Abstract: A spinning winder in which a spinning frame and an automatic winder are integrally associated. The spinning winder provides carrier routes comprising routes for transporting a spinning bobbin from the spinning frame to the automatic winder and routes for returning an empty bobbin discharged from the automatic winder to the spinning frame and also provides a passage for an operator between the spinning frame and the automatic winder.

Abstract: A station (24) is connected to the spinning units (4.sub.1 to 4.sub.n) along a spinning machine (2.sub.1 to 2.sub.3) via floor-conveyor installation (20). The floor-conveyor truck (22) has three arms (46, 48, 50) extendable transversally to the direction of movement, wherefrom the first is built to receive and set in place a full can (V), the second to receive and depose an empty can (L). The third arm (50) serves for the displacement of the cans(E) in use. The spinning units (4.sub.1 to 4.sub.8 to 4.sub.n) are equipped with transmitters (42.sub.1 to 42.sub.8 to 42.sub.n) through which the floor-conveyor truck (22) are set in motion starting from the station (24). The floor-conveyor truck (22) is provided with a first control unit (28) for an automatic running and with a second control unit (30) for the automatic receiving and placement of cans.

Abstract: The process for positioning a series of suspended roving bobbin carriages equipped with a plurality of roving bobbins running on at least one rail opposite a plurality of working positions of a yarn manufacturing spinning machine comprises automatically guiding a positively actuated suspended roving bobbin carriage to a predetermined position opposite the working positions and stopping it in that predetermined position during delivery of the roving bobbins. The apparatus for performing this process includes a plurality of positioning elements working together pairwise of which a movable one is movable for positioning the suspended carriage, a carriage mounted one is positioned on one of the roving bobbin carriages and a fixed one is fixed on the stationary part of the spinning machine.

Abstract: A system for delivering and inspecting packages including an apparatus for delivering packages and an inspecting device of packages delivered from the apparatus. The apparatus for delivering packages comprises a first delivering device for receiving packages from a path of their transportation and a second delivering device for receiving the package from the first delivering device and delivering them to the inspecting device. Each of the first and second delivering devices include a package receiving member and a mechanism for changing the package receiving position of the package receiving member in accordance with the kind of the packages.

Abstract: In a spinning winder wherein a winder and a spinning machine are connected by a bobbin transporting passage, spinning bobbins are alternately supplied from R side and L side transport bands of the spinning machine to a bobbin supplying station disposed between the winder and the spinning machine according to a spinning bobbin demand signal.

Abstract: A device for keeping a constant number of bobbin tubes in circulation between at least one spinning machine and at least one winding machine includes a device for circulating bobbin tubes between at least one spinning machine and at least one winding machine, a sorting device for sorting out partially wound bobbin tubes from the circulating device, and a tube input apparatus operatively connected to the sorting device including a tube magazine for introducing empty bobbin tubes into the circulating device in proportion to the number of partially wound bobbin tubes sorted out.

Abstract: In the transport apparatus for roving bobbins in a plant including a group of spinning machines according to our invention each spinning machine has a closed circulating belt on which suspended carriages equipped either with full or empty roving bobbins are movable. A transport belt is provided which runs through a loading station which replaces empty roving bobbins with full roving bobbins. Each of the circulating belts is connected with the transport belt by one connecting belt for removing one of the suspended carriages with empty roving bobbins and another connecting belt for feeding in another suspended carriage with full roving bobbins. A switch controllable depending on the filling state of the approaching roving bobbin carriage is positioned at each branch of the connecting belts with the transport belt or one of the circulating belts. The roving bobbins are mounted on the transport and circulating belts so as to be movable independently of each other.

Abstract: A spinning and spooling apparatus includes a spinning frame which has two sides each associated with a magazine for tubes which are conveyed through the spinning frame to provide respective spinning cops which are forwarded to an associated spooler. The spooler discharges the empty tubes which are then returned to the magazines by a feedback unit. The feedback unit includes a conveyor running from the spooler to the magazines and a controllable distributing guide which selectively provides a connection between the conveyor and one of the magazines.

