Abstract: An apparatus for transporting full sliver cans to the spinning stations of a textile spinning machine for can exchange operations thereat during which empty sliver cans are exchanged for full sliver cans. The apparatus includes a can transport carriage having three can supports at equal angular spacings from one another relative to a vertical axis and a device for indexing movement of the three can supports to sequentially position each can support at a can transfer location at which a can is transferred between the can transport carriage and the textile spinning machine. Each can support is sequentially indexed to a standby location from the can transfer location and, thereafter, to a ready location from which the can support is indexed into the can transfer location. The can transfer and ready locations are arranged such that two sliver cans supported at these locations are substantially aligned in the direction of travel of the can transport carriage.

Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine with spinning stations preferably arranged on both sides of the machine, depositing sites for several rows of cans containing the sliver to be spun are assigned to each side of the machine while leaving an aisle. In a roof-type manner, transport devices extend over the operating aisle by means of which the slivers are taken out of the cans and are fed to the spinning stations. The transport devices have two transport sections respectively which are connected with one another by way of a deflecting guide.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for doffing yarn packages from and supplying empty bobbins to a textile machine with a vertically movable bobbin rail with a bobbin bearing, a flyer inverted U-shaped revolving device and spindle with a spindle holding mechanism, a revolving, storage system with a storage hoist, which can be controlled by the textile machine and is above the spindle holding mechanism. Below the storage hoist, a bobbin creel is provided with mandrels for accommodating or transferring full packages or empty bobbins. The bobbin creel can be moved vertically up to the bobbin rail and can be pushed into the textile machine between the spindle and the bobbin rail. Within the bobbin rail a switching mechanism corresponds to the spindle holding mechanism. The spindle holding mechanism is, disposed within the spindle and is comprised of a latch. A switching element, corresponding to the latch is disposed within the spindle holding mechanism.

Abstract: A peg tray type carrier for transporting textile yarn tubes has a codable, readable and erasable electronic information carrying device such as a memory chip connected to a transmitting-receiving antenna arranged in the area of the central axis of the peg tray to achieve essentially the same effective contactless transmission interval to a compatible transmitting-receiving antenna of a reading, erasing and encoding device, which may be located for example stationarily along a peg tray transport conveyor, essentially without regard to the rotational disposition of the peg tray about its axis. Inductive, capacitive or electromagnetic forms of contactless coupling are possible for information transmission.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting and exchanging containers of textile strand material at a textile strand processing machine having a plurality of processing stations is disclosed. The device includes a guide device for guiding containers around the machine. An endless drive connection reciprocally movable in the transport path and having flexible portions reciprocally movable through the corner sections of the transport path is included as well as a drive means for reciprocally driving the drive connection. Container engaging elements are also provided for drivingly engaging containers during movement of the drive connection. The drive connection may include rods disposed in the straight portions of the transport path which are connected to the flexible portions. The container engaging elements may comprise pawls mounted on transverse shafts which may be spring biased into the container engaging dispositions.

Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having spinning stations arranged on one side of the machine and having depositing sites for cans containing the fiber material to be spun provided on the other side of the machine, devices are provided for the withdrawal and feeding of the slivers which have drivable guiding belts which extend from an area above the depositing sites to the area of the spinning stations.

Abstract: A textile machine apparatus for handling tubes having remaining yarn thereon includes a branch path for supporting tube support members, which individually support tubes thereon, for travel to and from the discharge assembly of a textile winding machine. The tube handling apparatus also includes a sensor disposed along the discharge transport path of the tube support members from the winding stations of the textile winding machine for discriminating among tubes having no yarn thereon and tubes having remaining yarn thereon. A guide member is operatively connected to the discriminating sensor for guiding the tube support members supporting tubes having remaining yarn thereon onto the branch path for transport therealong to a tube stripping device, which strips the tubes of the remaining yarn. The stripped tubes are then returned to the discharge transport path at a location upstream of the discriminating sensor.

