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AssigneeA. Monforts GmbH & Co.
InventorsGottfried Baum, Helge Freiberg
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A bushing liner is provided for a bushing of an endless chain of a textile machine traveling web transport assembly of the type which supports a web in tension during transport of the web through a textile handling process such as, for example, a web drying process. The endless chain includes a plurality of links, each respective adjacent pair of the links being interconnected to one another by a pin and each pin being rotatably supported by a bushing mounted to one of the links. The bushing liner of the present invention is disposed intermediate a bushing and its associated pin and includes first and second circumferential ends normally angularly spaced from one another by a slot. The slot extends from one axial end to the other of the bushing liner and permits angular movement of the first and second circumferential ends toward and away from one another to thereby permit the bushing liner to accommodate internal and external forces exerted thereon. Preferably, the slot is inclined with respect to the axis of the bushing liner.
In a traveling web transport assembly of a textile machine of the type for transporting a web of textile material in an open width supported manner, an endless chain comprising:
A bushing liner for an endless chain of a traveling web transport assembly of a textile machine, the traveling web transport assembly being of the type for transporting a web of textile material in supported manner during drying thereof and the endless chain including a plurality of links, a plurality of annular bushings, each bushing being mounted on a link, and a plurality of pins, each pin being rotatably supported in a respective bushing and being connected to a link different than the link on which the associated bushing is mounted, whereby each adjacent pair of links is movably interconnected to one another by a respective pin rotatably supported in a respective bushing mounted on the other of the pair of links, the bushing liner comprising a first circumferential end and a second circumferential end normally angularly spaced from the first circumferential end by a slot and the bushing liner being disposed radially intermediate a respective annular bushing and the associated pin rotatably supported therein and the slot extending from one axial end of the bushing liner to its other axial end and permitting angular movement of the first and second circumferential ends toward and away from one another to thereby permit the bushing liner to accommodate internal and external forces exerted thereon.
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