Veit Transpo Gmbh

Veit Gmbh & Co.

Marker International Company

Rsl Logistik Gmbh & Co.

Josef Hafner

Rolf Schonenberger

Werner Bergmeier

Walter R Knabel

Karl Lotzer

Martin Scheer

Siegfried Durant

Martin Ponisch

Peter Richter

Rolf Schoenenberger

Matthias Fischer

Klaus Sporer

Ralf Ehrenreich

A spinning mill installation including an overhead conveyor system having rails for feeding and removing bobbins to and from at least one creel-less spinning machine. To provide the function of the absent creels, an array of rail elements is positioned above each spinning machine, the rail elements having detent mechanisms defining the locations of the bobbin stations, are provided in the overhead conveyor system. A cleaning device moves along an overhead rail and is provided with a driving device which also drives the bobbin carriers.

Spinning mill overhead conveyor system having common drive for cleaner

A transport device for bobbins, in particular for a suspension conveying system having tracks is described, which device includes a transport body support for holding a plurality of bobbins and track rollers for rolling on tracks. A coding device for the bobbins is disposed on the movable transport body support and is engageable with a fixed code setting device on the track to facilitate coding and handling of the bobbins in a constructionally simple fashion by providing a settable coding common to several bobbins.

Transport device

Described is a suspension conveyor system for conveying bobbins (1) to predetermined bobbin positions (RSP) in a spinning mill machine, particularly a ring spinning machine, the suspension conveyor system comprising a conveying path passing along the predetermined bobbin positions (RSP) for the travel therealong of at least one driven conveyor train (4) carrying a plurality of bobbins (1). A transfer mechanism (14, 14') mounted for travelling along the spinning mill machine is provided for the transfer of individual bobbins (1) from the conveying path to the predetermined bobbin positions. In order to achieve a rapid and accurate transfer of bobbins (1) to the ring spinning machine the invention proposes to provide a bobbin carriage (14, 14') adapted to travel parallel to the conveying path (3) in unison with the conveyor train (4) and carrying a separating and guide mechanism (16, 30, 32) for the transfer of an individual bobbin (1) from the conveyor train (4) to a predetermined bobbin position (RSP).

Suspension conveyor system

A conveyor system, in particular a suspension conveyor system, comprising at least two transport units adapted to be moved on rollers and interconnected by a disconnectable coupling, the coupling including two identically formed hooks which are each provided with a hook opening, one of said hooks being arranged by an associated base member on one of the transport units to be coupled and the other hook being arranged by an associated base member on the other transport unit to be coupled in such a way that their hook openings face each other, each hook being loaded by a spring and being connected to its associated base member by means of a hub for rotation about an axis coinciding with a centerline of the hub, each hub forming a locking member by, in a coupled condition, being adapted to be engaged by the hook opening of the hook not associated with said transport unit while the hooks, in an uncoupled condition, being adapted to engage each other, and to be rotated by this engagement under tensioning of the spring, when the two transport units being moved towards each other, until each hook opening faces on hub in order to allow the spring to rotate the hook opening into a locking engagement with the hub.

Conveyor system

Suspension transport systems which operate automatically or predominantly automatically and which are used for the transport of spools make use of whole trains on which a plurality of spools is arranged. This, however, means that, e.g., in a ring spinning frame, the whole train will have to be exchanged when the first spool is empty. In order to avoid the resultant waste and in order to provide increased flexibility in the motion of the spools used in such a system of automatized or largely automatized operation, the present suspension transport system uses spools equipped with a travelling device of their own, the travelling device remaining on the spool when the spool is inserted into a processing machine. It is thus possible to handle each spool individually, as well as in a train. The suspension transport system is particlarly suitable for transverse insertion into a ring spinning frame.

Suspension transport system

A suspension conveyor wherein the driving force acts on casters of a carriage, comprises a drive-transmitting assembly having a resiliently deformable drag material with its rear side supported by a backup support. During drive-transmitting operation, the drag material is compressed between the carriage and the drive-transmitting member resulting in the exertion of a perpendicularly oriented force.

Suspension conveyor with resiliently deformable drag material

Described in a suspension conveyor system suitable for the use of conveyance units having two travelling rollers interconnected by an open yoke. The suspension conveyor system is universally applicable and capable of optimum adaptation to operating and space conditions in a given plant. To this purpose the system comprises changeover means selectively operable to tilt a conveyance unit to a left or right laterally suspended position or a center-suspended position to thereby permit for instance the radii of curved rail sections to be considerably shortened and particularly achieve a less complicated construction of required switches. In a preferred embodiment the switch is formed as an integral shaped member, so that the continuity of the rail circuit has not to be interrupted for guiding a conveyance unit onto selected branch rails.

The invention relates to a track rail for a suspension conveyor system particularly for the convenience of materials in the textile industry, having a cross-sectional configuration comprising a pair of roof-shaped converging legs each formed with a roller track surface for one of a pair of track rollers on its upper side, and connected to a carrier rail by an upper carrier web extending in the symmetry plane, said track rollers of said track roller pair defining a derail gap and being mounted in a common yoke with their axes in oblique alignment relative to one another, permitting them to be detached from said track rail by lifting said yoke and tilting it transversely of said track rail. Known track rails are formed as a welded construction composed of continuous steel sections and web sections as the carrier web. They are heavy and permit only the use of center-suspension track roller pairs to travel thereon. Due moreover to the material accumulation at the intersection of the legs thay have unsatisfactory load-carrying properties, and their assembly is laborious and troublesome. According to the invention there is provided a universally employable track rail of lower weight and improved usefulness as compared to the known construction by providing between said legs a transverse web formed integrally therewith and extending transversely of said symmetry plane so as to define a closed cavity with said legs.

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Landsberg/Lech, Germany

Josef Hafner