Abstract: A drafting system for conveying a sliver to an inlet opening of a vortex chamber of an air-jet spinning device, for a drafting system having an exit roller pair and at least one additional drafting system roller pair and/or apron roller pair. A sliver is supplied at a spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine for the production of a thread to the vortex chamber. The exit roller pair can be driven decoupled from the at least one additional pair of drafting system rollers and/or apron rollers. In the method, the roller pair is driven for combing the sliver end after a spinning interruption at a predetermined combing speed and the at least one stretching mill roller and/or belt roller pair upstream of the starting roller pair is stopped or operated at a holding speed associated with the combing speed, which is at most 10% of the combing speed.

Abstract: A drafting device for a textile machine, in particular an air-jet spinning machine, wherein the drafting device can have a plurality of roller pairs which can be driven differently from one another. The roller pairs can be designed and arranged to guide a sliver between a top roller and a bottom roller of the roller pairs during their rotational operation in order to stretch the sliver. The drafting device can be designed and configured to carry out a piecing process after the sliver has been severed in the drafting device. In order to optimize a spinning process, it is provided that the drafting device is designed and configured to engage at least two roller pairs via their drive in a defined manner during the piecing process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drafting system for conveying a sliver in the direction of an inlet opening of a vortex chamber of an air-jet spinning device, as well as to a method for operating a drafting system having an exit roller pair and at least one additional drafting system roller pair and/or apron roller pair, by means of which a sliver is supplied at a spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine for the production of a thread to a vortex chamber of an air-jet spinning device of the spinning station, wherein the exit roller pair can be driven decoupled from the at least one additional pair of drafting system rollers and/or apron rollers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning device for a yarn forming element of an air-spinning nozzle, to a spinning position of an air-spinning machine and to a method for cleaning a yarn forming element of this type. In order to provide a spinning position of an air-spinning machine and a method for cleaning a yarn forming element of an air-spinning machine which allow long and trouble-free operation with constant quality and strength of the yarn produced, it is provided that the cleaning device has a cleaning strip and a storage unit for providing and retracting the cleaning strip, a fixed end of the cleaning strip being fastened to the storage unit, and a free end of the cleaning strip being able to be provided for cleaning and retracted again after the cleaning. Furthermore, the cleaning device has a cleaning strip guide for feeding the free end of the cleaning strip to the yarn forming element of the air-spinning nozzle for mechanical cleaning.

Abstract: A spinning position of an air-spinning machine and method of cleaning a yarn forming element of an air spinning nozzle are provided. The spinning position has an air spinning nozzle with a yarn forming element arranged within a vortex chamber for producing a yarn from a fibre band supplied to the air spinning nozzle, in which case the air spinning nozzle can be transferred from a closed state for yarn formation to an open state in which the yarn forming element can be cleaned. At least one cleaning nozzle for cleaning the yarn forming element in the open state of the air spinning nozzle is arranged at the spinning position, the cleaning nozzle being positioned and/or aligned or positionable and/or alignable, such that, at least in the open state of the air spinning nozzle, the yarn forming element can have a cleaning medium applied to it through the cleaning nozzle.

Abstract: A process for operating an air-jet spinning device such that after a spinning interruption the yarn end of the spun yarn accumulated on a take-up package is picked up by a suction nozzle and transferred to a yarn end preparation device. The yarn end is processed in the yarn end preparation device and is then transferred to a first area of an outlet opening of the spinning cone, the yarn end is pneumatically transported to a second area of an inlet opening of the spinning cone and is positioned there within the air-jet spinning device at a distance in front of the inlet opening, the drafting system of the relevant workstation is raised and the sliver is conveyed through a sliver guide of the nozzle block into the second area of the inlet opening of the spinning cone and there spun onto the prepared yarn end of the spun yarn.

Abstract: A yarn guide channel for arrangement between a spinning device and a winding device of a spinning machine producing a take-up package in which a yarn guide channel forms a passage channel for a yarn running between the spinning device and the winding device. The yarn guide channel has a plurality of pneumatically engageable channel sections coupled to each other, having at least a first channel section, a second channel section and a channel connection section disposed between the first and second channel sections, in which the channel connection section has a mouth for supplying compressed air into the yarn guide channel for generating a pneumatic overpressure in the first channel section associated with a pneumatic suction effect in the second channel section.

Abstract: A drafting system unit for a drafting system of a spinning machine having a first top roller and a second top roller spaced apart therefrom, characterized in that an apron cage to which negative pressure can be applied is arranged between the first top roller and the second top roller for guiding an air-permeable apron in circulation jointly around the apron cage and an apron top roller, the apron top roller being formed by the first top roller or by a third top roller that is assigned to the apron cage and arranged on the same side as the first and second top roller in relation to the fiber band being transported. The apron cage has at least one through-opening, to which negative pressure can be applied, for applying suction air to the fiber band running between the first and second top roller, through the air-permeable apron.

Abstract: Drafting system unit having a weighting arm and to a weighting arm for a drafting system unit for drafting a fiber band at a workstation of a textile machine, said weighting arm having a support arm and a top roller body, which is detachably mounted on a retaining device connected to the support arm. In order to provide a drafting system having a weighting arm and to provide a weighting arm for a drafting system unit for drafting a fiber band at a workstation of a textile machine, which drafting system and weighting arm can, in a user-friendly manner, be inspected, repaired and/or adapted to the fiber band material to be drafted and allow the top roller bodies to be easily replaced, there is provision for the top roller body to have an actuation section, which protrudes beyond the support arm in longitudinal axis direction of the top roller body.

Abstract: An apron drafting system for a spinning machine, in particular an air spinning machine, with a bottom apron guided over a drivable bottom roller, the bottom apron being supported in the area of a drawing zone, in particular a main drawing zone, by a sliding section of an apron bridge. In order to provide an apron drafting system in which reliable guidance of the bottom apron is ensured while maintaining a high drive power, there is provision for the apron bridge for guiding the bottom apron to have a line section with guiding means for lateral guidance of the bottom apron circulating around the apron bridge.

Abstract: A spinning position for producing a yarn from a fed fiber band, having an air spinning nozzle with an inlet opening for the fed fiber band and an outlet area with an outlet opening for the spun yarn is provided. In order to provide a spinning position, an air spinning machine and a method which allow for the yarn surface finish to be modified advantageously without the yarn properties deteriorating at the same time, while also avoiding expensive and complex modifications to the spinning position, there is provision for a navel to be arranged in the outlet area behind the outlet opening for modifying the surface finish of the spun yarn.

Abstract: A process for operating an air-jet spinning device after a spinning interruption, an air-jet spinning machine having a yarn guide channel and such a yarn guide channel. The air-jet spinning device is preceded in the direction of travel of the fibre web by a drafting system for warping a fibre web and a yarn take-up device, which is optionally driven individually by a motor, for taking off a yarn spun by the air-jet spinning device is connected downstream.

Abstract: A drafting system unit for a drafting system of a spinning machine. In a fiber band transport direction (R), the drafting system unit has a first top roller and a second top roller spaced apart therefrom, which are provided for drafting a fiber band, transported from the first to the second top roller, in cooperation with accordingly assigned bottom rollers, the respective axes of rotation of the first and second top roller extending transversely to the fiber band transport direction. The drafting system unit is characterized in that an apron cage to which negative pressure can be applied is arranged between the first top roller and the second top roller for guiding an air-permeable apron in circulation jointly around the apron cage and an apron top roller, the apron top roller being formed by the first top roller or by a third top roller that is assigned to the apron cage and arranged on the same side as the first and second top roller in relation to the fiber band being transported.