Abstract: A given plurality of empty round (cylindrical) cans are brought by a can carrier into an empty can magazine of a textile machine which produces a band output. These cans are taken from the can carrier, one after another, to be filled at a filling station from whence filled cans are sequentially moved to a just emptied can carrier in a full can magazine. This can carrier, after the receipt of a given plurality of filled cans, are transported out of the full can magazine. Subsequently, the can carrier, which, in the intervening time, has been emptied and is now to be found in the empty can magazine, is transported by means of an elevated crossover into the full can magazine, which has become free. For the well-timed release of a can carrier loaded with empty cans as well as the transporting of a can carrier from the filling operation loaded with filled cans, there is a Hold Station serving as a buffer zone for an empty can with its can carrier.

Abstract: A textile machine, more particularly a drawing frame, carries out two drawing passes while reducing as much as possible the harmful effects of any stoppage and eliminating the need for spare tubs holding processed slivers of cotton fibers.

Abstract: An apparatus for splicing a leading end of a first sliver deposited in a coiler can and a trailing end of an out-running second sliver fed into a fiber processing machine, includes a device for tapering the leading and trailing ends to obtain gradually tapered length portions thereof; a device for positioning the tapered length portions side by side to obtain a juxtapositioned relationship thereof; a pressure-applying constriction through which the first and second slivers pass for splicing together the leading and trailing ends by pressure; and a device for introducing the first sliver, spliced to the second sliver, into the fiber processing machine.

Abstract: A system includes a first drawing frame having a sliver output; a second drawing frame having a sliver input; and a conveyor apparatus for supplying, in a closed circuit, sliver-filled coiler cans from the output of the first drawing frame to the input of the second drawing frame and for supplying empty coiler cans from the input of the second drawing frame to the output of the first drawing frame. The conveyor apparatus includes first and second storage devices for supporting thereon a plurality of sliver-filled coiler cans and empty coiler cans, respectively. The storage devices are formed of respective conveyor tracks, each having a conveying device.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a textile machine, particularly a stretch machine with a can agitation apparatus (7) and/or a can exchange apparatus (4) which is situated in a first chamber (3), which chamber (3) communicates with the space surrounding the textile machine (1). The drive mechanism (72 or 43) of the can agitation apparatus (7) and/or the can exchange apparatus is located in an additional chamber (8 or 5) which is separated from the first chamber (3) by an aerodynamic separative element (6 or 60). Through the separation elements (6 or 60), connection elements (71 or 42) extend from the drive mechanism (72 or 43) to the can agitation apparatus (7) and/or the can exchange apparatus (4). A cleaning element (9) is made available to the first chamber (3) which cleaning element (9) (not shown) is able to be brought into action at specified times.

Abstract: A method for the exchange of full for empty rectangular spinning cans for a spinning machine having a plurality of spinning stations is described. With the method a conveying track is provided respectively between two rows of n spinning stations for the feeding of full sliver cans and the removal of empty sliver cans. In order to achieve that the conveying track can be simultaneously used as a holding area of a can circulation, as many as possible initially full sliver cans are stored on the conveying track and are exchanged in steps for empty cans at the spinning stations in the course of a back and forth movement in the conveying direction.

Abstract: A spinning can stand of a fiber sliver-processing machine such as a flyer or a jet spinning frame having a plurality of spindles in at least one row. Rectangular cans are used instead of round cans for reducing the expenditure for exchanging the spinning cans. Each unreeling spinning can or operating can has an instantaneous filling level. The filling level differs between adjacent operating cans by a fraction of the can filling. A full can or reserve can is allocated to the position of the operating can emptied to the greatest extent.

