Fag Kugelfischer Georg Schafer

Kirit Patel

Gunther Schmitt

Gunter Oppl

Theo Bieber

Gunter Schmitt

Gunther Oppl

Gunter Paul

A disk combination which permits a thread false-twisting device to be operated at a high withdrawal speed is disclosed. The false-twisting device has three parallel rotatable shafts. On a first shaft is a first inlet guide disk for guiding entering thread into a thread path. A second inlet guide disk on a second shaft guides the thread along the path. After the second inlet guide disk, a first working disk on the first shaft begins false-twisting the thread. The first working disk may be one of five working disks, each of which is positioned in the rotational direction from the preceding disk. After the last of the working disks the exiting thread contacts an outlet guide disk, also positioned in the rotational direction from the preceding disk. The disks may be made of a soft material, such as polyurethane, or may be rigid disks coated with a hard material such as nickel containing diamond particles. The thread can be drawn through the device at a speed in excess of 600 meters per minute.

Apparatus for the false twisting of threads using friction disks

A false-twist apparatus has three parallel shafts carrying interleaved sets of friction disks interconnected by drive belts for joint rotation; one of these shafts is journaled in a stationary mounting plate while the others are journaled in a carrier pivotally connected with that plate for swinging about a fulcrum offset from the three shaft axes whereby two of the disk sets can be separated to facilitate the introduction of a yarn into the intervening twisting region. A whorl on the carrier-supported shaft nearest the fulcrum is normally driven by frictional contact with a continuously moving tangential belt but is disengaged from that belt in the swung-out position of the carrier so that the disks are arrested during introduction of the yarn.

False-twist apparatus

A false twist device has a pair of fixedly positioned spindles whose whorls are driven by a tangential belt and whose friction discs overlap wtih each other and with the friction discs of a swingable spindle mounted on an arm which can be angularly displaced about a pivot axis parallel to the spindle axis but spaced outwardly from the triangle defined by the axes of the spindles.

A thread-loading device is used in combination with a false-twist apparatus having at least one frame element having an abutment surface turned away from the yarn-twisting region defined by three sets of axially spaced rotatable twisting disks. The thread-loading device has interengaging formations on the frame adjacent the abutment surface and on the support for releasably securing same together. These formations extend radially of the region. Thus the support can be fitted to the frame by being displaced radially toward the region to interfit the formations. A detent is carried in the support and displaceable between a blocking position engaged with the arm in the outer position thereof for preventing movement of the arm relative to the support and a freeing position permitting such movement. Release mechanism linked to the detent has a release element displaceable between a projecting position engageable with and depressable by the abutment surface when the formations are interfitted and a depressed position for displacing the detent into the freeing position only when the release element is in the depressed position. Thus the arm cannot move on the support unless the support is fitted snugly to the frame with the release element depressed by the abutment surface.

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Elfershausen, Germany

Kirit Patel