Yarn Cooler Flow Adjustment Plate for Uniform Cooling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing yarn coolers with multiple cooling cylinders experience irregular cooling due to varying flow rates of cooling wind, leading to inconsistent yarn quality.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of cooling cylinders with a flow control member, partitioning cylinders with a shielding member, and a quench box with a circulation space and flow adjustment plate to regulate the cooling wind flow, ensuring uniform flow rates and preventing swirl, resulting in consistent yarn quality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If multiple cooling cylinders are disposed in high density in one quench box, then the efficiency in producing yarns is improved, but the flow rate of cooling wind supplied to each yarn running space becomes significantly different, causing irregular cooling and yarn quality variation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveyarn production efficiencyVSAvoidyarn quality uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The invention divides the cooling wind supply system into separate circulation spaces for each cooling cylinder, with individual flow adjustment plates. This segmentation allows independent control of cooling wind flow to each cylinder, enabling high-density arrangement while maintaining uniform cooling across all cylinders and preventing yarn quality variation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If cooling cylinders are arranged in high density, then the number of ducts is reduced and productivity improves, but the cooling wind flow varies significantly in the circumferential direction of each cylinder, causing swirl and irregular cooling

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveyarn production efficiencyVSAvoidcooling wind flow stability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The invention introduces flow adjustment plates in the circulation spaces of cooling cylinders that are positioned at locations corresponding to spinnerets with potentially higher cooling demand. This local adjustment compensates for circumferential flow variations, ensuring stable and uniform cooling wind supply to all yarn running spaces regardless of cylinder position in the high-density arrangement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If one quench box is provided for multiple cooling cylinders, then the number of ducts is reduced, but the flow of cooling wind around each cylinder becomes significantly different, leading to inconsistent cooling performance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of ductsVSAvoidcooling performance consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The invention introduces circulation spaces as intermediary regions between the common quench box and individual cooling cylinders. Each circulation space is equipped with a flow adjustment plate that acts as a mediator to regulate and equalize the cooling wind flow before it enters each cooling cylinder, ensuring consistent cooling performance while maintaining a simplified single-quench-box structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This configuration ensures uniform cooling wind flow rates across and around each cooling cylinder, enhancing yarn quality consistency and production efficiency.

Implementation Method 1

a flow adjustment plate is provided to circulate the cooling wind from the supply space to the circulation space while adjusting the flow of the cooling wind

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFluid flow regulation:

Implementation Method 2

a circulation space between the partition and the outer circumference of the cooling cylinder to allow the cooling wind to circulate in the circulation space

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectConvection: Convection

Implementation Method 3

cooling cylinders which are provided below the spinning beam to oppose the respective spinnerets and each of which includes a first yarn running space in which the yarns run

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectForced convection cooling: Forced Convection

Data Source

PatentEP3012354B1Yarn cooler
Publication Date: 2017.09.13 TMT MACHINERY INC
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AI summary

The qualities of yarns are uniformized. For each of cooling cylinders 30, a partition 51 is provided to surround each cooling cylinder 30 and form a circulation space 52 between the partition 51 and the outer circumferential surface of the cooling cylinder 30 to allow cooling wind to circulate in the circulation space 52, and at a border part between a supply space 23 to which the cooling wind is supplied from the outside and the circulation space 52, a flow adjustment plate 53 is provided to circulate the cooling wind from the supply space 23 into the circulation space 52 while adjusting the flow of the cooling wind.