W. Schlafhorst Ag & Company

Peter Schwartz

Ulrich Fechter

Christian Sturm

Paul Straaten

Jurgen Enger

Detlev Trimborn

A winding device ( ) for a textile machine ( ) producing cheeses has a creel ( ) for holding a cheese ( ) between tube receiving plates ( &prime;), a yarn traversing device ( ) comprising a separate drive ( ), and a speed-regulatable drive device ( ) integrated in the creel ( ) to move in a bearing housing ( ) of the creel ( ) and connected to one of the tube receiving plates ( &prime;). The drive device ( ) can be loaded with a braking current which produces a moment opposite the direction of rotation (SR) of the cheese ( ), for braking the cheese ( ). The drive device ( ) is arranged in a sliding sleeve ( ) that can be loaded pneumatically against the displacement force of spring elements ( ) to move one of the tube receiving plates ( ) outwardly as needed in a creel opening direction.

Winding device for a textile machine that produces cheeses

A method for operating a cheese-producing textile machine (1), having a plurality of aligned work stations (2), a transport device (21) extending over the length of the machine for removing finished cheeses (11), and a cheese changer (23) displaceable above the work stations with an ultrasound sensor device (30) connected to the control device (38) of the cheese changer (23) for monitoring the loading state of the transport device (21). The sensor device (30, 38) is initially set to the climatic conditions of the respective place of employment by processing appropriate reference sound signals, i.e. a correction factor is determined. During operation, scanning values (TW) are then determined by means of the traveling time of the measuring sound signals of the ultrasound sensor (30) which, taking into consideration the respectively prevailing climatic conditions, permit conclusions regarding the loading state of the transport device (21) in the deposit areas of the respective work station (2).

Method for operating a cheese-producing textile machine and a sensor

A cheese-producing textile machine 1 with a central control unit 37 and a plurality of winding stations 2 which are serviced by an autonomously operating service unit 23. The central control unit 37 of the textile machine 1 is connected via a machine bus 40 with individual winding station computers 39 as well as with a control device 38 of the service unit 23. Control programs A, B, C, D, etc. are stored in the control device 38 of the service unit 23, and are specially adapted to various respective structural configurations of the service unit 23. It is possible in a simple manner to activate the control programs A, B, C, D, etc. in correspondence to the particular prevailing structural configuration of the service unit 23 by means of appropriate software encoding via an input element 41 on the central control unit 23.

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