Abstract: A method for improving the monitoring of the fill state of a sliver can (5) at a spinning station of a textile machine processing sliver wherein a defined portion (24 or 124) of a can bottom (22) is initially kept free from sliver (6) while a predetermined amount of sliver (6) is deposited on an adjoining portion (25 or 125) of the can bottom (22) and only after the adjoining portion (25 or 125) is covered with sliver, is the defined portion (24 or 124) covered with sliver (6). The method includes monitoring the defined (24 or 124) portion while the sliver is being drawn out and detecting when the defined portion of the can bottom (22) is uncovered to trigger a signal for exchanging an empty can for a filled sliver can. In one preferred embodiment, a sensor (27) for monitoring the defined portion (24 or 124) and detecting an uncovered can bottom is mounted on a service unit (16) which passes over the spinning stations.

Abstract: A flat container of textile fiber sliver for receiving a sliver produced on a sliver producing textile machine and for feeding the sliver to a sliver processing machine taking over the sliver. The flat container has a movable bottom adapted to move vertically in the flat container, and includes an upper plate arranged adjustably and intended to receive the sliver being deposited, and a lower plate situated under the upper plate and likewise arranged adjustably. The upper plate and the lower plate are mutually coupled by an auxiliary coupling device permitting a common motion and independent motion of the upper and lower plates of the movable bottom.

Abstract: A manipulating device for can changing between a can changing carriage and a row of payout cans in a spinning machine is described for the case where rectangular cans are used. To automate the transfer of the cans without substantially increasing the expense for space in the region of the carriage compared with the case of manual transfer, and without having to engage an empty can, which is to be pulled out of a row of cans, from behind or beneath the can, a substantially one-piece can carrier is provided, which is supported displaceably, crosswise to the carriage travel direction, in a rail guide on the carriage and which on each of its longitudinal ends has a preferably pivotably supported gripper, each for coupling to one short side of the cans.

Abstract: A combination of a sliver intake assembly for guiding and introducing simultaneously a plurality of slivers into a drawing frame and a suction assembly for removing waste, such as dust or fiber fly. The combination includes an emplacement situated below the sliver intake assembly for accommodating a plurality of coiler cans from which slivers are withdrawn by the sliver intake assembly. The suction assembly has a suction duct which extends along the sliver intake assembly in a region thereof for drawing waste thereinto by vacuum.

Abstract: A coiler can handling apparatus includes a platform rotatable about a substantially vertical platform axis for rotating a coiler can standing thereon; a travelling coiler can exchanger for moving a coiler can onto and moving a coiler can off the platform; and a centering device for centering a coiler can on the platform relative to the platform axis. The centering device includes first, second and third support rollers for engaging a lateral surface of the coiler can supported upright on the platform. The first, second and third support rollers lie on a common imaginary cylinder having a cylinder axis. The centering device further has a positioning arrangement for holding the first, second and third support rollers at the platform, apart from the travelling coiler can exchanger, whereby the coiler can exchanger travels without carrying therewith the first, second and third support rollers.

Abstract: In the automatic transport of rectangular spinning cans between a can filling station and the work stations of textile machines which process sliver, it is known to arrange a can storage device in association with the can filling station, with a section of the can storage device for receiving empty cans from a traveling can transport vehicle and a section for storing and transferring full cans to the can transport vehicle, and with the can filling station between these two sections. The present invention contemplates the ordered and positionally exact transfer of the cans to and from the can transport vehicle by transferring of empty cans from the can transport vehicle to the empty can storage section such that the transferred empty cans immediately follow the empty cans already stored thereat. In the transfer of full cans to the can transport vehicle, a leading one of the full cans to be transferred is transferred into a corresponding leading one of the occupyable parking spaces on the can transport vehicle.

Abstract: A sliver-processing system has at least one sliver-processing textile machine with at least one work station, at least one discharge station for filled sliver cans and a discharge station for empty cans. A sliver can assembly includes a sliver can with a round cross section commuting back and forth between the at least one discharge station for filled sliver cans and the discharge station for empty sliver cans. A polygonal pallet is connected to the can and has a position for a starting sliver end being definitively fixed relative to the can and relative to the pallet for automatic insertion at the at least one work station.

