Textiles: braiding – netting – and lace making – Processes and products – With material incorporated in diverse ways
Patent
1975-06-04
1976-08-24
Petrakes, John
Textiles: braiding, netting, and lace making
Processes and products
With material incorporated in diverse ways
87 7, 87 11, 87 29, 87 30, D04C 112, D04C 312
Patent
active
039759806
ABSTRACT:
An elongated article such as a rope or cord having a series of fairings spaced apart along its length is produced in a continuous manner by the method and apparatus of the present invention. The rope comprises a core having a plurality of yarns surrounded by a layer of resilient material, and a braided jacket surrounds the core and anchors the fairings thereto. The fairings are provided by a resilient fairing yarn which is fed toward the core and which is manipulated by a needle during braiding of the jacket to cause each fairing to have a base portion anchored between the jacket and the resilient layer of the core and streamer portions extending outwardly from the base portion. The needle is mounted for reciprocation parallel to the moving core upstream of the braider, and the fairing yarn passes through the eye of the needle and a first length is displaced through the path of movement of the braid yarns into engagement with a gripping assembly located downstream of the braid yarns. The gripping assembly holds the first length of fairing yarn so that as the needle retracts, another length of braid yarn is pulled through the needle-eye. Continued operation of the braider causes the jacket to be applied around the portion of the fairing yarn engaged with the core, thereby forming the base portion for the next fairing. A control system is disclosed for synchronizing movement of the needle with the displacement of the rope and for adjusting of the spacing between the fairings.
In another embodiment, a method and apparatus is disclosed for producing a faired article which does not have a separately-formed core.
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Kita Stanley B.
Petrakes John
Wall Industries, Inc.
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