Method and device for replacing a sliver container
US4033104A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 16, 1976 |
| Grant date | Jul 5, 1977 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 16, 1996 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
- CPC primaryD01H9/008
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Method of replacing a sliver container in a spinning machine formed of a plurality of individual spinning stations, sliver containers being disposed in tandem in two rows by means of a transporting device carrying a limited supply of the containers and being constrained to travel on a given travel path along the spinning machine, which includes disposing at the spinning machine a respective pair of sliver containers in tandem on a carriage or slide movable transversely to the given travel path of the transporting device, loading the transporting device with filled sliver containers at one end of the spinning machine and unloading the transporting device of exchanged sliver containers at the same one end of the spinning machine or at the other end thereof, shuttling the transporting device back and forth, ready for operation past the spinning stations of the spinning machine after the transporting device has been loaded with filled sliver containers, stopping the transporting device in front of a sliver container of a respective spinning station in response to a signal from the respective spinning station that sliver is missing from the respective sliver container and performing the…
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