Handbook of High Speed Photography - IET Labs, Inc.

Spindle on a textile spinning frame ot approxi
mately 8000 rpm showing 'ballooning' of fila
ment. The ring traveler can be seen at the
lower right of the spindle jusl where the fila
ment leaves the spindle.
Close-up, single-flash photographs of a textile
ring traveler showing its angles of orientation.
The left photograph shows the side view of
the traveler and the right photograph the top
view. Rotation speed of associated spindle was
10,000 rpm, and linear speed of traveler
around the 2%-inch-diamcter ring was 120 ft/
sec. Type 1536-A Photoelectric Pickoff operated
directly from the 3/)4" x '/)4" traveler passing
by. Traveler movement was 0.0005 inch during
3-psec flash from Strobolac. A 35-mm camera
with 140-mm lens set for f/5.6 aperture was
used. Courtesy of Whitin Machine Works.
Shuttle in a textile loom just
starting on its flight across the
loom (traveling toward the
left). Behavior of the thread
can be clearly seen.
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