Method and device for replacing a sliver container

Abstract

Method of replacing a sliver container in a spinning machine formed of a plurality of individual spinning stations, sliver containers being disposed in tandem in two rows by means of a transporting device carrying a limited supply of the containers and being constrained to travel on a given travel path along the spinning machine, which includes disposing at the spinning machine a respective pair of sliver containers in tandem on a carriage or slide movable transversely to the given travel path of the transporting device, loading the transporting device with filled sliver containers at one end of the spinning machine and unloading the transporting device of exchanged sliver containers at the same one end of the spinning machine or at the other end thereof, shuttling the transporting device back and forth, ready for operation past the spinning stations of the spinning machine after the transporting device has been loaded with filled sliver containers, stopping the transporting device in front of a sliver container of a respective spinning station in response to a signal from the respective spinning station that sliver is missing from the respective sliver container and performing the following operations: drawing the carriage or slide up from a working station thereof to the level of the supply of containers on the transporting device, selecting the container with missing sliver that is to be replaced, replacing the container with missing sliver by a container filled with sliver, feeding a starting end of the sliver from the container filled with sliver to a sliver guide of the respective spinning station, returning the carriage or slide to device along the given travel path thereof; and device for carrying out the foregoing method.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.