Patent ID: 6439498
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
An apparatus for winding an advancing web of tapes or yarns into a plurality of packages, comprisinga plurality of winding positions arranged side by side in the direction of the advancing web to define a long side of the apparatus, with provision for winding the tapes or yarns into at least one package at each position, a yarn guide bar mounted upstream of the winding positions when viewed in the direction of the advancing web for guiding the advancing web at a location upstream of the winding positions in a distribution plane which is transverse to the long side of the winding apparatus, a plurality of yarn guides positioned to be associated with respective ones of the winding positions and such that the tapes or yarns of the web are guided by the yarn guide bar and the yarn guides to the respective winding positions, and said yarn guide bar being movably mounted so as to permit unimpeded movement along a doffing plane which is transverse to the distribution plane and parallel to the long side of the apparatus.