Spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine and method for carrying out a piecing process at such a spinning station
12281416 · 2025-04-22
Assignee
Inventors
- Heinz-Josef PEUKER (Wegberg, DE)
- Martin Reszat (Lünen, DE)
- Dirk SCHIFFERS (Korschenbroich, DE)
- Sarah MEISSNER (Geilenkirchen, DE)
Cpc classification
International classification
Abstract
A spinning station of a spinning machine for producing a thread from a sliver. A thread end is taken up by a take-up device and transferred to a preparation device downstream from a vortex chamber of the spinning device, the thread end is subsequently treated in the preparation device and then transferred to the vortex chamber, a drafting system for supplying a sliver to the vortex chamber is powered up, wherein an exit roller pair of the drafting system is accelerated to a predetermined draw-off speed, and the sliver is spun onto the thread end in the vortex chamber and a draw-off device for drawing off the thread spun in the vortex chamber is powered up and accelerated up to the draw-off speed. The speed of the exit roller pair and/or of the draw-off device increases non-linearly and/or approaches the predetermined draw-off speed non-linearly around the end of powering up.
Claims
1. A method for carrying out a piecing process on a spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine having an air-jet spinning device, wherein: taking up a thread end that has run onto a take-up bobbin by a thread take-up device and transferring the thread end to a thread-end preparation device downstream from a vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device in a thread running direction; subsequently treating the thread end in the thread-end preparation device and then transferring the thread end to the vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device and positioned there; powering up a drafting system for drafting and supplying a sliver to the vortex chamber, wherein an exit roller pair of the drafting system is accelerated up to a predetermined draw-off speed, and wherein the sliver is spun onto the thread end in the vortex chamber; and powering up a motor-driven draw-off device for drawing off thread spun in the vortex chamber and thereby accelerating up to a draw-off speed; wherein the drafting system and/or the draw-off device are powered up in such a way that a speed of the exit roller pair and/or of the draw-off device approaches a predetermined draw-off speed non-linearly around an end of powering up.
2. The method according to claim 1, further including powering up a drafting system roller pair and/or an apron roller pair of the drafting system arranged upstream from the exit roller pair in the thread running direction in such a way that speeds thereof increase non-linearly at a beginning of powering up and/or approaches a respective final speed associated with the draw-off speed non-linearly around the end of powering up.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the exit roller pair and/or the draw-off device are powered up in such a way that speeds thereof are linear in a range between the non-linear start of powering up and/or the non-linear approach to the draw-off speed around the end of powering up.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the drafting system and/or the draw-off device are powered up in such a way that the speed of the exit roller pair and/or of the draw-off device increases non-linearly at a beginning of powering up.
5. A spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine for producing a thread from a sliver, the spinning station comprising: a vortex chamber in which a twist is imparted to a sliver by an air flow to form threads; a draw-off device for drawing off the thread formed in the vortex chamber from the vortex chamber; a drafting system for conveying the sliver toward an inlet opening of the vortex chamber; and a thread-end preparation device for treating a thread end taken up from a take-up bobbin by a thread take-up device and transferring the thread end to the vortex chamber; and a control unit for carrying out the method for carrying out the piecing process according to claim 1.
6. The spinning station according to claim 5, wherein the control unit is designed to adjust the non-linear speed increase of the exit roller pair and/or the draw-off device at the beginning of powering up and/or at the end of powering up.
7. A method for carrying out a piecing process on a spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine having an air-jet spinning device, wherein: taking up a thread end that has run onto a take-up bobbin by a thread take-up device and transferring the thread end to a thread-end preparation device downstream from a vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device in a thread running direction; subsequently treating the thread end in the thread-end preparation device and then transferring the thread end to the vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device and positioned there; powering up a drafting system for drafting and supplying a sliver to the vortex chamber, wherein an exit roller pair of the drafting system is accelerated up to a predetermined draw-off speed, and wherein the sliver is spun onto the thread end in the vortex chamber; and powering up a motor-driven draw-off device for drawing off thread spun in the vortex chamber and thereby accelerating up to a draw-off speed; wherein the drafting system and/or the draw-off device are powered up in such a way that a speed of the exit roller pair and/or of the draw-off device increases non-linearly at a beginning of powering up and/or approaches a predetermined draw-off speed non-linearly around an end of powering up; and wherein, in order to establish a period defining a dwell time of the thread end in the vortex chamber, the drafting system is powered up before the draw-off device.
