Abstract: An automatic winding device for a filamentous material which is an automatic winding device for a filamentous material that winds a plurality of provided filamentous materials simultaneously onto a plurality of bobbins; and an automatic winding method utilizing the automatic winding device are provided. The automatic winding device includes a plurality of spindles for winding bobbins and a guide roll. The number of the plurality of spindles is 1-1.75 times the number of thread handling routes.

Abstract: A method is provided for winding an elastic yarn into a cylindrical substantially straight-ended yarn package. The method includes feeding an elastic or elastomeric yarn at a substantially constant speed to a tube core to form the yarn package. The yarn package is rotated such that the yarn package with a substantially constant surface speed. The yarn is wound to form layers of helical coils, while providing a helix angle variation of greater than zero up to +/?80%.

Abstract: Steel strip issues continuously from a downstream end of a rolling line and can be wound up there on a coiler. An inspection table downstream of the rolling line has a surface aligned with the downstream end and the strip emerging therefrom. The coiler is below a plane of the table surface. During normal rolling the strip is deflected downward to the coiler and reeled up. For inspection of the strip, the strip is cut transversely to produce a new leading end and is fed starting at this end toward the table without substantial deflection. Then the strip is cut again upstream of the new leading end to form a strip sample separate from the strip emerging from the rolling line, which sample is fed to the table and arrested and inspected while strip emerging from the line is deflected back down to the coiler to continue coiling it up.