Abstract: A winder-to-double twister connecting system, which comprises a yarn end picking device for picking out a yarn end from a package set on a tray, a package lifter for inserting a two-piled empty bobbin mounting adapter received from an overhead conveyor, into the tray on a circulating conveyor line, and for transferring the two-piled package mounting adapter to the overhead conveyor; a bobbin mover for pulling off, from an adapter, an empty bobbin coming on the circulating conveyor line; a package loader for taking up the package with the yarn end picked out from the tray and mounting the package to the adapter; and a bobbin stripper for removing remaining yarn from the empty bobbin received from the bobbin mover.

Abstract: A process for introducing a fiber sliver into a fiber processing machine which has an openable sliver feeding device and a sliver introduction funnel and a sliver injector, comprising the following steps: opening the openable sliver feeding device, grasping the leading end of the sliver pneumatically into and through the sliver introduction funnel and into the opened feeding device and closing the sliver feeding device on the sliver. The invention also includes a device for carrying out the process.

Abstract: A winding method for winding a yarn by mounting and removing a defining guide on and from a yarn guide of a drum winder, wherein the defining guide defines a movement of a yarn in one direction according to a winding width and the drum winder has a normal traverse drum and a yarn guide provided at the section via which the yarn is fed to the traverse drum.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device to convey spinning cans from a first into a second position by a movable traveller. The traveller intersects the projection of housing sections and/or of the can guides on the plane of the movement of the traveller. An actuating device for a switch is installed in the direction of movement of the traveller between the traveller and the projection on the housing section and/or the can guide to stop the movement of the traveller.

Abstract: A tube transport assembly is provided for a textile machine system in which tubes having yarn or the like wound thereon are transported to, and empty tubes are transported from, a textile machine. Two different transport apparatus are each operable to transport a different kind of tube support member along a respective endless transport path. In one aspect of the present invention, an alternating positioning device alternately positions the two types of tube support members and a tube transfer device is operable to transfer the tubes and full yarn packages from the type of tube support members on which they are initially supported to the other type of tube support members. In one embodiment of the tube transport assembly, the alternating positioning device is a rotatable annular disk having a plurality of tube support member retaining positions uniformly spaced annularly thereon.

Abstract: A non-circular sliver container (1) is used for transporting sliver (2) to a spinning machine having a support table (3) fixed to one of its rounded ends at its upper edge. A groove (31) for receiving a reinforced introducing point (4) of the sliver (2) is provided. A recess (32) is provided in the groove (31) for allowing the point (4) of the sliver (2) to be gripped and inserted int a spinning machine.

Abstract: There is described an automatic device for restarting a two-for-one twisting station after yarn interruption, the device being provided on a carriage which patrols the twisting machine faces and is equipped to discharge a completed bobbin, seize the yarn ends from the feed side and the bobbin side and convey them to a joining device, join said ends, pick up a new tube and position it on the bobbin carrier arm, bring the yarn ends on the feed side up to it and restart the station, so restoring the yarn flow.

Abstract: A multistation automatic textile machine, such as a multi-position winder or spinning machine, having a passageway formed through the machine's end frame structure for accommodating a transport conveyor or other transport path for spinning bobbins and other strand-supporting tubes.

Abstract: A bobbin exchange system applied to a ring spinning frame provided with a unique creel mechanism, wherein a pair of parallel rails is provided for supporting respective bobbin carriages. Each bobbin carriage is provided with two alignments of bobbin hangers, to a number which is identical to a number of spindles of each side of the ring spinning frame.

Abstract: In a bobbin treating system connected to a fine spinning frame and an automatic winder, a steam setter is installed inside of the automatic winder for steaming bobbins coming from the fine spinning frame.

Abstract: A winding method for winding a yarn by mounting and removing a defining guide on and from a yarn guide of a drum winder, wherein the defining guide defines a movement of a yarn in one direction according to a winding width and the drum winder has a normal traverse drum and a yarn guide provided at the section via which the yarn is fed to the traverse drum.

