Abstract: A method and apparatus for initiating feed of yarn on a machine for taking yarn from a supply, processing it and rewinding it. A short length of processed yarn is led back through a series of guide wires to a vacuum receiver for holding the free end of the yarn. The wire guides are actuated to form a large loop so that the processed yarn will be fed over the input roller and the output roller, so as to pick up yarn from the supply. The lower roller of the feed roller assembly is elongated to aid in the looping and lateral in-feeding of the processed yarn loop. The previously processed yarn, after it is fed around the input and output rollers and has picked up the additional yarn to be processed is pulled from the vacuum retaining system and incorporated in the processed yarn.

Abstract: Several yarn packages or yarn reels are simultaneously wound on the same spindle using an improved process and apparatus, especially with regard to the start-up of the winding including the attachment of the yarns to the spindle and the formation of a yarn transfer end. Means are provided for engaging and disengaging the yarns from yarn reciprocating distribution guides which lay down the yarns on the rotating yarn reel. The same means in the form of a guide ramp guides the yarns from a common hooking point attaching the yarns to the spindle and then disengages from the yarns so that the yarns will be contacted for reciprocation over the main winding zone of the yarn reel by the reciprocating distribution guides.

Abstract: A spindle intended to support on the inside thereof and drive in rotation at least one winding support for winding textile yarns. The spindle has at least one gripping element made up of at least two flyweights, able to come in contact with the inside surface of the winding support and develop, under the effect of centrifugal force, a radial thrust assuring its gripping. It applies to winding of textile yarns, particularly chemical yarns, at high speeds of 3,000 to 7,000 m/min and more.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transferring at least one textile yarn fed continuously from a first to a second treatment zone, in which:the yarn is removed at the first treatment zone, while keeping it under tension;the yarn is moved from the first to the second treatment zone by means of a member movable between the two zones, while continuing to remove the yarn; andthe yarn is seized at the second treatment zone so as to position it in the desired place in that zone.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for the winding-up of textile yarn.The process includes winding-up by double drive, namely peripheral and axial drive, according to which, in a first phase, the torque supplied by the axial drive is decreased progressively to zero, and in a second phase, the rotation of the take-up package is effected by the single peripheral drive.Preferably, the device used is a gas turbine, the inlet pipe to which is progressively obstructed.The invention applies to winding-up of chemical textile yarns.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sensing the presence or absence of yarns using a simple airflow in an open slot formed between parallel plates, the pressure upstream of the proper yarn path being sensed. In one form, the pressure is sensed at multiple points and averaged to accommodate yarn oscillation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sensing the presence or absence of yarns using a simple airflow in an open slot formed between parallel plates, the presence upstream of the proper yarn path being sensed. In one form, the pressure is sensed at multiple points and averaged to accommodate yarn oscillation.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatic bobbin changing on a high speed frontal bobbin winder with at least one winding-up station, at least one yarn support gripping spindle with a horizontal axis, a rotatable winding cylinder mounted for movement into and out of tangential engagement with a package forming on a yarn support on said spindle, a fixed yarn guide and a reciprocable yarn guide for distributing yarn along the yarn support, said apparatus comprising, mounted on a frame,A loading and unloading means including at least two parallel spindles, one of said spindles for removing a wound yarn package from the gripping spindle and another spindle for placing an empty yarn support on said gripping spindle, said parallel spindles being movable in turn into an aligned position in axial alignment with a gripping spindle of the machine;Nozzle means for capturing and removing the yarn fed to the yarn support, said nozzle means having a rectilinear capture slit communicating with a channel through which a stream of fluid may be

Abstract: A winding station for winding multiple bobbins in vertically-staggered winding units having two bobbin mounts associated with an upper winding unit and three bobbin mounts at the lower winding unit. Four yarn guides are positioned above both winding units to stabilize the yarn en route to a pair of yarn distributors which are individually associated with the winding units, and a deflecting guide is positioned adjacent the upper of the two yarn distributors to selectively guide one of the yarns which is alternated between the upper and lower winding units.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for the transfer and the treatment of textile yarns comprising a pneumatic means comprising a body pierced from top to bottom with a channel of transversal section, preferably oblong the surface of said body increasing from upstream to downstream, said body being slit in the forepart to make the channel communicate with the outside on substantially its whole length along the generatrix of channel, and a higher part provided with at least a tubular member allowing a fluid to be fed to at least two orifices, parallel to the axis of the nozzle channel, said tubular members communicating with the higher part of said channel by means of a chamber, and a slot for permitting the passage of yarn from the outside towards said channel.

Abstract: This document discloses a stator member for rollers used in the thermal treatment of elongated materials such as filaments, yarns, slivers, rovings, etc. The structure comprises a metal support, an electric insulating spray on the support, a resistor, another layer of electrical insulator spray to cover the first coating and embedded therein and a spray on layer to construct a friction surface.