Trolley to return bobbin sleeve - has vertical elevator at bobbin sleeve trolley to align random sleeves for feed to the spinner

摘要

To feed empty bobbin sleeves returned from a winder to a spinning station, the sleeves (30) are carried in a random lie to the spinner (1) to be held in an intermediate store while still unoriented. They are then automatically aligned in parallel with each other and fed successively to take-in appts. (3). The sleeves (30) are separately stored and aligned, and each aligned sleeve (30) is counted. If there is a surplus of sleeves, through the count, they are returned to another intermediate store. At least one intermediate store (12) is at the textile machine to take the unoriented sleeves (30) in a container. One of the container walls is at least partially formed by a vertical elevator (9,9') moving upwards with carrier bars (10,10') placed horizontally across the direction of movement and at intervals. The base (13) of the container (12) is angled downwards towards the vertical elevator (9,9') at an angle (alpha) of 10-25 (pref. 15-20% deg.) to the horizontal. ADVANTAGE - The method eliminates the need for a special container for the empty sleeves.