Maschinenfabrik Benninger Ag

Benninger Ag

Edwin Wildi

Manfred Bollen

Markus Beerli

Erwin Bossart

Gerhard Koslowski

Jakob Iten

Willy Probst

Hans Hasler

Individual segments (38, 39) are slid over a divided yarn strip (22) with a dividing device (35) and connected together on both sides (63). By this means separate separating elements (23, 29) are formed.

Method and device for yarn division on a warping machine

In a housing, two rollers having substantially parallel axes are freely rotatably journaled and bound between them a clamping bite. The thread to be braked is drawn through the clamping bite and thereby drives the rollers. A first of the two rollers is stationarily mounted in the housing. The second roller comprises a cover made of a rubber-elastic material. This second roller is journaled in a pivotable forked lever which is under the action of an angle lever. The second roller can be pressed against the stationary first roller with an adjustable operating bias by means of the angle lever and a force accumulator constituted by a tension spring. Spring means of a rapid braking device constitute a compression spring supported by a braking rod which is axially displaceable between two end positions. The compression spring acts upon a spring bush carrying a nose member. In one of the two end positions of the braking rod the nose member extends with play beneath an arm of the angle lever. In another one of the two end positions of the braking rod the nose member additionally transmits to this arm of the angle lever the force of the compression spring in order to initiate a rapid braking action of the two rollers.

Thread braking mechanism

A disc brake, formed from a lower disc and an upper disc, is fitted on a carrier which is fastened in position to a warp creel part by means of a single screw. The lower disc rests on a rotary cage which carries a gearwheel. This gearwheel meshes with a pinion on a drive shaft. This drive shaft runs at the point where the thread coming out of the warp creel is to be deflected towards a lapping machine and thereby forms, at the same time, a driven deflecting rod for deflecting the thread. Moreover, connected turnably to the drive shaft is a beveled part which forms, with its surface, part of a peripheral positioning of the upper disc and, at the same time, causes the upper disc to turn intermittently via the frictional connection with this upper disc. A pressure element, which is clamped releasably in a clamping piece, acts centrally on the upper disc. This clamping piece is connected via a pedestal to an adjusting sheet bar via which the pressure load of the upper disc can be varied simultaneously for several thread-tensioning devices.

Thread-tensioning device on a warp creel

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