Abstract: Resilient mounting means for a traveler cleaner fixed to a textile ring holder includes a resilient member, formed from a vibration damping material such as rubber, fixed into or integral with a textile ring holder formed either of such material itself, or of metal, or of a combination sandwich type construction in the region in which the cleaner is to be fixed to the ring, and having embedded within and bonded thereto a threaded sleeve or stud to receive the cleaner. This mounting means permits the traveler cleaner to be resiliently restored to its aligned position relative a spinning or twisting ring and its traveler following accidental impact.

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.