Spinning Machine Distributed Sleeve Storage for Tube Transport
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern textile machines face challenges in efficiently storing and transporting different types of tubes to workstations on long machines, leading to increased waiting times and limited capacity for supplying winding units with various tubes.
Innovation Solution
A spinning machine design with multiple cross-winding devices arranged in sections, featuring distributed sleeve storage along the machine sides, where each section has its own tube magazine and a tube transport device, allowing for quick access and transport of different types of tubes to the required workstations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single central magazine is used for storing empty bobbins, then the structure is simple, but the capacity for supplying different types of bobbins is severely limited
Solution Approach 1:
The single central magazine is divided into multiple sectionally arranged magazines, each dedicated to storing specific types of bobbins. This segmentation allows the system to maintain structural simplicity at the overall level while achieving high adaptability through localized specialization, enabling supply of multiple different bobbin types to various winding points
2Device complexity
If bobbins are transported the entire machine length, then a single transport path is used, but the transport time increases considerably
Solution Approach 1:
The machine is divided into multiple sections, each with its own magazine and transport path. This segmentation reduces the transport distance for bobbins within each section, significantly decreasing transport time while maintaining overall system simplicity through modular replication of transport units
Solution Approach 2:
Bobbins are pre-loaded into sectionally arranged magazines at their respective locations rather than being transported from a central distance. This preliminary positioning of bobbins at needed locations eliminates long transport distances and reduces waiting time at winding points
3Volume of stationary object
If different types of bobbins are stored in a single intermediate buffer, then storage space is saved, but the incorrect bobbin could block the way for the correct bobbin
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediate storage is segmented into separate magazines for different bobbin types rather than using a single mixed buffer. This segmentation maintains compact storage space while ensuring that only correct bobbins are available at each winding point, eliminating the blocking problem and improving supply reliability
Solution Approach 2:
Each sectionally arranged magazine is dedicated to storing specific types of bobbins appropriate for its location. This local specialization ensures that the correct bobbin types are stored and supplied at each winding point, preventing incorrect bobbins from blocking correct ones while maintaining efficient storage utilization
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AI summary
A spinning machine has a plurality of cross-winding units arranged side by side and on two longitudinal sides of the machine, each designed for winding yarn onto cores, the cross-winding units being grouped into a plurality of sections. One or more core magazines serve to store empty cores. A core transport device arranged along the cross-winding units supplies the cross-winding units with empty cores from the core magazine. Several core accumulators are arranged on each side of the machine for the distributed intermediate storage of cores, each cross-winding unit being assigned a single core accumulator for at least one core and/or several cross-winding units being assigned a multiple core accumulator for several cores, in particular at least some, preferably all sections, being assigned a multiple core accumulator.In a corresponding method for transporting sleeves in a spinning machine, different types of sleeves are stored in one or more sleeve magazines, and a suitable type of sleeve is supplied from the sleeve storage to the respective cross-winding device that requires the corresponding type of sleeve.