Abstract: A mechanical take down device in a circular, particularly double cylinder knitting machine. The device includes two circular parts, one being full and solid and fitting into the other part, while the fabric passes between them. One of the parts has a screw-threaded surface and the neighboring surface of the other part is circular in shape and its slant equals that of the screw-threaded surface. One of the parts does not rotate, while the other rotates and is coupled with the needle cylinder.

Abstract: A device for aligning wefts of textile belts comprises four arched cylinders which are positioned so that they define a regular or irregular quadrilateral. The orientations of the axes and angular positions of the cylinders are adjustable. In other words, the cylinders are tiltably and rotatably mounted. The cylinder positions are adjusted so as to ensure that the textile belt to be aligned is able to contact only that part of the circumferential surface of the cylinders which has a predominantly widening effect on the textile belt. The mechanism of orienting the four arched cylinders includes two servomotors for driving gears and transmission chains in a manner which is effective for selectively tilting and/or rotating the cylinders so as to correct textile belts having arch-like and/or skewed wefts.

Abstract: A device for automatically removing a mispicked weft on a weaving machine. A hook fixed to a rotary shaft is rotated to raise the weft off the woven fabric and between two rotatable discs. A holding nozzle supported on the hook blows air against the hook to hold the lifted web in the hook. The rotatable discs include a relatively stationary and relatively axially moveable disc. After the hook draws the web between them, the discs are moved together and when they rotate they pull on the weft. A servomotor controls the hook moving shaft.

Abstract: A device for supplying textile tubes to the supply cells of a horizontal, trough supply tank situated over the winding units of a textile machine, especially, an open-end spinning machine. The device is mounted on a movable, endless traction carriage and includes front carriers having a backwardly oriented suspension section for temporary support of the front edges of the textile tubes, and rear pushing-type carriers equipped with double-arm, tilting holders with lower ends bent for carrying the rear edges of the textile tubes. A respective sloping control segment is situated over each supply cell for controlling a roller of the double-arm, tilting holder so as to either grip the textile tube between the front and rear carriers or release the rear carrier from the tube which enables insertion of the tube into the supply cell.