Abstract: Method for operating a service unit for processing work orders regarding a cross-wound package/empty tube doffing process employed at spinning machines producing take-up packages that process at least two different lots, whereby the service unit is fed an empty tube via the spinning machine's tube feed track, and the fed empty tube is taken up by the service unit. If the current work order for the cross-wound package/empty tube doffing of the workstations expires before it is processed and the empty tube is exchanged and another work order has come in which is for a workstation requiring a cross-wound package/empty tube doffing for another lot, the already taken up empty tube is released by the service unit, and the service unit takes up an empty tube of another lot in order to be able to carry out a cross-wound package/empty tube doffing process at the other workstation.

Abstract: A method is provided for operating a spinning machine with a multiple number of spinning stations. In the normal case, the individual spinning stations are supplied with a fiber material and produce a yarn. Upon the occurrence of predefined events, yarn production is interrupted at individual or all spinning stations, whereas such spinning stations are, when required, subjected to piecing with the assistance of a piecing process in order to start up yarn production again. The respective piecing is carried out with the assistance of handling tools associated with the spinning machine. The individual spinning stations are classified on the basis of one or more production-related parameters, and that, if more piecing processes are to be carried out at the same time than can be carried out by the handling tools, at least the selection of the spinning station to be subjected to piecing next is carried out under consideration of the specified classification.

Abstract: A filament winding apparatus that connects a driven shaft to a driving shaft automatically includes a rotation unit which can rotate a driving shaft 13 forward or reversely, a control unit which can control start or stop of the rotation of the driving shaft, and connection units which can connect a driven shaft attached to a liner to the driving shaft when phases of the driven and driving shafts are in agreement with each other. A fiber bundle is wound onto an outer peripheral surface of the liner by rotating the liner. A detection unit detects the phase of the driven or the driving shaft. Based on information obtained from the detection unit at the time of connecting the driven shaft to the driving shaft, the control unit rotates the driving shaft and adjusts the phase thereof to make the phases of the driven and driving shafts in agreement with each other.

Abstract: An automatic winding device for a filamentous material which is an automatic winding device for a filamentous material that winds a plurality of provided filamentous materials simultaneously onto a plurality of bobbins; and an automatic winding method utilizing the automatic winding device are provided. The automatic winding device includes a plurality of spindles for winding bobbins and a guide roll. The number of the plurality of spindles is 1-1.75 times the number of thread handling routes.

Abstract: A preparatory device provided for arranging film roll cores in a condition ready for use for a film roll winding machine, in which the film roll cores are vertically arranged, comprises a supply device for supplying horizontally disposed film roll cores. The supply device is connected with an erecting device serving for moving a film roll core from a horizontal position into a vertical position. With the aid of a transfer device the film roll core is taken out of the erecting device and transferred to the film roll winding machine.

Abstract: A tube feeding device (12) for a work station (2) of a cheese-producing textile machine (1) with an arrangement for transferring an empty tube (14) stored in a tube reservoir (13) into a tube transfer position (II) in which the empty tube (14) can be accepted by a pivotably seated creel (19). The tube feeding device (12) has a tube gripper (24) which is automatically adjustable to the diameter and the shape of an empty tube (14) for displacing the central longitudinal axis (57) of the empty tube (14) during the tube transfer operation independently of the shape or the diameter of the empty tube (14) so as to coincide with the common axis of rotation (61) of tube receiving plates (58) of the creel (19) in the tube transfer position (II).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a workstation of a cheese-producing textile machine, having a pivotably seated creel for rotatably maintaining a cheese, a bobbin drive arranged on the creel, a support roller, which during the winding operation is driven by the cheese by frictional contact, a separate yarn traversing arrangement, as well as a device for raising the creel in case of a yarn break or a defined cleaning cut. In accordance with the present invention it is provided that following a yarn break or a defined cleaning cut, the cheese, which is maintained in the creel and rotated in the unwinding direction by the bobbin drive, and the support roller are sufficiently spaced apart long enough for a suction nozzle to pick up a top yarn required for a subsequent yarn splicing process.

Abstract: A method of forming sheet rolls made of a heat transfer recording sheet having a transfer ink layer on a surface of a base by winding the recording sheet around the outer peripheries of a plurality of cores. The method includes supplying a web heat transfer recording sheet, cutting a portion thereof corresponding to a region between two adjacent sheet rolls to form cut ends, placing a non-adhesive waste sheet and a pair of adhesive tapes attached to the waste sheet ends between the transfer recording sheet, the tapes having an adhesive portion, an outside-exposed portion, and a portion attached to a cut end of the recording sheet, winding the sheet around a core outer periphery, positioning the waste sheet between winding apparatus and a discharging portion, and cutting the waste sheet so positioned.

