Multipoint textile machine

• US 10,337,127 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2015
• Issued: 07/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG (OC Oerlikon Corporation AG)
• Original Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG (OC Oerlikon Corporation AG)
• Inventors: Bungter, Stefan, Cuppers, Jochen, Kuppenbender, Marc, Vierschgens, Christian
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Jong-Suk (James)
• Assistant Examiner(s): Eide, Eric T
• Application Number:
  US14/953,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20160168764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,310 Days
• Field of Search: 60 1
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/31 Textiles threads or artificial strands of filaments
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 54/26 having one or more servicing units moving along a plurality of fixed winding units
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 54/70 Other constructional features of yarn-winding machines
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 63/00 Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions safety devices in general F16P; indicating devices in general G08B ; Quality control of the package
• CPC Class Codes: D01H 13/14 Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop motions ; Monitoring the entanglement of slivers in drafting arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: D01H 13/22 responsive to presence of irregularities in running material

Abstract

A textile machine with a plurality of similar workstations 1, 36, 53, as well as display means and a central control device 26, 38, 67, wherein the display means is connected to the central control device 26, 38, 67 and/or a workstation control device 24, 39. The textile machine comprises a display means, which is designed as an LED light bar 15, 32, 52, 69, 84, a section of the LED light bar 15, 32, 52, 69, 84 is assigned respectively to a workstation 1, 36, 53, and the LED light bar 15, 32, 52, 69, 84 displays the respectively produced yarn batch and/or operating states of the respective workstation 1, 36, 53.

Claims

1. A textile machine comprising:

a plurality of substantially identical workstations (1, 36, 53) wherein each of workstations (1) for independently winding an individual yarn onto a yarn package;

a display; and

a central control device (26, 38, 67) dedicated to the textile machine,

wherein the display is connected to the central control device (26, 38, 67) and separately to local workstation-specific control devices (24, 39) respectively associated with each work station,

wherein the display comprises an LED light bar (15, 32, 52, 69, 84) comprising a plurality of sections, each section of the LED light bar (15, 32, 52, 69, 84) being assigned respectively to a workstation specific control device (24, 39), and each section of the LED light bar (15, 32, 52, 69, 84) displays the respectively produced yarn batch and operating state of the respective workstation (1, 36, 53); and

wherein the local workstation-specific control device (24) is configured to monitor the thread (4) and cause the respective section of the LED light bar (15, 32) to indicate the yarn batch and the operating state of the respective workstation (1, 36).

2. The textile machine according to claim 1, wherein each section of the LED light bar (15, 32) comprises a first LED group configured to indicate the yarn batch and a second LED group configured to indicate the operating state.

3. The textile machine according to claim 2, wherein each section of the LED light bar (15, 32) comprises six LEDs, and

wherein the first LED group comprises two of the six LEDs and the second LED group comprises four of the six LEDs.

4. The textile machine according to claim 2, wherein the first LED group indicates the same color for each workstation (1) of the textile machine with the same yarn batch.

5. The textile machine according to claim 2, wherein the second LED group flashes red to indicate an idle workstation (1).

6. The textile machine according to claim 1, wherein the machine comprises an open end rotor spinning machine.

7. The textile machine according to claim 1, wherein the machine comprises a ring spinning machine.

8. The textile machine according to claim 1, wherein each section of the LED light bar (52, 69) comprises five LEDs configured to indicate the yarn batch and the operating state for each workstation (36, 53).

9. The textile machine according to claim 8, wherein the operating state comprises faults with a workstation.

10. The textile machine of claim 1, wherein the textile machine (70) comprises a prespinning machine, and

wherein the LED light bar (84) is disposed on a spindle rail (74) of the prespinning machine (70).