Automated Ink Level Sensing using Electromechanical System for Tex-Cone Industries

Paper cones are used in spinning mills to wrap the yarn. The role of paper cones is dominant in textile industries since it acts as a yarn carrier. The applications of the texcone are extended to automatic, semi-automatic and even manual winders. There are nearly eight major sizes of tex paper cones based on which the yarn with different weights is wrapped. Due to the increasing demand for textile products, there is an elevated need for textile paper cones in the upcoming years. The paper cones produced are printed with inks on its top nose and tapered ends, so as to identify the yarns with various thickness and to pick them easily. Around 4000 plus colour variations are possible to be printed on the edges of the tex cone for easy identification of thread colour and thickness. Many textile industries are demanding custom printing of design on tex cones for yarn identification. customer logos and other unique symbols or signs are printed on paper cones for branding purposes. The most important consideration is to monitor the level of the ink in the ink tray and reservoir. Because in most of the tex cone manufacturing industries, although all the processes of tex cone manufacturing take place automatically, the printing at the edges of the end product is held manually. So, there is a need to ensure the availability of the ink. Once printed wrongly or printed without sufficient ink, the cone will be wasted. Which cost around 3 to 5 Rs per cone. In order to overcome this the suggested model has been developed. The model is created to automate and monitor the ink level. Because of this human intervention is cut down and cone waste is minimized.