Abstract: A device for conveying full and empty bobbins between multi-position textile machines of different finishing stages is comprised of an endless conveying rail and an endless, driven conveying element. The endless conveying rail is common to all of the multi-position textile machines of different finishing stages, whereby at least two multi-position textile machines are connected by the endless conveying rail. The conveying element is connected to the endless conveying rail and comprises carriers for conveying the full and empty bobbins, the carriers being movable along the conveying rail.

Abstract: An apparatus for steaming of spun cops based on a trough-shaped steamer (2) arranged directly adjacent to a spinning machine (1) parallel to the cops (15) of a spinning station (14) standing in a row. This enables a conventional handling device (17) to move the cops (15) from the spinning stations (14) into the steamer (2) and, after the steaming process, to move the cops (15") from the steamer (2) to the conveyor (16) of the spinning machine (1). The steaming process is thus integrated with the material flow of the spinning plant. The dwell times of the cops after steaming are largely predeterminable. Also, the space requirements of the equipment are minimal and there is no need for additional manual moving of the cops.

Abstract: The invention relates to a caddy for the mutually independent individual transport of cops and cop tubes and provides a caddy that can be used for different tube diameters, which is achieved by forming the mandrel and base plate of the caddy from separate molded parts. The base plate can be connected securely but detachably and form-fittingly with mandrels of different dimensions for correspondingly differing diameters. The base plate has a central opening with an undercut while the mandrel has an inwardly elastically resilient arrangement of legs that fit over the undercut.

Abstract: A method for pneumatic threading in a two-for-one twisting spindle having a double hollow mandrel. The method comprising seizing the initial portion of wound yarn from a bobbin positioned on the lower hollow mandrel in the spindle basket and feeding a sufficient length of it through the upper hollow mandrel to enable it to be then placed alongside the initial wound yarn portion unwound from the bobbin mounted on the upper hollow mandrel. The two initial yarn portions are then held jointly and rested on the mouth of the upper hollow mandrel, on which a head connected to a compressed air source is placed and pressed, in order to achieve pneumatic yarn threading.

Abstract: A winding machine and method of operating the same in which prearranged packages of yarn are formed during spinning by inserting the yarn end through the upper cavity of a yarn tube by a package arranging device and the prearranged packages are conveyed in a vertical or substantially vertical position to a package carrier wherein the package carrier is maintained fully loaded with the prearranged packages.

Abstract: A pot spinning assembly comprises a spinning pot and a yarn guide extending into the spinning pot. A controlled drive causes a relative motion between the spinning pot and the yarn guide during a spinning process. Yarn is deposited in layers on the inner wall of the spinning pot and a spinning cake is formed. The spinning pot is displaced along its longitudinal central axis between an upper end position and a lower end position. An outlet opening of the yarn guide is located in the vicinity of the lower edge region of the spinning pot when it is in the upper end position. A yarn holder for receiving yarn from the spinning pot, and a substantially horizontal transport apparatus for moving the yarn holder to the spinning pot for rewinding the spinning cake onto the yarn holder is provided. The transport apparatus moves the yarn holder away from the spinning pot when it is in the upper end position.

Abstract: In a spinning mill in which a bobbin from a spinning frame is mounted on a bobbin tray and sent to a winder, a package doffed from the winder is loaded on a hanger and then the package is mounted on a package tray, recording media is provided on the bobbin tray, on the hanger and the package tray, respectively. Frame numbers and spindle numbers which are production origin information of bobbins are written on the recording medium so that the production origin information can be controlled and the records can be grasped.

