Traveling cleaner for textile manufacturing plant

A traveling cleaner for a textile manufacturing plant, comprising

• first and second rails arranged adjacent each other and extending above textile machines of the manufacturing plant, with the first and second rails each having an upper running surface extending therealong, and
• a carriage of a traveling cleaner having a carrying structure supported for movement along the rails and comprising three running wheels arranged to run on the running surfaces of the first and second rails, with the running wheels arranged at the corners of a triangle with a first running wheel running on the running surface of the first rail and second and third running wheels arranged one behind the other to run on the running surface of the second rail,
• wherein each running wheel is mounted to a wheel suspension unit which is in turn mounted to the carrying structure, with the suspension units which mount the second and third running wheels being mounted for relative rotation with the carrying structure about respective axes of rotation which are approximately at right angles to a plane of movement defined by the running surfaces of the rails, and with the suspension unit which mounts the first running wheel being fixed to the carrying structure so as to preclude such rotation, and
• wherein the suspension unit which mounts the first running wheel mounts a motor which is operatively connected for driving the first running wheel, and wherein the second and third running wheels are free running.

A traveling cleaner for a textile manufacturing plant, comprising

• first and second rails arranged adjacent each other and extending above textile machines of the manufacturing plant, with the first and second rails each having an upper running surface extending therealong, and
• a carriage of a traveling cleaner having a carrying structure supported for movement along the rails and comprising running wheels arranged to run on the running surfaces of the first and second rails, with the running wheels arranged at the corners of a triangle with a first running wheel running on the running surface of the first rail and second and third running wheels arranged one behind the other to run on the running surface of the second rail, and with at least the second and third running wheels being rotationally moveable about axes of rotation which extend approximately at right angles to a plane of movement defined by the running surfaces of the rails, and
• wherein at least one of the second and third running wheels is mounted on a wheel suspension unit which is mounted to the carrying structure so as to permit relative rotation about its associated one of said axes of rotation, and further comprising a sensor for the detection of bends in the rails, and a control system cooperating with the sensor for regulating the speed of the traveling cleaner so as to permit driving through the bends at reduced speed.