Spinning-mill machine

A method for transporting sleeves on a spinning-mill machine having a plurality of cross-winding devices arranged next to each other in a longitudinal direction along each machine side of the spinning-mill machine, each cross-winding device configured to wind yarn onto a sleeve, and wherein the cross-winding devices are arranged into a multiple number of sections along each of the machine sides, and wherein a sleeve transport device is arranged along the cross-winding devices on each machine side to supply empty sleeves to cross-winding devices, the method comprising:

• stockpiling empty sleeves at a plurality of sleeve stacks, wherein the empty sleeves include different sleeve types;
• intermediately storing and distributing the empty sleeves from a plurality of sleeve storage devices arranged along each machine side, wherein;
• at each cross-winding device, an empty sleeve is intermediately stored in a single sleeve storage device allocated to the cross-winding device, or
• for the cross-winding devices in each of the sections, a plurality of the empty sleeves are intermediately stored in one of the sleeve storage devices allocated to the section;
• and
• for a cross-winding device requiring an empty sleeve, transporting a suitable sleeve type from the sleeve storage device to the cross-winding device.