Abstract: A drawing frame system includes first and second drawing frames, wherein the second drawing frame utilizes the sliver produced by the first drawing frame. A can filling device is situated at the output of the first drawing frame for charging consecutively supplied cans with sliver. The second drawing frame has first and second creel rows each holding a plurality of cans. Sliver is supplied to the second drawing frame from the cans alternatingly from the first and second creel rows. A coiler can transport system moves sliver-filled cans from the can filling device to the first and second creel rows and also moves empty cans from the first and second creel rows to the can filling device.

Abstract: A coiler can transporting assembly for advancing coiler cans in a transporting direction to a sliver-producing textile machine. The assembly includes coiler cans each having a bottom forming a conveying face; and a conveyor element having a discharge end and an upper transporting surface engaging the conveying face of the coiler cans when in an upright, standing position on the conveyor element. The conveying face and the transporting surface have a low friction value relative to one another. A can-stopping device is situated at a location along the conveyor element and has first and second states. In the first state the can-stopping device blocks advancement of a coiler can while the conveyor element continues to move in the transporting direction. In the second state the can-stopping device allows advancement of a coiler can therethrough.

Abstract: A system for charging a coiler can of elongated horizontal cross section with sliver obtained from a sliver producing fiber processing machine includes a stationarily supported rotary coiler head discharging sliver in coils; a sled disposed underneath the coiler head for receiving a coiler can in an upright orientation; and a sled-reciprocating device for imparting a rapid back-and-forth motion to the sled during discharge of sliver from the coiler head to effect a deposition of sliver coils into the coiler can along a length thereof.

Abstract: A system for transporting sliver between a sliver-producing textile machine and a sliver-consuming textile machine includes a coiler can containing the sliver; a carriage for transporting the coiler can; and a can-handling arrangement for moving the coiler can onto and off the carriage. The can-handling arrangement has a can-pusher for tilting the coiler can standing externally of the carriage on an emplacement and a device for reaching underneath the can bottom.

Abstract: A process, and machine for carrying out the process, for severing a fiber sliver at a textile machine includes conveying the fiber sliver by a pair calendar rollers through a sliver guiding channel of a rotary plate into a sliver can disposed below the rotary plate. The calendar rollers are stopped, and thus also the conveyance of the sliver. A severing point is defined in the sliver downstream of the calendar rollers by drafting the fiber sliver with a moveable clamping device at a desired location of the severing point. Once the fiber has been drafted at the severing point, the sliver is severed by displacement of the can from below the rotary plate.

Abstract: An apparatus for handling flat coiler cans before, during and after filling the cans with sliver by a sliver producing textile machine. The apparatus includes an empty-can storing device; a full-can storing device; an intermediate space defined between the empty-can storing device and the full-can storing device; and a sliver filling station for receiving a can to be filled. The sliver filling station includes a can-reciprocating device for moving the can back and forth while sliver is deposited thereinto. The apparatus further includes a conveyor extending between the intermediate space and the sliver filling station for moving a can to be filled into and withdrawing a filled can from the sliver filling station; and a transferring device for transferring a can to be filled from the intermediate space onto the conveyor and for transferring a filled can from the conveyor into the intermediate space.

Abstract: A sliver can transport system includes a can vehicle for transporting sliver cans while traveling between a can delivery station, work stations of at least one sliver-processing textile machine having machine parts with fixed locations, a discharge station for empty cans, and path locations within the can transport system. The can vehicle has parking places for the cans, a loading and unloading device for the cans, and a positioning device for positioning the can vehicle relative to the parking places for the cans. At least two spaced-apart can stands each have at least two parking places for sliver cans and the parking places are each combined into self-contained structural units. The structural units have vertically adjustable floor supports for vertically positioning the can stands, and stops for engaging at least one of the fixed locations of the machine parts, a further one of the can stands and the path locations, for horizontal positioning in two degrees of freedom.

