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Arrangement of service positions for maintenance apparatuses on a textile machine

US6772697B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 20, 2002
Grant dateAug 10, 2004
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Expiry dateJun 20, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD01H15/013
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention concerns an arrangement of service positions for maintenance apparatus, which can travel on a guide rail along a multiplicity of similar workstations on a first side of a textile machine, wherein a maintenance apparatus in a first service position at the elevation of a machine framing of the textile machine can be pivoted away from, or transversely withdrawn from the guide rail. Per side of the textile machine, at least two maintenance apparatuses are exclusively assigned thereto, whereby the guide rail on the first side, at least at one end of the textile machine, is elongated beyond the textile machine and a second service position is placed on the elongated guide rail. In this way, it becomes possible, with a large number of workstations to assure the shortest possible duration of a standstill, wherein in the case of a failure or preventive unkeep of one maintenance apparatus, another maintenance apparatus can serve a workstation in a short time.

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