Abstract: A device for individually and sucessively advancing cops from a cop-producing machine in an orderly manner via conveyor belts to a cyclically stepwise advanceable cop conveyor having take-up mandrels thereon, comprising respective substantially vertical loading shafts located between the conveyor belts and the cop conveyor for delivering cops in upright position onto the take-up mandrels of the cop conveyor, the loading shafts being formed of sidewise deflectable wall elements, an actuating device operatively engageable with the loading shafts, respectively, for deflecting the wall elements thereof sidewise so as to permit the respective delivered cop to be father advanced by the cop conveyor, clock switching devices connected to the conveyor belts for actuating the belts to individually and successively advance the cops in the orderly manner, and a sensor for distinguishing between the absence and presence of a cop on a respective take-up mandrel of the cop conveyor and for enabling and disenabling the clock

Abstract: A system comprising spinning-bobbin feeding lines and empty-bobbin feeding lines connecting spinning frames with winders is provided, in which the feeding lines are provided in a feeding groove provided below a floor surface on which the machine bases are disposed, and the spinning-bobbin feeding lines are separate from the empty-bobbin feeding lines only in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An empty bobbin transporting system for a fine spinning winder wherein a spinning frame and a winder are interconnected by way of a spinning bobbin transporting path and an empty bobbin transporting path. An additional transporting path for transporting an empty bobbin fed back from the winder and an empty bobbin stock device for temporarily stocking the empty bobbin transported by the additional transporting path are provided in the spinning frame.

Abstract: A spinning frame control system in which identification marks are affixed to spinning bobbins produced by a spinning frame to identify the spinning units which have produced the bobbins, respectively, while on a winder side, yarn quality data are provided on the basis of the bobbin identification marks and fed back to the spinning frame side.

Abstract: A bobbin transporting system in which a winder area and a spinning frame area having a plurality of spinning frames are connected to each other by means of a spinning bobbin transporting line and an empty bobbin transporting line. Transport bands for spinning bobbins are located along opposite sides of the spinning frame and are circulated in integral relationship so that spinning bobbins are delivered at the same time from the transport bands to the spinning bobbin transporting line and supplied to the winder.

Abstract: An installation includes a spinning machine, a winding machine, a bobbin transporting device transporting the bobbins from the spinning machine to the winding machine, and a tube or sleeve transporting device transporting tubes or sleeves from the winding machine to the spinning machine providing a circulation of wound and unwound tubes or sleeves, the bobbin transporting device including at least one automatic yarn steaming device.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting a bobbin between a winder and spinning frame. A curved transporting path is provided contiguously between a vertical transporting path and a horizontal transporting path, and a conveyor belt is disposed to extend along these paths. A cover which covers the bobbin transporting paths along a length thereof is provided.

Abstract: A process is provided for connecting the end of a new fiber band to the end of a fiber band running into an open-end spinning arrangement wherein the threading on is conducted in such a manner that the joining point between the new fiber band and the fiber band already running into the spinning arrangement does not result into a change in the yarn number. In one embodiment it is provided that the fiber bands are prepared in such a manner and connected to each other, especially by means of twisting them together, such that a joining point exhibits at least approximately the same number as the other areas of the fiber band. In a second embodiment, it is provided that following a joining of the two fiber bands the feeding device of the spinning arrangement is switched on until the joining point is running into the spinning arrangement whereby the fibers fed during this time period are transported off within the spinning arrangement.

Abstract: The arrangement conveys cans which deliver and receive textile material, between machines delivering such material and machines which are substantially of the same type but use such material, along a closed transport or conveying path. The conveying path is of a structure comprising sections which extend parallel to each other including a siphon-shaped stand-by section containing parallel legs. Using such sections there is rendered possible a space-saving arrangement and simultaneously ready accessibility to the different sections of the conveying path and the machines for operating the machines and eliminating faults and malfunctions at the machines and the sections of the conveying path.

