Abstract: A can coiler with an outlet channel for a sliver is provided, whereby the outlet channel is fastened to a turn table and follows a circular path. Calender rolls for transporting the sliver are arranged before the outlet channel. A stationary sliver cutting device with a cutting element is provided, whereby the cutting element is pivotable, transverse to a longitudinal direction of the sliver, into and away from the circular path of the outlet channel into and away from a transverse groove of the turntable. The cutting element is in the form of a cutting knife with a blade and is supported such that a cutting edge for a cutting process by a pulling cutting action is moved into the circular path whereby the cutting knife, in a cutting position thereof, extends to a radial line of the circular path. The radial line is essentially vertical to the cutting edge. The cutting device ensures a flawless operation, even at high production speeds.

Abstract: A sliver can which facilitates the location of a trailing end portion of the sliver. The sliver can includes a main body and a tubular member associated with the main body for receiving an end portion of the sliver. By positioning the end portion of the sliver in a specific area, i.e. the within tubular member, the end portion may be easily located.

Abstract: An automatic startup device in a carding machine includes a roll assembly for discharging the fiber web; and a web transporting arrangement situated under the roll assembly for gathering and advancing the web. The web transporting arrangement is formed of two adjoining, driven endless belts which together define a gap through which the web is discharged downwardly. The two endless belts or portions thereof are simultaneously shiftable horizontally to cause the web discharge gap to assume first and second locations spaced horizontaly from one another. There is further provided a trumpet situated under the web gathering belts. The trumpet has separable parts between which the web is introduced from the web discharge gap.

Abstract: A compact carding apparatus is disclosed which includes a pair of upstanding carding cylinders (B) and (C) carried in a self-standing manner on a base frame (260). Cylinder (C) is carried generally atop cylinder (B) by mounting plates (272, 274) which allow radial movement of cylinder (C) to yield to large lumps passing between the cylinders. A chute feed (10) and coiler (192) are uniquely combined with the compact arrangement in a minimum of space and in a mobile construction so as to permit movement of either the chute or coiler away for access to the apparatus. The compact upstanding arrangement provides for mounting of a number of carding elements mounted about the two cylinders which include stationary plates (40, 42, 44, 46) on cylinder (B); and revolving flat assembly (E) and stationary carding plates (96, 123) on cylinder (C). An extended fiber path (P) is defined about cylinders (B) and (C) along which a transferred fiber mass may be effectively exposed for carding on both of its sides.

Abstract: An automatic startup device includes a roll assembly for discharging the fiber web; a web transporting arrangement situated under the roll assembly for gathering and advancing the web; and a trumpet situated under the web transporting arrangement. The trumpet has separable parts between which the web in introduced. In a first position the two trumpet parts are at a relatively large distance from one another, whereby the web is discharged by the trumpet in a substantially unaltered state and in a second position the two trumpet parts are at a relatively small distance from one another, whereby the web is compressed and discharged by the trumpet as a sliver. There are further provided a web delivery arrangement under the trumpet for receiving and removing the web; and a calender roll pair arranged under the trumpet for receiving and advancing the sliver discharged by the trumpet.

Abstract: The rotator comprises a revolving plate, which is supported on bearing rollers, and a radial guide. The revolving plate forms a depositing place for a textile material holder and rotates with the holder on its longitudinal axis and is movable with the holder in the direction along the longitudinal axis. A sensor serves for measuring the movements of the revolving plate, for determining if the material holder is present and whether it is full or empty. The revolving plate has a guide element and the bottom of the container has a corresponding counterpart element. An opening in the bottom of the container and in the revolving plate makes position measurements of a spring plate carried in the material holder possible by means of a sonic measuring device.

