Device for the transportion of cans between machines or devices treating or processing fiber slivers

Abstract

A process for the transportation of cans between machines processing fiber slivers by means of a can conveying device. The latter is loaded and unloaded simultaneously in one position at a machine or storage facility. The cans are inspected during their transportation between two such machines. In this process, the cans in which fiber sliver remnants remain, are emptied. The route of the can conveying device constitutes a transportation system consisting of three interconnected can circuits, whereby a first can circuit comprises two such machines and the other two can circuits each comprise one of these machines and the can storage facility. The can shifting device, to load and unload the can conveying device is equipped with a grasping device to grasp the can and with a lifting device to lift up the grasped can. The gasping device is located on a sled that can be shifted perpendicularly to the longitudinal extension of the can conveying device which is, in turn, located on a supporting sled capable of moving at a perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the can conveying device.

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