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US 6,470,543 B1Granted
Method of and apparatus for removing yarn residue from tubes carrying same
AssigneeVetrotex Deutschland GmbH
InventorEdmund Kamann
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Abstract
The invention concerns a method of removing thread residues which are found on a tube. According to the invention the method is characterized in that a water jet operates on the surface of the tube. The invention further relates to an apparatus for removing thread components found ion at least one tube. According to the invention the apparatus is characterized in that it includes at least one nozzle that is so arranged in the liquid jet emerging from the nozzle is trained at at least one location on the surface of the tube.
Claims5
A method of removing yarn residues from bobbin tubes comprising the steps of:
- mounting a multiplicity of bobbin tubes on respective holders of a conveyor;
- displacing a plurality of said bobbin tubes into a cutting station along said conveyor so that a given number of said bobbin tubes are located simultaneously in said cutting station;
- directing from a number of nozzles in said cutting station equal to said given number respective cutting jets of water against surfaces of respective bobbin tubes to cut through yarn residues on said tubes;
- entraining all of said nozzles on a common rod axially along said bobbin tubes whereby said jets are moved substantially along lengths of the tube in said cutting station;
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- removing yarn residues which have been cut through by said jets from the respective bobbin tubes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.