Traveller setter
AssigneeKanai Juyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
InventorKohichi Uyemura
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Abstract
A traveller setter having a main mechanism which includes a traveller holder with a guide on the undersurface of a forward end thereof and a magnet arranged at the upper part of said ring flange receiving seat, a traveller engaging hook at a forward end portion thereof for engaging a traveller held by the magnet with a ring flange, a traveller supplier for supplying travellers to the traveller holder. The main mechanism can be encased in a case when not in use by making the traveller engager slidable by a working pin. This traveller setter ensures accurate setting of travellers on ring flanges and requires no skill in handling.
Claims11
A traveller setter for setting travellers on a ring flange of a spinning machine or the like, comprising:
- an elongated case having an opening at a forward end thereof and serving as a handle for said traveller setter;
- a main mechanism slidably mounted in said case for movement out of an into said case through said forward opening, said main mechanism having:
- a plate-shaped main member having on the under surface of the forward end portion thereof a horizontal guide seat for contacting the upper surface of a ring flange, and a magnet fixed to a side surface of said forward end portion;
- a plate-shaped sub-member mounted in spaced opposed relation to said side surface of said main member and substantially in parallel with said main member;
- a plate-shaped setting member movably mounted between said main member and said sub member for movement in the forward and backward directions, said setting member having at the forward end thereof a traveller setting hook having an inner surface curved for holding the back of a traveller attracted by the magnet on said main member;
- a traveller guide rail having a forward end portion curved downwardly and laterally into spaced opposed relation with said magnet;
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- a working member on said case and engaged with said setting member for causing said setting member to move with said casing when said main member is engaged with a ring flange and said casing is moved away from the ring flange for causing the hook on said setting member to force the traveller ring onto the ring flange.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.