Abstract: This invention relates to a conveyor means for simultaneously advancing and twisting a plurality of strands into a rope and the process for utilizing these means. The conveyor includes an elongated trough with two walls which are joined to define the linear path. The first wall includes the plurality of aligned rollers having access of rotating with a predetermined angular relationship relative to horizontal and vertical planes as well as a power means for driving the rollers in unison and means for feeding the strands into the trough and in frictional contact with the rollers.

Abstract: Each cover of a spinning station is provided with a rail element for guiding the service tender along the aligned spinning stations. In addition, the service tender carries a guide means in the form of a roller which has a cylindrical part to roll on the rail element of the covers when the covers are in a closed position as well as a frusto-conical part for rolling on the rail elements when the covers are in an open condition.

Abstract: A noise control system for reducing the noise level emanating from an air jet spinning machine includes an acoustical door for covering a jet chamber which contains the air jets. The door is automatically opened whenever a yarn suction tube is to be inserted into the jet chamber for a threading-up operation.

Abstract: A roll comprising a hollow metal core member, an intermediate base layer or layer, and a polyurethane cover, the intermediate base layer compounded to have improved thermal conductivity. The intermediate base layer or layers having improved thermal conductivity function to dissipate heat generated by hysteresis (deformation energy), thereby permitting the rolls to operate at higher roll speeds and higher pressures without roll failure.

Abstract: In order to hold at a minimum the noise emission of the winding gear in a winding unit of a spinning machine for the processing of endless filaments, the winding unit is provided with a noise protection door which is pivotingly translatable from an initial or idle position at the side of the winding unit into an operating position in front of the winding unit. The noise protection door comprises a guide portion which is supported or guided by means of rolls and guide pins and a noise protection portion pivotally supported on the guide portion by means of pivot pins. The guide pins forming part of the guide portion and the guide pins forming part of the noise protection portion project into two guide grooves arranged in mirror-image fashion, one of which is provided in a floor plate and the other in a cover of the winding unit. Thus the guide portion is guided in a straight line and the noise protection portion is pivotally guided.

Abstract: An open end yarn spinning apparatus is disclosed which comprises a plurality of side by side spinning positions, and which is characterized by the ready accessibility of the internal components of each spinning position without interference with an adjacent position. The apparatus includes a central frame extending longitudinally along the length of the apparatus, and each spinning position includes a frame subassembly composed of two longitudinally spaced apart and transversely directed plate-like side members, and a plurality of longitudinally extending braces which interconnect the two side members. The bearing assembly for the rotor, and the feed and opening rolls are mounted to the frame subassembly, and the rotor housing is releaseably mounted to the frame subassembly so that removal thereof exposes the internal components.

Abstract: A combination yarn processing machine and overhead creel assembly comprising a machine mounted overhead creel assembly including a bobbin carriage which pivots about an axis mounted on a framework above the yarn processing machine. The bobbin carriage pivots through a circular arc between an up position substantially above and over the processing machine and a down position substantially above and beside the machine without substantially changing the length of the yarn extending between creel bobbins or other yarn packages in the bobbin carriage and the processing machine and is loaded and unloaded to replace empty yarn packages while the processing machine is in operation drawing yarn from still laden yarn packages on the same bobbin carriage. A spring loaded counterbalancing system holds the bobbin carriage in the up position and in the down position and aids in minimizing the effort expended by operators servicing the machine while moving the bobbin carriage between the up and down position.

Abstract: Thermoplastic filamentary material is continuously formed into a row of helically coiled or zigzag coupling elements for slide fasteners. One of the coupling elements as thus formed is measured for a dimension thereof. The measured dimension is compared with a reference value to detect a dimensional error, if any, of the measured one of the continuous coupling elements. The tensioning of the thermoplastic filamentary material prior to being formed into the row of coupling elements is adjustably controlled on the basis of the dimensional error so as to remove the latter from subsequently formed coupling elements. The measurement of the coupling element may be effected while the row of coupling elements as formed is being held at rest.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spinning or twisting machine with a plurality of upright textile spindles, wherein the spindle shaft of each textile spindle is coaxially firmly attached to the rotor shaft of an electromotor and wherein the housing of the electromotor includes upper and lower bearing brackets that are disposed on a spindle rail and for the purpose of simple and precise centering of the electromotor housing these bearing brackets are radially adjustable on the spindle rail independently of one another.

