An automatic reading device for tracking a reel of thread having a tube provided with an RFID tag is provided. The automatic reading device has a reader suitable for exchanging information with the RFID tag by an antenna and an electronic system having a central processing unit. The automatic reading device has a reel handling support having a tip on which a plurality of reels of thread having the tube provided with the RFID tag are insertable in sequence. The tip is the antenna.

Transport system which makes to transport a wire or sheet of any length and with the required quality to the location of the use of the wire or the sheet. The transport system has a transport platform, a receptacle for the wire or the sheet, wherein the receptacle is configured such that the wire or the sheet may be received coiled on the receptacle, a drive, wherein the drive is configured such that the wire or the sheet may be conveyed by the drive in a transport direction, and a straightening device, wherein the straightening device is configured such that the wire or the sheet can be straightened with the straightening device, wherein the receptacle, the drive and the straightening device are arranged on the transport platform such that the wire or the sheet may be drawn automatically from the receptacle and fed to the straightening device by the drive.

Transport system which makes to transport a wire or sheet of any length and with the required quality to the location of the use of the wire or the sheet. The transport system has a transport platform, a receptacle for the wire or the sheet, wherein the receptacle is configured such that the wire or the sheet may be received coiled on the receptacle, a drive, wherein the drive is configured such that the wire or the sheet may be conveyed by the drive in a transport direction, and a straightening device, wherein the straightening device is configured such that the wire or the sheet can be straightened with the straightening device, wherein the receptacle, the drive and the straightening device are arranged on the transport platform such that the wire or the sheet may be drawn automatically from the receptacle and fed to the straightening device by the drive.

The invention relates to a gripper (100) for finding, clamping and releasing spools (120) having a circular grip part (122) such as a flange or a bore hole as well as a method to operate such gripper. The gripper (100) comprises a driveable clamp (102) that is provided with a scanning system (106) comprising presence-absence detectors (108) that detect the presence of the absence of the circular grip part (122). The gripper (100) is slowly moved over the flange of the spool and by means of the detectors (108) and some calculation the centre of the grip part (122) is identified followed by the gripping of the spool. The gripper (100) has the advantage that no back-and-forth movement is needed in order to locate the circular grip part (122).

A weaving apparatus using devices for the processing and/or treatment of threads or yarns, comprising a system for the management of threads or yarns. The spools are associated with a respective marker and the apparatus comprises at least one reader of the marker, a storage device functionally associated with the at least one reader being provided.

A method may comprise attaching a spool support frame to a forward bogie and an aft bogie, lifting the cargo, supported by a spool support frame with a forward hydraulic arm and an aft hydraulic arm. A transportation system may comprise a forward bogie, an aft bogie, and a spool support frame. The forward bogie may include a plurality of axel groups configured to operate independently of each other, a forward arm attached to the forward bogie through a swivel connection, and a forward hydraulic arm attached to the forward arm through a rod. The aft bogie may include a plurality of aft axel groups configured to operate independently of each other, an aft arm attached to the aft bogie through an aft swivel connection, and an aft hydraulic arm attached to the aft arm through an aft rod.

A spinning-mill machine and associated operational method includes a plurality of cross-winding devices arranged next to each other in a longitudinal direction along each machine side of the spinning-mill machine, wherein each cross-winding device is configured to wind yarn onto a sleeve. The cross-winding devices are arranged into a multiple number of sections along each of the machine sides. A sleeve transport device is arranged along the cross-winding devices on each machine side to supply empty sleeves to cross-winding devices. A plurality of sleeve stacks are configured to stockpile the empty sleeves. A plurality of sleeve storage devices are arranged along each machine side for distributed intermediate storage of the empty sleeves, wherein each cross-winding device is allocated with a single sleeve storage device, or the plurality of the cross-winding devices in each of the sections are allocated to a single one of the sleeve storage devices.

A spinning-mill machine includes a plurality of cross-winding devices arranged next to each other and in sections in a longitudinal direction along opposite machine sides of the spinning-mill machine, each cross-winding device configured to wind yarn onto a sleeve. A plurality of sleeve stacks are arranged with each machine side and are configured to stockpile empty sleeves. A plurality of sleeve transport devices are configured alongside the cross-winding devices of the machine side, wherein each of the sleeve stacks has one of the sleeve transport devices operationally associated therewith to deliver the sleeves from the sleeve stack to the cross-winding devices.

A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, the machine being equipped with a plurality of workstations arranged next to one another on both longitudinal sides of the machine and having a cross-wound package transport apparatus. The cross-wound package transport apparatus has a first transport device, arranged between the two rows of workstations for conveying cross-wound packages, and a handling apparatus for moving cross-wound packages from the first transport device to the second transport device. The handling apparatus is arranged between the end regions of the first transport device.

A textile machine producing cross-wound packages with a plurality of identical workstations which are arranged in the area of the longitudinal sides of the textile machine and each of which has a winding device, and equipped with a tube supply device which includes a central tube magazine and at least one tube conveyor belt installed in the area of the longitudinal sides of the machine, in which case a cross-wound package can be removed, if necessary, from the winding device of the relevant workstation on the textile machine producing cross-wound packages and can be transferred to a cross-wound package transport device running the length of the machine, and an empty tube provided on the tube conveyor belt of the tube supply device can be inserted by means of a tube gripper into the winding device of the relevant workstation. The tube supply device is designed in such a way that the tube conveyor belt can be used as a tube accumulator for empty tubes during the operation of the textile machine producing cross-wound packages. In order to improve the efficiency of such a textile machine producing cross-wound packages, in particular to minimize significantly the tube delivery times arising in the event of yarn lot changes at a textile machine producing cross-wound packages, a drive is connected to the at least one tube conveyor belt, which drive enables reversible operation of the tube conveyor belt.