Abstract: In a transport medium for yarn or the like which comprises a medium for transporting directly or indirectly a yarn or the like, such as a tray for fitting upright a bobbin thereon, and media capable of writing therein and reading therefrom of various information on the yarn, the media attached to the transporting medium.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for disposing an end of roving of a roving bobbin at a disposing location adjacent the drafting device of a spinning station of a textile spinning machine The roving end disposing apparatus, which is preferably mounted on a traveling service unit which travels to the spinning stations of the textile spinning machine to perform roving feed start operations thereat in which the feed of roving from a roving bobbin through a drafting device is started, includes a roving end support assembly for supporting a roving end for movement between a receipt location at which the assembly receives the roving end and the disposing location adjacent the drafting device at which the supported roving end is released either for engagement by the drafting device or piecing of the roving end with roving extending from another roving bobbin through the drafting device.

Abstract: A chip collecting system for a bobbin replacing apparatus wherein roving chips and fleece are temporarily accommodated in a chip collecting chamber of the bobbin replacing apparatus through a suction pipe. Upon arrival of the bobbin replacing apparatus to a position that opposes a chip removing system, a communicating member is connected to the chip removing system to communicate the chamber to the outside, whereupon the roving chips in the chamber are removed by the chip removing system.

Abstract: A process for the transportation of cans between machines processing fiber slivers by means of a can conveying device. The latter is loaded and unloaded simultaneously in one position at a machine or storage facility. The cans are inspected during their transportation between two such machines. In this process, the cans in which fiber sliver remnants remain, are emptied. The route of the can conveying device constitutes a transportation system consisting of three interconnected can circuits, whereby a first can circuit comprises two such machines and the other two can circuits each comprise one of these machines and the can storage facility. The can shifting device, to load and unload the can conveying device is equipped with a grasping device to grasp the can and with a lifting device to lift up the grasped can.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for carrying out a roving bobbin exchange operation when applied to a conventional ring spinning frame. The roving bobbin exchange operation is simultaneously carried out on a plurality of successive pairs of a front bobbin hanger and a back bobbin hanger of the creel portion of the spinning frame by intermittently displacing the operation unit along the spinning frame and by utilizing a plurality of pairs of a first sub-peg unit having a front peg and a back peg, and a second sub-peg unit having a front peg and a back peg unit, whereby a roving bobbin mounted on the front peg of the first sub-peg unit can be transferred to the back peg of the second sub-peg unit, and vice versa, during the exchange operation, and thus the unit roving bobbin exchange operation can be carried out in a very limited space defined by twice a pitch between two adjacent pairs of a front bobbin hanger and a back bobbin hanger facing the first bobbin hanger.

Abstract: A yarn exchange and doffing device in a two-for-one twister without lowering of efficiency is proposed. A yarn breakage spindle passing mechanism is provided on the device body which travels along spindles of a two-for-one twister and the mechanism stores a yarn breakage spindle judged to be unnecessary for stoppage.

Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having a plurality of spinning stations arranged at least on one side of the machine in a row next to one another, it is provided that a depositing site for a can is assigned to each spinning station, the can containing the fiber material to be spun. For an exchange of cans, a transport device is provided which extends in the longitudinal direction of the machine and comprises a conveying run which extends in the longitudinal direction of the machine and is provided with projecting take-along cams engaging in recess of the can bottoms.

Abstract: A spinning machine system is disclosed which has at least one spinning machine with spinning stations supplied by sliver fed from a sliver can. The cans are deposited on a platform situated above the spinning machine and constructed as an air-permeable grid construction to facilitate air flow through the spinning room.

Abstract: A sliver can conveying system comprising carriages having vertically movably suspended cages, and adapted for traveling overhead in a spinning factory along a path provided between stations of the factory, each of the carriages being capable of holding cans in the cages, and movable between the positions where they are loaded and unloaded with full cans, and the positions where they are loaded and unloaded with empty cans, thereby enabling the exchange of the full and empty cans.

Abstract: A transport system for transporting tube support members between textile machines includes a mobile transport unit having a plurality of superposed floorings each of which supports and guides several rows of the tube support members. An onsite transfer assembly adjacent each textile machine is operable to simultaneously load tube support members onto the parallel support paths of the mobile support unit while unloading tube support members from the parallel paths onto the textile machine. Each flooring of the mobile support unit includes a transverse support surfaces at each end of the parallel support paths onto which a newly loaded row of tube support members can be positioned for subsequent movement into the parallel support paths. Each flooring also includes an offload transverse support surface for supporting a row of the tube support members for transverse movement thereof onto an intermediate holding assembly of the onsite transfer apparatus (change assembly to apparatus above).

