Patent GB-840961-A (GB)
Title: Method of arranging bobbins which are prepared at a single winding point and apparatus therefor
IPC: B65H67/06
Filed: 1956-05-15
Abstract: 840,961. Collecting bobbins in yarn winding machines. REINERS, W. May 15, 1956 May 16, 1955], No. 15148/56. Class 120(3). A method of packing bobbins which are prepared at a single winding point comprises collecting a plurality of bobbins in an intermediate magazine in the sequence in which they are prepared, and after a predetermined number have been received by the intermediate magazine, delivering them to a collecting magazine in that sequence. At each winding point is a conveyer 9 comprising a plurality of pans 16 formed into an endless chain by links 14, 15 Fig. 5, and connecting pins which are driven by a star wheel 18 connected to a claw clutch 19, wound bobbins S 2  falling into the end pan 16 in the order of winding and the conveyer 9 being indexed round one step as each pan 16 is filled to bring an empty adjacent pan below the means delivering bobbins from the winding point. After six bobbins have been placed in the conveyer 9 a stirrup 21 is pivoted from below the bobbins to allow them to fall on to the six pins in one row of a pin board 6, which is then indexed forward to bring an empty row of pins below the conveyer 9, the stirrup 21 engaging a lever 20 to disengage the clutch so that the conveyer 9 is not fed forward after the sixth bobbin is delivered. A rod 24 connected to and reciprocated by the bobbin changing mechanism imparts step by step rotary motion to a shaft 46 by means of a friction clutch and ratchet and pawl mechanism, the ratchet wheel 28 having six teeth, so that at each bobbin change the shaft 46 turns a sixth of a revolution and through a crank 47 and clutch 19 drives the star wheel 18 to advance the conveyer 9 by one pan. A further pawl 31 gives a disc 34 a to and fro motion at every sixth reciprocation of the rod 24; this movement of the disc 34 acts through a hollow spindle 56, a crank disc 55 and a rod 54 to pivot the stirrup 21 to release the bobbins, and a projection 51 on the disc 34 reciprocates a rail 36 carrying a spring biased gripper 35 which feeds the pin board forward. When stirrup 21 pivots it moves a lever 20 to release the clutch 19. A screen 45 covers an open side of the end pan 16 while the bobbin is being delivered to prevent it from falling out of the pan, and hooks 57 on the stirrup 21 prevent the bobbins from sliding out of the pans while the conveyer 9 is being moved. A new pin board 6 is placed on the frame 1 and a bar 5 and fed forward by a gripper 35a acting in unison with the gripper 35. A pin 38 operated by a crank 37 from a reciprocating rail 36 prevents insertion of a new board 6 during the feeding forward of the board in use. Apertures 59 in a yoke 58 under which the new board passes prevent boards with bent pins from being fed into the bobbin receiving position. In another embodiment the feed of the conveyer 9 is derived from the bobbin fed from the winding spindle, so that absence of a bobbin inhibits the conveyer feed, and the release of the row of bobbins in the conveyer 9 on to the peg board 6 is effected by the arrival of the first bobbin in the row at the end position. Specification 738,563 is referred to.