Abstract: A textile yarn processing machine for winding yarn onto a bobbin tube provided with first and second slots angularly spaced around the periphery and extending from one end of the tube, wherein a running yarn, held by a yarn collection means, is engaged in the first and second slots and the tube is placed in the winding position to initiate winding of the yarn onto the tube. A yarn guide is positioned adjacent the end of the tube having the slots therein for guiding yarn withdrawn from the collection means onto the tube as the tube is rotated in the winding direction so as to form a reserve winding.

Abstract: In the removal of trash and waste from beneath a carding machine the trash and waste is collected on support means positioned beneath the carding elements of the machine and a flow of air is created in a direction to transport the trash and waste on the support means to a waste collection zone by supplying pressurized air to a plurality of spaced nozzles arranged above the support means in such a manner that each of a plurality of preselected groups of rows of said nozzles is supplied with the pressurized air in turn and cyclically.

Abstract: An open-end spinning machine rotor is formed from sheet metal as an annular body. The body has an interior fibre collecting surface on which discrete fibres are continuously deposited and from which the tail end of a yarn is continuously drawn-off. The body is shaped to provide first and second portions converging to a region of maximum diameter at which is located the interior fibre collecting surface. In this way, the internal fibre collecting surface is free from surface imperfections which would adversely affect the operation of the rotor.

Abstract: A false-twist texturing method and apparatus wherein synthetic filaments are drawn in a draw zone, passed from said draw zone to feed means for feeding the drawn yarn at a speed lower than the speed in the draw zone to a texturing zone wherein the yarn is texturized.