Abstract: Sliver is delivered from a drawing frame to an open-end spinning frame in sliver containing cans and, at a transfer location along the travel path of a servicing device for the spinning frame, sliver is removed from the cans in partial lots and transferred to a sliver transport location on the service device to be transported to a spinning station whose sliver supply has been exhausted, whereat the servicing device performs the transfer of the sliver lot to the spinning station as well as the introduction end the piecing-up of the sliver.

Abstract: A method of processing and depositing sliver includes the following steps: drafting the running sliver in a drawing frame; forwarding the sliver by the drawing frame to a coiler head having a sliver outlet; depositing the sliver by the coiler head into a coiler can located underneath the coiler head; replacing a coiler can filled with sliver with an empty coiler can; and rupturing the sliver during the replacing step. To obtain the desired rupture of the sliver, the draft of the running sliver is increased in the drawing frame to such an extent as to provide a location of reduced thickness in the running sliver. Thereupon the filled can is moved away from under the coiler head when the location of reduced thickness in the running sliver is situated in a zone of the sliver outlet of the coiler head.

Abstract: Disclosed is a spinning mill machine for the production of fiber sliver and for the deposit of the fiber sliver in spinning cans, with an automatic can replacement device to push out full cans from the machine. A can conveying carriage is centered at the spinning mill machine by means of a centering unit. The can conveying carriage is locked at the machine in order to hold the carriage in a receiving-ready position. A signal transmitter is provided to inform the machine by signal when the can conveying carriage is full. According to the invention the centering unit, the locking unit and the signal transmitter are installed in one single assembly in immediate proximity of the spinning machine.

Abstract: The process for the positioning of a fiber sliver end is characterized in that in the stopped position of the flat can a drafting point is formed in the fiber sliver between the pair of calendar rollers and the sliver guiding channel and in that subsequent displacement of the flat can into a transfer position causes the fiber sliver to be severed at the drafting point and to be pulled out of the rotary plate, so that it is positioned with a constant length on the flat can.

Abstract: A sliver coiler apparatus includes a machine frame; a stationary coiler plate supported in the machine frame; a coiler head rotatably supported in the coiler plate; a platform situated underneath the coiler plate; a coiler can positioned on the platform and having a vertically displaceable can bottom; and a control assembly for controlling a rate of downward movement of the can bottom. The control assembly includes an electronic control device; a mechanism for lowering the can bottom; and a pressure sensor responding to forces exerted by the sliver as the sliver filling operation proceeds. The drive of the lowering mechanism and the pressure sensor are connected to the electronic control device which controls the rate with which the mechanism moves the can bottom downwardly as a function of the signals generated by the pressure sensor.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to the deposit of the fiber sliver end after the filling of a flat can. It is the object of the invention to deposit and prepare the sliver end in the area of the filling station on a full flat can in order to facilitate automatic handling of the flat can during transportation as well as automatic handling of the sliver end on a spinning machine at the least possible cost. The invention assumes that the positions between outlet (15) of the rotary plate (12), severing device (18) and flat can (1) in relation to each other are adjustable and that an influence on the point of deposit of the sliver end and on the length of the sliver end results from this selected setting.

Abstract: A conveyor apparatus for moving flat coiler cans into and out of a sliver filling station and for reciprocating the cans in the sliver filling station while being filled with sliver by a sliver producing textile machine, includes a conveyor element extending along a filling path within the sliver filling station and along a conveying path beyond the sliver filling station; and a drive for unidirectionally moving the conveyor element to introduce a can into or withdraw a can from the sliver filling station along the conveying path and for reciprocating the conveyor element to displace a can back-and-forth along the filling path.

Abstract: A cans exchanging system whereby, out of cans arranged in plural rows in the longitudinal direction of a spinning frame, plural empty cans arranged in the direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the spinning frame are carried out from the rows of cans, and plural full-loaded cans are carried in simultaneously to the carried-out position of the empty cans. A sliver piecing device for piecing together slivers, from sliver feeding cans to a spinning machine and slivers from full-loaded cans while carrying both cans on a cans exchanging carrier is mounted on the cans exchanging carrier.