Abstract: Apparatus and a threading method in a multi-unit spinning machine for synthetic fibers with an exposed front face of each winding unit, the apparatus comprising a soundproofing screen extending across at least one winding unit, means to move the screen along the front of the machine to offer soundproofing protection as the winding unit is placed into operation, and thread insertion means in the screen including an open-ended thread insertion slot extending longitudinally of the screen from its leading side edge. The threading method permits the simultaneous actuation of a winding unit and moving of the soundproofing screen into place as the unit is threaded with the help of a suction gun.

Abstract: A multi-spindle double twist twisting machine having a belt drive assembly, a spindle frame formed to enclose the belt drive assembly, and traversing rod reciprocating means. The machine may be a horizontal spindle machine with two rows of spindles on each side. A beam mounted independently of the spindle frame extends along each side between rows and supports a drive belt for tangential driving contact with spindle whorls. The belts are commonly driven and reversing rolls are associated with one belt so that it travels opposite the other belt, and compensating rolls are associated with the other belt so that the belts may be of the same length. The spindle frame has two spaced support plates laterally outward of the belt drive assemblies and two cover plates secured to and extending between flanges on the support plates to form an enclosure for the belt drive assembly.

Abstract: A multi-spindle double twist twisting machine having a spindle frame in the form of a support plate that serves as a self-supporting sub-frame mountable alternatively in either a vertical or horizontal spindle machine and on which a plurality of spindle assembly mounting means are supported in two staggered rows. The support plate has side flanges to facilitate forming an enclosure around spindle assembly whorls and a belt drive assembly. A separator wall is mounted on the support plate between the rows of spindle assemblies and has ballooning yarn guides mounted thereon and extending over the spindle assemblies. The wall is extendable to adjust for yarn package sizes and operating conditions. The support plate may be formed in two portions with adjacent flanges for attaching the portions together and the wall may have an attaching flange for positioning between the adjacent flanges of the support plate portions to form an integral independent sub-frame.

Abstract: A braiding machine for use in the manufacture of braided hose. The machine has the rear deck interconnected to the front deck which front deck is composed of three separate elements, the inner deck plate, the outer deck plate and the quoits. The respective elements are of a sandwich construction, wherein a viscoelastic material is bonded to outer plate members to provide a dampening of the noise. In addition, the carrier members are similarly constructed to dampen the noise by a sandwich construction, wherein the flanges of the carrier have an inner layer of viscoelastic materials. The carriers which support the wire spools are driven in a criss-crossing pattern to provide a braiding action of the wire as it is layed onto a longitudinally moving hose.

Abstract: A textile yarn texturing machine having a bank of pairs of upright spindles rotated at high speed and having stacked thereon axially spaced meshing ceramic discs is provided with a fixed transparent shield disposed in front of the bank to protect an operator from flying pieces of the discs upon shattering thereof. The shield is spaced sufficiently forwardly of the spindles and has its lower edge high enough to permit an operator to reach thereunder to perform necessary manipulations in the area of the spindles.

Abstract: The servicing apparatus is mounted for running movement along, and for pivotal movement laterally of, a path of travel having a first section extending adjacent spinning units of the spinning machine and a second section extending adjacent an end cabinet of the spinning machine. During movement of the apparatus from the first and to the second section of its path of travel, it is pivoted laterally of such path to provide clearance between interfering components of the apparatus and the cabinet of the machine that would otherwise preclude movement of the apparatus along the second section of its path of travel. Pivotal movement of the apparatus is realized by a cam means so located as to not impede traffic adjacent the machine or access to the interior of its end cabinet, and as to minimize the magnitude of the force required to produce the aforesaid pivotal movement.

Abstract: The scaffolding intended for supporting the entire structure of a spinning frame or a like machine is made of individual intermediate sections which are united to a header and a tail section and are serially connected to each other in the intermediate portion of the machine. Each section is composed by two spaced apart shell-like sidewalls connected together by tubular longitudinally extending members. The sections are united by bolting them together so that the tubular members form conduits for removing linters and like airborne materials sucked by an exhauster. Sound-absorbing slabs are inserted between every two adjoining section sidewalls to diminish the noise level.

