Abstract: In construction of an auto-doffer for weaving looms, a pair of arm mounted to a carriage carry out full automatic doffing separation by means of their three dimensional movement and a cutter unit also mounted to the carriage disconnects, in cooperation with a cloth pressor unit, a full roll held by the arms from a cloth being woven. The carriage is designed to travel along selected paths in a weaving mill to visit a loom in need of doffing operation on receipt of a command from a central processing unit. After the doffing operation, the auto-doffer carrying a full roll travels to a station aranged in the mill for transfer of the full roll to and receipt of an empty roll from a transporter which reciprocate between the station and a cloth roll stocker.

Abstract: A cloth beam changer includes a conveyor having gripping arms which carry gripping elements at the ends. A transmission is provided in the form of a slide with a spindle and nut arrangement for raising and lowering the slide. A guide rail and stop are provided in the winding-on station of the loom to position the gripping elements accurately while at the same time preventing further downward movement of the gripper arms and slide. A spring between the slider and spindle nut compressers should the transmission overshoot the position of the gripper elements. A second spring is also provided between two parts of the gripper arm to permit deflection of the lower part upon engagement and sliding on the guide rail of the loom. Sensors are provided to measure the amount of deflection of the respective springs.

Abstract: The invention is an improved bale handling and wrapping apparatus adapted to be fitted on the front-end loader or three-point hitch of a power source. The round bale handler of the present invention is capable of handling, stacking, transporting, wrapping and dispensing bales of hay. A spindle probe adapted to engage the bale of hay is mounted for lateral movement on a transverse frame. The frame extends outwardly to one side of the power source beyond the line of travel. A removable wrapping arm is fitted on the frame. The spindle probe can be moved laterally across the frame to accommodate bales of varying diameters, such that the wrapping arm is positioned adjacent the outer most portion of the bale. Thereafter the spindle is rotated and the wrapping material applied to the bale.

Abstract: A system for replacing a filled cloth roller with an empty cloth roller for a loom is comprised of two rotatable shafts which are oppositely disposed and respectively supported by side frames of the loom. Each rotatable shaft is fixedly provided with an engaging member engageable with an end section of the cloth roller. The two rotatable shafts are automatically driven to move axially under the action of a pneumatically operated actuator, so that the engaging members are disengaged respectively from the opposite end sections of the cloth roller for the purpose of removing the filled cloth roller from the loom while engaged respectively with the same end sections for the purpose of installing the empty cloth roller to the loom. One of the rotatable shafts is driven from a loom main shaft to rotate the cloth roller, thus taking up a woven cloth on the cloth roller during the weaving operation of the loom.

Abstract: Large rolls of partially overlapping paper sheets which are convoluted onto the cores of reels are stored in one or more rows of compartments in a newspaper printing or bookbinding plant. Two adjoining rows are separated from each other by a track for one or more vehicles which are used to transport empty reels to one or more compartments wherein the sheets are convoluted onto the respective cores as well as to transport loaded reels to unoccupied compartments or to compartments which are adjacent to unwinding units. Conveyors in the form of cranes and/or chain or belt conveyors are used to transfer empty and loaded reels between the compartments of the rows and pairs of similar compartments on the vehicles. A vehicle which transports a loaded reel from the convoluting station to an empty compartment is used to transport an empty reel from such compartment to the compartment at the convoluting station so that the vehicle is put to use during each stage of its movement.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transfer car for heavy loads, a car which has a chassis frame (1) moving on wheels (2) and having a raisable flatbed (3) on top of it, in which an axle (4'), mounted with bearings to the chassis frame and locked to one of the two wheel pairs, is coupled by power transmission means (5") to a transfer motor (6'), for transferring the car, and which additionally has a lever mechanism (7), connected to the flatbed (3), turning on transverse axles primarily in the forward and back ends and coupled to a raising motor (6') by a power transmission (5'), for raising and lowering the flatbed (3). In prior-art transfer cars it has not been possible to exploit the car-transfer mechanism in any way in the load-raising mechanism. Thus the transfer cars for loads such as paper rolls have so far been of a complicated structure and expensive.

