Process and apparatus for transporting and storing bobbins, especiallyfor removing them from automatic spinning machines or the like

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In a process for transporting and storing bobbins, especially for removing them from automatic spinning machines, the bobbins are received and collected in an inclined collecting chute from a conveyor belt are, then brought into a horizontal arrangement as a result of the pivoting of the collecting chute and are pushed in groups from the collecting chute into a transfer chute. A conveyor carrier belonging to a suspension conveyor and provided with at least one chute portion for receiving a group of bobbins is brought into a position adjacent to the transfer chute. The transfer chute is moved into a position located next to the chute portion of the conveyor carrier, and the bobbins are …