Abstract: A can filling apparatus receives a band of carded fibers from a carding machine and deposits it in a rotating storage can. The apparatus includes a head part arranged above a rotatable can and having a rotary plate driveable to execute a rotational movement. Two calender rolls journalled for rotation on at least substantially horizontal axes on the rotary plate deposit the fiber band in continuous cycloidal loops into the can. At least one of the calender rolls is driveable by a friction wheel which is rotatably journalled on the rotary plate and runs around a fixed ring surface of the head part. An imaginary axis about which the friction wheel turns is arranged fixed in space relative to the rotary plate and the friction wheel has a conical surface which rolls off on a complementary conical ring surface of a window ring.

Abstract: The device for increasing the cohesion length of the slivers is embodied by a pair of calendar rollers. Each calendar roller has a plurality of transversely disposed protuberances of rounded shape for interengaging in spaced relation with each other in order to slightly crimp a sliver passing through the gap between the rollers. The protuberances are adapted to one another in gear-like manner.

Abstract: The can-filling apparatus for a textile machine comprises an upper part supporting a filling head, a lower part structured particularly as an automatic coiler-can exchanger, and at least one upright supporting the upper part and exctending between the upper and the lower part. The at least one upright constitutes a telescopic pair of columns structured such that the telescoping displacement of one column relative to the other column of the telescopic pair of columns is infinitely variable. The one column telescopingly displaced relative to the other column can be arrested at a selectable height and, is required, connected to the other column of the telescopic pair of columns.

Abstract: For draft- and trouble-free coiling of a sliver arriving from a deflection roll into a sliver can, there is provided a coiler roll which, in cooperation with a nip or pinch roll, guides the sliver through an infeed funnel and deposits the sliver directly upon sliver coils already located in the sliver can. For this purpose, the circumference of the coiler roll projects by a predetermined amount deeper into the sliver can than the underside or lower surface of a coiler plate.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus positioned within an automatic change-over system for cans at the exit of a drawing frame, gill box or similar machine. The apparatus prevents the escape of fibre sliver from the full cans, those latter being fitted with a semicircular strip pivoted at two diametrically opposing points below their upper rim. The apparatus has a mechanism for positioning the semicircular strip frontally forwards in the exit direction of the cans and a manipulator provided at its end with a gripper which embraces and grips the semicircular strip to raise it and arrange it above the can for the purpose of compressing the top layer of fibre sliver towards the inside of the can. This action prevents the sliver escaping from the full cans during their transportation to storage zones or during their distribution to the production departments for subsequent processing.

Abstract: A first sliver in an exhaust can (2F) is introduced and held in a recess (38a) of a sliver piecing unit (38) while gripped by a sliver gripper (34). The first sliver is severed by the displacement of the gripper (34) away from the recess (38a) so that a trailing end of the first sliver is formed in the recess (38a). Next, a second sliver in a reserve can (2B) is introduced and held in the recess (38a) in the same way as for the first sliver and a leading end of thereof is formed in the recess (38a) so that the sliver ends overlap each other. The piecing operation is carried out on the overlapped sliver ends in a known manner.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a device for depositing a textile sliver in a can, comprising a bent delivery pipe, which is adapted to be rotated about a substantially vertical axis and the mouth of which ends in front of a stationary wall projecting into the cross-section of the mouth of the bent delivery pipe.The task to be solved by the present invention is the task of simplifying a device of the type mentioned at the beginning and treating the sliver with care at the same time.In accordance with the present invention, this task is solved by the features that a pressure-exerting member, which is directed towards the stationary wall and which moves together with the belt delivery pipe, is arranged behind the mouth of the bent delivery pipe when seen in the direction of rotation, the coefficient of friction of the wall being higher than the coefficient of friction of the pressure-exerting member, when measured in the direction of rotation of the bent delivery pipe.

