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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1996
Hans-Peter Liedgens, Monchengladbach, DE;
Thomas Hendle, Monchengladbach, DE;
W. Schlafhorst AG & Co., Moenchengladbach, DE;
Abstract
In the automatic transport of rectangular spinning cans between a can filling station and the work stations of textile machines which process sliver, it is known to arrange a can storage device in association with the can filling station, with a section of the can storage device for receiving empty cans from a traveling can transport vehicle and a section for storing and transferring full cans to the can transport vehicle, and with the can filling station between these two sections. The present invention contemplates the ordered and positionally exact transfer of the cans to and from the can transport vehicle by transferring of empty cans from the can transport vehicle to the empty can storage section such that the transferred empty cans immediately follow the empty cans already stored thereat. In the transfer of full cans to the can transport vehicle, a leading one of the full cans to be transferred is transferred into a corresponding leading one of the occupyable parking spaces on the can transport vehicle. Following a can transfer operation, the arrangement of the empty and full cans remaining in the can storage device is moved so as to leave a transfer space at the filling station unoccupied.