Abstract: A forming tube assembly may include an adapter tube configured to extend over at least a portion of a collet of a winder; and at least one forming tube extending around at least a portion of the adapter tube. A forming package assembly may include an adapter tube; and at least one forming package extending around the adapter tube.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for winding a web of tapes or yarns to a plurality of packages, wherein a plurality of winding positions are arranged side by side on a long side of the apparatus, with at least one package being wound in each winding position. To distribute the tapes or yarns of the web, a yarn guide bar and a plurality of yarn guides are provided, the yarn guides being associated with respective ones of the winding positions. In this process, the web of tapes or yarns is guided above the winding positions in a distribution plane that extends transverse to the long side of the apparatus. The yarn guide bar is movable so as to permit unimpeded access to the winding positions in a doffing plane which is parallel to the long side of the apparatus, to facilitate doffing of the full packages with the aid of an auxiliary device which can be guided in the doffing plane.

Abstract: An apparatus for doffing and re-tubing a fiber winder Includes: (a) an assembly support; (b) a support plate vertically movable along the assembly support; (c) a first assembly support extending from the support plate for supporting a forming package assembly having an adapter package and at least one forming package extending around the adapter tube, the first assembly support including: (i) at least one gripper movable along the first assembly support between a first position and a second position and capable of engaging the forming tube assembly; and (ii) guides to support and guide the forming package assembly an the first assembly support; (d) a second assembly support extending from the support plate for supporting a forming tube assembly having an adapter tube and at least one forming tube extending around the adapter tube, the second assembly support including: (i) at least one pusher movable along the second assembly support between a first position and a second position and capable of engaging the f

Abstract: A tube feeding device (12) for a work station (2) of a cheese-producing textile machine (1) with an arrangement for transferring an empty tube (14) stored in a tube reservoir (13) into a tube transfer position (II) in which the empty tube (14) can be accepted by a pivotably seated creel (19). The tube feeding device (12) has a tube gripper (24) which is automatically adjustable to the diameter and the shape of an empty tube (14) for displacing the central longitudinal axis (57) of the empty tube (14) during the tube transfer operation independently of the shape or the diameter of the empty tube (14) so as to coincide with the common axis of rotation (61) of tube receiving plates (58) of the creel (19) in the tube transfer position (II).

Abstract: A cheese-producing textile machine (1), having a central control unit (37), a plurality of work stations (2), and a service unit (23), which automatically supplies the work stations (2). The work stations (2) each have a winding device with a winding drum (17), which is individually driven by a motor, and a work station computer (39). The central control unit (37) is connected via a machine bus (40) with the work station computers (39) and with a control device (39) of the service unit (23). Specific winding drum data (x, y), in particular the number of traverses (g) of the winding drum (17) of the work stations (2), are stored in a memory, e.g., integrated in the central control unit (37). During the yarn pickup by means of the yarn lifter (41) of the service unit (23) in the course of a cheese change, the individual electric motor drive (50) of the winding drum (17) is controlled to match the number of revolutions of the winding drum (17) to the number of traverses (g) thereof.

Abstract: In a multi-station cheese-producing textile machine (1) for rewinding delivery bobbins (4) of large volume, each work position (2) has a manipulating and transport installation (3) by which delivery bobbins (4) are transferred from a loading position (I) to a winding position (III). Each manipulating and transporting arrangement (3) has a horizontally arranged transport unit (5), and an essentially vertically arranged transport unit (6). Transport elements (9′, 9″) for receiving delivery bobbins (4, 4′, etc.) are arranged on the transport units (5, 6) in a definitively shiftable manner for transfer between one transport unit (5) and the other transport unit (6).

Abstract: A sheet roll forming system for forming sheet rolls by winding a heat transfer recording sheet around an outer periphery of a plurality of cores including a core supplying apparatus and a sheet roll discharge apparatus. The core supplying apparatus includes a cantilever shaft supporting the cores, a tray below the shaft and movable up and down in a direction of the shaft, and core stoppers on the tray where the shaft is an air shaft that can increase in diameter when air is supplied from a charge and exhaust apparatus. The sheet roll discharge apparatus includes the shaft supporting rolls of the recording sheet on the cores, a tray below the shaft, and a stopper on the tray.

Abstract: A printing unit in a gravure printing portion prints a plurality of end marks on a web having a base film and a hot melt ink layer. The end marks printed on the web are dried by a drying apparatus. A sheet obtained from the web is wound around a roll shaft in a roll form by a sheet winding apparatus to form a sheet roll. The roll shaft is supplied from a roll shaft supplying apparatus to the sheet winding apparatus, and the sheet roll formed by the sheet winding apparatus is discharged from a discharging apparatus. The discharge apparatus includes a plurality of cradles in the vertical direction, a carry-out conveyor beside the cradles, a guide rail beside the cradles on the opposite side to the conveyor and arranged vertically, and receiving arms horizontally mounted on the rail and corresponding to the cradles. The arms move up and down on the rail and extend or contract horizontally from the cradles.