Abstract: A sliver piecing unit 80 includes three sets of separable rollers 804 and 844, 806 and 846, and 808 and 848 for nipping a sliver S1 fed from a consumed can to a spinning machine. A throttling nozzle 870 is arranged between the second and third sets of rollers 806 and 846, and 808 and 848. The draft ratio between the first and second sets of rollers 804 and 844, and 806 and 846 can be varied between 1.0 and 2.0. A sliver feed unit 70 includes a separable first and second roller 702a and 702b for feeding a sliver S2 from a full can to the piecing unit 80 so that the slivers S1 and S2 are combined. The draft ratio between the first and second sets of rollers 804 and 844, and 806 and 846 is controlled to obtain combined slivers of a thickness corresponding to that of a single sliver. A nipping belt 884 and nipping roller 886 are provided at the outlet from the third set of the rollers 808 and 804 for obtaining a rubbing movement in the combined slivers.

Abstract: A transport vehicle transports a plurality of sliver cans between a can delivery station, work stations of a sliver processing textile machine, and a discharge station for empty cans along a given travel direction. The vehicle includes an undercarriage with a plurality of can parking places for the sliver cans. A plurality of can exchange mechanisms are provided, one for each can parking place. Each exchange mechanism includes a carriage supporting a respective one of the sliver cans. The carriage is slidable on the under-carriage transversly to the travel direction of the transport vehicle. A motor slidingly drives each of the carriages on the undercarriage. A can manipulating device, which is operatively associated with each of the carriages, displaces the sliver cans, setting them down and receiving them on a respective one of the carriages.

Abstract: A method of handling flat coiler cans charged and to be charged with sliver in a sliver charging station of a sliver producing fiber processing machine includes the following steps: advancing an empty can into a first standby station situated in a zone of the sliver charging station; advancing an empty can from the first standby station into the sliver charging station; charging a can with sliver in the sliver charging station; advancing a full can from the sliver charging station into a second standby station situated in a zone of the sliver charging station; and advancing a full can out of the second standby station.

Abstract: A system for handling sliver produced by a fiber processing machine includes a sliver coiler head forming part of the fiber processing machine; and a coiler can supported in a substantially upright position under the coiler head for receiving sliver therefrom. The coiler can has a vertical wall and a can bottom surrounded by the vertical wall and being vertically displaceable relative to the wall. The system further has a can bottom shifting apparatus disposed externally of the coiler can and facing the vertical wall. The apparatus includes a carrier arrangement for at least indirectly engaging the can bottom for vertically shifting the can bottom.

Abstract: A method and device for exchanging sliver containers on a sliver producing textile machine, particularly non-cylindrical containers, wherein the containers are supported on a support and are moved in a direction, perpendicular to their long axis past the coiling device. A respective shifting frame for the container to be filled and the adjacent container. The shifting frames grasp the two containers, raises them and enables the coiling device to fill the one container, then moves the containers to exchange the filled container for an empty one, and lowers the containers back to the supporting conveyor, wherein the sequence of filling and raising is selectively variable. The device carries out the foregoing steps. A non-circular sliver container has handles on opposite sides, particularly on its long sides, for being grasped by carrying means on the shifting frames of the device for raising and moving the containers. The handles may be holes in the container or recesses with bearing surfaces.

Abstract: With a process and a device full cans taken from the storage device for the storage of cans are replaced by empty cans. The storage device is displaced for the reception and the removal of the can. As required, an empty can holding space, an empty can, or a full can is brought to a can grasping device. The device is a carriage with a storage device. Empty or full cans are arranged on the carriage in such manner that the empty cans are deposited at one end of the carriage. The full cans are deposited at the other end of the carriage.

