Apparatus for removing bobbin tubes perpendicularly from carriers on a bobbin conveyor

摘要

An apparatus is disclosed for removing bobbin tubes axially from individual tube carriers conveyed along a conveying path. The bobbin removing apparatus basically comprises a pair of bobbin withdrawal devices located at opposite lateral sides of the conveying path for frictionally engaging the bobbin tubes therebetween to thereby draw the bobbin tubes off the respective carriers while they are continuously conveyed along the conveying path. According to the invention, one or both of the withdrawal devices comprises a freely rotatable disk having an annular periphery of a high coefficient of friction arranged for peripheral engagement with the bobbin tubes conveyed along the conveying path to be rotated by engagement with each bobbin conveyed past the disk. The disk or disks are arranged to engage the bobbin tubes at an acute angle with respect to the conveying path of the individual carriers on which the tubes are supported.