TEXTILE MACHINE

Abstract

A textile machine having a plurality of spinning devices, more particularly air-jet spinning devices, which spinning devices have an inlet opening for a fiber band to be spun, and to a spinning hood for a spinning device of a textile machine. In order to provide a textile machine comprising a plurality of spinning devices, which have an inlet opening for a fiber band to be spun and in the case of which the feeding of contaminants into the inlet opening is prevented as much as possible, there is provision for a spinning hood to be provided, which is designed in such a way that the spinning hood separates a spinning space around an inlet opening of the spinning device from the surroundings.

Claims

1. A textile machine comprising a plurality of spinning devices which spinning devices have an inlet opening for a fiber band to be spun, characterized by a spinning hood, which is designed in such a way that the spinning hood separates a spinning space around an inlet opening of the spinning device from the surroundings.

2. The textile machine according to claim 1, characterized in that spinning devices are air-jet spinning devices.

3. The textile machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the spinning hood is locked on the spinning device in an operating position.

4. The textile machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the spinning hood has a locking element, which can be moved relative to a hood basic body between a locking position and a removal position and is in engagement with the spinning device in the locking position.

5. The textile machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the spinning hood has a locking element, which can be pivoted relative to a hood basic body between a locking position and a removal position and is in engagement with the spinning device in the locking position.

6. The textile machine according to claim 4, characterized in that the spinning hood comprises a rotary joint, by which the hood basic body can be pivoted between a locking position and an open position, the open position defining a position of the hood basic body lying between the locking position and the removal position.

7. The textile machine according to claim 6, characterized in that the rotary joint is formed from a detent recess and a complementary detent bolt, which can be brought into engagement with the detent recess, the detent recess being rotatable about the detent bolt in the engaged state.

8. The textile machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the locking element is designed to fix the spinning hood on a drafting system.

9. The textile machine according to claim 8, characterized in that the locking element is designed to fix the spinning hood on a supporting frame of the drafting system.

10. The textile machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the locking element can be releasably locked on the hood basic body, which can be releasably brought into engagement with a detent mark on the hood basic body in the locking position.

11. The textile machine according to claim 10, characterized in that the locking element has a detent body.

12. A spinning hood for a spinning device of a textile machine according to claim 1, characterized by a hood basic body and a locking element, which can be moved between a locking position and a removal position and is designed in such a way that the locking element locks the spinning hood on the spinning device in the locking position.

13. The spinning hood according to claim 12, characterized by a hood basic body and a locking element, which can be pivoted between a locking position and a removal position and is designed in such a way that the locking element locks the spinning hood on the spinning device in the locking position.

14. The spinning hood according to claim 12, characterized in that the locking element is arranged on the basic body in such a way that an access opening to a hood interior is opened in the removal position.

15. The spinning hood according to claim 12, characterized in that the locking element can be locked on the hood basic body in the locking position which can be releasably brought into engagement with a detent mark on the hood basic body in the locking position.

16. The spinning hood according to claim 15, characterized in that the locking element has a detent body.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0031] An embodiment example of the present invention is explained below with reference to several figures. In the drawings:

[0032] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a spinning device of a textile machine with a spinning hood;

[0033] FIG. 2 is a perspective illustration of the spinning hood in an operating position and

[0034] FIG. 3 is a perspective illustration of the spinning hood of FIG. 2 in a removal position.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0035] The following description of the embodiments of the present invention is merely exemplary in nature and is in no way intended to limit the invention, its application, or uses. The following description is provided herein solely by way of example for purposes of providing an enabling disclosure of the invention, but does not limit the scope or substance of the invention.

[0036] In FIG. 1, a spinning device 11 having a spinning unit of a textile machine is illustrated, which spinning unit is designed as an air-jet spinning unit 1 (the textile machine is not shown here). A strand-shaped fiber material (not shown here) is conveyed toward an inlet opening of a spinning nozzle by means of an output roller pair of a drafting system 3 of the spinning device 11, said output roller pair being arranged upstream of a spinning nozzle of the air-jet spinning unit 1 in the spinning direction, and said fiber material is suctioned or sucked in by the spinning nozzle by means of vacuum.

