Installation formed of a spinning machine and a winding machine

Claim 2

Installation, comprising a spinning machine, a winding machine, a bobbin transporting device transporting the bobbins from said spinning machine to said winding machine, and a tube or sleeve transporting device transporting tubes or sleeves from said winding machine to said spinning machine providing a circulation of wound and unwound tubes or sleeves, said bobbin transporting device including at least one automatic yarn steaming device, said yarn steaming device including a housing and a suction device disposed in said housing, part of said bobbin transporting device being disposed in said housing, and said housing including entrance and exit locations for said bobbin transporting device and sealing elements opening and closing automatically at said entrance and exit locations.

Claim 3

Installation according to claim 1, wherein said bobbin transporting device includes bobbin carriers, and said yarn steaming device includes a multiplicty of simultaneously operating yarn steaming elements operating in combination with said bobbin carriers of said bobbin transporting device.

Claim 4

Installation according to claim 2, wherein said bobbin transporting device includes at least one bobbin conveyor belt, said bobbin carriers are push-on spindles disposed on said bobbin conveyor belt, and said yarn steaming elements include steam outlet elements to be attached to the upper ends of the tubes or sleeves of the carried bobbins.

Claim 5

Installation according to claim 1, wherein said housing includes a bottom and said bobbin transporting device includes a bobbin conveyor belt having an upper run conducted in sealing grooves formed in said bottom of said housing of said yarn steaming device.

Claim 6

Installation according to claim 1, wherein said bobbin transporting device travels through said yarn steaming device, and including means for operating said yarn steaming device discontinuously and for stopping said bobbin transporting device during a yarn steaming operation.

Claim 7

Installation according to claim 1, including a bobbin buffer storage device disposed between said yarn steaming device and said winding machine.

Claim 8

Installation, comprising a spinning machine, a double-sided winding machine, a bobbin transporting device transporting the bobbins from said spinning machine to said winding machine, a tube or sleeve transporting device transporting tubes or sleeves from said winding machine to said spinning machine providing a circulation of wound and unwound tubes or sleeves, said bobbin transporting device including at least one automatic yarn steaming device, another yarn steaming device, said bobbin transporting device including a separate bobbin conveyor belt and one of said yarn steaming device for each side of said double-sided spinning machine, and automatic switching and control means for alternatingly operating said yarn steaming devices of said two machine sides, said two yarn steaming device including a common middle wall, a steam pipe disposed in said common middle wall swiveling about a longitudianl axis thereof, two pipes branching from said steam pipe and having ends, and respective rows of yarn steaming elements disposed at said ends of said two pipes, said automatic switching and control means lifting said yarn steaming elements of one machine side off the ends of the tubes or sleeves when said yarn steaming elements of the other machine side are near the ends of the tubes or sleeves.

Claim 9

Installation, comprising a spinning machine, a double-sided winding machine, a bobbin transporting device transporting the bobbins from said spinning machine to said winding machine, a tube or sleeve transporting device transporting tubes or sleeves from said winding machine to said spinning machine providing a circulation of wound and unwound tubes or sleeves, said bobbin transporting device including at least one automatic yarn steaming device, another yarn steaming device, said bobbin transporting device including a separate bobbin conveyor belt and one of said yarn steaming device for each side of said double-sided spinning machine, and automatic switching and control means for alternatingly operating said yarn steaming devices of said two machine sides, said two yarn steaming device including a common middle wall, a steam pipe disposed in said common middle wall swiveling about a longitudianl axis thereof, two pipes branching from said steam pipe and having ends, and respective rows of yarn steaming elements disposed at said ends of said two pipes, said automatic switching and control means lifting said yarn steaming elements of one machine side off the ends of the tubes or sleeves when said yarn steaming elements of the other machine side are near the ends of the tubes or sleeves.