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Monitoring apparatus for a textile machine

US4087700A · kind A · utility

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19Claims
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Filing dateSep 20, 1976
Grant dateMay 2, 1978
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Expiry dateSep 20, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H2701/31
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A monitoring apparatus for a textile machine comprising a feeler coupled with an evaluation circuit, the feeler possessing two spaced electrodes, each of which delivers an electrode signal when textile material moves therepast. The electrodes are offset in the direction of movement of the textile material and the evaluation circuit comprises a logic circuit responsive to electrode signals having a time displacement corresponding at least approximately to the transit time of the textile material from the one electrode to the other electrode.

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