Patent ID: 8267343

Claim:
Method for controlling a winding machine for winding a continuously fed winding material on bobbin tubes to wound packages, said winding machine comprising two driven spindles, said spindles rotating around fixed and parallel spindle axes, said spindle axes defining a spindle plane, a traversing device holding a traversing guide, said traversing guide being driven for a traversing movement along said traversing device along a traversing direction having an orientation parallel to said spindle axes and said traversing device being driven for a changing movement in a changing direction having an orientation transverse to said spindle axes, a transfer device having a fixed position with respect to said spindle axes and a control device for controlling the driven changing movement of the traversing device in changing direction as well as for controlling the driven traversing movement of the traversing guide in traversing direction, the method comprising the steps of a) controlling the movement of said traversing device and said traversing guide for guiding the winding material from a package wound at a first one of said spindles via the transfer device to the second one of said spindles, b) catching the winding material by a catching device associated with the second spindle.