Abstract: In a tray conveying device comprising a guide groove for guiding both sides in a carrying direction of a disk-like tray with a yarn feed package stood upright and a drive belt for supporting a bottom of the tray to carry it along the guide groove, a roller which is guided by an upper end edge of the guide groove is provided at a position away from the center of the upper surface of the tray.

Abstract: In a ring spinning frame provided with two parallel alignments of bobbin hangers, a plurality of roving guides is arranged in an alignment at an intermediate position between the two alignments of bobbin hangers, wherein a first group of roving guides is formed by roving guides alternately positioned in the roving guide arrangement and a second group of roving guides is formed by the remained roving guides thereof, an improved creel mechanism for relatively displacing the first group of roving guides and the second group of roving guides whereby a first intervening space between two adjacent roving guides and a second intervening space between two adjacent roving guides are alternately formed along the alignment of the roving guides, wherein the first intervening space ensures a free passage of a full packaged roving bobbin but the second intervening space does not permit a free passage of the full packaged roving bobbin, the above-mentioned formation of two intervening spaces being created alternately, at ea

Abstract: A package conveyance apparatus wherein the packages are doffed out of the body of the draw false twisting machine by an automatic doffer which is moved between the body and primary heaters, the packages are transferred onto pegs coupled to an endless drive device which is revolved around the primary heaters, the device is then revolved to convey the packages, and pushers push out the packages onto an out-of-the-machine conveying device having trays or pegs.

Abstract: A storage station for full weft packages transferred to a weft package stand of a weaving machine by a carrier or the carrier is provided with a direction adjusting device for arranging the direction of the full packages in a corresponding direction to the full package accepting direction of the weft package stand. A rail for the carrier is composed of a main rail and a subrail, wherein the main rail is composed of a first rail portion extending through the storage station and a second rail portion connected to the first rail portion and extending along each row of weaving machines in a weaving machine installation region, and the subrail is a closed loop subrail connected to the main rail.

Abstract: A sliver can conveying system comprising carriages having vertically movably suspended cages, and adapted for traveling overhead in a spinning factory along a path provided between stations of the factory, each of the carriages being capable of holding cans in the cages, and movable between the positions where they are loaded and unloaded with full cans, and the positions where they are loaded and unloaded with empty cans, thereby enabling the exchange of the full and empty cans.

Abstract: A roving frame apparatus and method for winding roving upon bobbins (A) and doffing full packages directly upon a conveyor (F) wherein a spindle rail (C) is moved laterally beneath an overhead conveyor removing full packages therefrom and supplying empty bobbins thereto.

Abstract: The present invention provides an arrangement wherein a carriage is provided so that the carriage may travel along units of a two-for-one twister disposed, the carriage comprising a yarn exchanging mechanism for exchanging an empty yarn package supported on a spindle of each unit with a yarn package, a yarn end fining mechanism for drawing a yarn end from the yarn package, a threading mechanism for inserting the yarn end into an axial hole of the yarn package by an air flow, a doffing mechanism for removing a winding package for full bundles supported on a cradle arm of each unit and supplying a paper tube to the cradle arm, and a yarn engaging mechanism for engaging the yarn end of the yarn package with the paper tube when the cradle arm supports the paper tube.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for pneumatic threading in a double-twisting doubling frame having a double hollow pin twisting spindle, in which the two thread feeding bobbins are disposed coaxially, one above the other, in the head of the spindle, and each individual bobbin engages its own hollow pin, this method providing for removing the initial length of thread from the lower bobbin in order to advance it into the hollow pin of the upper bobbin and also removing the initial length of thread from the upper bobbin and holding together the two said initial lengths of thread so that they rest on the inlet of the upper hollow pin, a head connected to a source of compressed air coming towards and being pressed against said upper hollow pin, allowing for both the lateral displacement of the braking device and the injection of compressed air for pneumatic threading.