Abstract: A process and device are utilized for severing a fiber sliver on a draw frame. A fiber sliver is conveyed through a calender roller pair of the draw frame to a sliver guiding channel of a rotary plate. The sliver is deposited through the rotary plate into a storage can. A mechanical severing device is operably disposed to sever the fiber sliver in an area between the calender roller pair and the outlet of the sliver guiding channel.

Abstract: A system for handling sliver produced by a fiber processing machine includes a sliver coiler head forming part of the fiber processing machine; and a coiler can supported in a substantially upright position under the coiler head for receiving sliver therefrom. The coiler can has a vertical wall and a can bottom surrounded by the vertical wall and being vertically displaceable relative to the wall. The system further has a can bottom shifting apparatus disposed externally of the coiler can and facing the vertical wall. The apparatus includes a carrier arrangement for at least indirectly engaging the can bottom for vertically shifting the can bottom.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for supplying sliver cans to an automatic spinning machine and removing empty sliver cans from spinning stations of the automatic spinning machine, a can transport carriage to be driven between the automatic spinning machine and a can delivery station or empty can receiving station has can parking places for a can supply. An empty can below a spinning station is removed, placed on a free parking place, and replaced with a filled can from the can supply which is placed under the spinning station, all through the use of an automatic can changer. Two associated sliver cans are placed in succession forming two successive rows of front and rear sliver cans for supplying two adjacent spinning stations with sliver. Two free parking places are maintained for sliver cans on the can transport carriage.

Abstract: A device for filling a series of non-circular cans, which are disposed on a conveyor, with sliver from a sliver producing textile machine. A coiler for delivering sliver to the cans is supported on an ancillary frame which is, in turn, supported for movement on a main frame. The cans are supported on the conveyor that moves past the coiler in a direction perpendicular to the long axis direction of the respective cans. A double acting piston cylinder arrangement moves the coiler and a cover over the can in which the coiler is disposed along the path of movement of the conveyor for moving the coiler over the can to be filled. The cover and can coiler together are moveable along the long axis plane of each of the cans by a drive for moving the coiler to deliver the sliver into the can.

Abstract: A system for conveying a coiler can between a sliver producing fiber processing machine and a sliver consuming fiber processing machine includes a carriage for accommodating the coiler can; an electric motor mounted on the carriage for propelling the carriage; and a battery replaceably mounted on the carriage and being electrically connected with the motor for supplying electric current thereto. The system further includes a battery replacing apparatus having a manipulating mechanism for removing a battery from and for moving a battery onto the carriage and a supporting arrangement for supporting the battery during displacement thereof by the manipulating mechanism.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying the spinning machine with feed material includes a transport unit being movable along the spinning machine for advancing feed material produced by a production machine upstream of the textile machine to a region of the spinning stations. The transport unit has at least one pusher for transferring the feed material in the form of a transport-containerless bunch, to the feed stations.

Abstract: A device for severing the sliver in a filling station for cans of a textile machine producing the sliver, upon the replacement of a full can by an empty one. The filling station comprises a sliver coiling device on which there is mounted, over the gap between the transferred full can and the can just beginning to receive the sliver, a sliver holding device and also a sliver grasping device which is reversibly movably mounted on the coiling device for the sliver to move with reference to the sliver holding device thereby to sever the sliver held between the grasping and holding device by movement of the grasping device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drafting apparatus and method having a plurality of pairs of rollers which pairs are each driven in the same rotational direction and have silver contact points oriented along a common straight line. Sliver is fed to the primary rollers through a trumpet guide connected to a strain gage to determine the size of incoming silver and adjust the draft ratio accordingly to equalize the output silver weight. A silver presence and position detecting device operative on a reflected signal is provided adjacent the output of silver, which sends a signal through a computer to adjust the speed of the silver take up apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing sliver residues from a coiler can includes a transporting carriage for transporting a coiler can along a path of travel. The transporting carriage has an undercarriage; two generally vertically oriented walls supported on the undercarriage and having respective upper portions; a transverse beam interconnecting the walls at the upper portions thereof; a receiving bay defined together by the walls and the transverse beam for accommodating a coiler can; and a generally vertically oriented throughgoing aperture provided in the transverse beam and situated above the receiving bay. The apparatus further has a suction device including a suction nozzle being in alignment with the throughgoing aperture and extending from above theretoward when the transporting carriage is in position at the suction device.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying sliver-filled coiler cans to and withdrawing empty coiler cans from an intake track of a sliver-consuming fiber processing machine has a plurality of serially-arranged coiler can changers. Each coiler can changer receives at least three coiler cans in a standby position, a working position and a removal position, respectively. The working positions of the coiler can changers form a row having opposite first and second sides. The standby positions and the removal positions of the coiler can changers are all situated at the first side of the row of working positions. Each coiler can charger further has a drive for simultaneously shifting the three coiler cans thereon to move a first of the three cans from the standby position to the working position and a second of the three cans from the working position to the removal position.

