GB385573A - Cop feed mechanism for winding frames - Google Patents

Abstract

385,573. Feeding cops to and delivering empty cop tubes from winding- machines. REINERS, W., 214, Bahnstrasse, Gladbach, Munich, Germany. March 20, 1931, No. 8648. Convention date, March 21, 1930. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. [Class 120 (iii).] An endless belt, chain, or like conveyer extends along the sides of a winding-machine for transporting cops from a container to enable the operative readily to place them on the creel pegs, and for carrying away empty cop tubes, the cops being automatically transferred from the container to holders on the conveyer. As shown in Fig. 2, belt conveyers 1, disposed one at each side of the winding-frame, are provided with pegs or cups 4 for the cops and serve to carry empty cop tubes to a receptacle at the end of the machine. Guides 6, 7 are provided to prevent the tubes from falling off. A single conveyer may be arranged to pass completely around the machine, or a chain conveyer may be used comprising links each having an upstanding peg for a cop. The plane of the conveyer may be vertical, the lower edge being provided with brackets 1a, Fig. 4, which serve to carry the empty tubes, or the guide 6 may be shaped to form a trough along which the tubes are carried by means of drivers on the conveyer. As shown in Fig. 7, a belt 1, with pegs 3, is twisted so as to run vertically at the ends and horizontally or inclined at the sides of the machine. Cops 5 in a receptacle 11 with a sloping floor are thrust on the pegs 3 by a carrier 17 on the end of a spring-controlled lever 15 oscillated by a wheel 14.