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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1996
Roberto Badiali, Pordenone, IT;
Luciano Bertoli, Fiume Veneto, IT;
Giorgio Colomberotto, Sacile, IT;
Savio Macchine Tessili S.p.A., Pordenone, IT;
Abstract
A conveyor system for an automatic coning machine having coning units for unwinding thread from spools carried by disks. The system has a feeding conveyor for transporting the spools on carrying disks to the coning machine and a removal conveyor for transporting exhausted spool carrying disks from the coning machine. Passages traverse adjacent coning units which are interconnected to and between the conveying and removal conveyors. Feeders are provided for, at least, the feeding conveyor. The feeders are connected to and movable with the feeding conveyor, wherein the feeders are spaced apart from one another and wherein each of said feeders includes an engaging member for contacting a spool carrying disk and moving the spool carrying disk along the feeding conveyor, and a jutting member movably connected to the feeder which contacts the engaged spool carrier disk for guiding the spool carrier disk in a desired position along the conveyor. The system also has a movable deflector operatively connected to each coning unit and its adjacent passage. The deflector is movable into the path of a spool carrying disk being fed along the feeding conveyor by the feeders for engaging and deflecting the movement of a spool carrying disk from a feeder when a spool carrying disk is required in the adjacent passage. Concurrently the deflector is movable out of the path of the feeder.