Adjustable Stop Mechanism for Bobbin Positioning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Spinning bobbins of varying lengths, particularly shorter ones, are not securely positioned on existing spinning bobbin carriers, leading to operational issues and thread breakages due to lack of precise positioning, as they can become displaced axially, causing interruptions in the twisting machine's operation.

Innovation Solution

A spinning bobbin carrier with an adjustable stop mechanism that can be moved between a use position and a retractable position, allowing for safe accommodation of shorter bobbins while maintaining stability and allowing standard-length bobbins to be positioned beyond the stop, ensuring secure fixation and easy adaptation to different lengths.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If the receiving area is shortened to accommodate shorter bobbins, then positioning precision for non-standard bobbins is improved, but the ability to accommodate standard-length bobbins is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning precisionVSAvoidbobbin length adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The stop is made movable rather than fixed, allowing it to be adjusted between different positions. The stop can be moved axially along the receiving body to accommodate bobbins of different lengths, transforming a static structure into a dynamic one that adapts to varying requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The position of the stop is changed as a variable parameter. By adjusting the stop's position along the receiving body, the effective receiving area length is modified to match the bobbin length, allowing the same receiver to handle both standard and non-standard bobbins.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Device complexity

If the stop is fixed in position, then the structure is simple, but it cannot accommodate bobbins of different lengths

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructure simplicityVSAvoidbobbin length adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The stop is made movable rather than fixed, allowing it to be adjusted between different positions. The stop can be moved axially along the receiving body to accommodate bobbins of different lengths, transforming a static structure into a dynamic one that adapts to varying requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Stability of the object's composition

If the receiving area is shortened for non-standard bobbins, then positioning stability is improved, but the receiving area length for standard bobbins is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning stabilityVSAvoidreceiving area length
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLength of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The position of the stop is changed as a variable parameter. By adjusting the stop's position along the receiving body, the effective receiving area length is modified to match the bobbin length, allowing the same receiver to handle both standard and non-standard bobbins.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP3677712B1Bobbin holder for a twisting machine
Publication Date: 2024.08.07 SAURER TECH GMBH & CO KG
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AI summary

The invention relates to a spinning bobbin holder for a twisting machine, in particular a ring twisting machine, with a receiving body rotatably mounted about a support axis and a receiving area for arranging a spinning bobbin on the receiving body. To provide a spinning bobbin holder that can also be operated safely and reliably with non-standard spinning bobbins of varying lengths, it is provided that at least one stop is adjustable in the receiving area between a working position and a retracted position such that, in the working position, the receiving area is shortened to accommodate a shortened spinning bobbin, and in the retracted position, a regular spinning bobbin can be arranged in the receiving area projecting beyond the stop.