TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a revolution counting system embodied to count the revolution number in weaving looms used for producing fabric.

PRIOR ART

Weaving looms are machines used for producing fabric in textile sector. Calculation of the length of the fabric produced in weaving looms is substantially important in terms of the efficiency of the machine and raw material consumption and some methods are used for this.

A frequently used method aims to calculate the amount of output fabric by measuring the length of yarn used in the weaving loom. In this American patent with reference number US3988879, a system for measuring the length of the yarn in textile machines used for production or processing of yarn is described. In said textile machines, a system is described which takes the reference strokes produced by rotation of a shaft which is proportional with the yarn length and which transforms the taken reference strokes into strokes which have a predetermined frequency ratio and which counts them and which measures the yarn length. However, this method cannot provide correct calculation of the output fabric size since the lycra allowance of the yarn is ignored.

As a result, because of all of the abovementioned problems, an improvement is required in the related technical field.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a revolution counting system, for eliminating the above mentioned disadvantages and for bringing new advantages to the related technical field.

An object of the present invention is to provide a system which provides at least partially correct calculation of the fabric amount produced in weaving looms. Another object of the present invention is to provide at least partial facilitation of calculation of raw material consumption which is required for unit fabric.

In order to realize the abovementioned objects and the objects which are to be deducted from the detailed description below, the present invention is a revolution counting system embodied to count the number of revolution in the weaving looms used for producing fabric. Accordingly, the improvement of the present invention is that subject matter revolution counting system comprises a sley drive source arranged to move a sley embodied to realize weft insertions in said weaving loom; and a processor unit embodied to monitor the electrical parameter values transferred to said sley drive source and to determine that the sley realized a stroke when there is a predetermined deviation in the electrical parameter values and to increase the revolution number by one and to record in a memory unit. Thus, the number of revolution realized by the weaving loom can be counted in a correct manner.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the weaving loom comprises a time counter embodied to count the operation duration and said processor unit is configured to receive operation duration information from the time counter and to determine the unit time revolution number. Thus, the fabric produced at a specific time slice in the weaving loom is calculated.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

Figure 1 is the view of a revolution counting system in the form of block schemas.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In this detailed description, the subject matter is explained with references to examples without forming any restrictive effect only in order to make the subject more understandable.

The present invention is a revolution counting system (10) configured to count the revolution number in the weaving looms used in textile sector.

In said weaving loom (100), fabric is produced by passing weft yarns through warp yarns at a specific arrangement. The weaving loom (100) comprises a sley (1 10) in a manner realizing weft insertion by means of weft yarns. There is a comb (not illustrated in the figure) configured to determine the ranges of weft yarns connected to said sley (1 10). The weaving loom (100) moreover comprises a sley drive source (120) which drives the sley (1 10) in a manner making weft insertion movement. The movement of the sley (1 10) which remains between two sley strokes is named as a revolution. In a possible embodiment of the present invention, said sley drive source (120) comprises a motor and a drive arm for providing movement from said motor to the sley (1 10).

With reference to Figure 1 , the sley drive source (120) is electrically associated to a processor unit provided in a control unit (200). Said control unit (200) comprises a memory unit (220) embodied to record various data temporarily and permanently. The control unit (200) moreover comprises a communication unit (230) configured to communicate with the peripheral units.

A possible operation scenario of the present invention is described below;

In the weaving loom (100), a fabric is produced by passing the weft yarns in warp yarns during each stroke of the sley (1 10). The drive required for the stroke of the sley is provided from the sley drive source (120). In each stroke movement of the sley (1 10), the electrical parameters in the sley drive source (120) are changed at a predetermined amount. The electrical parameters in the sley drive source (120) are instantaneously monitored by the processor unit (210). The processor unit (210) increases the stroke value by one when the processor unit (210) determines that at least one of said electrical parameters deviates at an amount which exceeds a predetermined deviation value provided in the memory unit (220). Said stroke value is recorded to the memory unit (220) in the processor unit (210). In a possible embodiment of the present invention, the electrical parameter values comprise values which belong to at least one of voltage, current, frequency values.

In one of the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, in the weaving loom (100), when the sley (1 10) makes a stroke, the voltage value received from the sley drive source (120) decreases by a predetermined amount. The increased stroke number is recorded in the memory unit (220).

In a possible embodiment of the present invention, the processor unit (210) is embodied to calculate the produced fabric information by reaching the weft insertion number made in a stroke according to the construction of the produced fabric.

In one of the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, there is a time counter (not illustrated in the figure) in the weaving loom (100). The processor unit (210) is configured to calculate the stroke number in a unit time based on the sley stroke information by means of the time information coming from said time counter.

In a possible embodiment of the present invention, the processor unit (210) is embodied to transfer the fabric amount information, produced within a predetermined duration, to predetermined client devices by means of said communication unit (230). Said client device can be one or some of the electronic devices like a computer, telephone, tablet, etc.

In one of the possible embodiments of the present invention, the processor unit is embodied to access the information of raw material amount used in the weaving loom (100). The processor unit (210) is configured to determine the fabric which is output according to the amount of raw material used in the weaving loom (100) and to calculate the amount of raw material used in the unit amount of fabric. Thus, the amount of raw materials used in fabric recipes is determined in a correct manner. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the amount of raw material is manually entered through a user interface (not illustrated in the figure) embodied to transfer data to the processor unit (210) before production begins and/or it is provided from the peripheral units by means of the communication unit.

The protection scope of the present invention is set forth in the annexed claims and cannot be restricted to the illustrative disclosures given above, under the detailed description. It is because a person skilled in the relevant art can obviously produce similar embodiments under the light of the foregoing disclosures, without departing from the main principles of the present invention.

REFERENCE NUMBERS

10 Revolution counting system

100 Weaving loom

1 10 Sley

120 Sley drive source 200 Control unit

210 Processor unit 220 Memory unit 230 Communication unit