Abstract: A spinning system has a spinning apparatus having a longitudinal succession of spinning stations, a creel extending longitudinally above the apparatus and having respective pendant hangers above the stations and each capable of holding a respective yarn package, and a respective slide above each station supporting the respective hanger slidable between an inner position directly above the respective station and an outer position above but horizontally offset therefrom. A reloading apparatus is displaceable longitudinally along the apparatus at least generally under the hangers in the outer positions of the respective slides. A magazine holds a supply of fresh roving packages on the reloading apparatus and a device is provided on the reloading apparatus for displacing the slide between the inner and outer positions. A grab on the reloading apparatus can grab the package on the hanger in the outer position of the respective slide.

Abstract: A device for discriminating and distributing the bobbins, which are discharged from a textile machine such as an automatic winder, in accordance with the quantity of yarns wound on the bobbin and/or the kinds thereof. The device includes sensors, a bobbin chucking means made movable which chucking the bobbin to distribute the bobbin, and guide means for guiding the movement of the chucking means operated in accordance with the instruction of the sensors.

Abstract: A stationary service unit at one end of an elongate spinning machine coacts with a supply carriage delivering bobbins wound with rovings from a flyer at a preparatory stage and loads these bobbins onto depending grippers which are movable, manually or automatically, on an overhead guide rack. The rack may form an endless loop about the machine bed or may be divided into two parallel sections flanking same; in the latter instance the service unit may be swingable about a vertical axis toward one or the other section.

Abstract: Bobbins wound with rovings from a preparatory stage are loaded onto a carriage which receives them on an orthogonal array of horizontal pegs and transports them to a holding station for transfer, one column at a time, to a service unit moving continuously or intermittently past a multiplicity of working positions of a ring spinning machine whose spindles draw the roving from bobbins on a supply rack. The service unit, whose primary function may be that of a yarn-tying device or a traveling air blower, has a vertical conveyor with stems alignable with the pegs of the carriage in the holding station for picking up the bobbins to be transferred and delivering them, individually, to storage areas at or near the supply rack where fresh bobbins are needed as determined by a sensor aboard that unit. The storage areas may have overhead grippers onto which a bobbin is pushed from an erected stem at the upper vertex of the vertical conveyor.

Abstract: A spinning and winding plant includes at least one ring spinning machine, at least one winding machine, at least one first spool conveyor and at least one first tube sleeve conveyor disposed at the ring spinning machine, at least one second spool conveyor and at least one second tube sleeve conveyor disposed at the winding machine, at least one spool transfer station disposed between the first and second spool conveyors, at least one tube sleeve transfer station disposed between the first and second tube sleeve conveyors, a spool storage device with a predetermined number of storage locations at the spool transfer station, a device for emptying the spool storage device in sequence with the requirement for spools at the winding machine, a device for filling a given maximum number of the storage locations with spools supplied by the ring spinning machine, and a device for filling a minimum number of the storage locations with at least partly filled spools ejected and returned from the winding machine.

Abstract: The spinning frame of the invention comprises a passage through which empty bobbins returned by conveyor means provided above the spinning frame are guided towards empty bobbin supply sections associated with automatic bobbin changer annexed to the spinning frame. Halfway in the guide passage are a branch point for branching the guide passage into left and right side sections and a distributer for distributing empty bobbins. Below said branch point and halfway in the left and right side sections are storage sections for storing the empty bobbins in horizontal position.

Abstract: A truck carrying plural rows of vertically placed empty bobbins is conveyed to one end of the machine base of a flyer frame, the empty bobbins of the first row are taken out of the truck and conveyed to an empty bobbin supply device on the machine base, the truck is moved a predetermined distance by an intermittent feed unit, and fresh full yarn packages from the flyer frame already placed on a conveyor are transferred by a full yarn package transfer device to said truck at the positions from which the empty bobbins were removed. The operation of taking empty bobbins from the truck and supplying them to the empty bobbin supplying device on the machine base and the operation of transferring the full yarn packages to said truck are performed in an alternate fashion.

