Transport system for a textile machine

US5845864A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Ferdinand-Josef Hermanns · Erkelenz, DE
• Helmut Kohlen · Erkelenz, DE
• Reinhard Groneberg · Mönchengladbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 1997
• Grant date: Dec 8, 1998
• Expiry date: Sep 10, 2017

Classification

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

Abstract

A textile package transport system utilizing transport plates for transporting spinning cops, particularly within a textile machine which produces cheeses. Each transport plate has an information storage medium in the form of a magnet of ferromagnetic material having a high retentivity encodable by selective polarization thereof. Electrically chargeable encoding coils are arranged in the transport system to selectively apply a defined polarity to the magnets. The encoding coils are actuated by way of sensor signals generated as a function of a processing status of the spinning cop and Hall sensors are utilized for detecting the respective polarity of the magnets. Controllable electric switches are disposed in the transport system for controlling the conveyance of the transport plates within the system.