Abstract: A sliver coiler for depositing a running sliver into a coiler can includes a driven roller pair including two cooperating rollers arranged for advancing the sliver passing therebetween in a feed direction; and a sliver trumpet supported upstream of the roller pair as viewed in the feed direction and having a passage through which the sliver runs. The sliver trumpet has a first position in which the sliver exit of the passage immediately adjoins and faces the roller pair of a second position in which the sliver exit is at a greater distance from the roller pair than in the first position. The coiler further has a coiler head arranged downstream of the roller pair and arranged for receiving the sliver and forwarding the sliver into a coiler can; a drive for displacing the sliver trumpet between the first and second positions; and a clamping arrangement for grasping the sliver at a location between the sliver entrance of the sliver trumpet and the roller pair.

Abstract: A coiler plate of the type adapted for rotational disposition in association with a sliver can of a textile draw frame, wherein the coiler plate has a compression surface for contact with sliver deposited in the can and a sliver conduit through the coiler plate opening at the compression surface, may be coated with enamel over the compression surface and the interior wall surfaces defining the sliver conduit to provide a reduced coefficient of friction relative to sliver.

Abstract: A drawing frame has a housing having an upper part and a lower part telescoping therewith, attachments for securing the parts together at any of a plurality of different vertically offset positions, a turntable in the lower part for supporting a sliver can and for rotating it about an upright axis, and an intake device in the upper part for pulling in and drawing slivers and for depositing the drawn slivers in the can. One of the parts is at least partially within the other part and the one part is formed with a plurality of vertically offset holes. The attachments are bolts engagable through the other part with the holes of the one part. These attachment bolts can simply snap in place, or can actually be screwed into threaded holes in the inner part.

Abstract: A sliver coiler includes a coiling mechanism; a hood covering a top part of the coiling mechanism; a stationary sliver trumpet mounted in the roof of the hood; an air inlet opening provided in the roof and a suction device connected to the hood and arranged for communicating with an inner space of the hood.

Abstract: A compact textile carding frame and apparatus is disclosed which includes a carding machine (A) having a frame (D) which supports the carding machine in a self-standing manner with vertical carding cylinders. Cantilevered support arms (114, 116) carry the fiber feed and doffing devices. A fiber feed chute (C) is carried on a chute frame (E) having longitudinal members (130, 130a) which telescope into horizontal tracks (72, 72a) of carding frame (D). The precise working position of feed chute (C) and carding machine (A) may be fixed by their relative horizontal spacing. A coiler (B) is carried on a coiler frame (F) which pivots about a pivot (176) in and out of a precise working position with carding machine (A). An alignment and locking member (194) aligns the coiler upon return pivotal movement into the working position.

Abstract: In an apparatus for compressing and automatic introduction of a fibre strand into a feed nip: an opening is formed as a longitudinal slot (12, 12a, b12"a) extending from the outlet port (15) of the nozzle channel (7;7") in the longitudinal direction thereof and in a plane extending substantially perpendicular to the plane (E--E) of the feed nip (1; 1"). The contour of the insertion nozzle (6, 6") adjacent its outlet end on both sides of the longitudinal slot (12, 12a, b; 12"a) is of a shape (9, 10;9") conforming to the contours of the components (2, 3; 2", 8"a), particularly rollers (2, 3) defining the feed nip (1; 1").

Abstract: A textile comber drawbox shut-off and method are disclosed for terminating the supply of suction air to the drawbox during doffing. Suction air shut-off assemblies B are placed in suction lines 56 leading to vacuum cleaning nozzles 50, 52 of the drawback which clean coiler units A during drawing off of combed sliver 48. Pivotal flapper valves C are tied together by air cylinder D for simultaneous operation. In accordance with the method, upon a prescribed amount of sliver being deposited in cans 26, the comber and supply of suction air are stopped. Following doffing of the full cans, the comber is restarted and the supply of suction air remains shut off by closed valves C. After approximately 60 seconds, of high operation speed, the closure valves C are simultaneously actuated to once again establish suction air in drawbox enclosure 28 for cleaning.