8. A method for carrying out a piecing process on a spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine having an air-jet spinning device, wherein: taking up a thread end that has run onto a take-up bobbin by a thread take-up device and transferring the thread end to a thread-end preparation device downstream from a vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device in a thread running direction; subsequently treating the thread end in the thread-end preparation device and then transferring the thread end to the vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device and positioned there; powering up a drafting system for drafting and supplying a sliver to the vortex chamber, wherein an exit roller pair of the drafting system is accelerated up to a predetermined draw-off speed, and wherein the sliver is spun onto the thread end in the vortex chamber; and powering up a motor-driven draw-off device for drawing off thread spun in the vortex chamber and thereby accelerating up to a draw-off speed; wherein the drafting system and/or the draw-off device are powered up in such a way that a speed of the exit roller pair and/or of the draw-off device increases non-linearly at a beginning of powering up and/or approaches a predetermined draw-off speed non-linearly around an end of powering up; and wherein the exit roller pair is powered up in advance of and decoupled from at least one drafting system roller pair and/or apron roller pair of the drafting system arranged upstream from the exit roller pair in the thread running direction.
9. A method for carrying out a piecing process on a spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine having an air-jet spinning device, wherein: taking up a thread end that has run onto a take-up bobbin by a thread take-up device and transferring the thread end to a thread-end preparation device downstream from a vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device in a thread running direction; subsequently treating the thread end in the thread-end preparation device and then transferring the thread end to the vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device and positioned there; powering up a drafting system for drafting and supplying a sliver to the vortex chamber, wherein an exit roller pair of the drafting system is accelerated up to a predetermined draw-off speed, and wherein the sliver is spun onto the thread end in the vortex chamber; and powering up a motor-driven draw-off device for drawing off thread spun in the vortex chamber and thereby accelerating up to a draw-off speed; wherein the drafting system and/or the draw-off device are powered up in such a way that a speed of the exit roller pair and/or of the draw-off device increases non-linearly at a beginning of powering up and/or approaches a predetermined draw-off speed non-linearly around an end of powering up; and wherein during a take-up of the thread end that has run onto the take-up bobbin and the transfer of the thread end to the thread-end preparation device, and/or preparation of the thread end in the thread-end preparation device, and/or transfer and positioning of the thread end in the vortex chamber, the method includes operating the exit roller pair at a predetermined combing out speed, and stopping or operating at a holding speed associated with the combing out speed at least one drafting system roller pair and/or apron roller pair upstream from the exit roller pair in the thread running direction, the holding speed being a maximum of 10% of the combing out speed.
10. A method for carrying out a piecing process on a spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine having an air-jet spinning device, wherein: taking up a thread end that has run onto a take-up bobbin by a thread take-up device and transferring the thread end to a thread-end preparation device downstream from a vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device in a thread running direction; subsequently treating the thread end in the thread-end preparation device and then transferring the thread end to the vortex chamber of the air-jet spinning device and positioned there; powering up a drafting system for drafting and supplying a sliver to the vortex chamber, wherein an exit roller pair of the drafting system is accelerated up to a predetermined draw-off speed, and wherein the sliver is spun onto the thread end in the vortex chamber; and powering up a motor-driven draw-off device for drawing off thread spun in the vortex chamber and thereby accelerating up to a draw-off speed; wherein the drafting system and/or the draw-off device are powered up in such a way that a speed of the exit roller pair and/or of the draw-off device increases non-linearly at a beginning of powering up and/or approaches a predetermined draw-off speed non-linearly around an end of powering up; and wherein the drafting system has a single-motor driven draw-off roller pair which can be controlled decoupled from additional drafting system roller pairs and/or apron roller pairs by a control unit.