Abstract: A hand truck for lifting and transporting objects. The truck includes an elongated frame attached to a wheel assembly. A carriage is mounted on the frame to travel the length of the frame. The carriage includes a load bed that extends across the frame, and at least one protrusion located below the load bed that extends above the load bed. A seizing arm is pivotally attached to the carriage above the load body and has a seizing arm with a grip point directed toward the load body. The seizing arm has a stem that extends beyond the pivot point attachment opposite the seizing arm body. A winch with cable are attached to the top of the frame. The free end of the cable is attached to the seizing arm stem. Retracting the cable causes the seizing arm to pivot so the grip point is forced against as object located on the carriage. The force of the seizing arm is sufficient to secure the object between the grip point and the carriage.

Abstract: An improvement in a self-loading apparatus for picking up and moving a bale of hay having diameters of up to about 3 or 4 feet and longitudinal lengths of up to about 5 or 6 feet. The apparatus is of the type including a main frame member supported on wheels mounted near the end of the main frame. A hitch frame has one end pivotally connected to the front end portion of the main frame, with the other end of the hitch frame adapted for attachment to a tow vehicle. The main frame is adapted to be tilted upwardly about the support wheels when braking devices on the wheels are activated and the tow vehicle is backed up. A pair of load engaging and clamping swing arms are pivotally attached to the respective sides of the main frame.

Abstract: Multicolor flexographic machine comprising a plurality of printing units, a robot in close relationship with the printing units and arranged to remove in succession each block-holding roller from its working position on the flexographic machine, to place it on a roller support trolley and to replace it with another block-holding roller available on the roller support trolley. A system for presetting the block-holding rollers is provided to obtain correct printing overlap in the machine and is controlled by an actuation unit which governs a contact-separation sequence of the rollers in each printing unit with micrometric adjustment of the roller pressure. Each block-holding roller is held in position free to rotate by automatically opening and closing holding caps.

Abstract: A mobile vehicle is provided with a cradle that can be tilted or rotated. The cradle can also be raised and lowered. The cradle has leaves which are upwardly and outwardly sloping to handle a large cylindrical paper roll by allowing the roll to roll down and center itself in the cradle.

Abstract: The feeding of web-shaped wound packaging material (reels) and/or prefabricated blanks to high-performance packaging machines has hitherto required considerable manual involvement. Above all, the sometimes considerable dead weight of the packaging material has an adverse effect here. To allow a virtually full automatic feed of the packaging machines with packaging material, a conveyor track (31) leads to the individual consumption points at the packaging machines is arranged above the packaging machines. Individual reels (26, 27, 28) or blanks (82) stacked in cassettes (84) are transported along this conveyor track (31) by means of respective material conveyors (41) which are each equipped with material holders (44) that consist solely of rigid immovable supporting members for the reels or cassettes (84). The feed and discharge of these material holders (44) take place automatically as a result of an appropriate relative movement of feed and discharge members.

Abstract: A printing press material roll lift and drive assembly (40) has a base (16) and a lift support frame (18). The lift support frame provides support for opposed front and rear vertical rails (50). A U-shaped carriage (54) is mounted for elevation on the rails and includes side support plates (56) having rail rollers (57) and an upper plate (58). The carriage is raised and lowered by a releasing ram (80) attached to the support frame at its upper end (82) and to the carriage at its lower end (86), said support plates including bearings receiving a carriage shaft (64). The shaft includes a cantilevered outer end (68) receiving the paper roll core (69) and an inner end (72). The inner end is driven by a magnetic particle clutch (102) mounted to the base and having a drive shaft (106) by means of an endless belt (112) extending between a drive shaft pulley (110) and a carriage shaft pulley (74 ). The endless belt includes a belt tensioner (114).

Abstract: The present invention concerns a storage structure for yarn bobbins and it comprises a plurality of storage units having support devices of the bobbin. Such storage units are distributed in a plurality of stationary deposit equipments. The storage units contained within each stationary deposit equipment are movable along an annular path. The stationary deposit equipments are vertically superimposed in groups. The groups of deposits are arranged in lateral, side-by-side relationship, thus defining a vertical surface of loading and a vertical surface of unloading, which are accessible from devices of loading and unloading, respectively.