Abstract: A frame construction for an open-end spinning machine includes an elongate plate extending along one side of the machine for supporting a first series of spinning unit housings and an elongate plate extending along the other side of the machine for supporting a second series of spinning unit housings. The plates are interconnected by transverse cross-members, which, preferably, do not project beyond the upper and lower extremities of the plates. Apertures equally spaced along the plates serve to receive and support the spinning unit housings.The plates are provided along their upper extremities with inwardly projecting flanges which abut against the cross-members so as to locate the plates.Preferably, the driving elements for the spinning elements supported by the spinning unit housings, and the suction ducts serving to provide vacuum at each of the spinning units are located between and within the upper and lower extremities of the plates.

Abstract: A flat bodied rethread clip is shown having a plurality of slots adapted to attach thereto running parallel strands. Risers are provided on both sides of the flat body aligned with each of a set of slots so that strands running in the slots will follow the riser into any guides or grooves used to maintain parallel strand spacing.

Abstract: To assist textile mills in complying with Government regulation of noise levels, a tunable noise suppression device or muffler is connected to the exhaust of the fiber collection box of a pneumatic spun fiber collection system of a spinning machine. The device is adjustable to reduce exhaust noise to an acceptable level while maintaining the necessary degree of suction in the fiber collection system. The noise suppression device has the ability to nullify the most predominant noise generating sound wave lengths and/or predominant noise frequencies through tuning, whereby it is unnecessary to construct various sizes and configurations of the suppression device for use on different textile machines which may possess differing predominant noise frequencies.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for threading one of several generally parallel strands through an operation through which the strands travel. The apparatus is designed to thread a broken strand using the movement of strands adjacent to this strand. The apparatus is also designed to reduce the downtime for the adjacent strands which are employed to pull and guide the broken strand through the rethreading operation. The apparatus is designed to allow for strand guide stabilization through the rethreading operation to allow the strands and guide to pass through the system easily and without placement errors in strand threading positioning. The apparatus includes a means for holding the broken strand, a means for releasably maintaining an adjacent guide strand within the apparatus and a means for releasably grasping the moving pull strand.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a layout in pneumatic spinning apparatus. In a pneumatic spinning apparatus comprising a drafting device, a pneumatic spinning device, a take-up roller, a winding device and a yarn knotting device, the respective devices are arranged to face an operation space so as to enhance the operation efficiency of the apparatus.

Abstract: A false twisting apparatus comprising two endless belts crossing each other and running in opposite directions at the crossing point is disclosed, in which a yarn running through the crossing point is nipped by both the belts at the crossing point and is false-twisted by a frictional effect caused between the two belts. In this false twisting apparatus, the angle of crossing of the two endless belt is set in advance, and the apparatus may include means for detecting minute variations of this predetermined crossing angle and correcting such minute variations.

Abstract: A yarn-twisting apparatus comprises a spindle receiving the supply spool or bobbin, a rotating can or sleeve surrounding the spool and the bobbin, a yarn takeup arrangement for drawing the yarn from the upper end of the can, and a housing surrounding the can. According to the invention, the stationary housing and the upper and lower ends of the spindle are provided with closures which reach close to the spindle at the bottom and form an opening traversed by the yarn at the top. Means is provided for enabling the upper closure to be removed or displaced for ready access to the interior of the housing. The system reduces the power consumption required for twisting the yarn.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing spun yarn comprises feeding at least one filament onto a rotating member in a manner to form flat loops of the filaments on the member, picking the loops off the member and feeding and twisting the loops to form a spun yarn. The device advantageously includes a spinning head which rotates about a longitudinal axis and which carries a disc member which rotates about its own central axis. A thread guiding device is arranged to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the spinning head and separate drives are provided for each of the spinning head, the disc and the thread guide in order to form variations in the flat loops which are formed as segmental partly overlapped loops on the disc member. The construction includes a pickup member for picking up the loops off the disc and conveying rollers for conveying the twisted yarn into a setting chamber and a force twisting device for subsequent winding on a bobbin.

Abstract: A kite reel system for use with a kite having plural lengths of line attached thereto includes a shaft rotatably journaled within a handle and having a reel mounted on one end thereof and a hand operated crank coupled to the other end thereof. The kite is reeled in from a flying condition in controlled fashion by securing a ring attached to the lengths of line within a mating notch in the shaft and operating the crank to rotate the shaft and thereby twist the lengths of line around each other. The twisted lengths of line are periodically fed through a notch in the edge of the reel for winding onto the reel, then back out of the reel notch and into the ring notch as an untwisted portion thereof is encountered. The twisting and reeling procedure is repeated until the kite has been reeled in.