Description
(1) The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings. In the drawings:
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(8) The spinning stations 2 furthermore each have a drafting system 4, an air-jet spinning device 5, a draw-off device 6, a thread cleaner 7 and a thread-checking device 8 which ensures that the thread 36 spun or produced from the sliver 25 in the air-jet spinning device 5 is wound in crossing layers onto a take-up bobbin 9. The so-called cross-wound bobbin 9 produced during the spinning process is in each case held in a bobbin frame (not shown), as is customary, and is rotated by a bobbin drive (also not shown).
(9) Each of the spinning stations 2 is also equipped with a thread take-up device 39 which makes it possible to take up a thread end 37 of a produced thread 36 that has run onto the cross-wound bobbin 9 after an interruption of spinning and to transfer it to a so-called thread-end preparation device 40 arranged in the region of the draw-off device 6.
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(11) As can be seen, the drafting system 4 for drafting the sliver 25 is upstream from the air-jet spinning device 5 shown in section. Downstream from the air-jet spinning device 5 in the thread running direction R is a draw-off device 6 which can be driven reversibly by a single motor and ensures that the produced thread 36 can be conveyed in the direction of the take-up bobbin 9 and in the opposite direction thereto.
(12) In addition, the thread-end preparation device 40 shown in
(13) As shown in
(14) In this case, the expansion housing 16, in conjunction with the front housing part 14 of the outer housing, forms a front annular space 20 which is connected to an overpressure source 22 via a pneumatic line 21 and is connected to the expansion space 28 arranged in the rear housing part 15 of the outer housing.
(15) While the expansion space 28 is indirectly connected to the ambient atmosphere via an exhaust air channel 29, the annular space 20 is pneumatically continuously connected to at least one blowing air nozzle 23 which are arranged in the nozzle block 17.
(16) The blowing air nozzle 23 opens into a vortex chamber 33 in the region upstream from the inlet opening 35 of the spinning cone 19 and is thus directed onto the head 24 of the spinning cone 19 in such a way that a rotating air flow is created on the latter. The spinning cone 19 is preferably made of a highly wear-resistant material, for example a technical ceramic material.
(17) To control the supply of compressed air, the pneumatic line 21 is equipped with a valve 32, the actuation of which preferably takes place by a spinning station's control unit 38 which is connected to the valve via corresponding control lines.
(18) During the normal, previously known spinning process, which is not shown here, the sliver 25, which is stored in a spinning can 3, first passes through the drafting system 4 on its way to the cross-wound bobbin 9, where it is strongly drafted. Via the exit roller pair 26 of the drafting system 4, the sliver 25 stretched by a first and second drafting system roller pair 51, 52 and the apron roller pair 48 is then transferred to the region of the entrance opening of the air-jet spinning device 5 and sucked into the vortex chamber 33 of the air-jet spinning device 5 under the influence of a negative pressure flow present there. Inside the air-jet spinning device 5, the stretched sliver 25 passes via the sliver guide 18 and the nozzle block 17 to the inlet opening 35 of the hollow spinning cone 19 and is drawn into the spinning cone 19 by the thread 36 forming within the spinning cone 19. In so doing, the sliver 25 is exposed to the influence of a rotational flow in the region of the head 24 of the spinning cone 19 which is generated by the air flow exiting the nozzle block 17.
(19) The valve 32 is open for the defined supply of this air flow to the nozzle block 17 initiated by the overpressure source 22. In order to enable the outflow of the air flow flowing in via the nozzle block 17 through the exhaust air duct 29 to the ambient atmosphere or to the machine's own suction during the spinning process, a valve 34 connected to the control unit 38 via a corresponding control line is open.