Abstract: This invention is an apparatus for withdrawing yarn bobbins, from withdrawal preparation tracks which carry the bobbins and for transferring the withdrawn bobbins into a wheel-mounted container. When the bobbins are transferred to the container they lie in a predetermined ordered arrangement which is related to the bobbin shape and size. The apparatus comprises vertically and angularly displaceable roller tracks which are on a mobile slide or support for preparing the bobbins for handling. These are automatically centered because of a substantially V-shaped arrangement of the supporting roller tracks. The apparatus also comprises a gripping device for simultaneously withdrawing and transferring several bobbins prepared on a roller track. This device is in the form of a multi-engagement gripper which is provided with various pairs of jaws for external gripping. It is also provided with a pendant rod-shaped arm which translates along two axes.

Abstract: An apparatus for charging and discharging yarn cheeses from cheese frames. A frame has a locking rod extending downwardly therefrom. The frame also supports a vertically traversing carriage. The carriage mounts a pair of gripping arms which extend downwardly therefrom and which are disposed about, and rotatable about, the locking rod. The free end of the locking rod may be expanded to hold yarn cheeses thereon, and the free ends of the gripping arms have grippers to raise or lower a yarn cheese onto or off of the locking rod. Rotation of the arms allows them to be placed within spaces adjacent closely packed yarn cheeses. The entire frame is movable in two directions to properly place the locking rod.

Abstract: In an apparatus for collectively holding a plurality of packages aligned in a row to supply them to pegs of a creel bogie, an apparatus for supplying packages to a warper creel includes a package holding mechanism and an empty take-up tube holding mechanism.

Abstract: A bale transporter and feeder is used for loading, transporting and feeding large bales of hay. This transporter and feeder includes a frame which is adapted to be connected to a prime mover and which forms a horizontal support bed, which will at least partially support a hay bale on end during transport and feeding. A lift is pivotally supported on the frame and rotatable substantially 90.degree. about a horizontal axis at approximately the same height as the horizontal support bed. This lift is adapted to engage a hay bale on the ground in a lowered position and is rotatable to a raised position. In the raised position the bale is supported on end of the support bed and the lift, and can be left in place for feeding cattle after the frame has been moved to a feeding area. An actuator is supported on the frame to move the lift between the lowered and raised positions.

Abstract: A conveyor having an electrified carrier track supporting wheeled, self-propelled carriers, in which each carrier is provided with power-driven, vertically movable load carrying structure operable to pickup a load from or deposit a load on a supporting surface located beneath the carrier track. Each carrier has load position sensors and a programmable controller that enable the pickup and depositing operations to be performed automatically for loads, such as newsprint rolls, of different dimension.

Abstract: High-performance packaging machines have a large consumption of packaging material. When blanks are produced in the region of the packaging machine by being severed from a material web wound as a reel, such reels have to be supplied to the packaging machine in sufficient quantity, specifically for reception by a rotatable supporting journal (16) located on the machine.For the efficient labor-saving supply of reels (12, 13, 14, 15) to the packing machine, a plurality of these are arranged on a movable supporting frame (19) in such a way that, by bringing the supporting frame (19) up to the transversely projecting supporting journal (16), the particular leading reel (12, 13, etc.) can be pushed onto the supporting journal (16). At the same time, the supporting journal (16) can be moved up and down between a receiving position and a working position. The feed of the reels (12, 13, etc.) is especially suitable for producing blanks from thin cardboard by tearing them off from the material web (10).

Abstract: In a storage facility for heavy coils or the like, coils are transported to and from stationary rests by a first carriage which include a hydraulic lift. The first carriage is carried by a second carriage which moves perpendicularly to the path of the first carriage and which has its own heavy article-supporting rest. Transfer of heavy articles from rest to rest takes place by operation of the hydraulic lift in conjunction with lateral movement of the first carriage. The second carriage is self-propelled, and also carries a hydraulic pump unit for powering the lift through a flexible coupling which allows limited movement of the first carriage away from the second carriage. A third carriage, which is self-propelled and movable perpendicularly to the path of the second carriage, receives the second carriage to carry the second carriage, with a first carriage on it, to and away from the storage facility. The second and third carriages are movable independently of each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for gripping and lifting closely packaged objects formed in rows and adjacent one another having a main horizontal beam, end gripper units adjustable through power means and self-positioning cross gripper units intermediate the end grippers. The grippers having elongated fingers which depend from the gripper units are powered toward the object to grip it and powered away from the object to release it. The objects are shaped and positioned to form spaces therebetween even when tangent to one another.

