Apparatus in a spinning mill for transporting a can-less fibre sliver package

Abstract

In an apparatus in a spinning mill for transporting a can-less fibre sliver package between a sliver-delivering spinning machine, for example a draw frame, or a storage means and a further processing device or a further storage means, having a support for receiving the can-less fibre sliver package, the support being substantially unenclosed, the support and the can-less fibre sliver package are transportable in common. In order to effect simple transport of the can-less fibre sliver package, there is a transport device for common transport of the support and at least one stably positioned fibre sliver package, the transport device being track-guided or freely movable.

1 . An apparatus in a spinning room for transporting a fibre sliver package, comprising: 
 a support for receiving a can-less sliver package, the support being substantially unenclosed; and    a transport apparatus for transporting the support and at least one can-less sliver package thereon from a sliver package delivery station selected from a sliver-delivering machine and a sliver package storage station to a sliver package receiving station selected from a sliver-fed machine and a further sliver package storage station; wherein the transport apparatus is guidable by a track or along a path, or is freely movable.    
   
   
       2 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which at least one stably positioned fibre sliver package is transferred onto the support.  
   
   
       3 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which the fibre sliver package is displaceable onto the support from a depositing area in which sliver is deposited by the sliver-delivery machine.  
   
   
       4 . An apparatus according to  claim 2 , in which more than one fibre sliver package is displaceable onto the support.  
   
   
       5 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which the number of fibre sliver packages that can be accommodated on the transport apparatus corresponds to the number of fibre sliver packages to be supplied to the downstream processing device.  
   
   
       6 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which the support has on its underside insertion openings for connecting with at least one element of the transport apparatus.  
   
   
       7 . An apparatus according to  claim 6 , in which the support has slots or guide means into which driver elements are able to enter.  
   
   
       8 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which one or more supports filled with deposited fibre sliver packages is exchangeable for one or more supports provided with empty storage positions.  
   
   
       9 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which sliver is deposited directly onto a said support in a depositing area in which sliver is deposited by the sliver-delivering machine, and the support loaded with one or more fibre sliver packages so formed, is movable out of the depositing area.  
   
   
       10 . An apparatus according to  claim 11 , in which an empty support is movable into the depositing area.  
   
   
       11 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which one or more said supports loaded with deposited fibre sliver packages is transportable to a further textile machine or to a magazine.  
   
   
       12 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which the transport apparatus comprises at least one mobile transport apparatus.  
   
   
       13 . An apparatus according to  claim 12 , in which the transport apparatus is track-guided.  
   
   
       14 . An apparatus according to  claim 12 , in which the transport device is rail-guided or is track-guided by means of an induction loop.  
   
   
       15 . An apparatus according to  claim 12 , in which the transport apparatus is freely movable.  
   
   
       16 . An apparatus according to  claim 12 , in which a said support loaded with deposited fibre sliver packages is positionable directly on a said transport apparatus.  
   
   
       17 . An apparatus according to  claim 12 , in which the transport apparatus is a wagon or a fork-lift truck.  
   
   
       18 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which the transport apparatus is a rail- or track-guided transport which serves a plurality of processing devices and/or storage means.  
   
   
       19 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which there are a plurality of processing devices and/or storage means which are so positioned that they are arranged along a common path for the transport device.  
   
   
       20 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which the transport apparatus is arranged to transport the support, loaded with the fibre sliver package(s), to a storage device or to a feed position provided on at least one sliver-fed processing machine.  
   
   
       21 . An apparatus according to  claim 19 , in which the processing devices include a press for compression of fibre sliver packages, to which the transport device can transport the fibre sliver package(s).  
   
   
       22 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which the discharge of the fibre sliver packages out of a sliver delivering machine and transport of the fibre sliver package(s) and the support on the transport apparatus to a subsequent processing device or a storage means is effected without cans or containers.  
   
   
       23 . An apparatus according to  claim 1 , in which the support is a standard pallet.  
   
   
       24 . A textile processing installation comprising a multiplicity of textile fibre processing devices and a transportation arrangement for transporting can-less fibre sliver packages between said textile fibre processing devices, 
 the transportation arrangement comprising one or more carriage devices and one or more supports receivable on said carriage devices,    the transport arrangement being adapted to deliver a support to any one of the fibre processing devices and to transport a support, with at least one can-less fibre sliver package received thereon, from any one of the textile fibre processing devices to a further textile fibre processing device,    the can-less fibre sliver package being stably positioned on the support during transport.    
   
   
       25 . A textile processing installation according to  claim 24 , wherein each carriage device is arranged to transport a plurality of supports.  
   
   
       26 . A textile processing installation according to  claim 24 , wherein a plurality of supports are delivered to a fibre processing device.  
   
   
       27 . A textile processing installation according to  claim 24 , in which the at least one carriage device is track-guided, rail-guided or is track-guided by means of an induction loop.  
   
   
       28 . A textile processing installation according to  claim 24 , in which the at least one carriage device is freely movable.