Abstract: A guide track arrangement for displaceably guiding one or more servicing units at an open-end spinning machine which includes a number of individual spinning units disposed side-by-side. The guide track arrangement includes at least one rail for receiving runners of the one or more servicing units with the at least one rail being fashioned as a supporting profile having attached thereto a guiding profile for guiding the runners of the service unit or units. The guide profile is adjustably secured at the supporting profile at least in a direction of an occurring load on the guide track. A measuring unit is provided which includes a measuring index cooperable with a further index at the spinning units of the spinning machine so as to facilitate adjusting of the guide profile at the supporting profile.

Abstract: A new apparatus is disclosed for the rope-drying of dyed fabric resulting in a new fabric pattern having distinctive patterning. The process has three critical areas, particularly: the apparatus' ability to maintain a tension on the rope while it is being dried over contact dryers; the rope being formed into a very defined cylinder through an elongated tube; and the length of contact drying being sufficient to impart the migration of the dye stuff through the rope to form the applicable pattern.

Abstract: A yarn-twisting apparatus has a frame on which is mounted at least one row of identical twisters. Fixed to this machine is a front wall panel extending along the row of twisters from the top of the cups thereof to the bottoms of these cups. Hinged on the upper edge of this front wall panel is one or a plurality of flaps which can move between a vertical position extending upwardly, or a lying-down position giving access to the tops of the twisters. Another such flap is hinged on a second front wall panel below and recessed from the front wall panel so as to be displaceable between an upper position shielding the arrangement and a lowered position giving access to the flyer disks of the twisters. These flaps and panels are all made of sound-deadening material and the various flaps may be subdivided so as to give access to individual twisters while the other flaps are left up so as to shield sound generated by the other twisters.

Abstract: The disclosure embraces noise abatement apparatus and a method of abating noise in a yarn texturing machine of the type that employs rotatable spindles driven by endless belts, heater means and yarn transport means, all of which are spaced along a frame between a gear housing and a motor housing; the apparatus includes sound insulating walls for enclosing the timing belt driven pulley located nearest the gear housing together with tunnels lined with sound absorbing material through which the endless belts of the machine pass from the gear housing over the frame of the machine; also, there are included means for isolating the vibrations of idler pulleys for the drive belts from the mounting rail as well as reducing sound propagation from the rotating idler pulleys; noise generated from within the gear housing of the machines is also suppressed.

Abstract: A muffler for use in conjunction with an aspirator during the production of multifilament, synthetic yarn is provided. Audible noise which is emitted at the inlet end of the aspirator is reduced by up to 22.5 .DELTA.dB(A) and brought to within acceptable levels through the use of a perforated tube, resonant chamber, and sound absorbing means. The tension of the aspirated yarn is maintained by finishing the muffler inlet end with a high RMS surface.

Abstract: A development is provided for monitoring twist on yarn being perferably friction twisted and for automatically adjusting the amount of twist being imparted to the yarn to compensate for a deviation in the amount of twist from that desired. The adjustment and monitoring may be effected on a position-to-position basis. Particularly novel monitoring developments are provided.

Abstract: An open end spinning machine employs a tubular member serving as an air duct and upon which the spinning and winding components are mounted.

Abstract: An open end spinning machine has individual spinning locations which include a spinning rotor, various drive rollers and conduits and drive shafts which are brought into tangential engagement with drive belts or the like. For this purpose, each spinning location is enclosed in a movable housing which can be displaced vertically on a column mounted on the machine by one end. A stop pin in the column cooperates with a rotating ring in the housing and provides therewith a bayonet-like engagement. The motion of the housing in the opposite direction is limited by the angled arm of a lost-motion slide connected to the housing which makes contact with the stop pin in the column. Easy removal without tools permits ready access to the machine space behind each housing.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing helically coiled coupling elements for slide fasteners. There are provided a filament supply unit, a filament coiling unit, a filament drive unit interposed between the supply unit and the coiling unit, and a tension-applying unit disposed between the drive unit and the coiling unit. As a filament is formed into a fastener element in the form of a continuous helical coil at the filament coiling machine, the filament is unwound from a relatively large bobbin in the supply device and at the same time is rotated about its own axis by a rotor of the supply unit at the same rate and in the same direction as the filament is coiled at the coiling unit to thereby eliminate twists on the filament which would otherwise be produced at the latter unit. The drive unit is also adapted to rotate the filament about its own axis while positivey feeding the filament toward the coiling unit.

