Method and device for aligning eyelets of harness elements
AssigneeStäubli AG Pfäffikon
InventorsWalter Schâpper, Markus Wolf
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Abstract
A drawing-in machine includes a harness element provided with an eyelet; an arrangement for displacing the harness element in a direction parallel to the length dimension of the harness element; and a device for aligning the eyelet with a desired drawing-in position. The device includes a sensor detecting an actual position of the eyelet; and an arrangement for displacing the harness element from the detected actual position into the desired drawing-in position.
Claims15
A method of aligning an eyelet of a weaving harness element in a drawing-in machine with a desired drawing-in position;
- said weaving harness element having a length dimension;
- the method comprising the following steps:
- (a) detecting an actual position of the eyelet;
- and
- (b) based on the detected actual position, displacing said harness element in a direction parallel to said length dimension for placing said harness element into the desired drawing-in position.
A drawing-in machine comprising
- (a) a harness element having a length dimension and being provided with an eyelet;
- (b) means for displacing said harness element in a direction parallel to said length dimension;
- and
- (c) a device for aligning said eyelet with a desired drawing-in position;
- said device including
- (1) a sensor detecting an actual position of the eyelet;
- and
- (2) means for displacing said harness element from the detected actual position into the desired drawing-in position.
The drawing-in machine as defined in claim 7, wherein said sensor comprises a light source, and further wherein said eyelet has a plane through which light from said light source passes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.