Transport system in a pot spinning machine

US5515672A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Karl Koltze · Mönchengladbach, DE
• Robert Hartel · Aachen, DE
• Joachim Stiller · Wegberg, DE
• Karl-Josef Brockmanns · Anrath, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 6, 1994
• Grant date: May 14, 1996
• Expiry date: Jul 6, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D01H1/08
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Because of the pot spinning process, it is more difficult to automate the supply of empty tubes, respooling of the spinning cake on an empty tube, and the removal of the spinning cops in a pot spinning machine than with other spinning processors. The present invention provides a completely automatic exchange of spinning cops for empty tubes at the spinning stations of a pot spinning machine by utilizing the yarn guides of pot spinning stations to place full yarn cops produced thereat into an upright position on carriers located on a movable conveyor extending underneath the spinning pots. With the spinning cops deposited onto the conveyor and with the yarn guide returned to a spinning position, the conveyor can transport the carriers with the spinning cops away and can deliver empty tubes to the spinning stations for receipt by the yarn guides to continue the spinning process.