Patent ID: 7568262

Claim:
A device for depositing an advancing filamentary strand into each of several cans of a can creel, comprising a guide carriage mounted for movement along the can creel to any one of several depositing positions, a conveyance means for positively advancing the strand into a can, and a robot comprising a multi-axis robot arm which is controllable in such a manner that a carrier plate of the conveyance means executes a pivoting movement and a second superimposed deflecting movement about a virtual pivot axis, said virtual pivot axis is formed to be tangent to a deflecting roller at the level of an incoming filamentary strand and wherein said multi-axis robot arm interconnects the conveyance means to the guide carriage so that at each depositing position of the guide carriage at least one of the cans of the can creel can be filled by the conveyance means.