Abstract: Self-propelled sod harvesting apparatus for cutting sod from a field into strips and stacking the sod on pallets. The apparatus includes a magazine storage area for pallets, a pallet loading area, and mechanism for transferring a pallet from the storage area to the loading area. A conveyor carries each cut sod strip to a platform and causes the sod to be rolled, and a stacking mechanism is used to collect rolls from the platform and stack them on the pallet. When the pallet is loaded it is discharged onto the ground and a fresh pallet is transferred from the storage area to the loading area. Only one person is required to operate the apparatus.

Abstract: A device to palletize yarn packages is a device which may be installed downstream from yarn package production machines such as winding machines, speed frames, finishing machines, open-end spinning machines, and two-for-one twisting frames. The yarn packages are taken substantially at the outlet of the production machine and are loaded in an orderly manner onto pallets to form pallet loads. The device includes a substantially horizontal conveyor for transferring yarn packages, a delivery head substantially in line with the conveyor, an elevator for taking yarn packages to a required level, an overturning device for orienting the yarn packages, a positioner conveyor, a movable trolley and a device which engages, handles and positions cartons and pallets.

Abstract: Rolls of webs of photosensitive paper are accumulated into a stack on the upper reach of a belt conveyor which slopes upwardly and has a prop for the lowermost roll of the stack. The topmost roll of the stack is transferred to an unwinding station by an inflatable mandrel which is mounted on a pivotable lever and is movable by the lever between a horizontal position at the unwinding station and an inclined position in which it extends into and can be inflated in the interior of the core of the topmost roll of the stack. A catcher locates the leader of the web on the roll at the unwinding station and delivers the leader into the nip of two transporting rollers which advance the leader into a printer. When the supply of web on the core at the unwinding station is exhausted, the empty core is separated from the mandrel by a stripping device and the mandrel is ready to remove the next topmost roll from the upper reach of the conveyor.

Abstract: A web roll handling system comprises a roll loading section, a plurality of splicers and at least one robotic vehicle arranged to travel back and forth between the loading section and the plurality of splicers.

Abstract: A sod harvester in which sod is cut, conveyed upwardly, and then travels downwardly over a floppy conveyor and falls into a roll forming enclosure formed by a bottom conveyor and a vertical conveyor. The floppy conveyor swings downwardly at the start of roll forming, to reduce the free fall of the sod, and swings upwardly as the roll grows. When the roll is formed, the bottom conveyor is unlatched and tilts downwardly to discharge the roll, at the same time pulling into cocked position a core tube injector arm. When the roll discharges, the bottom conveyor snaps upwardly, releasing the core tube injector arm which injects a fresh core tube into the roll forming enclosure. The sod is rolled with its grass side outwardly to facilitate laying and to protect the grass roots. A tray on a cart at the end of the harvester receives the discharged roll and can convey it to either side of the cart.

Abstract: The inventive manipulator for heavy loads, preferably printing products in loose scale formation and wound up to form rolls, only has a single pivot pin (35) or joint which, according to the invention, is arranged in such a way that the load (5) can be brought into three main positions orthogonal to one another using this single pivot pin or joint. The load is held by a holding device (33,38). The pivot pin (35) passes through the center of gravity of the load, or the center of gravity is located in the pivot point or fulcrum. This makes it possible to grip in frontal or lateral precise manner heavy loads and subsequently to deposit same on a loading device or in a store without great force expenditure using a drive and/or manually. The invention is also characterized by the combination of an industrial truck (10), a lifting device (11) arranged thereon and a mounted implement (31-38) located on the truck and preferably constituted by the inventive manipulator.

Abstract: In a looming system or method, warp yarns are mounted on a loom by the following four steps. At a first step, warp yarns of a full warp beam are drawn through a warp holding unit including a warp dropper unit, a heald unit and a reed. Then, at a second step, the full warp beam is mounted on the loom. At a third step, a warp tension is sensed between the warp beam and the warp holding unit. At a fourth step, the warp holding unit is moved toward the loom and mounted in the loom while rotating the warp beam so as to reduce a deviation of the sensed warp tension from a predetermined standard.