(20) During the spinning process, due to the continuous movement of the sliver 25 in the thread running direction R, the sliver 25 is continuously drawn into the hollow spinning cone 19, wherein the edge fibers are wound helically around the core fibers of the sliver 25. The thread 36 produced thereby is pulled out of the air-jet spinning device 5 by means of the thread withdrawal device 6 and subsequently wound into a cross-wound bobbin 9.
(21) If an interruption of spinning occurs during the spinning process, for example due to a breaking of the sliver 25 or due to a controlled cut of the already spun thread 36 by the thread cleaner 7, a piecing process must first be carried out before a restart of the spinning process.
(22) As is known, to carry out a piecing process, on the one hand the stretched sliver 25 and on the other hand the already finished thread 36 which has run onto the cross-wound bobbin 9 are required.
(23) After an interruption of spinning, the thread end 37 of the already finished thread 36 is first retrieved from the cross-wound bobbin 9 by the workstation's own thread take-up device 39 of the relevant workstation 2 and transferred to a thread-end preparation device 40 equipped with a holding and unraveling tube 31, preferably arranged downstream from the air-jet spinning device 5 in the thread running direction R, as shown by way of example in
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(25) As is known per se, a thread must first be inserted into the holding and unraveling tube 31 in order to prepare its thread end for a thread connection process. This means that the thread 36 retrieved from a cross-wound bobbin 9 by a thread take-up device 39 is provided by the thread take-up device 39 to the thread-end preparation device 40 in such a way that it can be pneumatically threaded into the holding and unraveling tube 31. For this purpose, the thread-end preparation device 40 can interact with at least one cutting device 50 which cuts the retrieved thread 36 to length as required. During the cutting process, the valve 43 is actuated and compressed air is blown into the holding and unraveling tube 31 via the blowing nozzle 45 in order to pneumatically thread or suck the cut thread end 37 into the holding and unraveling tube 31. The threaded thread end 37 is freed of thread twist and loose fibers in the holding and unraveling tube 31. If necessary, a clamping device can also be provided which clamps the thread in a known manner before the cutting process. The clamping device can be combined with the cutting device in a further preferred manner.
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(27) The thread guide channel 60 according to the embodiment shown in
(28) The channel connection portion 66 comprises a thread deflection portion 67 for deflecting the thread 36 between the first 62 and the second channel portion 64. The thread deflection portion 67 is designed in the manner of a circular arc in cross-section, wherein the end 64A of the second channel portion 64, which protrudes into the housing 70 and is connected to the channel connection portion 66, is coupled via the thread deflection section 67, which is circular arc-shaped in cross-section, to a first end 62A of the first channel portion 62, which is connected to the channel connection portion 66, for guiding the thread 36 between the air-jet spinning device 5 and the thread-end preparation device 40. The thread guide channel 60 thus forms a portion partially housing the thread running path. This also forms an angle of less than 180, in the embodiment shown of less than 90, between the first 62 and the second channel portion 64. The thread guide channel 60 can thereby be designed compactly. In this case, the fastening portion can be easily provided on a side of the thread guide channel 60 which faces away from the side enclosing the angle.
(29) The housing 70 further comprises a receptacle for a compressed air connection 72, for example in the form of an injector, via which compressed air can be supplied via an opening 68 into the first channel portion 62 to generate pneumatic overpressure, wherein a suction effect is created simultaneously in the second channel portion 64. The opening 68 adjoins the first end 62A of the first channel portion 62 and supplies the compressed air parallel, in particular congruent, to a thread guide axis of the first channel portion 62 and transversely to a thread guide axis of the second channel portion 64. The thread guide axis is the axis along which the thread is guided in the thread guide channel 60 or in the corresponding channel portions 62, 64, 66.
