Equipment for transporting and handling weft-yarn stock bobbins

US5287895A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Sulzer Brothers Limited · CH

Inventors

• Tonny Raaijmakers · Winterthur, CH
• Gregor Gebald · Rheydt, DE
• Manfred Langen · Mönchengladbach, DE
• Helmut Bungter · Viersen, DE
• Hans-Peter Schmitz · Mönchengladbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 1992
• Grant date: Feb 22, 1994
• Expiry date: Apr 20, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S414/121
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An equipment for transporting, handling and feeding stock bobbins to a loom having a preparation station (5) for the charging of bobbin holders (12) with stock bobbins (4) and a transport loop (7) for transporting these bobbin holders (12) towards looms. The looms are arranged in groups and for returning bobbin holders (12') containing empty bobbin tubes towards the preparation station (5), as well as at least one storage section (7c) branching off the transport loop (7) for receiving a number of the bobbin holders (12, 12') which corresponds with the need of bobbins at the time by at least one of the groups of looms (1a, 1b, . . . 1n). For the exchange of the bobbin holders (12' or 12 respectively) on the looms a loading mechanism (18) is provided which is mounted on a secondary transport mechanism (10) which may be moved independently of the transport loop (7) towards a number of groups of looms (1a, 1b, . . . 1n) and is intended for temporarily receiving the bobbin holders (12, 12') which may be fed from and returned to the storage section (7c). Through this execution a simple clearly arranged method of construction of the equipment is achieved, which makes possible a loading of…