Abstract: A method and apparatus for stopping and subsequently restarting an open end spinning machine wherein, upon an electrical power interruption exceeding a predetermined duration, the spinning rotor, sliver feed roller, yarn take-up roller, and yarn winding drum are deactuated, the yarn take-up roller and winding drum are braked to a standstill, and the length of withdrawn yarn during braking is measured and stored, and, upon restarting of the machine, the sliver feed roller is briefly operated to initially deliver a start-up sliver length to the rotor and yarn take-up roller and yarn winding drum are operated in reverse to feed back to the rotor a length of withdrawn yarn corresponding to the measured and stored yarn length in advance of reactuation of the spinning operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for open-end spinning is provided which includes a twisting element for twisting yarn. A yarn withdrawal nozzle is provided downstream from the twisting device in a yarn withdrawal direction. A yarn withdrawal device downstream from the yarn withdrawal nozzle withdraws yarn from the twisting device. A yarn deflection device is provided for deflecting yarn downstream from the yarn withdrawal nozzle. The yarn deflection device includes at least one false-twisting edge. The yarn deflection device includes a first deflection which deflects the yarn in a first direction and at least one additional deflection downstream from the first deflection which deflects the yarn into a direction deviating from the first direction.

Abstract: A bobbin transporting device for transporting bobbins from a spinning machine to an automatic winding machine includes at least one bobbin collecting conveyor disposed at the spinning machine, trays for accomodating bobbins in an upright position, a transport path for moving the trays back and forth between the spinning machine and the automatic winding machine, a tray loading device disposed at the spinning machine for loading the trays from the at least one bobbin collecting conveyor at the spinning machine, at least one synchronized bobbin conveyor disposed at the automatic winding machine, and a tray unloading device for unloading bobbins from the trays to the at least one bobbin conveyor.

Abstract: A fiber opening, fiber feeding and yarn withdrawing unit for a spinning station of an open end rotor spinning machine, in which a projection of the fiber feed conduit extends into the rotor behind the fiber slide wall at a close spacing thereto and to an extent greater than the diametrical extent of the open end of the rotor. The components of the unit are mounted on a unit housing that pivots about an axis transverse to the axis of rotation of the rotor and spaced from the plane of the collection groove of the rotor to the side opposite the rotor open end and also spaced from a plane generally perpendicular to and at the rotor open end of the portion of the fiber slide wall adjacent the fiber feed conduit end, for pivoting of the projection into and out of the rotor without interference therewith.

Abstract: An endless yarn traversing band for a yarn traversing device in a machine for producing cross-wound bobbins. The band has spaced yarn guiding projections in a sawtoothed configuration. The band is formed of a textile yarn or metallic yarn fabric embedded in an elastomeric material. C-shaped sheaths of stainless steel are clamped over the leading edges of the yarn guiding projections. These leading edges project generally perpendicularly from the band up to a maximum inclination away from the direction of travel of the band of approximately 10 degrees. The trailing edges of the yarn guiding projections are convexly shaped such as with an outer extent angled approximately 10 degrees inwardly from the outer end of the leading edge and an inward extent extending at a greater inclination.

Abstract: A device for producing a thread connection by splicing includes a splicing head having a splicing chamber formed therein in which a tension-proof thread connection is formed by mutually entangling, hooking, intermingling and/or wrapping fibers of thread ends, means for supplying heated splicing air to the splicing channel, and an adjustable heat source coupled to the splicing head.

Abstract: A braking device for a rotor shaft of a rotor spinning machine of the type having spaced pairs of rotating bearing support discs. A brake shoe is pivoted for movement upwardly between the bearing support discs and a pair of holddown elements are pivoted for movement downwardly from above the bearing support discs against the rotor shaft to hold the rotor shaft in the nip of the bearing support discs while the brake shoe is acting to brake the rotor shaft, with the holddown elements applying a cleaning action on the rotor shaft. The manipulating mechanism for the holddown elements and brake shoe are such as to apply a greater force downwardly through the holddown elements than is applied upwardly by the brake shoe so that the rotor shaft will remain in the nip of the bearing support discs during the application of braking by the brake shoe.

Abstract: An apparatus for sorting spent tubes as they are carried on an intermittently advancing conveyor with the apparatus having a tube ejecting device that reciprocates along the length of tubes during dwells in conveyor movement and has a tube contacting element that slides along clean surfaces of the tubes without causing ejection but engages any residual windings of yarn on tubes to thereby force the tubes with residual windings to move longitudinally and out off the conveyor. The tube contacting element has a base portion with resilient flat teeth projecting therefrom longitudinally with respect to the tubes and in the direction of tube ejecting movement. The base portion is a flat resilient plate from which the teeth project at an inclination toward the tube surface for resilient biasing thereagainst to facilitate engagement of residual windings thereon and resulting ejection of tubes with yarn windings while allowing clean tubes to remain on the conveyor.

Abstract: A device for removing residual fibers from perforated friction surfaces of an OE-friction spinning machine includes a suction device including a controllable cut-off element connected to a suction source, a suction tube section connected between the cut-off element and the friction surfaces, and a controllable compressed air connection disposed in the suction tube section.

Abstract: A method of producing a twisted thread from spinning fibers by friction spinning includes moving two friction elements of a friction spinning machine in opposite directions defining a spinning wedge therebetween, at least one of the friction elements having a perforated wall, feeding spinning fibers into the spinning wedge in a given direction with a transporting air current, continuously withdrawing a twisted thread from the spinning wedge in the given direction, sucking a first part of the transporting air current through the perforated wall of at least one of the friction elements, and sucking a second part of the transporting air parallel to the spinning wedge, parallel to the thread and opposite to the given direction in which the thread is withdrawn and the fibers are fed into the spinning wedge, and a device for carrying out the method.