Abstract: An apparatus for sliver can controlling in a spinning mill having a plurality of spinning machines each comprising a plurality of spinning stations. The apparatus includes various lines of sliver can transporting tracks through which a full sliver can may be brought to a position adjacent to any of the spinning stations, as required. Sliver consumption quantities at the respective stations are computed by a control circuit as a central processing unit. When the sliver consumption at any one of the spinning stations reaches a predetermined quantity at which its sliver can is nearly empty, the control circuit operates to energize a warning means and means for indicating the number designating such spinning station calling for sliver can replacement.

Abstract: On textile machines, on which packages are wound with a set or reference yarn length, the changing of these packages by means of a travelling package changing device should be carried out in such time optimized manner that the largest possible number of winding positions can be serviced by the package changing device. For this purpose, the yarn length of packages to be wound is signalled continuously to a computer by means of yarn length measuring units and the location of a package changer is continuously signalled to the computer by means of positioning units. If certain packages reach a remainder or residual yarn length before reaching the set yarn length, then the wind-up times for the remainder yarn length of these packages are compared by the computer with the respective travelling times of a package changer to these packages and registered in an optimization procedure, for example for three of these packages.

Abstract: A transport system for transporting laps wound on tubes in spinning preparation. The laps are transported above head height by carriers or supports movable along transport rails and are raised and lowered by means of carrier rails. The transport rails and the carrier rails are components or parts of a closed, endless circulation path or track. Each carrier has a holder for the lap and a holder for the empty tube. The invention provides the advantages that no special transport system is required for return of the tubes. Moreover, transport of individual laps or of a group of such laps is possible and an ordered and simple circulation path is provided during transport of these elements or parts. Furthermore, the system can readily be automated.

Abstract: A method and system for facilitating a continuous and automated taking-off of yarn from yarn packages. A creel module having one or a plurality of yarn package receiving creel pins disposed in one or more rows is automatically loaded with yarn packages at a loading position. The loaded module is conveyed, optionally through a buffer storage system, to operative association with a stationary creel frame. The module is transferred from the conveying mechanism to the creel frame, and is mounted with respect to the creel frame so that the yarn may be taken off the packages thereof. After the yarn from the module packages has been exhausted, the module is removed from the creel frame and conveyed back to the loading position, while it is replaced with another, loaded, module.

Abstract: A method is disclosed in which a silver (2) of textile fibers is drawn in a drawing mechanism (3), strengthened in a wrapping unit (4) by wrapping with a fine filament yarn into a roving (5) and the latter is drawn in the drawing mechanism (11, 12) of a spinning machine down to the desired yarn thickness. Rupture of the filament yarns in the drawing mechanism of the spinning machine takes place not in the predrawing zone but only in the main drawing zone. For wrapping of the roving a filament yarn is employed, the tension in which at an elongation of 4% amounts to at least 10 N and the ultimate strength of which amounts at most to 100 cN, and in which the ratio of elastic elongation to total elongation at a loading of 15 CN does not fall below the value of 80%. The wrapping unit (4) is surrounded with a stationary casing one half (45a) of which may be swung out.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for switching the relative position between roving bobbins held by bobbin hangers of a front row and the roving bobbins held by the rear row in a spinning frame. The roving bobbin exchange operation is carried out as successive unit operations from one end-side of the spinning frame to the other end-side thereof. In each unit operation, first the axial distance between a bobbin hanger of the front row and a bobbin hanger of the rear row, which are positioned adjacently in the lengthwise direction of the spinning frame, is reduced to a predetermined distance, then the relative position of those two bobbin hangers is reversely changed while maintaining the reduced axial distance. Thereafter, the axial distance between those two bobbin hangers is returned to the initial condition for carrying out the spinning operation.

