Yarn storage device for a textile machine
AssigneeNV Michel Va De Wiele
InventorsCharles Beauduin, Vincent Lampaert
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Abstract
A yarn storage device (1) for a yarn-processing machine including yarn storage spaces (2) and at least one yarn loader (3) which can be moved to a selected yarn storage space (2) in order to connect an end part of the yarn supply (14) to an end part of an external yarn supply, and to add an amount of yarn to said yarn storage space (2) by winding the yarn (100) onto a winding-up body (6) and then removing it from the winding-up body (6) in the wound-up state and to add it to the storage space (2). The present invention also relates to a corresponding method and a yarn-processing machine fitted with such a yarn storage device.
Claims33
Yarn storage device for a yarn-processing machine comprising at least two yarn storage spaces for storing a yarn supply, at least one yarn loader which is designed to be moved to a selected yarn storage space in order to connect an end of a yarn supply present in said yarn storage space to an end of an external yarn supply, and in order to add a certain amount of yarn in said yarn storage space, wherein each yarn loader is designed to first wind the yarn to be added onto a winding-up body and then to remove it from the winding-up body in the wound-up state and add it to the yarn storage space.
Yarn storage device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the yarn loader is designed to wind an amount of yarn onto the winding-up body, while the free end of the winding-up body is situated in the yarn storage space and in that, as new yarn windings are added to the winding-up body, the yarn windings which are already present on the winding-up body are moved towards the free end and are removed from the winding-up body and added to the yarn supply in the yarn storage space.
Method for replenishing a yarn supply for a yarn-processing machine, in which a yarn supply is provided in at least two yarn supply tubes and in which the yarn supply is replenished in a selected yarn storage space by connecting an end of the yarn in said yarn storage space with an end of the yarn in an external yarn supply and then adding a certain amount of yarn in said yarn supply, wherein the yarn to be added is wound onto a winding-up body and is then removed from the winding-up body in the wound-up state and added to the yarn storage space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.