Abstract: A textile yarn processing machine, particularly a two-for-one twister, having a plurality of yarn processing stations positioned in side-by-side relationship in at least one row extending in the longitudinal direction of the machine and each station including a spindle assembly containing one or more supply packages of yarn wound on bobbins to be processed in such station and a take-up mechanism for winding yarn processed in such station on to bobbins to form take-up packages is provided with first and second conveying mechanisms for respectively receiving doffed take-up packages of processed yarn and empty yarn supply package bobbins at each yarn processing station and conveying same to one end of the machine for removal from the machine.

Abstract: A bobbin transfer apparatus simultaneously transfers consecutive individual adapters having at least one fully wound bobbin of yarn thereon and consecutive individual adapters having at least one substantially empty bobbin of yarn thereon between a yarn bobbin winding machine adjacent the transfer apparatus and a bobbin suspension transporting mechanism positioned over the transfer apparatus for consecutively moving full bobbins from the transfer apparatus to a yarn processing machine and returning substantially empty bobbins therefrom to the transfer apparatus. The transfer apparatus includes a conveying device for consecutively conveying the individual adapters in a generally vertical position through a closed path of travel.

Abstract: A method for transporting a set or stack of yarn packages comprising at least yarn packages to a twisting machine as well as an apparatus for carrying out said method. The yarn ends of the packages are arranged in the interior of the hollow center of the package before the transportation. The yarn packages are creeled on a common, tubular adapter, which is provided on its upper end with a gripping head for engagement with a gripper and/or the transport element of a conveying system. Then the yarn ends F1 and F2 are arranged in the interior of the adapter and held therein during the entire transportation until the set of yarn packages is inserted into a spindle of the twisting machine. Once the set of yarn packages is inserted into the spindle, a yarn unwinding head permitting the entry of the yarns is added, and the yarn ends are guided through this unwinding head into the spindle.

Abstract: A remained roving bobbin exchanging device for making all the roving bobbins to be transported to a roving frame into vacant bobbins and discloses the remained roving bobbin exchanging device comprising a fixing or removal device for detecting the bobbins having the remained rovings adhered thereto on the bobbin transporting line and exchanging them with vacant bobbins and a tray transporting device for receiving the remained roving bobbins from the fixing or removal device and supplying the vacant bobbins to the fixing or removal device, in which the tray transporting device is made such that a tray can be circulated and at the same time the remained roving cutter device and the remained roving removal device are arranged to remove the remained roving from the remained roving bobbin.

Abstract: A doffing apparatus for removing a row of yarn tubes from a row of upright spindles has a support and a row of grabs mounted on the support, each engageable with a respective tube of a respective spindle, and movable for lifting the tubes off the spindles. Respective sensors at the grabs detect the presence of tubes in the respective stations and generate individual outputs respectively corresponding to the absence of tubes in the respective stations. A controller connected to all the sensors receives the outputs therefrom and stops the apparatus on detection of no tube in any of the stations.

Abstract: A device for sequentially loading tubes onto pegs on the doffing belt of a spinning machine having a tube orienting system which includes a duct for guiding the fall of the tubes, and a mobile dispenser comprising a plurality of compartments which receive the tubes from the duct load each from the duct and also load each tube onto the pegs of the doffing belt.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for the automatic removal of bobbins from a bank of spindles. A transporting fork has a plurality of recesses for simultaneously handling a plurality of spindles. The transporting fork is movable in a vertical direction and in at least one horizontal direction parallel to a bank of spindles on a spindle carrying carriage. A cup is insertable over each spindle for the support and manipulation of bobbins. A conveyor evacuates full bobbins and supplies empty bobbins. The fork releasably retains a cup in each recess whereby each cup can be penetrated by and disengaged from the fork upon movement of the fork in a horizontal direction.