Automatic cheese winder and method for operating an automatic cheese winder

US6290165A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Mund · Herzogenrath, DE
• Michael Heines · Nettetal, DE
• Michael Iding · Geldern, DE
• Torsten Forche · Hamminkeln, DE
• Stefan Terörde · Warendorf, DE
• Bernd-Rudiger Theele · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 23, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 23, 2019

Classification

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

Abstract

A method for operating an automatic cheese winder, having multiple winding stations (A, B, etc.) and a transportation system (21) for supplying the winding stations with spinning cops (39) and discharging them of empty tubes (40). The spinning cops are furnished by a preceding textile machine (30) having a spinning cop and empty tube transport device (31) communicating with the transportation system (21). The delivery of spinning cops to the winder (25) is continuously monitored by a sensor. A control device (46) of a tube monitor (24) assures that empty tube-equipped transport trays are kept on hand in the transportation system, and the tube monitor via the central control unit (27) initiates a controlled slow-down of the winder (25) into an energy-saving mode. Upon resumption of delivery of the spinning cops, the winder is accelerated from the energy-saving mode to an operating mode.