Sliver coiling

Claim 1

AN APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY AND CONTINUALLY RECEIVING A SLIVER DELIVERED FROM A FIRST DRAWING FRAME AND SUPPLYING THE SLIVER SO RECEIVED AS A PLURALITY OF SLIVERS TO A SECOND DRAWING FRAME, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A NUMBER OF CONTAINERS ARRANGED IN AN ENDLESS SERIES AND AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE NUMBER OF SLIVERS TO BE FED TO THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME PLUS THREE, SAID THREE CONTAINERS BEING ONE CONTAINER WHICH IS FILLED, A SECOND BEING IN THE PROCESS OF BEING FILLED, AND A THIRD ONE BEING EMPTY AND AWAITING FILLING, MEANS ON WHICH SAID CONTAINERS ARE MOUNTED FOR INTERMITTENTLY MOVING THE CONTAINERS IN A PATH EXTENDING BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND DRAWING FRAMES, DRIVE MEANS FOR MOVING SAID MOUNTING MEANS, A COILER ADJACENT THE FIRST DRAWING FRAME AND POSITIONED ABOVE SAID PATH AND CONTINUOUSLY FEEDING A SLIVER FROM THE FIRST DRAWING FRAME SO THAT AN EMPTY CONTAINER BELOW THE COILER IS FILLED WITH A SLIVER DELIVERED FROM THE FIRST DRAWING FRAME THROUGH THE COILER AND IS THEN MOVED AND A NEXT EMPTY CONTAINER IS FILLED WITH THE UNBROKEN SLIVER EXTENDING FROM THE TOP OF THE FILLED CONTAINER TO THE BOTTOM OF SAID NEXT EMPTY CONTAINER, AND MEANS FOR ENGAGING AND SEVERING A SLIVER EXTENDING BETWEEN A FILLED CONTAINER AND A SUCCEEDING CONTAINER AND FEEDING THE END EXTENDING FROM THE FIRST OF SAID TWO CONTAINERS TO THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME WHEN THE SLIVER IN ANOTHER CONTAINER PRECEDING SAID TWO CONTAINERS ALONG SAID PATH IS EXHAUSTED, WHEREBY THE NUMBER OF SLIVERS BEING FED TO THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME IS KEPT CONSTANT.

Claim 2

A METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY AND CONTINUALLY DELIVERING A PLURALITY OF SLIVERS TO A SECOND DRAWING FRAME WHICH SLIVERS ARE DELIVERED FROM A FIRST DRAWING FRAME AS A SINGLE SLIVER, COMPRISING THE STEPS OF COILING THE SLIVER FROM THE FIRST DRAWING FRAME INTO A SUCCESSION OF CONTAINERS WHILE CAUSING THE SLIVER TO EXTEND FROM THE TOP OF A FILLED CONTAINER TO THE BOTTOM OF THE NEXT SUCCEEDING CONTAINER, AND INTERMITTENTLY MOVING SAID CONTAINERS ALONG A PATH BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND DRAWING FRAMES, AND THEN SUCCESSIVELY ENGAGING THE SLIVER BETWEEN A FILLED CONTAINER AND A SUCCEEDING CONTAINER, LIFTING THE SLIVER, SEVERING THE SLIVER, AND GRASPING THE SEVERED END FROM THE FIRST OF THE TWO CONTAINERS AND FEEDING IT INTO THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME, SAID LIFTING, SEVERING AND FEEDING TAKING PLACE AT A TIME WHEN THE SLIVER IN A CONTAINER PRECEDING THE FILLED CONTAINER ALONG THE PATH IS EMPTIED.