Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for automatically doffing yarn packages and donning empty bobbins on a winder

US4441660A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 27, 1982
Grant dateApr 10, 1984
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Expiry dateMay 27, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H2701/31
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A power-driven, wheeled vehicle which interacts automatically with winders in a spinning area to doff completed yarn packages, insert empty bobbins on standby chucks of the winder, deliver the packages to an overhead powered conveyor to place the winder in condition for another cycle and to move to another winder to repeat the operations.

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