Abstract: A method and a device for feeding and clamping a thread in a thread winding device for textile machines are provided. The thread winding device comprises a bobbin frame with two legs to which two centering disks are rotatably connected. Between the centering disks the bobbins are received. One of the centering disks is outwardly pivotable together with the leg it is attached to against the force of a spring. The other centering disk is tiltably mounted at the respective leg of the bobbin frame. The feeding of the beginning of the thread to the bobbin is carried out via a forked gripping arm. One of the arms of the fork carries a clamping element for the beginning of the thread while the other arm is provided with an auxiliary roller. The gripping arm approaches the centering disk such that the auxiliary roller contacts the outer surface of the centering disk at an edge thereof and a lateral pressure is exerted onto the centering disk which results in a tilting movement of the centering disk.

Abstract: For the automated removal of takeup packages, in particular cross-wound twister packages, held in a pivotally supported package holder, and their replacement with empty tubes, the present invention provides for mechanisms to open largely at the same time the package holders on the one hand for the purpose of releasing a takeup package, and to support the takeup package released from its holder on the other hand, and to deliver same to a transport device, and in order to insert a new empty tube into the package holder.