Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H67/00—Replacing or removing cores, receptacles, or completed packages at paying-out, winding, or depositing stations
  • B65H67/06—Supplying cores, receptacles, or packages to, or transporting from, winding or depositing stations
  • B65H67/063—Marking or identifying devices for packages
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
  • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
  • B65H75/18—Constructional details
  • B65H75/182—Identification means
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
  • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
  • B65H2701/31—Textiles threads or artificial strands of filaments

Definitions

• the invention concerns a supporting element for yarns, such as for example a bobbin, a spindle, a cop, a spool or similar, wherein the yarn is wound to form a coil.
• yarn should be taken to mean any type of thread or yarn no matter how it is produced, both from natural and artificial fibers, and also metal threads.
• yarns in general are wound on supporting elements such as cops, spindles, bobbins, spools or similar, to form the corresponding coils.
• supporting elements such as cops, spindles, bobbins, spools or similar.
• means to indicate the characteristics of the wound yarn such as for example the count, the number of the color etc., are associated with such supporting elements,
• Conventional indication means are of a mechanical type and mainly consist of disks or rings applied at one end of the supporting element, so that they can be easily recognized on sight by the operators .
• Another conventional system to identify the supporting elements is to use different colors.
• Such indication means have the disadvantage, however, that they can contain only a limited quantity of information. Consequently it is convenient that a particular supporting element, with which certain indication means are associated, is always used for the same type of yarn, to which the characteristics indicated by said indication means correspond.
• One purpose of the invention is to make a supporting element for winding yarns which will be provided with indication means to indicate the characteristics of the yarn itself, which will allow to memorize a large quantity of information and can also be of the re-writable type.
• the supporting element comprises an electronic-type memory, in which a plurality of information associated with the type of yarn temporally wound on said supporting element is able to be memorized.
• Said electronic memory advantageously comprises an electronic micro-circuit, microchip or RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) of a conventional type, a few square millimetres in size and able to contain millions of pieces of elementary information both on the characteristics of the yarn and also on the different operations to which it has been subjected, and on the machine on which it has been worked, and on the period of time when such operations were carried out.
• Said electronic memory is able to be written and/or read by means of any conventional means, both in contact and remote, for example by means of transceiver devices, such as transponders or similar.
• Fig. 1 is a side view of a first supporting element for yarns according to the invention
• Fig. 2 is a side view of a second supporting element for yarns according to the invention
• Fig. 3 is a prospective view of a third supporting element for yarns according to the invention
• Fig. 4 is a side view, partly in section, of the supporting element shown in Fig. 3.
• a supporting element 10 comprises a central body 11 or cop, substantially shaped like a truncated cone (Fig. 1) or cylindrical (Fig. 2) .
• a yarn F of any type, preferably a yarn of synthetic or natural fibers, is able to be wound on the supporting element 10.
• the supporting element 10 comprises two flanges 12 and 13 arranged at the ends of the central body 11, to define the space inside which the wound yarn F is arranged.
• the supporting element 10 comprises an electronic-type memory .15 consisting of a conventional microchip, in which a plurality of information associated with the type of yarn F temporally wound on the supporting element 10 is able to be memorized.
• the memory 15 can be of the fixed or non-erasable type, so as to permanently codify the supporting element 10 with which it is associated, or of the re-writable type so as to up-date or extend the information contained therein.
• the memory 15 can be written/read either through contact or remote, for example by means of transceiver devices such as transponders, RFID or similar.
• a counter-weight 18 of the same entity can advantageously be mounted on the flange 12, on the part diametrically opposite the memory 15.

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