Apparatus for rotatably positioning textile yarn winding tubes about their lengthwise axes while supported on tube carriers

US5127509A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Kohlen · Erkelenz, DE
• Paul Surkamp · Kempen, DE
• Helmuth Hensen · Mönchengladbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 12, 1991
• Grant date: Jul 7, 1992
• Expiry date: Jun 12, 2011

Classification

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

Abstract

An apparatus for automatic rotational positioning of textile yarn winding tubes about their lengthwise axes while being transported on peg-tray tube carriers along a conveyor belt or other transport path includes a positioning station having a pair of rotatable positioning rollers disposed at the station along one side of the transport path at a sufficiently close spacing to one another to prevent passage of the peg trays therebetween. Each peg tray has a base plate whose annular surface is formed of a magnetically attractable material such as iron and at least the upstream one of the positioning rollers is magnetized to selectively exert a magnetic force on the peg trays at controllable intervals. As desired, the downstream positioning roller can also be magnetized.