Process and device to store and seperate textile tubes
AssigneeRieter Ingolstadt Spinnereimaschinenbau AG
InventorsGerhard Grabovsky, Bernhard Stang
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process and apparatus for the random storage of tubes stacked on top of each other in a tube magazine, and for the transfer of the tubes at a transfer position to a conveyor. The tubes are stored randomly in the magazine with their longitudinal axes essentially parallel to each other. Tubes are separated between the transfer position and the magazine and are conveyed out of the magazine in the axial direction.
Claims19
A process for storing and transferring tubes at a textile machine, said process comprising randomly loading the tubes in a storage magazine with their axis being essentially parallel so that the tubes settle in a random undefined order within the storage magazine;
- moving the randomly loaded tubes towards a position for transfer from the storage magazine;
- separating the randomly loaded tubes into ordered pre-determined positions prior to transferring the tubes;
- transferring the tubes at the transfer position from their ordered positions to a conveyor device;
- and said transferring to a conveyor device further comprising conveying the tubes in a direction away from the storage magazine in a direction parallel to the axis of the tubes.
A textile spinning plant machine, said machine comprising a storage magazine having an unobstructed space therein for receipt of randomly disposed tubes loaded therein so that said tubes can settle in a random order adjacent each other;
- a conveyor device disposed adjacent a transfer position defined at said storage magazine, said conveyor configured for receipt of said tubes from said storage magazine in an ordered alignment;
- said storage magazine further comprising a plurality of stationary compartments defined therein between said unobstructed space and said transfer position, said compartments configured for guiding said randomly loaded tubes to said transfer position in a predetermined ordered alignment;
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- a slider device operably disposed between said transfer position and said conveyor device, said slider device engaging the tubes delivered from said transfer position and sliding said delivered tubes axially towards said conveyor device in a direction of movement parallel to the axis of said tubes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.