Method and apparatus for transporting yarn packages

US4974718A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Hans Raasch · Wittlich, DE
• Helmut Feuerlohn · Wittlich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 6, 1988
• Grant date: Dec 4, 1990
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/31
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A yarn package transferring apparatus having a slide for sliding yarn packages thereon from a yarn processing machine and a vertical endless belt assembly for raising the packages from the bottom of the slide to a conveyor which carries the packages for delivering to a location for further handling. The slide has an apparatus for orienting a predetermined leading or trailing end of the packages entering the slide for sliding thereon and a recess adjacent its lower end for uniformly positioning the packages for receipt by the vertical endless belt. A plurality of inclined platforms regularly spaced along the vertical endless belt translationally carry the packages to a package stripper which removes the supported packages from the platforms and loads the packages onto the conveyor.