Beam winding apparatus

Details Beam winding apparatus Beam winding apparatus

2007-06-26

2007-06-26

Vanatta, Amy B. (Department: 3765)

Textiles: manufacturing

Warp preparing or handling

Reeling or beaming

C028S194000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11462860

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for winding a sheet of aligned parallel yarns onto a beam is described. The beam winder utilizes a circularly arced yarn spool rack that feeds each yarn to an alignment comb through associated guide tubes. The distance between each spool of yarn and the alignment comb is substantially the same for all spools of yarn, thereby equalizing the force necessary to pull them to the comb. Next, the aligned sheet of material is preshrunk using heated rollers and wound onto a beam. Multiple speed controlled stepper motors are utilized to maintain a constant low level of tension in the sheet during the shrinking process. After shrinkage, the tension level of the yarn sheet is increased as it is wrapped onto the beam. A turntable that supports two or more beams is provided to facilitate the rapid switching of beams once one beam has become full.

REFERENCES:
patent: 305502 (1884-09-01), Berckmans
patent: 344093 (1886-06-01), Entwistle
patent: 687359 (1901-11-01), Whitney
patent: 1462604 (1923-07-01), Lavalle
patent: 1890197 (1932-12-01), Sussmuth
patent: 2728132 (1955-12-01), Shattuck et al.
patent: 2736508 (1956-02-01), Langbo
patent: 2797728 (1957-07-01), Slayter et al.
patent: 2956328 (1960-10-01), Faw
patent: 2969930 (1961-01-01), Zernov
patent: 3369280 (1968-02-01), Shattuck et al.
patent: 3460771 (1969-08-01), Kimpton
patent: 3508722 (1970-04-01), Kohl
patent: 3533543 (1970-10-01), Wenger
patent: 3575359 (1971-04-01), Furst
patent: 3591434 (1971-07-01), Hartstein
patent: 3595276 (1971-07-01), Wrzeslen
patent: 3618184 (1971-11-01), Pearce et al.
patent: 3656215 (1972-04-01), Tanno
patent: 3663331 (1972-05-01), Solbeck
patent: 3686048 (1972-08-01), Schirtzinger
patent: 3737950 (1973-06-01), Bolliand et al.
patent: 3884429 (1975-05-01), Dow
patent: 4132828 (1979-01-01), Nakamura et al.
patent: 4265691 (1981-05-01), Usui
patent: 4411722 (1983-10-01), Yazawa et al.
patent: 4417374 (1983-11-01), Kuroda et al.
patent: 4464891 (1984-08-01), Manly, Jr.
patent: 4498941 (1985-02-01), Goldworthy
patent: 4511424 (1985-04-01), Usui
patent: 4525905 (1985-07-01), Bogucki-Land
patent: 4572458 (1986-02-01), Bluhm et al.
patent: 4687528 (1987-08-01), Held
patent: 4693429 (1987-09-01), Billard et al.
patent: 4850086 (1989-07-01), Schewe
patent: 4903914 (1990-02-01), Seaborn et al.
patent: 5046224 (1991-09-01), Bogucki-Land et al.
patent: 5054705 (1991-10-01), Smith
patent: 5061545 (1991-10-01), Li et al.
patent: 5097783 (1992-03-01), Linville
patent: 5475887 (1995-12-01), Moussalli
patent: 5558016 (1996-09-01), De Brock
patent: 5613643 (1997-03-01), Weiner
patent: 5675878 (1997-10-01), Brown et al.
patent: 6055603 (2000-04-01), Ofer et al.
patent: 6199787 (2001-03-01), Jaffar et al.
patent: 6233798 (2001-05-01), Bogucki-Land
patent: 6367675 (2002-04-01), Woerner
patent: 6402083 (2002-06-01), Horn et al.
patent: 6513748 (2003-02-01), Zeller et al.
patent: 6634585 (2003-10-01), Ingram, III
patent: 6981394 (2006-01-01), Keller
patent: 2003/0233744 (2003-12-01), Colson et al.
patent: 889808 (1972-01-01), None
patent: 2 007 915 (1970-11-01), None
patent: 30 46 432 (1982-08-01), None
patent: 30 46 431 (1982-09-01), None
patent: 0 255 596 (1988-02-01), None
patent: 0 292 266 (1988-11-01), None
patent: 0 470 584 (1992-02-01), None
patent: 0 885 803 (1998-12-01), None
patent: 407 342 (1934-03-01), None
patent: 1 266 581 (1972-03-01), None
patent: 1 440 081 (1976-06-01), None
patent: 1 463 969 (1977-02-01), None
patent: 2 041 028 (1980-09-01), None
patent: 63-267525 (1988-11-01), None
patent: 1-210318 (1989-08-01), None
patent: WO 80/02850 (1980-12-01), None
patent: WO 00/41523 (2000-07-01), None
patent: WO 01/21383 (2001-03-01), None
patent: WO 01/21399 (2001-03-01), None
patent: WO 01/21877 (2001-03-01), None

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Beam winding apparatus does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Beam winding apparatus, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Beam winding apparatus will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-3838569