Abstract: In a can changer device, empty cans are fed to a reserve position A and full cans are transported from a collection position C into a delivery position G by means of an apparatus for moving spinning cans. The can moving apparatus comprises drive means containing rails and a carriage movable thereon and having pivotably mounted arms. The arms are pivotable from a substantially vertical position, and specifically, to one side into a substantially horizontal position for entraining and moving the empty cans and, as to one arm of such arms, into the opposite substantially horizontal position for entraining and moving the full can. The carriage is movable to-and-fro by means of a toothed belt between a deflection or reversing head and a drive head, respectively between the locations or positions H and L. During operation, the can changer device itself moves the filled can from the position B towards the position C and the empty can from the position A into the position B.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatic creeling in ring spinning frames, constituted by a frame capable of patrolling along a ring spinning frame, in inspection service to detect missing rovings, and is provided with an upwardly movable operative body and a supply of full roving packages to cover the needs and comprises also in combination:(a) structure for detecting missing roving;(b) creeling structure for releasing the exhausted bobbin or roving with broken strand;(c) structure for retaining the end of a new roving;(d) structure for gripping the new roving end and passing it around the spinning frame roving rods and delivering it to the drafting system; and(e) structure for replacing the roving sliver loading device.

Abstract: A bobbin transport apparatus and method is provided which is adapted for use with a textile yarn processing machine having a plurality of yarn winding stations along at least one side thereof. The transport apparatus includes a movable carriage having a mandrel for receiving the full bobbins from the winding station of the processing machine, and quality control means for measuring a number of physical characteristics of each full bobbin received thereon. The quality control measurements may be performed concurrently with the transport of the bobbins to a remote creel, and the measurements are fed to a computer where an immediate determination is made as to whether the measured quality characteristics fall within accepted tolerance limits. The computer may also be employed to calculate additional quality control related characteristics, such as yarn denier and bobbin wind tightness, from the directly measured characteristics.

Abstract: A coiler mechanism has a carrousel type can changing apparatus employing a pivoted power operator for engaging through a spring actuated pawl the can moving mechanism which is provided with a brake so that the can changer repeats, accurately positioning successive cans in the same spot beneath a coiler head each time.

Abstract: Method of exchanging sliver cans of a spinning machine having individual spinning stations, the sliver cans being disposed in staggered array adjacent and behind one another, by means of a can exchanging device able to travel on a given travel path along the spinning machine which includes placing the sliver cans in groups of at least three cans on turntables installed below the respective spinning stations of the spinning machine, conducting the can-exchanging device with at least one filled sliver can carried thereby in operating readiness past the groups of at least three cans at the respective spinning stations, stopping at a respective spinning station in response to a signal "sliver missing" from the spinning station and automatically carrying out the following operating steps:(a) turning the turntable into can-exchanging position if the turntable is not already in such position;(b) removing from the turntable the sliver can to be exchanged;(c) delivering the filled sliver can from the can exchanging de

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transporting a group of yarn packages, wherein a plurality of yarn packages is separately placed on each of a plurality of trays and a plurality of the trays is placed on a pallet, and then, the pallet is transported between successive stages of yarn processing. Said method and apparatus attain efficient transportation of yarn packages and eliminate a great amount of manual labor in yarn processing.

Abstract: In a textile machine provided with a doffing and donning apparatus utilizing a conveyor belt for temporarily supporting full size yarn packages doffed from the textile machine and carrying the yarn packages outside the textile machine and for temporarily supporting fresh bobbins supplied from a fresh bobbin supply device mounted on an outend frame of the textile machine, a method and device for transferring fresh bobbins from the bobbin supply device to the respective pegs of the conveyor belt when the conveyor belt is driven before starting the donning operation. When the conveyor belt is driven so as to pick up the fresh bobbins by the respective pegs, each peg is inserted into the bottom bore of the corresponding fresh bobbin in such a way that the head of the peg approaches the bottom bore of the fresh bobbin along a passage inclined to a plane along which the fresh bobbins are supported.

Abstract: A bobbin transport apparatus and method is provided which is adapted for use with a textile yarn processing machine having a plurality of yarn winding stations along at least one side thereof. The transport apparatus includes a movable carriage having a mandrel for receiving the full bobbins from the winding station of the processing machine, and quality control means for measuring a number of physical characteristics of each full bobbin received thereon. The quality control measurements may be performed concurrently with the transport of the bobbins to a remote creel, and the measurements are fed to a computer where an immediate determination is made as to whether the measured quality characteristics fall within accepted tolerance limits. The computer may also be employed to calculate additional quality control related characteristics, such as yarn denier and bobbin wind tightness, from the directly measured characteristics.