Apparatus for forming and collecting filaments

Claim 1

APPARATUS OF THE CHARACTER DISCLOSED, IN COMBINATION, A FRAME, AN INDEXIBLE HEAD JOURNALED ON THE FRAME A PLURALITY OF WINDING COLLETS MOUNTED BY SAID HEAD, DRIVING MEANS INDIVIDUAL TO EACH COLLET FOR ROTATING THE SAME, EACH OF SAID COLLETS BEING ARRANGED TO RECEVIE AND SUPPORT A COLLECTOR UPON WHICH A STRAND OF FILAMENTS IS WOUND TO FORM A PACKAGE, SAID HEAD BEING INDEXIBLE TO SUCCESSIVELY MOVE A COLLET AND COLLECTOR TO A WINDING STATION, MOTIVE MEANS FOR INDEXING THE HEAD, MEANS FOR DISTRIBUTING THE STRAND ON THE COLLECTOR AT THE WINDING STATION INCLUDING A CARRIER RECIPROCABLE LENGTHWISE OF THE COLLECTOR AT THE WINDING STATION AND A STRAND OSCILLATOR JOURNALLY SUPPORTED ON SAID CARRIER, MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID OSCILLATOR TO DISTRIBUTE THE STRAND LENGTHWISE OF THE COLLECTOR AND EFFECT CROSSING OF THE INDIVIDUAL WRAPS OF STRAND AS THEY ARE COLLECTED, A STRAND ENGAGING HOLD-OFF MEANS FOR EFFECTING TRANSFER OF THE STRAND FROM A COMPLETED PACKAGE ONTO AN EMPTY COLLECTOR, SAID HOLD-OFF MEANS INCLUDING A STRAND ENGAGING SHAFT DISPOSED LENGTHWISE OF THE COLLECTOR, AND A STRAND ENGAGING BAR SPACED FROM SAID SHAFT AND HAVING A SHOULDER, SAID STRAND PASSING BETWEEN SHAFT AND SAID BAR SAID BAR BEING PIVOTABLE TO EFFECT ENGAGEMENT OF THE BAR WITH THE STRAND TO DISENGAGE THE STRAND FROM THE OSCILLATOR, THE STRAND ENGAGING BAR BEING RECIPROCABLE TO ENGAGE THE STRAND WITH THE SHOULDER ON THE STRAND ENGAGING BAR TO MOVE THE STRAND TO STRAND TRANSFER POSITION ADJACENT THE END OF THE PACKAGE DURING INDEXING MOVEMENT OF THE HEAD.