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Reading and lifting device for a control machine

US4385646A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 23, 1981
Grant dateMay 31, 1983
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Expiry dateFeb 23, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD03C3/22
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A reading and lifting device has a force amplifying bar which can be reciprocated vertically and is driven positively, and a reading needle is slidably supported therein. A pattern card with nonperforated and perforated points is provided below the force amplifying bar. When the needle hits a nonperforated point, the needle is moved back into the force amplifying bar. In one embodiment, the needle slides with its head on a surface which effects a swivelling of a lock member. Through this, an end of the lock member comes to lie in front of an offset portion of a control arm. The force amplifying bar during its downward movement then carries the control arm along against the force of a spring. The device facilitates the sensitive reading of a pattern card and the forceful passing on of the control information read.

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