Abstract: Apparatus for spinning yarn from roving including a spinning frame with spinning units arranged thereon. The roving to be drawn is fed from a common double-roving bobbin to each of two neighboring spinning units, further referred to as spinning units pair. At least one stopping device is assigned to each of the spinning units of the spinning units pair, to stop and release again the roving feed to the two drawing frames of the respective spinning units pair. The purpose of the stopping device is to reduce the loss of roving and to avoid the danger of yarn lapping on the drawing rollers. The stopping device can be actuated by each of two yarn break sensors of the spinning units pair for the simultaneous arrest of the roving. In a second embodiment a yarn-setting carriage is provided on the spinning frame to correct a yarn break, such correction occuring only when all correction hindering conditions are absent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling the drafing of sliver in a draw frame in which sliver first travels through an advance sensing means that senses variations in the mass, then passes through a drafting means which is located after the advance sensing means and is provided with an adjustable draft, and finally travels through an after sensing means located after the drafting means which senses the mass per unit of length, whereby the draft of the drafting means is varied to compensate for variations in mass of sliver in response to the sensed variations in mass evaluated in a time-delayed manner and of the difference of the measured mass per unit length of the output and of a selectable theoretical value for the mass per unit of length.

Abstract: A drawing frame has a housing having an upper part and a lower part telescoping therewith, attachments for securing the parts together at any of a plurality of different vertically offset positions, a turntable in the lower part for supporting a sliver can and for rotating it about an upright axis, and an intake device in the upper part for pulling in and drawing slivers and for depositing the drawn slivers in the can. One of the parts is at least partially within the other part and the one part is formed with a plurality of vertically offset holes. The attachments are bolts engagable through the other part with the holes of the one part. These attachment bolts can simply snap in place, or can actually be screwed into threaded holes in the inner part.

Abstract: To decrease the time required for spindles of a spinning machine to reach their normal operating speeds after a yarn breakage or the like, where the spindles are individually driven by respective asynchronous motors individual to the spindles, the alternating current source whose frequency defines the speed of the motor is temporarily brought to a voltage above the normal operating voltage and the voltage step-up is then terminated.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for registering dead workstations of a spinning or twisting machine in a memory is described. For each workstation whether or not it is registered as dead or not is tested. Then, each time a yarn starting carriage arrives at it, whether or not a yarn break is present at it is also tested. In case the workstation involved is registered as dead that registration as "dead" is then erased when no yarn break is present at that workstation.

Abstract: A method and means for controlling the drafting of sliver in a draw frame using sensing means with the aid of which variations in mass of the sliver can be sensed and a resulting signal applied to drafting means located after the sensing means in the direction of travel of the sliver and which changes the draft to compensate for sensed variations in the sliver mass. The sensing means and the drafting means are connected to controlling means which include a storage device. A sensed variation in sliver mass is temporarily stored by the storage device for the duration of a delay time which takes into consideration the traveling time of the sliver form the sensing means to the drafting means. The delay time is shortened by a correction time as a function of the magnitude and/or rate of the sensed variation in sliver mass. This has the effect that variations in mass of the sliver can be compensated almost completely by the drafting device.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatic exchange of at least one full bobbin with at least one empty bobbin in a flyer, i.e. a flyer doffer, comprises a transport device reaching the flyer acting to transport the full bobbins and the empty bobbins, a doffing region and a mounting region which reach the spindles of the flyer for groupwise exchange of the full bobbins with the empty bobbins on the spindles and a lifting region reaching the transport device for groupwise exchange of the full with empty roving bobbins on the transport device. The doffing region and the mounting region on one hand and the lifting region on the other hand are spatially separate from each other. An exchanging region extending to the doffing, mounting and lifting regions is provided. Advantageously the doffing region and the mounting region are combined in a single doffing and mounting region.

Abstract: The process and apparatus of our invention reduces the breakdown quota of stopping devices in a spinning or twisting machine which stop the roving, e.g. when a roving break occurs. A simulated signal for "Yarn Running" is conductable to a stopping device for test purposes and/or the yarn break sensing device can be disconnected from the stopping device and from time to time a connecting signal is produced which reconnects the yarn break device to the associated stop device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tangential belt drive for a plurality of similar work units of a machine for the production of twisted or twined yarn. These units are subdivided into sections each having at least approximately the same number of work units and each driven through a tangential belt by an electric motor. Thereby, the number of work units in each section is established taking into account the required power and permissible belt stretch, so that the tangential belts have a considerably reduced width and thickness, compared to the ones commonly used. Further, the guide rollers of the tangential belts of neighboring sections are corotationally connected to each other.In order to improve synchronization and power transmission between sections, the contact angle is increased at the guide rollers and the drive pulleys. This may be done through the corresponding spatial arrangement of the drive pulleys with respect to the guide rollers or through use of an intermediate belt arrangement.

