Patent ID: 11873185
Assignee: SAURER SPINNING SOLUTIONS GMBH & CO. KG
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 11:
12. A method for operating a textile machine producing cross-wound packages, which comprises:
a plurality of identical workstations arranged in the area of the longitudinal sides of the textile machine, each workstation being equipped with a winding device; and
a tube supply device, which has a central tube magazine and has at least one tube conveyor belt installed in the area of the longitudinal sides of the machine, in which method a cross-wound package is transferred if necessary from the winding device of the relevant workstation to a cross-wound package transport device running the length of the machine and then an empty tube provided on the at least one tube conveyor belt of the tube supply device is inserted by means of a tube gripper into the winding device of the relevant workstation, a plurality of empty tubes being stored on the at least one tube conveyor belt during the operation of the textile machine producing cross-wound packages,
characterised in that
the tube conveyor belt is reversed if necessary, and
the empty tube is blocked at an end of the tube conveyor belt whereas the tube conveyor belt is first driven further in a corresponding direction.