摘要 |
PURPOSE:To uniformize supply of bobbins, by a method wherein empty bobbins, delivered in one row in a longitudinal direction from a single bobbin delivery device, are distributed in plural routes for conveyance with the aid of a bobbin assorting device. CONSTITUTION:Empty bobbins, stored in a tank 6 of a bobbin delivery device 5, are conveyed, in order, with the movement of the peripheries of first and second belt conveyors 13 and 14 in the tank 6, the empty bobbins are dropped onto a slanted plate 15 from the conveyor 14 and are transferred onto a third belt conveyor 16, and are delivered ahead in a condition to be aligned in one row in a longitudinal direction. Thereafter, the empty bobbins are rolled over a bottom plate 18, inclined downward, through a storage chamber 17, and are temporarily stored on the lattice conveyor 19 side. The empty bobbins are conveyed upward as the conveyor 19 is moved round, to be discharged in a bobbin shooter 21, the direction thereof are unified by a direction aligning device 20, and the empty bobbins are dropped onto a delivery conveyor 22 and are delivered, in order, to a bobbin assorting device 36 where they are distributed for conveyance. |