MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514020575 A) filed by Rieter Automatic Winder Gmbh, Heinsberg, Germany, on March 6, for 'tube supply device and system.'

Inventor(s) include Bassauer, Enrico Maik; Kuppenbender, Marc; Forche, Torsten; Wasseige, Frank; and Baumges, Michael.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a tube supply device (1) for providing spinning tubes (2) for a spinning machine (3) and to a system (18) 5 comprising at least one winding machine (19), at least one spinning machine (3) and a transport device (11) for transporting spinning tubes (2) between the at least one winding machine (19) and the at least one spinning machine (3). According to the invention, the tube supply device (1) comprises at least two containers (4) for receiving spinning tubes (2), a dispensing unit (5) for 10 dispensing a spinning tube (2) and at least one singulation device (6). The containers (4), the dispensing unit (5) and the singulation device (6) are arranged such that a spinning tube 2 can be selectively fed from one of the containers (4) to the dispensing unit (5) by the singulation device (6)."

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