US 11,982,021 B2
Method and handling unit for transferring a sliver from a sliver can into a workstation
Helmut Haunschild, Dietfurt (DE)
Assigned to MASCHINENFABRIK RIETER AG, Winterthur (CH)
Filed by Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG, Winterthur (CH)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/960,294.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 125 996.7 (DE), filed on Oct. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0115456 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. D01H 9/18 (2006.01); D01H 13/14 (2006.01)
CPC D01H 9/18 (2013.01) [D01H 13/14 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for transferring a sliver from a sliver can into a workstation of a sliver processing textile machine that has a plurality of identical workstations arranged next to one another and a handling unit that is displaceable along the plurality of workstations, the method comprising:
stopping the handling unit at the workstation and capturing the sliver with the handling unit at the sliver can;
transferring the captured sliver to a receiving unit of the workstation;
after the sliver has been transferred, releasing the sliver from the handling unit as the handling unit leaves the workstation;
after the sliver has been released and after at least an initial movement of the handling unit away from the workstation, performing a check to determine whether the sliver has been completely removed from the handling unit.