Method of transporting and positioning a set of yarn packages in a spindle assembly of a twister yarn processing machine and an adapter device for use therein

Method of transporting to and positioning a set of at least two yarn packages in a spindle assembly of a twister textile yarn processing machine while maintaining the yarn ends of the package in defined fixed locations;

• said method comprising the steps of:
• creeling at a preparatory station at least two yarn packages on a tubular adapter device having at its upper end a gripping head adapted for receiving a gripper device, a conveyor holder device and yarn handling devices;
• positioning the yarn ends of the packages in the interior of the adapter device at the preparatory station by introducing the yarn ends into a channel extending inwardly from an outside surface of the adapter device near the top thereof and through a wall of the adapter device;
• gripping the adapter device with a first gripper device, moving the adapter device and yarn packages from the preparatory station, and placing the adapter device and yarn packages on a holder device of a conveyor mechanism;
• conveying the adapter device and yarn packages by a conveyor mechanism to a desired spindle assembly of a twister;
• gripping the adapter device with a second gripper device, moving the adapter device and yarn packages from the conveyor mechanism and placing the adapter device and yarn packages on the spindle of the spindle assembly of the twister;
• and
• threading the yarn ends from the interior of the adapter device through the spindle assembly for processing the yarn as it is withdrawn from the packages on the adapter device.

Method of transporting to and positioning a set of at least two yarn packages in a spindle assembly of a twister textile yarn processing machine while maintaining the yarn ends of the packages in defined locations;

• said method comprising the steps of:
• creeling at a preparatory station at least two yarn packages on a tubular adapter device having at its upper end a gripping head and removably positioned at its lower end on an upstanding pin of a transport plate movably carried in conveyor mechanism;
• positioning the yarn ends of the packages in the interior of the adapter device at the preparatory station by introducing the yarn ends into a channel extending inwardly from an outside surface of the adapter device near the top thereof and through a wall of the adapter device;
• conveying the adapter device and yarn packages by a conveyor mechanism to a desired spindle assembly of a twister;
• gripping the adapter device with a gripper device, moving the adapter device and yarn packages from the conveyor mechanism and placing the adapter device and yarn packages on the spindle of the spindle assembly of the twister;
• and
• threading the yarn ends from the interior of the adapter device through the spindle assembly for processing the yarn as it is withdrawn from the packages of the adapter device.