Abstract: A transporter is constructed to exchange an empty cloth beam for a full cloth beam of a weaving machine; the cloth being wound into the empty beam while the empty beams remains in the transporter. The transporter has a pair of gripper arm which are automatically acutated in order to transfer a full cloth beam from the weaving machine into the transporter. The gripper arms thereafter move a wind-on beam within the transporter into a position to effect a transfer of the cloth to a fresh cloth beam in the transporter. The gripper arms then move the fresh cloth beam into the weaving machine.

Abstract: After the cloth beam has been removed from the weaving machine, the fabric is looped over an empty cloth beam in the transporter by a wind-on beam. The fabric is then cut by a cutter and pressed by a blade against the periphery of the empty cloth beam. The wind-on beam travels about the empty cloth beam to a position to permit the cloth beam to wind on the cloth while pressing the folded end of the fabric between the cloth beam and the first winding of fabric on the beam.