Abstract: A device for inserting a reinforced introducing point (1) of a sliver into a spinning unit (3) of a rotor spinning machine uses a rotatably mounted first pneumatic cylinder (4) having a piston rod (41), coupled with a non-circular static cam (8) which carries a second pneumatic cylinder (7) onto which is rotatably mounted a gripper (9). The gripper (9) is coupled with a piston rod (74) of the second cylinder for opening and closing two introducing arms (92, 93) wherein at least one of the arms is rotatably seated.

Abstract: Sliver-processing textile machines and can exchange stations include a can transport carriage to be moved in a given direction of motion for manipulating sliver cans having upper rims with outer peripheries. A can manipulating device is movable on the can transport carriage above the cans in a direction transverse to the given direction of motion for manipulating the sliver cans during an automatic can exchange. Four gripper elements for gripping the sliver cans to be manipulated are disposed at four mutually spaced-apart locations at the outer peripheries of the upper rims of the cans.

Abstract: A method for automatic silver can exchange operations includes the transport of full sliver cans on a sliver can transport carriage to and between the spinning stations of a textile spinning machine and is particularly suitable for the exchange of sliver cans at spinning stations of the type having a back row position for supporting a sliver can and a front row position for supporting another sliver can. In a situation in which sliver is still being drawn from the frontmost sliver can while the backmost sliver can is empty, the method includes the step of initially transferring the running sliver can to the transport carriage, positioning a can support on the transport carriage for receipt of the empty backmost sliver can, and transfer of the empty backmost sliver can. Thereafter, the method includes the step of indexing movement of a full sliver can on the transport carriage to position the can for subsequent transfer to the back row position of the spinning station.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting a coiler can includes a carriage for receiving the coiler can and a loading and unloading device mounted on the carriage for shifting the coiler can toward or away from the carriage. The loading and unloading device has an elongated stationary base element secured to the carriage; and a plurality of elongated runners oriented parallel to one another and the base element. The runners are displaceable relative to one another and the base element. One of the runners--termed as a first runner--adjoins the base element and another runner--termed as a second runner--adjoins the first runner. The device further includes a guide arrangement for guiding the first runner on the base element and for guiding the second runner on the first runner. In extended positions the first runner partially projects beyond the base element and the second runner partially projects beyond the first runner.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting full sliver cans to the spinning stations of a textile spinning machine for can exchange operations thereat during which empty sliver cans are exchanged for full sliver cans. The apparatus includes a can transport carriage having three can supports at equal angular spacings from one another relative to a vertical axis and a device for indexing movement of the three can supports to sequentially position each can support at a can transfer location at which a can is transferred between the can transport carriage and the textile spinning machine. Each can support is sequentially indexed to a standby location from the can transfer location and, thereafter, to a ready location from which the can support is indexed into the can transfer location. The can transfer and ready locations are arranged such that two sliver cans supported at these locations are substantially aligned in the direction of travel of the can transport carriage.