) is unwound;
- weft yarn arrival detectors (15, 16, 17, 18) distributed in the path (10) of travel of the picked weft yarn (2) to detect the time of arrival of the free end of the picked weft yarn (2) at the corresponding positions;
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- an arithmetic and logic unit (30) which determines the causes of a faulty picking operation from the difference between actual unwind time when the coils of the weft yarn (2) are unwound actually and the corresponding target values, and the difference between actual weft yarn arrival times and the corresponding target weft yarn arrival times.
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