Transport vehicle for sliver cans

Abstract

A transport vehicle transports a plurality of sliver cans between a can delivery station, work stations of a sliver processing textile machine, and a discharge station for empty cans along a given travel direction. The vehicle includes an undercarriage with a plurality of can parking places for the sliver cans. A plurality of can exchange mechanisms are provided, one for each can parking place. Each exchange mechanism includes a carriage supporting a respective one of the sliver cans. The carriage is slidable on the under-carriage transversly to the travel direction of the transport vehicle. A motor slidingly drives each of the carriages on the undercarriage. A can manipulating device, which is operatively associated with each of the carriages, displaces the sliver cans, setting them down and receiving them on a respective one of the carriages. The can manipulating device is mechanically coupled with the carriage such that, when the carriage is displaced relative to the undercarriage, the can manipulating device displaces the can relative to the carriage and the can manipulating device reaches an end of the carriage when the carriage reaches a fully shifted position relative to the undercarriage for exchanging the can.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.