Assembly for readying yarn packages for unwinding at a textile winding machine

US5056725A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Ulrich Wirtz · Mönchengladbach, DE
• Helmut Hensen · Rheydt, DE
• Helmut Kohlen · Erkelenz, DE
• Paul Surkamp · Kempen, DE
• Hans Grecksch · Mönchengladbach, DE
• Dietmar Engelhardt · Mönchengladbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 1990
• Grant date: Oct 15, 1991
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2010

Classification

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

Abstract

A yarn package handling assembly is provided for handling yarn packages transported on individual package support members on a textile winding machine. The yarn package handling assembly includes a yarn end disposing arrangement operable to dispose the yarn ends of yarn packages into preferred preliminary dispositions for handling at the winding stations of the machine. Another yarn end disposing arrangement is provided for more aggressively acting on yarn packages to dispose their yarn ends in a preferred preliminary disposition where the first arrangement was unsuccessful, handling yarn packages in a special manner to dispose their yarn ends in a preferred preliminary disposition and the yarn packages prepared by the more aggressive yarn end disposing arrangement are transported along a second transport path back to the path for feeding packages from the first-mentioned arrangement to the winding stations. According to one aspect of the present invention, a tube stripping device can be provided for stripping yarn from tubes. According to another aspect of the present invention, a yarn amount sensing member senses the presence of yarn on tubes discharged from the winding stations …