Abstract: A robotic hand has two sections disposed 90 degrees apart. One section has a bobbin core-engaging device for the purpose of lifting and handling the bobbin. This section also has a bobbin transfer means for removing the bobbin from the bobbin core engaging device. The second section of the robotic hand has a first fixed finger and a second movable finger. The fingers are used for clamping at least one lamination thickness of paper from the bobbin therebetween and holding it while the robotic hand is indexed to thread a processing machine with the paper from the bobbin. The second section also has a bobbin core removing means formed by the first fixed finger and a movable third finger. The first and third fingers cooperate for engaging the bobbin core and removing it from the machine after all of the paper has been removed therefrom.

Abstract: An apparatus for exchanging elastic rolls in a supercalender has a platform which is movable up and down between the frame of a supercalender and a magazine for spare rolls. The platform supports two cracks with horizontally movable guides for two supports which can engage the end portions of an elastic roll from below before the guides and the supports are moved horizontally to transfer the roll from the supercalender, across the platform and into the magazine. In order to temporarily detach guide rolls which are installed in front of elastic rolls, the platform further supports two tracks for jaw-shaped supports for the end portions of a guide roll which is transferred into the apparatus and remains in the apparatus at a level above the tracks for the supports which transfer elastic rolls.

Abstract: A self-loading transport for round hay includes at tilt platform hinged to a transport platform. Round bales of hay are captured onto the tilt platform when it is in an upright position. Then, movement of the transport forward will raise and level the tilt platform with a bale of hay on it. When the tilt platform is in its full erect position, the bale of hay will roll forward from the tilt platform onto the transport platform. A rocker on the tilt platform aids in the smooth motion of the tilt platform and the rear of the transport platform from the transport position to a tilt position with a tilt platform in upright position. When the bales have been transported to the desired location, they are unloaded from the transport by permitting individual trays carrying the bales in transport on the transport platform to rotate upon the transport frame.

Abstract: The invention is a loader for loading containers such as large, heavy bottles of bottled-water from a conveyor, into a rack. It comprises a transfer table spaced from the conveyor and generally coplanar therewith. The table includes pairs of upstanding support arms having spacing corresponding to the spacing of the shelves of the rack. Guides are disposed intermediate the conveyor and the table and are adapted to guide the containers in diverging paths from the conveyor into the spaces on the table between the upstanding support arms respectively. Cylinders are provided for moving the containers laterally from the conveyor along the guides and into the spaces. The table is pivotally supported at one end and there is a large cylinder to swing it about the pivot to a vertical position wherein the support arms are horizontal and the containers rest on them. The arms are aligned with the shelves of the rack. Further cylinders are provided to drive the containers from the support arms into the rack.

Abstract: An automatic unloading or discharging of a spool from the winding portion of a reeling machine to a carrier car is disclosed, wherein the spool held on the winding portion is first removed from the winding head as horizontal belt conveyors are vertically moved to an elevated position, then horizontally fed by the belt conveyors onto support arms disposed above the carrier car, thereafter lowered by the support arms toward the carrier car, and finally placed onto the carrier car as the support arms are relatively moved away from one another.

Abstract: A sod harvester in which two transversely spaced cutterheads form sod into two side-by-side strips and slice the strips away from the underlying earth. The strips then are wound into rolls on a roller carried by the rear of the harvester. A power-driven endless belt engages the strips to initially wrap the strips around the roller and then assists in winding the strips into rolls of comparatively large diameter. A magazine on the harvester carries a supply of rollers and includes an escapement which may be actuated to drop a roller to the ground after sod has been wound on a preceding roller.

Abstract: A warp-beam lifting and transport carriage has an undercarriage with rotatable wheels and at least one wheel fixed in the direction of longitudinal travel. At least one boom, equipped with a roller fixed in the direction of transverse travel, extends obliquely downward and outward from the carriage to lift the longitudinally travelling wheel from the ground when sideways motion is desired. A coupling device changes the steering connection between a drawbar and the rotatable wheels. Steering is accomplished through the coupling device which causes open and crossed chains to act on pinions pivoted on the steerable wheels.

Abstract: A sod laying machine having front and rear sections articulated together. A boom on the front section has arms extending forwardly, with gripper arms extending downwardly from the boom to grip a roll of sod. A control roller connected to the boom arms drives the sod roll to control its speed of unwinding. The sod roll has its grass side facing outwardly and its top unwinds rearwardly so an operator in a seat at the front of the machine, between the boom arms, has an unobstructed view of the critical area of sod extending in the air from the roll to the ground, to reduce the likelihood of buckles and tears therein. The machine passes over the sod after it is laid, to roll the sod.

