Process and device to position bobbins
AssigneeRieter Ingolstadt Spinnereimaschinenbau AG
InventorGerhard Grabovszky
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for positioning conical or cylindrical cross-wound bobbins on a textile machine. The bobbins are rotated and tilted if required in the area between a conveyor belt and an intermittent conveyor and positioned by the intermittent conveyor for pick-up by a grasper of a palletizing device. Conveyor belt and intermittent conveyor, as well as a rotating device and/or a tilting device, are installed on the textile machine. The intermittent conveyor is a ratchet conveyor with catches which grasp the bobbins by the protruding tubes and pushes them into a predetermined position. During the back stroke, the catches move out of the way of the tube ends.
Claims36
A textile machine, comprising:
- at least one conveyor belt disposed along at least one side thereof for conveying cross-wound bobbins therealong;
- an intermittent conveying device disposed adjacent the front end of said conveyor belt in the direction of conveyance, said intermittent conveying device configured on an end stock of said textile machine and comprising means for receiving and positioning bobbins from said conveyor belt into a predetermined spaced apart pattern therealong;
- a palletizing device disposed relative said intermittent conveying device so as to retrieve said bobbins positioned therealong, said palletizing device comprising grasping means for transferring said bobbins from said intermittent conveying device to a receptacle in said predetermined spaced apart pattern;
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- a bobbin manipulating device operably disposed relative said conveyor belt and said intermittent conveying device for orienting said bobbins prior to said bobbins being positioned by said receiving and positioning means.
A process for positioning bobbins received from a conveyor belt of a textile machine, said process comprising the steps of:
- transferring the bobbins from the textile machine conveyor belt to an intermittent conveyor device configured on an end stock of the textile machine;
- manipulating the bobbins with a manipulating device prior to said transferring so that the bobbins are oriented in the same direction and conicity along the intermittent conveyor device;
- automatically and sequentially positioning the bobbins along the intermittent conveying device in a spaced apart pattern which matches a pattern in a receptacle to which the bobbins will be transferred;
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- with a grasping device retrieving the bobbins from the intermittent conveyor in their spaced apart pattern and transferring the bobbins to a pallet having positions for the spaced apart bobbins.
A bobbin positioning device configurable with a textile machine having a conveyor for conveying bobbins formed thereby to one end thereof, said device comprising:
- an intermittent conveying device disposed adjacent the front end of said textile machine conveyor in the direction of conveyance, said intermittent conveying device comprising means for receiving and positioning bobbins from said textile machine conveyor into a predetermined spaced apart pattern therealong through contact with protruding bobbin tubes extending from at least one side of said bobbins;
- a palletizing device disposed relative said intermittent conveying device so as to retrieve said bobbins positioned therealong, said palletizing device comprising grasping means for transferring said bobbins from said intermittent conveying device to a receptacle in said predetermined spaced apart pattern;
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- a bobbin manipulating device operably disposed relative said textile machine conveyor and said intermittent conveying device for positioning said bobbins into a desired orientation prior to said bobbins being positioned by said receiving and positioning means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.