Bobbin transport system for a bobbin winding machine

US6089494A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Leo Tholen · Heinsberg, DE
• Uwe Fabelje · Mönchengladbach, DE
• Helmut Kohlen · Erkelenz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 26, 1999
• Grant date: Jul 18, 2000
• Expiry date: Jan 26, 2019

Classification

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

Abstract

In a bobbin winding machine with plural winding stations (13), a bobbin transport system for conveying bobbins to be unwound to and from the winding stations comprises a feed track (10), an oppositely located removal track (14) and plural transverse transport tracks (16) extending therebetween through an unwinding position (17) of an associated winding station. The winding station (13) has a positioning element (18), which positions and holds a transport element (11) with a spinning bobbin (12) in the unwinding position and releases it after unwinding. A device (31), preferably combined as an integral unit with the positioning element (18), is additionally associated with each transverse transport track to limit the capacity of the transverse transport track to accept only a single transport element (11) between the positioning element (18) and the removal track (14).