Creel for textile machines

Abstract

A creel is provided with two insert pegs that are mounted on a retainer secured to a machine frame that is pivotable between a lower loading station and an upper loading position. The creel also includes a yarn guide element with a longitudinal opening whose length substantially corresponds to the vertical spacing between the axes of the insert pegs such that the ends of the longitudinal opening can be brought into a position lying substantially on the extension of the insert peg axes. Two elongate guide organs are mounted on the side of the yarn guide element and each has a yarn eye opening. The creel further includes a yarn retaining organ located between the insert pegs at a lateral spacing from the plane defined by the insert peg axes and whose retaining force lies under the withdrawal force by which the yarn is drawn off a feed package.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The invention relates to a creel with at least two insert pegs arranged one above the other that are mounted on a retainer secured to a machine frame that is pivotable between a lower loading station and an upper loading position. A creel of this type is described, for example, in FR-A-2 794 136. [0002] On creels of this type, fully wound feed packages are inserted on respective insert pegs, the feed packages having a yarn reserve so that, after the running out of yarn from the first package, the drawing of yarn from the second package occurs, whereby the yarn end of a first package is connected with the beginning portion of the yarn of a second package. [0003] A package holder described in DE-AS 1 145 527 is so conceived that, upon rewinding of yarn after the run out of yarn of an unwinding package, an operational stoppage is to be avoided as a consequence of the run out process being configured to be continuous, in that the yarn end of the unwind...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] b) a yarn guide element with a longitudinal opening whose length substantially corresponds to the vertical spacing between the axes of the insert pegs such that the ends of the longitudinal opening can be brought into a position lying substantially on the extension of the insert peg axes

[0011] d) a yarn retaining organ that is located substantially between the insert pegs at a lateral spacing from the plane defined by the axes of the insert pegs.

[0012] In order that a creel of this type can fully achieve its effectiveness, the operation is to proceed as follows after the insertion onto insert pegs of two fully wound feed packages after the coupling of the corresponding yarn ends:

[0013] upon the drawing out of a yarn from the upper feed package, the yarn end in the region of the yarn reserve is, in a conventional manner, connected with the free beginning portion of the yarn of the fully wound lower feed package via, for example, splicing or knotting, whereby attention is to be paid that the yarn drawn from the upper feed package in an over the top manner travels above the yarn guide organ associated with this feed package into the longitudinal opening of the yarn guide element.

[0014] the yarn section located between the pair of packages is firmly clamped by means of the yarn retaining organ;

[0015] the yarn section is then laid into the yarn eye from above and is guided downwardly and is, from the downward position, trained around the lower yarn eye.

[0016] In this manner, it is ensured that, after the complete running out of the upper feed package and after the release via the yarn retaining organ, a friction-free drawing out of the yarn from the lower feed package follows, whereby the yarn then being drawn from the lower feed package in an over the top manner travels underneath the yarn guide element associated with the lower package into the longitudinal opening.

Problems solved by technology

In addition to the relatively expensive control mechanism associated therewith, this known package holder suffers from the significant disadvantage that the insert pegs must be mounted on the package holder in a linkage manner to ensure that the axes of the insert pegs always point toward a predetermined point that is almost exactly on a yarn guide eye that commonly serves the pair of packages inserted onto the insert pegs.

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