Apparatus for transporting yarn packages produced by a textile machine

Apparatus for transporting yarn packages formed on cylindrical tubes produced by a textile machine to a successive process comprising, in combination, a transporting device provided with a plurality of receiving rods which are capable of being positioned at a receiving position, and a positioning device for correctly positioning said yarn packages for receipt by said receiving rods of said transportation device,

• each receiving rod of said transporting device being vertically oriented, said positioning device comprising means for correctly holding said yarn package above said receiving rod of said transporting device and a guide rod displaceably disposed above said holding means, means for displacing said guide rod upward or downward alternately along a vertical path which coincides with an axis of said cylindrical tube of the yarn package held by said holding means and the axis of said receiving rod, means for opening and closing said holding means relative to the motion of said displacing means so that said holding means holds said yarn package until said guide rod is displaced downward and inserted into said cylindrical tube of said yarn package, said holding means is opened when downward motion of said guide rod is completed and said holding means is closed when said yarn package is transferred to said receiving rod and said guide rod is displaced to position above said holding means.