Back to results
US 5,853,137 AGranted
Cheese-producing textile machine
AssigneeW. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
InventorsPaul Straaten, Ulrich Fechter, Dieter Spinnen, Jurgen Enger, Hermann-Josef Vest
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Loading patent…
Loading patent…
AssigneeW. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
InventorsPaul Straaten, Ulrich Fechter, Dieter Spinnen, Jurgen Enger, Hermann-Josef Vest
Estimating the term…
A cheese-producing textile machine 1 having a plurality of winding stations 2 with respective separate winding station computers 39 and a unit 23 for servicing the winding stations 2. The textile machine 1 has a central control unit 37 and the service unit 23 has a separate control computer 38. These control devices 37, 38 and 39 are connected with each other by means of a machine bus 40. During the process of replacing a finished cheese with an empty tube at any winding station, a cheese brake integrated into the winding creel 18 and/or a creel lifting device 49 can be actuated by the service unit computer 38 via the machine bus 40 in a pulsed manner when needed, for example to dislodge a cheese 11 which is stuck in the winding creel.
A cheese-producing textile machine comprising a plurality of winding stations, each winding station having a winding station computer and an openable creel device for winding a cheese, the creel device having elements for holding and manipulating the cheese, a unit for servicing the winding stations, the servicing unit having a control computer and manipulating devices for removing a cheese from the creel device and for inserting an empty tube into the creel device of a respective winding station, and means for transmitting control signals between the winding station computers and the service unit computer, the service unit computer having means for issuing a control command to one of the winding station computers for the actuation of at least one of the cheese holding and manipulating elements thereof after opening of the creel device to assist in discharge of a finished cheese for replacement with an empty tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.