Braiding machines and carriers for braiding machines

A carrier for supporting a yarn to be used by a braiding machine, has: a spool carrying the yarn; a motor drivingly engaged to the spool; at least one sensor for producing data about a condition of the yarn in the spool; and a controller operatively connected to the motor and to the at least one sen...

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Main Authors Bousquet, Philippe, Stefan Talos, Cristian, Chabot, Olivier, Laberge Lebel, Louis, Assi, Pascal, Villeneuve, Guillaume, Delisle, Vincent
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 30.01.2024
Subjects
BRAID
BRAIDING
BRAIDING MACHINES
BRAIDING OR MANUFACTURE OF LACE, INCLUDING BOBBIN-NET ORCARBONISED LACE
KNITTING
LACE
LACE-MAKING
NON-WOVEN FABRICS
TEXTILES
TRIMMINGS
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Summary:A carrier for supporting a yarn to be used by a braiding machine, has: a spool carrying the yarn; a motor drivingly engaged to the spool; at least one sensor for producing data about a condition of the yarn in the spool; and a controller operatively connected to the motor and to the at least one sensor, the controller having a processor and a computer-readable medium operatively connected to the processor and having instructions stored thereon executable by the processor for: receiving said data from the at least one sensor; determining operation parameters of the motor based on the received data; and operating the motor per the determined operation parameters to create the desired tension in the yarn.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202117493242