Abstract: A fixed base plate provided with a circular recess accommodates a rotating disk. Mounted above the base plate and the rotating disk, is an endless band conveyor swivellable about the axis of the roller in the area of the edge of the base plate. The rotating disk is fitted with a channel through which the yarn is guided from below into the space between the disk and the lower run of the band conveyor in which loops are formed and moved toward the edge of the base plate. Arranged at the edge of the base plate, below the conveyor, is a belt, receiving the loops. The drives of the band conveyor and the belt conveyor form a single unit.

Abstract: An improved coiler device of a spinning machine, wherein a downstream portion of a coiler tube is further bent downward at a position adjacent to a place where a sliver exits, a flange extending upward is arranged in a coiler wheel side of a coiler plate, whereby an exit opening of the coiler tube is formed from a bottom face of the coiler wheel to the flange, and the coiler plate is movably constituted so that a relative speed of an inside face of the flange to that of the coiler tube is lower than a moving speed of the coiler tube.

Abstract: An apparatus accumulating a filiform element in order to absorb differences in input and output travel speeds of the element, without tangling and damaging the element. Mechanical means located above an accumulation container draw the filiform element at the input speed and wind the filiform element in layers of coils stacked on the bottom of the container following an epicycloid or hypocycloid path. Two stationary concentric rings, respectively, attached to and suspended above the bottom of the container, guide the filiform element unwound at the output speed through the bottom of the container to the outside. The apparatus is particularly designed for a very fine and fragile filiform element such as an optical fiber, and is inserted between a multifibering machine and a cabling line.

Abstract: The apparatus which coils a plurality of turns of sliver or roving for example from a spinning machine in a spinning can comprises a coiler plate having an outlet yarn piece guide. To equalize the deposition density of the sliver or roving an oscillatory motion is superimposed on the motion of the outlet sliver guide of the coiler plate caused by the rotation of the coiler plate.

Abstract: The problem of sliver slingover encountered when starting up a coiler of a high speed drawframe or the like at full production rates can be obviated through this invention wherein for an initial interval the rotational axes of the can and its platform and of the fixed coiler tube are brought closer together than one would require to fill the can to maximum capacity from side to side so that the inertial momentum of the spewing sliver is insufficient to over extend the sliver beyond the can's rim; this condition in filling is maintained until a measured amount of sliver sufficient to produce a firm abutting of the topmost coils with the exit of the coiler tube and thus sufficient resistance to the then spewing sliver therefrom to contain the coils within the side to side extent of the can is attained, whereupon through a shifting mechanism, which may be pneumatically operable, the can platform and its axis are shifted a prescribed distance of greater separation away from the fixed coiler tube axis for the rema

Abstract: Textile slivers tend to loose their cohesion when travelling over long distances from one piece of storage or processing equipment to another such piece of equipment. This problem is overcome by subjecting the sliver to a false twisting process during its travel, desirably by a pneumatic false twister located immediately adjacent to the sliver-receiving equipment.

Abstract: A can coiler with sliver inlet opening (1) on its head side, which opening is arranged in a rotating plate (11) and is flanked by calender rolls (16) the drive for which is derived from the rotary motion of the rotating plate (11) in the head of the can coiler. A structural form which is simple to manufacture and favorable in use and for maintenance is provided by the drive of the calender rolls being developed as a belt drive with a friction wheel (13) which can be shifted into position of application against an annular surface (18') of the head (10) of the can coiler.

Abstract: A sliver coiler includes a coiler head supported for rotation about a generally vertical axis; a sliver depositing arrangement carried by the coiler head eccentrically relative to the axis and arranged for receiving sliver from above and discharging sliver downwardly during rotation of the coiler head; a pair of cooperating pressure rollers supported for rotation stationarily upstream of the sliver depositing arrangement as viewed in a running direction of the sliver passing between the pressure rollers; and a drive including a rotatably supported power-driven shaft and first and second drive elements for the coiler head and the pressure rollers, respectively. The first and second drive elements are operatively connected with the power-driven shaft. The first drive element is mounted on the power-driven shaft, and a transmission element connects the first drive element with the coiler head.

