Arrangement for exchange of empty bobbins with full bobbins in a bobbin creel

US6769854B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Neuenhauser Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Jörg Wolf · Neuenhaus, DE
• Bernd Keen · Nordhorn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 3, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 3, 2004
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S414/123
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An arrangement for exchanging empty bobbins with full bobbins includes a creel having lateral delivery positions for holding filament-carrying bobbins for delivery of filaments to a textile machine. Disposed above the creel is a bobbin carrier which has several transport positions for bobbins and is moveably guided in a rail for travel in suspended disposition along a travel path. Transfer units are positioned on either side of the creel for transferring bobbins between the creel and the bobbin carrier and include an upright moveable along the creel and at least one support moveable along the upright and having receptacles for the bobbins. The receptacles are moveable horizontally relative to the support, wherein the delivery positions of the creel that neighbor the transfer unit are provided at a number and at a distance which corresponds to a number of and a vertical distance of the transport positions on the bobbin carrier.