Take-up tube transporting apparatus

• US 5,244,079 A
• Filed: 07/29/1992
• Issued: 09/14/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Original Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Inventors: Osamu, Nakagawa
• Primary Examiner(s): Olszewski, Robert P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GASTINEAU, CHERYL
• Application Number:
  US07/921,124
• Time in Patent Office: 412 Days
• Field of Search: 198/465.1, 198/487.1, 198/803.01, 198/803.12, 198/861.1, 242/35.5 A
• US Class Current: 198/465.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 2201/0261 Puck as article support
• CPC Class Codes: D01H 9/187 on individual supports, e.g. pallets

Abstract

A bobbin conveyor for transporting bobbins between an automatic winder and a spinning frame. The bobbin conveyor may include a center frame, and length and height adjustable side frames rotatably supported by the center frame, each side frame defining a carrying path.

Claims

1. A bobbin conveyor comprising a center frame, length-adjustable side frames rotatably supported on opposite sides of said center frame, one of said side frames having a carrying path for a tray with a spinning bobbin while the other having a carrying path for a tray with an empty bobbin, and height-adjustable installing members on opposite ends thereof.

2. A bobbin conveyor, comprising:

a center frame;

a first side frame rotatably connected to the center frame, the first side frame being longitudinally adjustable, defining a full bobbin carrying path, and defining first and second end portions, each of the first and second end portions of the first side frame including a height adjustment member; and

a second side frame rotatably connected to the center frame, the second side frame being longitudinally adjustable, defining an empty bobbin carrying path, and defining first and second end portions, each of the first and second end portions of the second side frame including a height adjustment member.

3. A bobbin conveyor as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one of the first and second side frames comprises a first side frame member including a slot and second side frame member including a screw, the first side frame member being slidably connected to the second side frame member, the screw being arranged substantially within the slot.