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US 4,788,814 AGranted
Textile winder equipped with air splicer and attendant method
AssigneeFieldcrest Cannon, Inc.
InventorsMilton R. Crouch, Paul A. Czelusniak, Jr.
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AssigneeFieldcrest Cannon, Inc.
InventorsMilton R. Crouch, Paul A. Czelusniak, Jr.
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A textile winder has manually actuatable yarn air splicers mounted on the winder closely adjacent the path of travel of the yarn from its source to the yarn package being wound. The yarn air splicers mainly serve for connecting the yarn from the trailing end of the relatively large package being wound to the leading end of the yarn from the source of supply, such as skeins of yarn carried by a creel. A yarn end severing means is mounted adjacent each yarn air splicer for severing the ends of the yarn to be spliced so as to obtain substantially coextensive yarn ends for facilitating splicing and obtaining more effective splicing. Manually performed methods of operation of the yarn air splicer and associated yarn end severing means by the winder attendant are also disclosed.
A method of winding a relatively large package of yarn on a textile winder from a plurality of smaller source packages of yarn such as skeins of yarn, said method comprising air splicing the tail end of the package of yarn being wound to the leading end of a source package of yarn by placing the tail and leading ends of the yarns in an open-ended confined passageway of an air splicer mounted on the winder closely adjacent the path of travel of the source yarn to the package being wound, with the ends of the yarns in the passageway being beside each other and facing in a common direction, and subjecting the ends of the yarns while within the passageway to air turbulences to effect an entanglement of the fiber components of the ends of the yarn with each other and to impart twist to the entangled ends of the yarn so as to form a twisted commingled projection of entangled fiber components extending laterally from the spliced yarns.
A textile winder having a yarn package winding station, a source yarn supply station, and a manually actuatable air splicer for ends of yarn mounted on the winder closely adjacent the path of travel of the source yarn from said winding station, said air splicer being adapted to splice the tail end of yarn from the yarn package being wound to the leading end of the source yarn from said supply station, said air splicer comprising a housing having an inlet end and an exit end, the inlet end serving to receive ends of yarn to be spliced with the ends of yarn being positioned beside each other and facing in a common direction in the inlet end, the exit end serving for exhaust of the compressed air, said housing having inner and outer walls defining an air chamber therebetween into which the compressed air is directed, and a series of openings for compressed air extending through said inner wall and communicating with said air chamber and said passageway for effecting air entanglement of the ends of yarn positioned in the passageway and for twisting of the air entangled ends of yarn with each other.
A textile winder having a plurality of side-by-side textile yarn winder stations and each comprising a yarn package winding station and a source yarn supply station, means providing pressurized air at each winder station, and a plurality of spaced apart manually actuatable air splicers for yarns connected to said pressurize air means and each mounted on the winder closely adjacent a respective path of travel of the source yarn from said supply station to a package being wound at said package winding station, each air splicer being adapted to splice the tail end of yarn from the yarn package being wound to the leading end of the source yarn from said supply station, said air splicer comprising a housing having an inlet end and an exit end, the inlet end serving to receive ends of yarn to be spliced with the ends of yarn being positioned beside each other and facing in a common direction in the inlet end, the exit end serving for exhaust of the compressed air, said housing having inner and outer walls defining an air chamber therebetween into which the compressed air is directed, and a series of openings for compressed air extending through said inner wall and communicating with said air chamber and said passageway for effecting air entanglement of the ends of yarn positioned in the passageway.
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