Abstract: A sliver coiler includes a rotary head assembly, a trumpet mounted eccentrically in the rotary head assembly and a sliver support situated at a vertical distance above the rotary head assembly and arranged for guiding the sliver to the trumpet orbiting during rotation of the rotary head assembly. There is provided a hood which encloses a volume above the rotary head assembly and which has a ceiling wall provided with an air inlet opening. The sliver support is arranged in a zone of the ceiling wall.

Abstract: A sliver coiler includes a rotary head assembly, a sliver trumpet eccentrically mounted in the rotary head assembly and a sliver guide element situated generally centrally above the rotary head assembly at a distance therefrom, whereby the sliver has an unsupported running portion from the sliver guide element to the sliver trumpet. The angle formed between the plane of rotation of the rotary head assembly and a line connecting the sliver guide element with the sliver trumpet is 30.degree. at the most.

Abstract: A relatively heavy sliver creel frame is suspended from an overhead support by relatively stiff wires whose angle to the creel in combination with the weight of the creel minimize horizontal creel sway. A pair of additional stabilizing links connect the creel to and cantilever it from a support structure spaced from the floor region over which the creel is suspended.

Abstract: In order to reduce the friction of the roving against the annular cover of the can receiving the roving and surrounding the rotatable coiler, the cover is rotatable about the rotation axis of the coiler.

Abstract: A web of fibers delivered from a drawing machine is assembled into a sliver which passes into a guide duct, then passes between takeup rollers into a can coiler. Downwardly inclined air-escape holes are pierced in the wall of the guide duct in order to discharge the air entrained by the sliver. There is consequently no swelling of the sliver on the delivery side of the takeup rollers and no pressure rise towards the guide duct inlet, thereby facilitating the introduction of the web into the duct.

Abstract: A sliver coiling apparatus has a rotatably supported coiler head including a sliver discharge opening travelling in a circular path upon rotation of the coiler head; a first drive for rotating the coiler head; a support for positioning a coiler can underneath the coiler head such that a central axis of the coiler can is eccentric relative to the circular path; a second drive for moving the support for removing a full coiler can from under the coiler head and positioning an empty coiler can thereunder; a position sensing arrangement for emitting a signal when the sliver discharge opening is situated on an inner half circle of the circular path. The signal is applied to the second drive for energizing the second drive to displace the support when the sliver discharge opening is situated on the inner half circle for effecting rupture of the sliver.

Abstract: A sliver coiler including a rotary head supported in a machine frame. A device is provided for rotating the rotary head about its rotary axis. A pair of parallel extending cooperating feed rollers are rotatably supported in the rotary head for drawing sliver into the rotary head and discharging the sliver therefrom to deposit the sliver underneath the rotary head. A sliver coiler component surrounds the rotary head and has a circular track. During rotation, the rotary head turns relative to the sliver coiler component. A driving device provided for rotating the feed rollers includes a runner element which is rotatably supported by the rotary head and in contact with the circular track for running thereon during rotation of the rotary head, and a torque-transmitting mechanism for applying a driving torque from the runner element to the feed rollers.

Abstract: A method of depositing sliver in a can by a sliver coiler having a rotating coiler head provided with an outlet opening travelling in a circular path, comprises the following steps: discharging sliver from the outlet opening during rotation of the coiler head; introducing sliver from the outlet opening immediately into a stationary annular chamber which can hold at least two superposed sliver coils and which is aligned with the circular path and which further has an open top oriented towards the outlet opening and an open bottom oriented away from the outlet opening; compressing the sliver in the annular chamber upon introduction therein and ejecting a lowermost sliver coil from the annular chamber through the bottom thereof by the pressure of a superposed compressed sliver coil dwelling in the annular chamber.

