Machine for ordering textile tubes for a continuous spinning machine

Machine for providing a continuous spinning machine with an ordered sequence of textile tubes, said machine comprising automatic ordering means for automatically ordering textile tubes without manual labor to form said ordered sequence of said textile tubes and means for automatically conducting said ordered sequence of said textile tubes to said continuous spinning machine to a predetermined one of two sides of said continuous spinning machine and means for adjustment of said ordering means for ordering different sized ones of said textile tubes;

• wherein said automatic ordering means has a hopper including means for holding said textile tubes, said hopper having a rear wall;
• two identical parallel and vertical conveyor belts located at said rear wall of said hopper and each provided with a plurality of textile tube holders spaced from each other along said belts;
• a separate electric drive means for operating each of said conveyor belts, said electric drive means being operable independently of each other to drive said conveyor belts independently of each other so that, when said conveyor belts are operated by said electric drive means, said textile tubes held in said hopper are received by said textile tube holders and raised to an end of said conveyor belts remote from said hopper;
• and wherein said means for automatically conducting includes bottom discharge means for guided discharge of said textile tubes to a distributor of said continuous spinning machine and lateral guides for guiding said textile tubes from said conveyor belts to said bottom discharge means;
• wherein each of said textile tube holders is a rubber section vulcanized directly on said conveyor belt.

Machine for providing a continuous spinning machine with an ordered sequence of textile tubes, said machine comprising automatic ordering means for automatically ordering textile tubes without manual labor to form said ordered sequence of said textile tubes and means for automatically conducting said ordered sequence of said textile tubes to said continuous spinning machine to predetermined one of two sides of said continuous spinning machine and means for adjustment of said ordering means for ordering different sized ones of said textile tubes;

• wherein said automatic ordering means has a hopper including means for holding said textile tubes, said hopper having a rear wall;
• two identical parallel and vertical conveyor belts located at said rear wall of said hopper and each provided with a plurality of textile tube holders spaced from each other along said belt, said conveyor belts being provided with at least one aperture between adjacent ones of said textile tube holders;
• a separate electric drive means for operating each of said conveyor belts, said electric drive means being operable independently of each other to drive said conveyor belts independently of each other, so that, when said conveyor belts are operated by said electric drive means, said textile tubes held in said hopper are received by said textile tube holders and raised to an end of said conveyor belts remote from said hopper;
• and wherein said means for automatically conducting includes bottom discharge means for guided discharge of said textile tubes to a distributor of said continuous spinning machine and lateral guides for guiding said textile tubes from said conveyor belts to said bottom discharge means;
• and ejection means for ejecting excess ones of said textile tubes carried on each of said textile tube holders during elevation of said textile tubes so that a single one of said textile tubes remains on each of said textile tube holders when said textile tube holder reaches said end of said conveyor belts, said ejection means comprising at least one spring mounted behind said conveyor belts and positioned to emerge from each of said at least one apertures in said conveyor belts and to eject said excess textile tubes on said textile tube holders.

Machine for providing a continuous spinning machine with an ordered sequence of textile tubes, said machine comprising automatic ordering means for automatically ordering textile tubes without manual labor to form said ordered sequence of said textile tubes and means for automatically conducting said ordered sequence of said textile tubes to said continuous spinning machine to a predetermined one of two sides of said continuous spinning machine and means for adjustment of said ordering means for ordering different sized ones of said textile tubes;

• wherein said automatic ordering means has a hopper including means for holding said textile tubes, said hopper having a rear wall;
• two identical parallel and vertical conveyor belts located at said rear wall of said hopper and provided with a plurality of textile tube holders spaced from each other along said belt;
• a separate electric drive means for operating each of said conveyor belts, said electric drive means being operable independently of each other to drive said conveyor belts independently of each other so that, when said conveyor belts are operated by said electric drive means, said textile tubes held in said hopper are received by said conveyor belts and are raised to an end of said conveyor belts remote from said hopper;
• and wherein said means for automatically conducting includes bottom discharge means for guided discharge of said textile tubes to a distributor of said continuous spinning machine and lateral guides for guiding said textile tubes from said conveyor belts to said bottom discharge means, wherein said bottom discharge means and said lateral guides are adjustable in width so that said automatic ordering means can form ordered sequences of differently dimensioned ones of said textile tubes after adjustment by said means for adjustment.

Machine for providing a continuous spinning machine with an ordered sequence of textile tubes, said machine comprising automatic ordering means for automatically ordering textile tubes without manual labor to form said ordered sequence of said textile tubes and means for automatically conducting said ordered sequence of said textile tubes to said continuous spinning machine to a predetermined one of two sides of said continuous spinning machine and means for adjustment of said ordering means for ordering different sized ones of said textile tubes;

• wherein said automatic ordering means has a hopper including means for holding said textile tubes having a rear wall;
• two identical parallel and vertical conveyor belts located at said rear wall of said hopper and each provided with a plurality of textile tube holders spaced from each other along said belt;
• a separate electric drive means for operating each of said conveyor belts, said electric drive means being operable independently of each other to drive said conveyor belts independently of each other so that, when said conveyor belts are operated by said electric drive means, said textile tubes are received on said conveyor belts and raised to an end of said conveyor belts remote from said hopper;
• and wherein said means for automatically conducting includes bottom discharge means for guided discharge of said textile tubes to a distributor of said continuous spinning machine and lateral guides for guiding said textile tubes from said conveyor belts to said bottom discharge means, and
• control-and-guidance means for guiding said textile tubes fed by said conveyor belts to said bottom discharge means, said control-and-guidance means comprising a pivotable cover having fasteners for mounting said cover and an end-of-travel detector in a lower portion of said pivotable cover including means for producing a signal for an instantaneous halt when an obstruction or pile-up of said textile tubes occurs.