TEXTILE TUBE TRANSPORT ASSEMBLY HAVING INDEPENDENT LOADING AND UNLOADING CAPABILITIES

摘要

A textile production system utilizes a textile spinning machine and a textile winding machine and a transport assembly for transporting the support members between the machines. The transport assembly includes a container having a plurality of vertically spaced, parallel shelf members. Each shelf member includes a plurality of parallel guide channels for receiving tube support members in a row therein. A displacing device is operable to displace the tube support members from a respective shelf member onto the aligned guide channels of a lifting device positioned at an opposite side of the shelf member. The lifting device is operable to transfer the tube support members to a reorienting travel device which reorients multiple, parallel rows of the tube support members into a single row for feeding of the tube support members to the delivery device of the spinning or winding machine.