摘要 |
PURPOSE:To prevent layer collapsing of a fiber bundle in a vessel and to increase the storage capacity in an equipment in which a continuous fiber bundle, which is supplied continuously, is dropped into the vessel for storage after it is given pendulum motion, by gradually increasing the amplitude of the said pendulum motion. CONSTITUTION:Tow (fiber bundle) 1, which is continuously supplied, passes through a gap between nip rollers 2 and 2' to be sent into a chute 4. Since this chute 4 makes pendulum motion, in which the projected speed of the tip of the chute is constant, the tor 1 is folded on the bottom of a vessel 5, and at the same time since a traverser 3 makes reciprocal movement perpendicular to the pendulum motion, the tor 1 is arranged regularly on the bottom of the vessel 5. In this case, the chute 4 makes pendulum motion around a supporting point 9 by means of a crank mechanism made up of a rocking lever 7 and rotary disc 8. Moreover, for each swing of the chute 4, a wire 12 is wound up by a ratchet ring 11 installed at the supporting 9 so that a bracket 10 is heaved up in order to gradually increase the amplitude of the chute 4. |