Patent · US Expired

Air coupling

US4213573A · kind A · utility

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12Claims
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Filing dateMar 7, 1979
Grant dateJul 22, 1980
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Expiry dateMar 7, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T137/9029
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A bobbin revolver for winding textile filaments has a rotatable chuck carrier with a plurality of bobbin chucks. The carrier is rotatable on a central shaft to urge the chucks successively towards a friction drive drum which rotates bobbins on the chucks to wind filament packages thereon. A fluid coupling, comprising co-axial, relatively rotable parts having communicating passages therethrough, is provided around the shaft to pass pressure fluid to and/or from devices on the carrier. The fluid coupling is arranged so that there is no relative rotation of its parts during winding of a package, thereby avoiding disturbance of the contact pressure between a package and the friction drum through sliding friction between the coupling parts.

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