Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Mitsuo Mori

Yoshihisa Suzuki

Katsumi Nakane

Toshio Morishita

Shigeru Muramatsu

Isao Asai

Hidejiro Araki

Takuzo Tooka

Hideo Hirano

Kengo Ohashi

Manji Nagai

Katumi Nakane

Sigeru Takasu

Ohashi Kengo

A novel weighting device for draft rollers, in which a diaphragm is provided, as a pressing unit, above each top side roller. The diaphragms provided on a spinning frame are classified into a plurality of groups corresponding to species of rollers such as front rollers, middle rollers, and back rollers. Each group of diaphragms has common piping having a regulator for air pressure and branched to the diaphragms belonging to the group. One end of the piping is connected to a common high pressure air source, from which air of a uniform pressure controlled by the regulator is supplied to the diaphragms belonging to the group. Since a weighting force onto a top side roller is a function of a air pressure supplied to the diaphragm, it can be changed or diminished at once in a centralized manner by adjusting the regulator. Therefore, troublesome adjustment of individual pressing units is unnecessary.

Weighting device for drafting means

An apparatus for automatically changing cans of a spinning machine, such as a drawing frame or a carding machine. The apparatus comprises: a movable support frame which can be reciprocated along the can transporting direction; and a plurality of can transporting arms which are substantially equidistantly arranged on the support frame and which can alternately be located at operating positions where the arms transport the cans and stand-by positions where the arms do not interfere with the cans, whereby, when the movable support frame is moved forward, the can transporting arms are maintained at the operating positions so as to transport the cans, and then, after the can transporting arms are returned to their stand-by positions from their operating positions, the support frame is moved backward. The apparatus is characterized in that it further comprises an arm height adjusting member by which individual heights of the can transporting arms in the operating positions where the arms are abutted with the cans are adjustable while the can transporting arms in the stand-by positions are almost at the same level as each other.

Apparatus for automatically changing cans of a spinning machine

An apparatus for depositing sliver into a sliver can is comprised of a rotary turntable for supporting a sliver can. A cylinder having a piston slidable therein is vertically disposed beneath the center line of the turntable. A pressing rod is connected to the piston and a pressing plate is rotatably mounted on the top end of said pressing rod for engagement with a bottom plate of the can which is freely supported therein. An axial lost motion connection is provided between the pressing plate and the pressing rod and a coil spring is connected between the turntable and the pressing rod to couple the turntable and pressing rod plate together for rotation and for urging the turntable and pressing plate apart.

Apparatus for depositing sliver into a sliver can

Method and apparatus for stopping a flyer frame at the time a roving breakage occurs in an outer layer of any roving package during the spinning operation thereof. When such roving breakage occurs, an abnormal amount of floating flies separated from the broken end portions of the roving scatter in the space between the twisting and winding mechanisms. Such abnormal amount of flies interrupt a light beam emitted from a light emitter, disposed at a position adjacent to and outside one end of the alignment of the twisting and winding flying mechanisms, toward a light receiver, disposed adjacent to and outside, but at the other end, of said alignment. When such interruption occurs the light receiver issues a signal indicating the interruption of the light beam to a power supply relay via a particular control circuit which identifies the abnormal amount of floating flies from the usual amount of floating flies. Therefore, when the control circuit identifies the signal corresponding to the abnormal amount of floating flies, the signal issued from the light receiver actuates the power supply relay so as to stop the flyer frame.

Method and apparatus for stopping a flyer frame

A mechanism for driving the nipper shaft of a comber provided with a plurality of combing units, wherein a driving shaft and a nipper shaft are extended along the longitudinal direction of the comber. An eccentric disc is rigidly mounted on the driving shaft. A slider link motion mechanism is provided with a slider connected to the eccentric disc in such a condition that the slider is capable of reciprocally displacing along its own displacing passage when the eccentric disc is driven. One of the link elements of the slider link motion mechanism is slidably engaged with the slider so that a swing motion about a fulcrum thereof is created. The other link element of the above-mentioned mechanism is mounted on the swing shaft and, therefore, a quick return motion of the reciprocal turning motion of the swing shaft can be created.

Mechanism for driving the nipper shaft of a comber

This invention is applicable for carrying out the doffing operation of several types of fly frames such as a fly frame provided with an upper rail having a plurality of flyers in suspended condition and a mechanism for driving these flyers therein, and a fly frame provided with a spindle rail and a bobbin rail disposed at a position above the spindle rail in such a condition that the bobbin rail can be displaced vertically during the building motion. According to the doffing method of the present invention, when it is required to carry out the doffing operation, the bobbins containing a full yarn package are relatively displaced to a position free from the corresponding flyers and the engagement of the bobbins with the corresponding bobbin driving mechanisms is released. Next the bobbins containing a full yarn package are carried toward a longitudinal end of the fly frame in a space above the arrangement of the bobbin driving mechanisms. In the preferable embodiment of the present invention, the carrying passage of the bobbin coincides with an alignment of the axial centers of the flyers arranged in the longitudinal direction of the fly frame. A chain conveyer is preferably used for carrying the bobbins. When the bobbin are carried to a longitudinal end of the fly frame, they are discharged from the fly frame. A fresh bobbin supplying device for supplying bobbins to the chain conveyer can be satisfactorily used.

Method and apparatus for doffing full packaged bobbins in a fly frame

A method and device are disclosed for cutting a rove at doffing in a flyer frame, wherein during the normal winding operation thereof the rove drawn out from front rollers is passed through the center hole of a flyer top, the hole of a hollow leg of a flyer, and over a presser and wound on a driven bobbin which is arranged on a bobbin rail moving up and down along the bobbin guide arbor of the flyer. Just before the doffing, the supply of the rove from the front rollers is failed and the bobbin and the flyer are caused to continue rotations substantially at the same speed for a time period sufficient to allow a predetermined number of rotations of both the bobbin and flyer, whereby the rove between the flyer top and the front rollers is subject to a stronger twist than that given during the normal winding operation. This assures that the rove is always cut of itself at an optimum portion thereof at the doffing.

Method and device for cutting rove at doffing in flyer frame

Apparatus for driving detaching rollers in textile combing machines. The pilgrim step motion cycle of the detaching rollers is created by the combination of a constant rotational motion, transmitted by a driving source by way of a power transmission mechanism involving a differential gear mechanism, and a modified variable rotational motion cycle, transmitted by the differential gear mechanism. In the mechanism for creating the above-mentioned variable rotational motion, a first link motion mechanism, which is actuated by the driving source, creates a basic variable rotational motion cycle; and a second link motion mechanism, which is actuated by the output of the first link motion mechanism, adjusts the characteristic feature of the basic variable rotational motion cycle. The output of the second link motion mechanism is imparted to the differential gear mechanism as the modified variable rotational motion cycle.

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