Vincent A Iannucci

41544102, May 15, 1979

May 8, 1978

5/904017

Rudolf H. Haehnel - Reading PA
Vincent A. Iannucci - West Lawn PA

Rockwell International Corporation - Pittsburgh PA

B65H 5402
B65H 5428
B65H 5700
B65H 5902

242 18R

A bobbin winding machine in which a plurality of individual strands are withdrawn from separate single end supply spools and guided to a location where they are simultaneously wrapped about the outer periphery of a metering wheel. The strands leave the metering wheel in the form of a band of contiguous strands of equal length which are then caused to pass through a positioning device that is effective in maintaining equal length of the individual strands from the band. The positioning device provides a line of pivot which is common to each of the strands during swinging movement of the band by a traversing apparatus spaced from the positioning device which includes elements mounted thereon for guiding and presenting the band to a rotatably driven bobbin for the purpose of building a band package thereon.

43721915, Feb 8, 1983

Mar 12, 1982

6/357395

Vincent A. Iannucci - West Lawn PA
Rudolf H. Haehnel - Reading PA

Rockwell International Corp. - Pittsburgh PA

D04C 342

87 48

In a rotary braiding machine, a sleeve having a rounded forward portion is mounted on a stationary guide cylinder located on the center axis of the machine. The sleeve is driven reciprocatingly in the axial direction by a push rod which is coupled throgh a gear reduction mechanism to the ring gear of the machine so that the reciprocation of the sleeve is in timed relation with the rotation of the machine. The yarn or wire strand is supplied from two sets of bobbins which are driven along circular paths in opposing directions. When the reciprocating sleeve is in its retracted or rearward position, crossed strands from the bobbins approach the forward edge of the stationary guide cylinder. As the crossed strands reach the stationary guide cylinder, the reciprocating sleeve moves to its forward position lifting the strands away from the forward edge of the stationary guide cylinder. The rate of reciprocation of the sleeve is preferably in time with the crossings.

44625529, Jul 31, 1984

Aug 1, 1983

6/518979

Vincent A. Iannucci - West Lawn PA

Rockwell International Corporation - Pittsburgh PA

B65H 5402
B65H 5428
B65H 5728

242 42

A yarn winding machine for performing open winding of multiple ends of yarn onto a bobbin wherein all yarn ends are to be substantially the same length and under the same tension. The machine includes a frame on which bobbin and bobbin receiving means are disposed; traversing means including a yarn guide roll and a yarn guide beak that is elongated so that it can contact the yarn package; and yarn guiding means spaced from the yarn guide roll a distance such that the enclosed lash angle of the multiple yarn ends between the guiding means and the guide roll is not more than 20. degree.

40346439, Jul 12, 1977

Nov 1, 1976

5/737220

Vincent Alfonso Iannucci - West Lawn PA
Rudolf Herbert Haehnel - Reading PA
Ronald Scheck Schartel - North Whitfield PA

Rockwell International Corporation - Pittsburgh PA

D04C 306
D04C 342

87 48

A bobbin drive mechanism is for a rotary braider of the type in which a circular array of outer strand supply bobbins and a circular array of inner strand supply bobbins are caused to rotate one array relative to the other. The outer strand supply bobbins are fixedly mounted on a first circular table of the braider, the inner strand supply bobbins are mounted for relative rotational movement about a circular track of the first table and strands from the outer strand supply bobbins are capable of being guided inwardly and outwardly of the track and the inner strand supply bobbins thereon to produce braiding. The bobbin drive mechanism includes a second circular table coaxially aligned with the first table and adapted to rotate relative thereto. A circular array of pairs of shafts corresponds to the array of inner strand supply bobbins and each is mounted for rotation on the second table. The shafts include a planetary gear fixedly mounted thereon in alignment with and engaging a circular gear on the first table to cause rotation of the shaft during relative rotation of the table.

39839125, Oct 5, 1976

Jul 25, 1975

5/599251

Vincent A. Iannucci - West Lawn PA

Rockwell International Corporation - Pittsburgh PA

B65H 8108

140149

A wire preforming assembly is fixedly mounted on a circular turntable having thereon a predetermined plurality of bobbins dispersed in an array to provide a predetermined plurality of wires to the assembly equally spaced around its periphery. The assembly and the turntable are coaxially aligned with and relatively rotating about a longitudinally advancing, mandrelled hose. The wires are being directed to the hose by the preforming assembly so that the hose pulls the wires with uniform equal tension and causes them to be simultaneously wrapped thereon in side-by-side parallel helical convolutions. The wire is directed in a helical path around the surface of a preforming tube of the assembly and is bent toward the hose as it is being wound thereon. The bending imparts a characteristic to the wire which causes it to naturally retain the desired helical shape around the hose. A spacing tube is disposed within the preforming tube and around the hose to extend into the path of the wires so that each wire is received within one of a predetermined number of slots at the extended end of the spacing tube and evenly spaced thereabout to insure even spacing of the wires during winding.

40346420, Jul 12, 1977

Sep 27, 1976

5/727092

Vincent Alfonso Iannucci - West Lawn PA
Rudolf Herbert Haehnel - Reading PA
Ronald Scheck Schartel - North Whitfield PA

Rockwell International Corporation - Pittsburgh PA

D04C 306
D04C 342

87 48

A braiding machine for braiding a plurality of strands includes a tubular member which has a first rotatable table, a stationary sun gear and a second rotatable table mounted thereon. The first table is rotated in a first direction and includes a circular array of rotatable shafts mounted thereon. Each of the shafts is parallel with the tubular member and has a planetary gear mounted on an intermediate portion thereof which is aligned with and engages the sun gear to cause rotation of the shaft as the first table rotates. A drive gear is fixedly mounted on a first end of each shaft in engagement with an encircled gear on the second table to cause the second table to rotate about the tubular member in an opposite direction from the first direction. The first table includes a circular array of outer strand supply bobbins corresponding with the array of shafts. A circular track is mounted on the first table between the circular array of outer strand supply bobbins and the area of braiding and is segmented by there being included a slot at each of the outer strand supply bobbins.