Abstract: A cop supplying truck which runs along the individual winding units of an automatic winding machine is provided. The cop supplying truck travels while storing the cops accomodated in an individual cylindrical cop container and feeds the cops into a magazine of a winding unit without stopping at the individual winding units. The cop supplying truck is provided with a hole through which the cop falls onto the magazine. The cops are travelled and fed by means of a first conveyer device which works to successively convey the cop containers toward the falling hole, a device which takes out one of the cop container when the cop supplying truck passes over the empty magazine, and a second conveyor device which so works that a cop in the taken-out cop container is only allowed to fall into the magazine through the falling hole.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically feeding yarn cops to a cop supply device providing yarn cops to an automatic winder in sequence with the heads and tails of the individual cops properly positioned. The cop supply device has a cop sequencing device receiving cops thereon randomly and discharging them one-by-one in sequence. The cops are conveyed from the cop sequencing device and may be sorted and stored automatically in groups according to characteristics of yarn thereon. The automatic winder controls the cop sequencing device output depending upon its own demands and the cops are transported by means controlled by the winder for routing to the winder and are arranged by means automatically as to the relative positions of the heads and tails thereof in a desired relative position.

Abstract: Cops doffed from spinning machines are supplied at random to a cop sequencing device of high frequency vibration type, issued therefrom in sequenced order and fed to one or more sets of automatic control of their head and tail directional disposition.