Abstract: A textile processing system is disclosed in which a chute feeder is juxtaposed with a card as a web supply device for the card, and the card, in turn, is juxtaposed with a coiler device, typically a dual coiler, for coiling sliver into cans, from the output of the card. In order to reduce variation in weight of fiber per unit width across the width of the output of the card, the horizontal angle of the chute feed output relative to the horizontal angle of the card input is made adjustable. In the preferred embodiment this is accomplished by mounting the chute feed for controlled, limited pivotal movement about a vertical axis generally coinciding with one lateral margin of the chute feed, the adjustment members being provided at the opposite lateral margin of the chute feed.

Abstract: The textile fiber sliver is deposited in cans in the form of cycloid-type loops. During deposition, the sliver is delivered via a rotating funnel gear wheel into a rotating can. In addition, the mutual distance between the axes of rotation of the gear wheel and can is varied by laterally displacing the can. Also, the rotational speed of the can is varied during operation so that when the distance between the axes of rotation of the wheel and can is at a minimum, the can rotates at a maximum speed. Likewise, when the distance between the axes of rotation is at a maximum, the can rotates at a minimum rotational speed.

Abstract: A sliver coiler for a carding machine or the like includes a can having an open top; a support for positioning the can in a generally upright orientation; a rotary head having a guide arranged eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation of the rotary head. The central axis of the can is spaced from the axis of rotation of the rotary head, whereby during rotation of the rotary head and the can, the rotary head deposits sliver in the can in superposed continuous circular loops which are eccentric with respect to the central axis of the can. There is provided an adjusting arrangement for arbitrarily altering the distance between the central axis of the can and the axis of rotation of the rotary head for effecting contact between outer parts of the circular loops and inner wall faces of the can irrespective of the thickness of the sliver deposited in the coiler.

Abstract: Method for depositing sliver formed of textile fibers in cycloidal loops in a rotating can, which includes feeding the sliver through a rotating funnel wheel having a guide canal formed therein with an opening extending toward the can, and rotating the funnel wheel with periodically changing angular velocity to reduce variation in silver deposit velocity and device for implementing the method.

Abstract: Apparatus for the automatic infeed of a fibre sheet into a coiler comprises a smooth-surfaced transverse guide 6 to be placed at the delivery side of a pair of drawing rollers 1, 2. The guide 6 has an orifice 7 for gathering into a tuft the fibre sheet 3 coming from said pair of drawing rollers, a cylindrical outlet tube 8 extending said orifice 7, pneumatic means 18 for drawing the tuft into the outlet tube 8, and a pair of draw rolls 9 set at the downstream end of the outlet tube.The invention may be applied to the introduction of a fibre sheet into a coiler, the fibre sheet leaving the last pair of rollers of the drafting train of a machine.

Abstract: A carding machine includes a vertical tuft feed chute, a supply table on which a fiber lap discharged by the feed chute is forwarded in a direction of advance, a carding unit arranged downstream of the supply table as viewed in the direction of advance and receiving the fiber lap from the supply table and discharging a fiber web divided into side-by-side arranged web parts and a plurality of sliver forming trumpets each receiving a separate one of the web parts. There is further provided a dividing device having a vertically oriented tuft divider supported in the feed chute. The tuft divider separates the feed chute into vertically extending feed chute parts situated side-by-side as viewed in the direction of lap advance, whereby the fiber lap discharged by the feed chute is divided into side-by-side positioned fiber lap parts.

Abstract: An improved device for disposing roving in the form of overlying epicycloids inside a fixed box, provided with two sun gears and one planet gear, the planet gear being rotated by the sun gear which is rotated by a gear wheel, and another sun gear coaxial to the first sun gear, being rotated by a worm, wherein each epicycloid gear is centered and in case supported by three pairs of bearings disposed at 120.degree. to each other, the outer ring of the bearing coated with appropriate self-lubricating resin.

