US 6,014,592 A · Cheese-producing textile machine

Abstract

A cheese-producing textile machine 1 with a central control unit 37 and a plurality of winding stations 2 which are serviced by an autonomously operating service unit 23. The central control unit 37 of the textile machine 1 is connected via a machine bus 40 with individual winding station computers 39 as well as with a control device 38 of the service unit 23. Control programs A, B, C, D, etc. are stored in the control device 38 of the service unit 23, and are specially adapted to various respective structural configurations of the service unit 23. It is possible in a simple manner to activate the control programs A, B, C, D, etc. in correspondence to the particular prevailing structural configuration of the service unit 23 by means of appropriate software encoding via an input element 41 on the central control unit 23.

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Dependent claims

A cheese-producing textile machine comprising:

a plurality of adjacent work stations,
a central control computer dedicated to the textile machine,
a plurality of individual control computers respectively associated with the work stations and connected in data communication with the central control computer, and
a service unit movable along the work stations and having a plurality of different possible structural configurations, said service unit including a control computer having stored therein a plurality of alternative control programs selectively activated through software encoding for controlling the operation of the service unit, each control program corresponding to one of a plurality of the different possible structural configurations of the service unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Cheese-producing textile machine

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Cheese-producing textile machine

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