Abstract: A bobbin hoist powered by an air cylinder has a skip for holding, lifting, tilting, and dumping bobbins and is provided with skip guiding tracks to give substantially constantly increasing hoisting cable pull during tilting and dumping. A hinged door over the dumping mouth of the skip opens slowly to control dumping. Alternatively, a hinged dumping chute under the dumping mouth of the skip blocks dumping until the chute slowly unfolds downwardly to dumping position; a narrowed mouth on the chute further controls the bobbins for hand feeding therefrom.

Abstract: A rotating-reel type loom bobbin stripper provides air jets to entrain the waste end of yarn from a bobbin and deliver it to the stripping reels without impinging the jet directly on the yarn bunch. Bow springs automatically apply proper yet readily-releasable tension to the belts feeding the bobbins serially over the reels. A hold-down bar above the row of bobbins being stripped may be lifted readily to clear a jam. Downwardly inclined guide rails deliver bobbins to the feeding belts at an angle causing the bobbins to support themselves by their own heads during delivery and allowing loose waste to be blown down between rails and bobbins by an air jet. The inside walls of the incline rails are relieved to allow any "piece bobbin" which slips into normal position between the rails to travel on freely.

Abstract: A filling bobbin inspection device is provided for checking the completeness of a bobbin stripping operation. Magnet means maintain the bobbins received from the stripping operation suspended at the butts thereof while feeler means checks each bobbin received and acts as a stationary cam upon detecting an incompletely stripped bobbin to cause all such bobbins to be dropped selectively from the magnet means suspension.