Bobbin changing apparatus for use in tobacco processing machines

US4744711A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Korber AG · DE

Inventors

• Bob Heitmann · Hamburg, DE
• Wolfgang Steiniger
• Peter Schumacher · Elmshorn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 8, 1985
• Grant date: May 17, 1988
• Expiry date: Nov 8, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S414/124
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for automatically transferring successive fresh bobbins from a magazine wherein the bobbins are stacked in horizontal planes to one of two reciprocable horizontal spindles which are carried by a pivotable holder has annular tongs with claws which are movable into engagement with the periphery of the topmost bobbin in the magazine, and a crank drive which changes the orientation of tongs during transport between the magazine and an unoccupied spindle so that a fresh bobbin which is engaged by the claws in the magazine is moved from its horizontal plane into a vertical plane and its core can receive the unoccupied spindle.