US 4,865,260 A · Equipment and process to supply winding tubes to the individual winding stations of a textile machine

Abstract

Equipment and process to supply winding tubes to individual reeling stations of a textile machine, and to carry out the subsequent insertion of a new winding tube between the bobbin holder arms of a collection station. The equipment comprises an accumulator device to position a number of reserve winding tubes in a spaced and aligned condition enabling transfer of an individual winding device axially to a collecting user device; a belt or cable transfer device for transferring the winding tube in axial position, to a winding station upon request by the winding station, or on a time preceding request; and a device for intercepting, collecting and inserting a new winding tube between the bobbin holder arms of the winding station.

Claims15

Dependent claims

Apparatus to dispense and convey a single winding tube having an axis at a time to an individual winding station of a textile machine having a plurality of winding stations, comprising at least one movable means to accumulate winding tubes in a spaced, sequential single orientational relationship;

means to withdraw the winding tubes intermittently from the movable accumulation means in an axial direction;
transfer means to convey one winding tube in its withdrawn axial position from the movable accumulation means to a selected mechanical interceptor means;
a mechanical interceptor means to stop the winding tube on the transfer means and remove the winding tube form the transfer means;
and,
a winding tube handling means to position the removed tube from the transfer means at the winding station.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Equipment and process to supply winding tubes to the individual winding stations of a textile machine

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Equipment and process to supply winding tubes to the individual winding stations of a textile machine

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Abstract

Claims15