Method for cleaning a textile machine
AssigneeRieter Ingolstadt GmbH
InventorsLudwig Braun, Adalbert Stephan, Guenther Reinhardt
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Abstract
A method for cleaning a textile machine having a plurality of work stations includes issuing a cleaning request for a first one of the work stations. In response to the cleaning request, the first work station is approached and cleaned by a mobile cleaning device that travels alongside of the textile machine. The cleaning requests are issued for the work stations depending on specifically identified contamination-generating events that have occurred at or near the respective work station since a last cleaning process at the work station. A textile machine configured in accordance with the method is also provided.
Claims15
A method for cleaning a textile machine having a plurality of work stations, the method comprising:
- issuing a cleaning request for a first one of the work stations;
- in response to the cleaning request, the first work station is approached and cleaned by a mobile cleaning device that travels alongside of the textile machine;
- wherein cleaning requests are issued for the work stations depending on specifically identified contamination-generating events that have occurred at or near the respective work stations since a last cleaning process at the work stations;
- and
- wherein in a cleaning run by the mobile cleaning device to the first work station, a non-requesting second work station located along the cleaning run is also cleaned when events that have occurred at the second work station since the last cleaning process from the second work station indicate that a cleaning process request from the second work station is forthcoming.
A textile machine, comprising:
- a plurality of work stations;
- a mobile cleaning device configured to travel along the textile machine work to perform cleaning processes at the work stations;
- a control device in communication with the work stations and the mobile cleaning device;
- the control device configured to issue cleaning requests for the work stations, wherein the mobile cleaning device travels to a work station for which a cleaning request was issued and performs a cleaning process;
- wherein the cleaning requests are issued by the control device for the work stations depending on specifically identified contamination-generating events that have occurred at or near the respective work station since a last cleaning process at the work station;
- and
- wherein the control device is further configured to issue a cleaning request to a second work station located along a cleaning run by the mobile cleaning device to a first work station when events that have occurred at the second work station since the last cleaning process from the second work station indicate that a cleaning process request from the second work station is forthcoming.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.