Abstract: A coiler arrangement wherein an infeed connection leads to compaction or pressure rolls, and a mouthpiece of the infeed connection has a sliver outlet opening which is directed towards the roll nip of the pressure or compaction rolls. A compartment which is operatively connected with a negative pressure source and formed in a hood or cover member, surrounds the infeed connection and is bounded by the pressure or compaction rolls in the direction of travel or feed of the sliver. The mouthpiece flow communicates with the compartment by means of openings provided at its circumference, and between these openings and the inner surface of the mouthpiece there are formed guide surfaces.

Abstract: A cylindrical tube is inclined from the vertical below a sliver guide, the bottom end of the tube being mounted on a supporting element, and the upper part being accommodated in a bearing, the outer race of which is located in a horizontal plate. The horizontal plate has a gyratory motion imparted to it through two crankshafts, such that the tube would undergo a nutational movement. To improve the distribution of the sliver, the axis of the cycloidal loops of sliver passing from the tube is shifted by journaling the crankshafts on a second horizontal plate to which a gyratory movement is imparted by a second pair of crankshafts. The first pair of crankshafts is driven more slowly than the second pair.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for eliminating or minimizing air borne dust, fly, lint and the like particulate matter, and static accumulations thereof generated by the movement of sliver into the coiler trumpet of a sliver coiler. Coiler head cleaning is accomplished by confining an air flow path over the head of the coiler and establishing an air flow stream along said path to entrain dust, fly, lint and the like particulate matter released by the sliver moving into the coiler trumpet. Apparatus is provided comprising an enclosure confining a volume of air over the coiler head, with an opening leading into the enclosure through which air flowing across the trumpet is admitted. A suction connection is formed in the enclosure remote from the air inlet with air flow established in a path through the enclosure between the air inlet and the suction connection.

Abstract: The apparatus is usable with a funnel wheel and a tube which undergoes tumbling movements for receiving a rope-like strand of fibers from a card or drawing frame and piling the strand of fibers in cycloidal loops in a ramp, through which the rope-like strand is moved to be loaded into cans, typically known as spinning cans. The ramp may be tubular, and may be vibrated. The ramp leads to a first support which is provided with clamps for holding a can. The first support is tiltable, and means are provided for severing the rope-like strand between the ramp and the can when the can is filled to a predetermined extent. A tiltable twin support is provided with clamps for receiving and holding a filled can from the first support, and for receiving, holding and transferring to the first support an empty can to be filled. The twin support can be tilted and moved transversely for receiving a loaded can from the first can support and transferring an empty can to the first support.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing sliver into a sliver can is comprised of a rotary turntable for supporting a sliver can. A cylinder having a piston slidable therein is vertically disposed beneath the center line of the turntable. A pressing rod is connected to the piston and a pressing plate is rotatably mounted on the top end of said pressing rod for engagement with a bottom plate of the can which is freely supported therein. An axial lost motion connection is provided between the pressing plate and the pressing rod and a coil spring is connected between the turntable and the pressing rod to couple the turntable and pressing rod plate together for rotation and for urging the turntable and pressing plate apart.

Abstract: A device for raising the bottom of a can, wherein a lift plate slides vertically inside the can and is activated by a pantograph extending axially thereof. A base structure transmits vertical drive from a vertically-extendable fluid drive to the lower end of the pantograph, which pantograph at its upper end is connected to the plate. The plate is independent of the bottom of the can.

Abstract: A planetary coiler for depositing a sliver in a stationary can comprising a rotary disc mounted on a stationary frame by way of a thrust bearing, a sliding supporting member slidably mounted on the inner side of the rotary disc, a coiler plate mounted on the supporting member, a calender roller mounted on the supporting member, and a turn plate provided with a sliver guide tube rotatably supported on the rotary disc, wherein any gap other than a small contact gap with the turn plate is not present so as to substantially prevent catching of sliver on the gap or intrusion of fibers into the gap. An annular gear is rotatably supported on the top surface of the rotary disc and centering of the annular gear is performed by the inner circumferential face of the rotary disc or the peripheral face of the annular gear.