Patent ID: 6012671
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
In a textile machine having a plurality of individual winding stations aligned with one another for producing cheeses of yarn wound on supporting tubes, an arrangement for supplying empty tubes to the winding stations comprising a tube magazine arranged at one end of the plurality of winding stations for storing empty tubes, a plurality of interim tube reservoirs each associated with a respective one of the winding stations, and a conveying device for delivering empty tubes from the tube magazine to the interim tube reservoirs of the winding stations, the conveying device including a tube delivery track extending essentially horizontally over the length of the machine, a control strip displaceably disposed along the delivery track, the delivery track and the control strip each having a plurality of corresponding windows formed therein, a tube transport carriage movable along the delivery track between the tube magazine and the interim tube reservoirs, the tube transport carriage having a magnetically activable tube gripper device arranged to be positively controllable by displacement of the control strip.