Patent ID: 6186435
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
An apparatus for winding a continuously advancing textile yarn into a core supported package comprisingmeans for rotating the core to wind the yarn thereabout at a substantially constant rate,a yarn guide moveable axially with respect to the core for guiding the advancing yarn onto the core, anddrive means including at least one drive belt for traversing the yarn guide axially over the package length, said at least one drive belt having a run extending axially along the core, with the yarn guide being directly connected to said at least one drive belt, and at least one activatable electric motor for controlling the movement of the yarn guide so that the yarn is moved within a traverse stroke which is axially shorter than the package length and which is reciprocated within the package length and between the ends of the package and so as to define segments composed of adjacent traverse strokes in which the length of the traverse strokes is maintained without change.