Abstract: A U-shaped bale push bar straddles a discharge gate of a large round baler with opposite legs of the bar being respectively pivotally connected to a pair of support brackets which are secured to and project rearwardly alongside the discharge gate from upper rear locations of opposite sidewall sections forming a portion of the baler main frame. A pair of chains are coupled between forward locations of the gate and the legs of the push bar and serve as lost-motion connections that cause the push bar to extend and retract respectively in following relationship to opening and closing movements of the gate such that interference between the gate and a discharged bale is avoided. An over center spring assembly acts between the push bar and support brackets to bias the bar toward its retracted position when the gate is closed and to bias the push bar toward its extended position when the gate moves a small amount towards its open position a small amount beyond an intermediate position permitting discharge of a bale.

Abstract: A sod laying machine having front and rear sections articulated together. A boom on the front section has arms extending forwardly, with gripper arms extending downwardly from the boom to grip a roll of sod. A control roller connected to the boom arms drives the sod roll to control its speed of unwinding. The sod roll has its grass side facing outwardly and its top unwinds rearwardly so an operator in a seat at the front of the machine, between the boom arms, has an unobstructed view of the critical area of sod extending in the air from the roll to the ground, to reduce the likelihood of buckles and tears therein. The machine passes over the sod after it is laid, to roll the sod.

Abstract: A low-profile, automatically guided vehicle is provided with a vertically raisable cradle which can carry a roll either in a bilge position or an upright position. The vehicle is used in a roll-handling system which enables the vehicle to pass beneath the spaced, parallel arms of a storage rack that can be holding a roll either in the upright or bilge position. The vehicle can pass beneath a set of rolls on the storage racks so that passage of the vehicle either for depositing a paper roll or lifting a paper roll from the storage rack can be in a single, common direction. A transfer table is provided which has articulated arms that can be vertically raised. The arms can be moved lengthwise to the direction of the lengthwise axis of the roll in a bilge position, the arms can be raised vertically, or the arms can be carried moved to the lengthwise axis of the roll on the transfer table.

Abstract: An apparatus for lifting and carrying heavy loads includes a generally horizontally extending support beam attached between a pair of generally vertically extending posts. The distance between the ends of the support beam is selectively adjustable. The bottom end of each support post is attached to a side beam and the side beams are connected together at a front end by a steering mechanism and at a rear end by a beam assembly. Both the steering mechanism and the beam asssembly are selectively adjustable to vary the distance between the side beams to correspond to the distance between the ends of the support beam thereby maintaining the posts in a generally parallel relationship. The side beams are also selectively adjustable to vary the length of the load carrying apparatus. Ground engaging wheels are rotatably attached to the side beams and the steering mechanism.

Abstract: Reinforcing device formed from a bent metallic bar stock formed into two legs, having an intermediate bend thereof, inserted into the hollowed end of a time, such as for a hay loader, or related lift mechanism, and therein reinforcing the tine against shear forces and bending moments. Apparatus is provided for bending the bar stock into the configuration of the reinforcing member, by applying a ram to the bar at that location where the bend is required, and forcing the bar to bend into the formation of a pair of legs, between a pair of guide rollers, through the longitudinal shifting of the ram under excessive force during bending of the bar into its reinforcing configuration.

Abstract: An improved machine and method for lifting, loading, and maintaining a web roll on a cantelevered spindle so that the web roll may rotate about the longitudinal axis of the spindle thereby permitting the web to be unwound from the web roll. The cantelevered spindle of this machine may be moved, vertically and horizontally, from its normal, unwind position so as to be insertable into the central core opening of the web roll while the web roll is positioned on the floor adjacent to the machine. Thereafter the spindle, and the web roll mounted on the spindle, are moved vertically and horizontally and are returned to the spindle's normal web unwind position. The means utilized to move the spindle horizontally during web roll lifting and loading is also used, in part, to adjust the position of the web roll, during the web unwinding operation, in response to signals from a side-lay sensing device employed to sense the position of the side edge of the web being unwound.

