Howa Machinery, Ltd.

Howa Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Daiichi Bouseki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hirotaka Nishikawa

Tetsuya Oketani

Yoshiaki Mase

Takashi Kogiso

Yoshio Kurachi

Kenji Sasaki

Shigeki Sekiya

Kanehiro Ito

Teruhiko Sato

Yukihiro Sakakibara

Makoto Ohmori

Hachirou Yokoyama

Sadao Ukai

Hideki Hashimoto

Yoshiharu Yamada

A toolholder device for a machine tool comprises a holder body driven by a machine tool drive spindle, and a toolholder supported on the holder body so as to be circumferentially and axially displaceable. The holder body and the toolholder are provided with displacement detection elements which are arranged circumferentially in interdigitating relation. A support shaft extends from either member of the holder body and the toolholder toward the other member. The outer surface of the support shaft and the inner surface of a support hole of the other member to be fitted over the support shaft are formed with helical guide grooves which are opposite to each other and slopingly extends with respect to the rotational axis of the toolholder device. Balls are interposed between the opposite guide grooves to form a displacement translation mechanism which converts a rearward axial displacement of a tool and the toolholder due to overload axial thrust into a circumferential relative displacement between the adjacent detection elements. The relative displacement of the detection elements is detected by a detection unit which issues a warning signal. A compression spring in the device resists the axial displacement of the toolholder unless the axial thrust exceeds a predetermined value.

Toolholder device for machine tools

In a roving winding apparatus applied to a roving frame provided with a plurality of draft parts and corresponding bobbin wheels, a bobbin shaft for driving the bobbin wheel, a bobbin rail on which the bobbin shaft is rotatably horizontally mounted along the longitudinal direction thereof, a lifting motion mechanism for lifting the bobbin rail, and a main motor for driving the draft parts at a predetermined rotational speed, wherein the bobbin shaft is driven under a controlled condition created by a servomotor to follow a digital signal output from the rotation angle detecting device applied to the common bottom front roller of the draft parts, in an adjusted optimal condition under the control of a computer system, incorporated with the lifting motion of the bobbin rail.

Apparatus for winding a roving applied to a roving frame

A toolholder assembly is divided into a drive toolholder coupled to the drive spindle of a machine tool, and a driven toolholder carrying a cutting tool such as a drill. The driven toolholder is coupled end to end to a drive toolholder so as to be rotatable relative to the same through a preassigned angle about the toolholder axis. A coiled torsion spring acts between the drive and the driven toolholders for torque transmission from the former to the latter. The drive and the driven toolholders have interdigitating teeth with clearances therebetween. A phase detector such as a proximity switch detects a relative phase displacement that will occur between the interdigitating teeth against the force of the torsion spring upon development of abnormal torque load on the cutting tool. Preferably, the interdigitating teeth have bevels in sliding engagement with each other for causing a relative phase displacement between the teeth upon axial displacement of the driven toolholder toward the drive toolholder, so that not only abnormal torque load but also abnormal thrust load on the cutting tool is detectable by the phase detector.

Torque and thrust overload detection system for a machine tool

An apparatus for controlling a drive of each one of spinning frames forming a group, to which a conventional roving bobbin exchange operation for exchanging almost exhausted roving bobbins of the spinning frame with full packaged roving bobbins of a bobbin carrier on a supply rail arranged at a position close to and above the corresponding spinning frame by a known automatic apparatus mounted on a carrier which is capable of displacing along a track arranged on a floor of a spinning factory along an alignment of out-end frames of said spinning frames, is applied, wherein during the spinning operation, a residual roving quantity of the roving bobbins of each spinning frame is measured, while detecting a quantity of yarn wound on cops in each spinning frame, and when the above-mentioned measurement of a residual quantity of roving bobbins reaches a predetermined value, a first signal indicating this condition is issued, while the quantity of yarn wound on the cops is measured to detect a suitable condition to start the above-mentioned roving bobbin exchange operation, and when this suitable condition is detected, a second signal indicating this condition is outputted, then a signal calling the automatic apparatus is outputted based upon the logical product of these two signals, and an allowable time for the arrival of the automatic apparatus at a working position close to a particular position and close to the out-end frame of a spinning frame is set, and if the automatic apparatus for exchanging roving bobbins does not arrive at the above-mentioned working position within the allowable time, the drive of the spinning frame concerned is stopped by a means for controlling the drive of the spinning frames which cooperates with the measurement of a residual quantity of a roving bobbin and measurement of a quantity of yarn wound on the cops.

Apparatus for controlling operation of spinning frame in roving bobbin

An apparatus for producing special yarn made of a fiber strand in which a number of fibers are randomly arranged along the lengthwise direction thereof, in which special yarn at least one of the yarn structural parameters, e.g., yarn count number or number of twist, changes along the lengthwise direction of the yarn. A pattern of change of the parameters of the yarn structure with respect to the length of the special yarn to be produced is stored in a central processing device, while a spun length of the special yarn is measured by a sensor. The yarn structural parameters are changed to correspond to the pattern set to the central processing device and the special yarn is produced by the yarn forming device using another central processing device of the spinning frame. This apparatus can be used for a ring spinning frame, an open end spinning frame, a fasciated yarn spinning frame, and the like.

Apparatus for producing special yarns

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Ichinomiya, Japan

Hirotaka Nishikawa