Abstract: A textile machine includes a cheese or cross-wound bobbin winder with winding stations each having a creel for holding a cheese, a reversible rotary cheese drive, a suction nozzle and a swivel drive for swivelling the suction nozzle to the jacket surface of the cheese. A method for grasping a yarn end resting on the cheese includes adjusting a search time during which the inward-swivelled suction nozzle is positioned at the reverse-rotating cheese, in dependence on the instantaneous diameter of the cheese, and on the reverse speed of the rotary cheese drive, which is kept constant over the entire search time.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for separating a yarn end of a yarn package from the outer layer of the yarn package and disposing the separated yarn end onto the yarn package in a preferred disposition. The apparatus includes a drive device for rotating a yarn package in an unwinding direction, an assembly for performing a yarn end drawing out operation during the unwinding rotation of the yarn package and a device for determining that a successful yarn end drawing out operation has been performed including an assembly for detecting that a yarn end of at least a predetermined length has been drawn out. The apparatus also includes an assembly for controlling the drive device to stop the unwinding rotation of the yarn package in response to the earlier of the lapse of a predetermined period of time and the receipt of a signal from the detecting device indicating that a successful yarn end drawing out operation has been performed.