METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHANGING FIBER SLIVER CONTAINERS ON TEXTILE MACHINES

摘要

A transport vehicle with a changing device mounted on it and a method for moving fiber sliver containers from textile delivery machines to a textile processing machine, or vice verse. The changing device comprises a multi-section robot arm with container holders. The textile material containers are placed on depositing places on the transport vehicle, whereby these depositing places are equipped with revolving support plates. Furthermore, a movable catcher device is built on the transport vehicle, by means of which the end of the fiber sliver is caught and is movable. During the conveying operation of the transport vehicle the fiber sliver end is laid in the catcher device through the rotation of the revolving plate. As soon as the changing position for the textile material container has been reached, the container is transferred to the textile processing machine by means of the changing device and the fiber sliver end is transferred by means of the catcher device. Through this changing method and device, the changing operation of textile material holders and the fixing of the sliver end are carried out automatically.