W. Schlafhorst Ag & Company

Alfred Schmitz

Heinz Buhren

Norbert Bohnen

Heinz Buehren

A cop individualizing apparatus operates a circular conveyor of the type having a helical cop guide track on a vibratory basis by providing two unbalanced electromotors whose speed is controllably varied via a frequency converter alternating between two frequency stages as a function of the instantaneous cop supply requirement of an associated cop dispensing device fed by the individualizing apparatus, in order to assure advancement of the cops along the transport track of the circular conveyor in precise relation to the particular instantaneous cop requirement.

Cop individualizing apparatus

An apparatus for orienting packages of textile material into predetermined individual orientations cooperates with a package delivery system which delivers packages in random orientations. The package orienting apparatus includes a device for classifying each package on the basis of a detectably different characteristic such as, for example, the characteristic that one respective end of the tube of the package has a larger diameter than the other tube end. A disposing device is operatively connected to the classifying device for moving each textile material package through a predetermined movement in response to the sensing of the detectably different characteristic to thereby bring the package into a predetermined individual orientation. The disposing device can include a drum having a pair of package receiving elements formed therein each along a respective radius of the drum and perpendicular to the other package receiving element. A control unit controls the drum motor to rotate the drum in a selected clockwise or counter-clockwise direction in response to sensing of the detectable characteristic of the package being received in the next available package receiving element to thereby orient all packages detected as having the same characteristic into the same individual orientation.

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Moenchengladbach, Germany

Alfred Schmitz