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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1988
Takashi Kogiso, Mizunami, JP;
Yoshio Kurachi, Aichi, JP;
Howa Machinery, Ltd., Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transporting roving bobbins in a spinning factory utilizing a factory building having several floors for the installation of spinning machines such as roving frames and ring spinning frames, between specified positions on a floor where roving frames are installed and positions for carrying out a roving bobbin exchanging operation for ring spinning frames, wherein a guide rail system for displaying a plurality of bobbin carriers provided with a plurality of bobbin hangers is suspended from the ceiling of the floor on which the ring spinning frames are installed and transporting passages, provided with apparatus for displacing a plurality of pairs of roving bobbins by successive unit cycle operations composed of a first upwards displacing operation and a second downwards displacing operation, is arranged between each of the above-mentioned specified positions and a corresponding transfer position for the bobbin carriages at which the roving bobbins can be transferred thereto and therefrom at the uppermost position thereof, and capable of transferring roving bobbins between the above-mentioned specified position and the displacing means at the lowermost position of the transporting passage.