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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1997
Karl-Heinz Mack, Weilheim, DE;
Friedrich Dinkelmann, Rechberghausen, DE;
Hermann Guttler, Uhingen, DE;
Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH, Ebersbach/Fils, DE;
Abstract
A transporter for textile plants having upstream machines providing full bobbins to downstream machines returning core sleeves to the upstream machines. The transport system has a suspension track extending in a loop around a plurality of the downstream machines for each upstream machine and provided with switches and shunts which allow reconfiguration of the loop which can have a diverting stretch for use when the downstream machine is shunted and for including one or more machines of the adjacent loops when desired in the first-mentioned loop. In all configurations, the path length is substantially the same and the length of the transporter is only slightly less so that a gap is provided between the leading and trailing ends of the transporter.