(30) The second end 62B of the first channel portion 62 adjoins a nozzle insert 74 that is accommodated in the housing 70 and can preferably be inserted and removed in a non-destructive manner. The thread end 37 guided with compressed air from the first channel portion 62 is blown via this nozzle insert 74 in the direction of a funnel inlet 76 which is at a distance opposite from the outlet of the nozzle insert 74. According to one embodiment, the distance between the outlet of the nozzle insert 74 and the funnel inlet 76 is unchangeable relative to one another and, according to a further embodiment, can in particular be variably adjusted, whereby a reduction in the intensity of the compressed air guiding the thread end 37 can be achieved. In other words, a portion of the compressed air guiding the thread end 37 can escape in the gap formed between the outlet of the nozzle insert 74 and the funnel inlet 76, while the remaining portion guides the thread end 37 into the funnel inlet 76. According to this embodiment, the funnel inlet 76 is followed in the direction of the air-jet spinning device 5 by two additional thread passages 77, 78, between which additional gaps are formed for the escape of a defined proportion of the compressed air before the thread end 37 can enter the air-jet spinning device 5 against the sliver or thread running direction R. The funnel inlet 76 with the intermediate thread passages 77, 78 is held between the housing 70 and the air-jet spinning device 5 by means of fastening screws 79. The air-jet spinning device 5 and the housing 70 are coupled to one another by means of the fastening screws 79. In particular, according to a further embodiment, a position of the funnel inlet 76 and/or of the intermediate thread passages 77, 78 along the fastening screws 79 can be variably adjusted as required in order to be able to adjust the proportion of escaping compressed air in the individual portions. By means of the arrangement, the thread or the prepared thread end 37 can be guided in a gentle manner to the air-jet spinning device 5. The thread end 37 prepared as above and transferred to the air-jet spinning device 5 is then connected to the sliver 25 provided by the drafting system 4.
(31) The supply of the prepared thread end 37 ends when the prepared thread end 37, as shown in
(32) As soon as the thread end 37 has reached its predetermined position, the control unit 38 causes a switchover of the valves 32 and 34 so that the nozzle block 17 is again supplied with compressed air. At the same time, the drafting system 4, which is also driven by a single motor, and the thread draw-off device 6 are controlled in such a way that a free end of the sliver 25 first comes into contact with the prepared thread end 37 of the thread 36, the sliver 25 is vortexed with the prepared thread end 37 of the thread 36, and these are connected to one another in such a way that a new thread that can be drawn off is created, which can be drawn off in a defined manner from the air-jet spinning device 5 by means of the thread draw-off device 6. The piecing process accordingly transitions into the normal spinning process.
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LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS
(35) 1 Air-jet spinning machine 2 Spinning station 3 Spinning can 4 Drafting system 5 Air-jet spinning device 6 Draw-off device 7 Thread cleaner 8 Thread traversing device 9 Take-up bobbin 13A, 13B Machine frame 14 Outer housing 15 Outer housing 16 Expansion housing 17 Nozzle block 18 Sliver guide 19 Spinning cone 20 Annular space 21 Pneumatic line 22 Overpressure source 23 Blowing air nozzle 24 Head 25 Sliver 26 Exit roller pair 28 Expansion space 29 Exhaust air channel 31 Holding/unraveling tube 32 Valve 33 Vortex chamber 34 Valve 35 Inlet opening 36 Thread 37 Thread end 38 Control unit 39 Thread take-up device 40 Thread-end preparation device 41 Pneumatic line 42 Compressed air source 43 Valve 44 Control line 45 Blowing nozzle 46 Annular space 47 Take-up housing 48 Apron roller pair 50 Cutting device 51 First drafting system roller pair 52 Second drafting system roller pair 60 Thread guide channel 62 First channel portion 62A First end 62B Second end 64 Second channel portion 64A First end 64B Second end 66 Channel connection portion 67 Thread deflection portion 68 Opening 70 Housing 72 Compressed air connection 74 Nozzle insert 76 Funnel inlet 77 Thread passage 78 Thread passage 79 Fastening screws 80 O-ring R Thread running direction