Abstract: An automatic splicer for spun yarn, including open end spun yarn. Opposite yarn ends for splicing are inserted in opposed yarn clamping devices, adjacent yarn loop pulling devices, in a splicing slot of a splicing chamber, adjacent mechanical combing devices and in yarn severing devices. Excess yarn is cut from the yarn ends by the yarn severing devices at a predetermined distance from the splicing slot and the yarn loop pulling devices are advanced to pull the ends of the yarns to the combing devices at which air is applied to the yarn ends to direct the yarn ends to the combing devices. The yarn loop pulling devices are then partially retracted to feed the yarn ends into the combing devices at a controlled rate of feed for combing the yarn ends progressively from their ends to a length corresponding approximately to the length of the subsequent splice.

Abstract: Means for positioning the end of yarn on a cross-wound bobbin on a textile machine. The machine has a traveling service mechanism that services the bobbins individually at winding heads of the machine. A yarn end take-in device in the form of a suction tube with a concave surface facing the bobbin and a nozzle against the bobbin searches for, takes in and draws off a yarn end from the bobbin. A yarn guiding device, in the form of an inclined slot in the suction tube or a pivoted guiding rod, guides the yarn end against a side of the bobbin. A yarn guide element on the winding head, on the creel or on the servicing mechanism is positioned with an oblique surface extending to an end adjacent the juncture of the bobbin side and bobbin tube to guide the yarn to the juncture for forming a yarn end reserve thereat.

Abstract: A device for transferring crosswound coils from a crosswound-coil delivery location of a textile machine into a box-shaped conveyance includes a flat conveyor for collecting crosswound coils in mutually adjacent rows, and grippers for unloading the collected crosswound coils, the flat conveyor and the grippers being combined into one structural unit, the structural unit being pivotable in a vertical plane through an angle of substantially 180.degree. and being controllably changeable in position in vertical and horizontal direction.

Abstract: A rotating driven brake plate apparatus of a yarn tensioning device includes a brake plate, a brake plate carrier having an end, a ball and socket device centrally and swivelably supporting the brake plate at the end of the brake plate carrier, and a device disposed outside the ball and socket device for driving the brake plate.

Abstract: For improving spinning results, a sideways limited swarm of fibers (11) is applied tangentially at the mantle of a rotating perforated drum (3) whose interior is supplied with suction air, is transported further on this drum (3) in the peripheral direction by the action of suction air, then is clamped between drum (3) and a contacting clamping element (20), and is continuously sucked out from the clamping line (23) by a pneumatic spinning device (27), and transformed to a thread (28).

Abstract: A device for keeping a constant number of bobbin tubes in circulation between at least one spinning machine and at least one winding machine includes a device for circulating bobbin tubes between at least one spinning machine and at least one winding machine, a sorting device for sorting out partially wound bobbin tubes from the circulating device, and a tube input apparatus operatively connected to the sorting device including a tube magazine for introducing empty bobbin tubes into the circulating device in proportion to the number of partially wound bobbin tubes sorted out.

Abstract: A method of piecing yarn in the operation of an open end rotor spinning machine that includes applying the suction that picks up the yarn end from the bobbin package for an extended predetermined length of time longer than the optimal minimum length for a normal piecing operation, with the extended suction being of a time sufficient to remove an estimated extended length of defective yarn, either determined by sensing the absence of sliver or after two or three sequential unsuccessful piecing attempts.

Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound bobbins includes a head end of the textile machine, a cycling conveyor disposed at the head end for transporting cross-wound bobbins in a given cycling direction, at least one bobbin frame accepting at least one cross-wound bobbin from the cycling conveyor, a device for moving the bobbin frame across the given cycling direction, the bobbin frame including at least one pair of mutually spaced apart carrier elements for supporting at least one row of cross-wound bobbins at least at one level, the carrier elements of each pair being disposed at substantially the same height above the cycling conveyor and being mutually spaced apart by a given distance, the cycling conveyor being narrower than the given distance, the bobbin frame having vertical openings formed therein permitting passage of the cycling conveyor, and at least one lifting device for adjusting the height of the bobbin frame relative to the cycling conveyor.

Abstract: A dust-removal apparatus for textile machines and machine rooms includes a chamber containing dust-laden air, a clean-air chamber, a tube disposed between and separating the chamber containing dust-laden air from the clean-air chamber, at least part of the tube being a filter element, a suction device connected to the clean-air chamber, another switchable suction device in the form of a filter cleaning device connected to the tube, the tube having an inlet end, and a device for selectively closing the inlet end of the tube.

Abstract: An open-end rotor spinning machine includes a plurality of spinning stations each including a first thread monitor monitoring a thread course and a rotor spinning device receiving a fiber supply and having a spinning element; an automatic thread joining device for joining a thread to be conducted to the rotor element, and a second thread monitor disposed on the automatic thread joining device for monitoring the thread course without placing a load on the thread when the first thread monitor is inoperative and the automatic thread joining device is operative, the automatic device delivering the second thread monitor and a thread to a location directly adjacent the spinning element, and the second thread monitor including a device for immediately interrupting the fiber supply to the rotor spinning device if the second thread monitor detects the absence of the thread.