Abstract: A sound reducing device in a textile machine including a plurality of spindle assemblies driven by a travelling belt and each forming a balloon of yarn upon rotation thereof. The spindle assembly comprises a first source of noise, which are the travelling belt and the spindle wharves, and a second source of noise, which are the balloon forming sections of the spindle assemblies. The sound reducing device is characterized in that one of the first and second sources of noise is covered by a first sound reducing boundary and the other of the first and second noise sources as well as the first sound reducing boundary is disposed within a second sound reducing boundary.

Abstract: An open end spinning machine is assembled from intermediate modular sections connected together in end-to-end alignment between end sections. The construction of the modular sections used in the machine is disclosed.

Abstract: A device for damping the vibrations and the vibrational force between a structural element in a vibrational state and a peripheral or adjacent element exposed to the vibrational force and the sound incidental to the vibration. In the device, a block-shaped means consisting of a vibration and sound-proof material has on at least at one side thereof irregularities consisting of raised and depressed sections and this block-shaped means is interposed between the two elements so that the configuration consisting of the raised and depressed sections will dampen the vibrational force and the sound incidental thereto.

Abstract: In a textile yarn twister, means for mounting idler pulleys and the drive tape tensioner spring transversely across the width of the twister between its opposing spindle rails resiliently. The pulleys are rigidly supported by and are interconnected with a transverse beam positioned between a pair of opposing spindle assemblies, the beam being vertically interconnected with each of the spindle rails by a resilient, vibration damping, isolation mount. Shock absorber elements are horizontally interposed between the transverse beam and the spindle rails to prevent shearing of the isolation mounts upon start-up or stoppage of the twister. Adjacent transverse beams are rigidly interconnected by elongate rigid members spaced away from the spindle rails to provide, in all, transverse and longitudinal stability of a plurality of the present mounting means relative the spindle assemblies associated therewith.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved false twist spindle having means for attenuating noises which are emitted during operation. The spindle according to the invention contains sound-reducing means which allow free access to the various components of the spindle, which means are formed by an enveloping insulating plate which partly surrounds the spindle assembly, and an insulating ring or cylinder surrounding the twist tube in its part equipped with the twist locking means.The invention applies primarily to high-speed false twist spindles in which the twist is imparted by means of a twist tube equipped with twist locking means.

Abstract: Anti-noise structures on multi-position textile machines, consisting of sound-damping lining walls wholly or partially covering the longitudinal front of the machine, which walls are movable in such a way that the working positions of the textile machine can be individually laid open for operation or tending.

Abstract: Method and system for transporting a filament-bundle from a spinning process to a successive drawing process in a factory of producing synthetic filament yarns. The filament bundle is transported by means of can-transportation system between two desired positions along a fixed carrying passage automatically. Full packaged cans filled with the filament bundle are transported along the fixed carrying passage by a carrying means from a receiving position below a delivery mechanism of a spinning equipment to a creeling passage adjacent to a creel of a drawing equipment, and empty cans are carried from the creeling passage to a reserving position along a fixed passage for the carrying means and thereafter carried to the above-mentioned receiving position one by one. The motion of the carrying means is controlled by a control means involving a control computer.

Abstract: Spindle units adjacent each side of a textile twisting machine are mounted, for noise abatement purposes, in vibration insulated relationship to the frame of the machine, to all spindle units adjacent the other side of the machine, and preferably also to other spindle units adjacent the same side of the machine. The spindle units are so mounted by a plurality of rigidly constructed but resiliently supported mounting assemblies. Each assembly includes an elongate spindle supporting member extending longitudinally of the twisting machine adjacent one or the other side thereof, and at least one transverse stabilizing member extending laterally inwardly therefrom toward, but terminating short of, the opposite side of the machine.

Abstract: A device for withdrawing full bobbins prepared on open-end spinning machines with a spooling device at its lower portion, which includes conveyor means arranged below the spooling device and having associated therewith protective means for protecting the spooling device and rotating bobbins from accidental interference from the floor on which the open-end spinning machine is mounted.

Abstract: A frame for a textile machine such as a spinning frame, a twisting machine or a rewinding machine, which includes a series of similar stations, said frame comprising a hollow rectilinear central girder having support elements, such as bosses, webs, notches, and bores, which are integral parts of the girder and are adapted to support, directly and with great accuracy, the parts of the various stations of the machine. The girder is preferably made up of a plurality of lengths fitted together end to end, preferably with end faces perfectly perpendicular to the general direction of the girder. The girder may be cast or extruded.