Abstract: A process for operation of an approximately horizontal suction duct used for removal of broken fragments of thread or roving from a spinning machine and a suction apparatus for performing that process. In the process of my invention the suction capacity of the suction duct is made adjustable for joint adjustment of the suction at all of the suction intakes connected to it. Thus to reduce energy consumption this suction capacity can be set to a considerably lower value during normal operation than during doffing or batch changing where it is desirable to use the maximum rated suction capacity. The adjusting means for changing the suction capacity of the suction duct comprises advantageously a throttling means such as an automatically controllable plate mounted downstream from the suction intakes of the suction duct or a selector switch for providing different voltages to the winding terminals of an electric motor of an air blower mechanism to directly change the suction capacity.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically actuating roving bobbin exchange operations in a textile yarn spinning apparatus. The spinning stations are divided into equal groups and a roving bobbin exchange operation is actuated at each group by a suitable control system, e.g. a microprocessor, as a function of the number of spinning stations of the group identified as down with uncorrectable yarn breaks and as a further function of the total elapsed operating time of the group since the last bobbin exchange operation.

Abstract: A positioning mechanism for a traveling automatic maintenance unit for a textile ring spinning machine or the like, which unit includes a carriage movable on spaced tracks along the spinning stations of the machine for automatically stopping at spinning stations that are determined to require maintenance. The mechanism includes a frame that is transversely pivotally mounted on the carriage on a longitudinally extending shaft. The frame carries an automatically operable maintenance mechanism that pivots with the frame transversely into operating position at a spinning station. Transverse movement of the frame is accomplished by a pneumatic piston-cylinder mechanism that manipulates a sliding element on a transversely extending rod of a slide guide with the frame connected to the sliding element by a connecting linkage.

Abstract: The fiber strip feed device provided with a fiber strip feed duct between the entrance rolls and the calendering rolls in a spinning machine, particularly in a set of drafting rolls of the spinning machine, has a tangential housing air duct opening into the fiber strip feed duct which is cylindrical. A fiber strip funnel is located downstream of the feed duct toward whose constricted inner space a high pressure pipe is directed whose working direction crosses the axis of the fiber strip funnel for fiber strip feed.

Abstract: Controlling the stop of the feed of roving in a spinning machine in which yarn is wound on spindles through travelers rotating on rings and in which a stop motion is actuated to stop the feed of the roving to drafting rolls in response to detecting a yarn break and is subsequently deactuated to permit roving feed during a yarn break repair operation. The stop motion includes an arcuate stop member rotatably mounted on one of the drafting rolls for rotation into disposition between opposing rolls to separate the rolls and stop roving feed, with the stop member having a projecting cam engaging in a recess in a slide member that is manipulated by a spring and electromagnetic device to control manipulation of the stop member.

Abstract: The winding mandrels for expanding the substantially cylindrical thin walled yarn holders of a spinning or winding machine each have a plurality of gripping pieces distributed approximately uniformly about their circumference. The gripping pieces are each pivotable on a pivot axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the winding mandrel supported in a bearing member of the winding mandrel. The gripping pieces are connected with slidable pushing members distributed as a group coaxially around the longitudinal axis of the winding mandrel by linking members movable over dead points and the pushing members are slidable jointly by at least one pushing device.

Abstract: The spinning or twisting machine comprises a plurality of drafting rolls, a plurality of associated spindles and positioned between them a plurality of yarn breaking devices pivotable between an upright spinning machine operating position into a yarn breaking position. According to our invention the yarn breaking device is movable by a positioning device from its yarn breaking position into an operating position.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for automatically replacing emptying yarn spools at a spinning machine, especially ring spinning machines, which machines include a spool frame and a plurality of spinning stations, wherein full spools are brought to and empty spools are moved away from the spinning stations. Full spools are arranged along the spool frame of the spinning machine in at least one magazine row, either individually, or a plurality thereof in sections, and the magazine row in the region of the first emptying spool, or section of spools, includes an empty location. This empty or bypass location is intermittently along the magazine row.

Abstract: A plurality of spindles of a textile machine are all mechanically interconnected and individually grouped, the individual groups of the spindles are driven by respective polyphase electric motors having respective feed lines all connected in parallel to the output lines of a polyphase electric power supply. Either the current or the voltage of the supply is maintained generally constant independent of load and a characteristic of the electricity in the feed lines of only one of the motors is monitored in the constant-current system or in the output lines of the supply in the constant-voltage system. An alarm, for example an optical or acoustic signal or just an indication on a display or printout, is generated when the characteristic of the electricity in any one of the monitored lines varies substantially from that of the other monitored lines.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in doffing and donning roving bobbins on the winding spindles of textile roving machines, wherein a drive nut associated with bobbin gripping components is constrained by an L-shaped guide slot to move axially with respect to the bobbin spindle for positioning the bobbin axially with respect thereto and to further move rotationally with respect to the spindle to orient mating drive components of the bobbin and spindle in proper driving connection.

Abstract: The process for replacing an empty roving bobbin with a full roving bobbin in a spinning machine, particularly in a ring spinning machine, in a dispensing position by an automatic roving bobbin changing device comprises taking the full roving bobbin from a storage location and putting the full roving bobbin in place of the empty roving bobbin. The full roving bobbin associated with the dispensing position is taken from one of a plurality of stand-by positions in the storage location. To provide a more automatic operation the process further comprises testing whether the full roving bobbin is present in one of the stand-by positions adjacent the dispensing position before beginning the exchange and when the absence of the full roving bobbin is indicated inducing a relative motion between the roving bobbin changing device and the stand-by positions until the roving bobbin changing device stands adjacent to one of the stand-by positions having a full roving bobbin.