Abstract: A traveling platform unit which is movable in the horizontal direction, for loading and unloading a printing paper on a roll stand. The roll stand has swivel arms and is part of a web-fed rotary printing press which uses the printing paper rolls. The traveling platform is equipped with lifting elements acting together in pairs, which permit aligning of the paper rolls with a paper roll bearing axle of the roll stand while allowing paper rolls of different diameters and widths to be brought for clamping between pairs of the swivel arms of the roll stand or to be removed from the swivel arms of the roll stand.

Abstract: An apparatus for lifting and carrying heavy loads includes a generally horizontally extending support beam attached between a pair of generally vertically extending posts. The lower end of each post is attached to one of a pair of generally horizontally extending side beams which are connected together at a front end by a steering mechanism. A winch for moving a load is coupled to the support beam and is connected to either a pan or directly to a load for releasably engaging and lifting a load. A rear edge of the pan is rotatably attached to the side beams and a front edge can be lifted by the winch to dump a load carried on the pan. A pair of lifting arms can be connected between the posts and the side beams to cooperate with the winch to move a load between the ground and a roof.

Abstract: This invention relates to a handling apparatus designed to move on at least two orthogonal axes and, preferably, on three axes, said apparatus being capable of positively gripping spools at their axial bore with great precision and being particularly adapted to be associated with plants designed for automation of the loading and unloading operations of said spools, respectively, into and from wire winding machines and into and from feeding and collecting stations where said spools may be disposed with any orientation.

Abstract: An apparatus for lifting and moving heavy, elongated rolls of material comprises an elongated member adapted to be inserted axially in a roll of material, a pair of lifting devices for engaging end portions of the axial member that project from opposite ends of the roll. Each lifting device has a fulcrum member fixed to divergent members of a rigid frame structure. A holder for engaging one end portion of the axial member is fixed to one diverging frame member and an adjustable lever arm is attached to the other diverging frame member. A moveable dolly for supporting the roll of material after initial lifting has side projecting arms which can be engaged by the lifting devices so that when the dolly with a roll of material is lifted to a predetermined height the material can be moved axially on the dolly end onto another surface.

Abstract: A system and method for handling and delaminating a bobbin of sheet-like material, such as tipping paper, comprising a delaminator apparatus (100), a robotic arm assembly (182) having a robotic hand (185) connected thereto and a control console (212) for controlling the delaminator apparatus (100), the robotic arm assembly (182) and robotic hand (185) connected to the robotic arm assembly (182).

Abstract: A vehicle including a receiver for tracking signals generated by a wire for directing the vehicle to follow the wire which loops between loading and unloading positions. Sensors detect the vehicle for moving a swingable member to a first position and locking the member to cradle the load on the vehicle. Drivewheel assemblies arranged along one longitudinal side of the vehicle are rotatable to steer the vehicle and to move the wheels to a position to move the vehicle sidewise for delivering the load to a utilization device at the unloading location. The side of the vehicle opposite the side of the drive wheel assemblies is provided with caster assemblies enabling the side of the caster assemblies to be of a significantly reduced height relative to the opposite side thereof to permit the load to be dispensed and enable the vehicle to be withdrawn from beneath the load when the lifted swingable member is lowered.

Abstract: Device (10) to convey yarn packages which is suitable to take the yarn packages from a supply machine such as a winding machine, open-end spinning machine, two-for-one twisting machine, take-up frame for manmade filaments, fly frame, finishing machine, etc., the yarn packages being taken substantially at the outlet of the supply machine and then being delivered to transient storage containers, which may consist of creels, support shafts, dyehouse chests, cases, cartons, pallets, etc.

Abstract: A hydraulic bumper mechanism for moving bales. A modified rear bumper is used on pick up trucks. Extending forwardly from the bumper is a pair of spaced apart housings which retain hydraulic cylinders. The front end of the cylinders and the piston portion thereof faces to the rear of the truck and each is attached to a receptacle that is rotatably attached to a common shaft. These receptacles are adapted to receive round bale piercing spears. When in the horizontal position as the truck is backed up into the bale these spears stab into the bales. Once the bale is stabbed, the hydraulic cylinders are actuated outwardly to cause rotation of the receptacles, of the spears and of the attached round bale of hay. A variety of other tools can be used with it and include a wire winder and a pallet mover. An auxiliary hydraulic kit is also incorporated with the modified bumper.