Flexible transport system for groupwise transport of textile yarn packages including a mobile support unit for shuttling textile yarn packages between two textile machines

US5247788A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Josef Bertrams · Edingen-Neckarhausen, DE
• Karl-Heinz Mack · Bad Birnbach, DE
• Manfred Langen · Mönchengladbach, DE
• Gregor Gebald · Rheydt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 1991
• Grant date: Sep 28, 1993
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D01H9/187
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A transport system for transporting tube support members between textile machines includes a mobile transport unit having a plurality of superposed floorings each of which supports and guides several rows of the tube support members. An onsite transfer assembly adjacent each textile machine is operable to simultaneously load tube support members onto the parallel support paths of the mobile support unit while unloading tube support members from the parallel paths onto the textile machine. Each flooring of the mobile support unit includes a transverse support surfaces at each end of the parallel support paths onto which a newly loaded row of tube support members can be positioned for subsequent movement into the parallel support paths. Each flooring also includes an offload transverse support surface for supporting a row of the tube support members for transverse movement thereof onto an intermediate holding assembly of the onsite transfer apparatus (change assembly to apparatus above). An onload platform device is operable to move a plurality of tube support members to a selected vertical position adjacent each of the floorings of the mobile support unit for transfer of the tube su…