Apparatus for the automatic handling of bobbin tubes and completely wound bobbins of spinning machines
OwnerJ. Juergen Watermanninventor
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Abstract
A device for the at least partially automatic handling of empty bobbin cases and fully wound bobbins in spinning machines is designed to provide a system by which the manipulation of both finished bobbins and also empty cases is simplified, while a special aim of the invention is to automate the removal and insertion processes as completely as possible. This is achieved in that on a shared fixture frame (12) there is a reception/transfer arm (8) for empty cases (5), a reception/transfer arm (6) for bobbins (4) and an actuating and pivoting mechanism (16-18) to take arms (6,8) from a stopped to a transport position.
Claims11
An apparatus for at least partially automatic handling of empty bobbin tubes and completely wound bobbins of a spinning machine, said apparatus comprising:
- a common apparatus frame;
- a take-over/transfer arm for empty tubes supported on said common frame;
- a take-over/transfer arm for wound bobbins, supported on said common frame;
- an actuating and swivel mechanism supported on said common frame for swivelling said empty tube take-over/transfer arm and said wound bobbin take-over/transfer arm between a service position of said empty tube take-over/transfer arm and said wound bobbin take-over/transfer arm, in which wound bobbins are slipped onto said wound bobbin take-over/transfer arm and empty tubes are slipped off said empty tube take-over/transfer arm, a transporting position in which the wound bobbin take-over/transfer arm and the empty tube take-over/transfer arm are displaced between a wound bobbin unloading and empty tube loading station and a spinning machine, and wound bobbin unloading and empty tube loading position, in which the wound bobbin is slipped off said wound bobbin take-over/transfer arm and the empty tubes are slipped onto said empty tube take-over/transfer arm;
- wherein said actuating and swivel mechanism includes swivel means for swivelling said take-over/transfer arms within a space defined by said common frame, about three spatial axes, defining respectively, the service, transporting and wound tube unloading and empty tube loading positions of said take-over/transfer arms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.