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: 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.