Sliver container structure and method of exchanging sliver containers

A device for exchanging sliver containers in a textile machine which produces and stores sliver, comprising:

• a sliver coiling and depositing device having a lower section;
• a first conveyor for empty containers and a second conveyor for full sliver containers both in the lower section;
• a holder between the first and second conveyors for holding one of the empty containers that is positioned to be filled;
• a reversibly adjustable shifting frame supported on the coiling device, including carrying means for simultaneously grasping, raising and lowering both of the one container positioned to be filled by the coiling device and an adjacent empty container.

A sliver container for receiving sliver from a sliver producing textile machine, comprising a container having sides;

• a pair of handling members serving as handling means for the container and situated at opposite sides of the container, wherein
• the handling members include substantially T-shaped members comprising a vertically oriented bearing surface and a horizontally oriented raising surface;
• and
• the vertically oriented bearing surface comprises at least two vertical surfaces for receiving at least two transverse moving surfaces of a handling means and the horizontally oriented raising surface comprises at least two horizontal surfaces for receiving at least two raising surfaces of the handling means.