[0037] A spinning hood 2 of the spinning device 11 in an operating position is arranged in the area between the drafting system 3 and the air-jet spinning unit 1. The spinning hood 2 separates a spinning space around the inlet opening from the surroundings, the spinning hood 2 lying against the drafting system 3 and the air-jet spinning unit 1 all around for this purpose, without impeding the feeding of the fiber band from the drafting system 3 into the inlet opening.

[0038] The spinning hood 2, which is shown in the operating position in FIG. 2 and in a removal position in FIG. 3, has a hood basic body 4 and a flap-shaped locking element 5, which is pivotably connected to the hood basic body 4. In the operating position of the spinning hood 2, the locking element 5 is arranged in its locking position, in which the locking element 5 forms a closed-off hood together with the hood basic body 4. In the locking position, arresting elements 6a, 6b on the locking element 5 are in engagement with corresponding sections on the air-jet spinning unit 1 and the drafting system 3 and thus lock the spinning hood 2 in the operating position on the air-jet spinning unit 1, an indentation 9 on the locking element 5 ensuring unhindered feeding of the fiber band into the air-jet spinning unit 1.

[0039] In order to remove the spinning hood 2 from and install the spinning hood 2 on the spinning device 11, the locking element 5 can be brought from its locking position shown in FIG. 2 into its removal position shown in FIG. 3, relative to the hood basic body 4, via an intermediate open position. In the removal position, the arresting elements 6a, 6b are disengaged from the spinning device 11 so that the spinning hood 2 can be removed and installed. Furthermore, the locking element 5 opens access to the spinning space, via which maintenance and inspection work can be performed. In the open position between the locking position and the removal position, the locking element 5 is still pivotably coupled to the hood basic body 4 by means of a rotary joint. In this preferred embodiment example, the rotary joint is formed by a semicircular detent recess 12 and a complementary detent bolt (not visible), the detent recess 12 (as shown in FIG. 3) being arranged laterally on the locking element 5 such that the detent recess 12 protrudes toward the hood basic body 4 and the associated detent pin being arranged on a corresponding inner face of the hood basic body 4. In the detent-connected state, the locking element 5 can be pivoted about the detent bolt in order to pivot the locking element 5 between the locking position and the open position.

[0040] In order to positionally secure the locking element 5 on the hood basic body 4 in the locking position of the locking element 5, detent bodies 8 in the form of round protrusions are arranged on tabs 11 protruding from a rear side of the locking element 5. In the locking position, the detent bodies 8 are arranged in correspondingly designed detent marks 7 on the hood basic body 4 and thus secure the locking position of the locking element 5.

[0041] In order to move the locking element 5 from the locking position into the removal position, the detent bodies 8 can be actuated on the outside so that the tabs 10 are elastically bent and the detent bodies 8 exit from the detent marks 7. Alternatively, a pressure sufficient for moving the detent bodies 8 out of the detent marks 7 can be applied to a suitable point on the locking element 5.

LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS

[0042] 1 Air-jet spinning unit [0043] 2 Spinning hood [0044] 3 Drafting system [0045] 4 Hood basic body [0046] 5 Locking element [0047] 6a Arresting element [0048] 6b Arresting element [0049] 7 Detent mark [0050] 8 Detent body [0051] 9 Indentation [0052] 10 Tab [0053] 11 Spinning device [0054] 12 Detent recess

[0055] It will therefore be readily understood by those persons skilled in the art that the present invention is susceptible of broad utility and application. Many embodiments and adaptations of the present invention other than those herein described, as well as many variations, modifications and equivalent arrangements, will be apparent from or reasonably suggested by the present invention and the foregoing description thereof, without departing from the substance or scope of the present invention. Accordingly, while the present invention has been described herein in detail in relation to its preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that this disclosure is only illustrative and exemplary of the present invention and is made merely for purposes of providing a full and enabling disclosure of the invention. The foregoing disclosure is not intended or to be construed to limit the present invention or otherwise to exclude any such other embodiments, adaptations, variations, modifications and equivalent arrangements.