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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2001
Norbert Corres, Wegberg, DE;
W. Schlafhorst AG & Co., , DE;
Abstract
A tube feeding device ( ) for a work station ( ) of a cheese-producing textile machine ( ) with an arrangement for transferring an empty tube ( ) stored in a tube reservoir ( ) into a tube transfer position (II) in which the empty tube ( ) can be accepted by a pivotably seated creel ( ). The tube feeding device ( ) has a tube gripper ( ) which is automatically adjustable to the diameter and the shape of an empty tube ( ) for displacing the central longitudinal axis ( ) of the empty tube ( ) during the tube transfer operation independently of the shape or the diameter of the empty tube ( ) so as to coincide with the common axis of rotation ( ) of tube receiving plates ( ) of the creel ( ) in the tube transfer position (II).