Process and device for cleaning sensors of a yarn monitoring system
AssigneeReiter Ingolstadt Spinnereimaschinenbau AG
InventorPozzo Hans
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Abstract
A process and device for the cleaning of the sensor surface of a yarn monitoring system used on spinning machines to monitor the yarn and/or the yarn quality. The yarn monitoring system is positioned without contact with the running yarn within the traversing area between draw-off roller and friction roller or below the draw-off roller. Cleaning of the sensor surfaces is carried out during the running of the yarn, at the reversal points of the yarn traversing movement, for the period of contact or nearness between the yarn and the limit of the yarn monitoring system until removal of the running yarn.
Claims14
A yarn monitoring device for measuring yarn presence or yarn quality in a spinning machine, said device comprising:
- a yarn sensor, said yarn sensor disposable at a point along a running length of yarn in the spinning machine where the yarn has a traversing back and forth motion between opposite reversal points;
- said yarn sensor including oppositely disposed sensor surfaces adjacent said reversal points defining a measuring gap therebetween through which the yarn runs, said measuring gap having an axis corresponding generally to the centerline axis of the traversing path of the yarn;
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- said sensor surfaces positioned so that the traversing yarn running therebetween is parallel to said sensor surfaces at said reversal points, said sensor surfaces set back from said reversal points a predetermined uniform distance along the length of said sensor surfaces so that only fiber hairs extending generally radially outward from the running yarn contacts said sensor surfaces at said reversal points, said sensor surfaces thereby being cleaned through contact with the radially extending yarn hairs and by an airstream generated by the traversing movement of the yarn.
A process for cleaning sensor surfaces of a yarn monitoring system, the sensor surfaces disposed in a yarn sensor which forms a measuring gap through which the yarn runs in a back and forth traversing path between opposite reversal points, said process comprising the steps of positioning the sensor surfaces within the measuring gap set back from the respective reversal points a predetermined uniform distance and parallel to the running course of the yarn at the respective reversal points so that the only radially extending fiber hairs from the yarn contacts the sensor surfaces only at its reversal points within the measuring gap, and cleaning the sensor surfaces through contact with the radially extending yarn hairs and through an airstream generated by the traversing motion of the yarn in a space between the yarn and sensor surfaces.
A spinning machine having a yarn monitoring system for detecting the presence or quality of running yarn being spun thereby, the yarn having a traversing motion along a running length through said monitoring system, comprising:
- a yarn sensor, said yarn sensor disposable at a point along a running length of yarn in the spinning machine where the yarn has a traversing back and forth motion between opposite reversal points;
- said yarn sensor including oppositely disposed sensor surfaces adjacent said reversal points defining a measuring gap therebetween through which the yarn runs, said measuring gap having an axis corresponding generally to the centerline axis of the traversing path of the yarn;
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- said sensor surfaces positioned so that the traversing yarn running therebetween is parallel to said sensor surfaces at said reversal points., said sensor surfaces set back from said reversal points a predetermined uniform distance along the length of said sensor surfaces so that only fiber hairs extending generally radially outward from the running yarn contacts said sensor surfaces at said reversal points, said sensor surfaces thereby being cleaned through contact with the radially extending yarn hairs and by an airstream generated by the traversing movement of the yarn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.