Abstract: An apparatus for crimping cables formed of synthetic filaments during a continuous spinning-stretching process includes two pressing rolls which form a crimping chamber into which a cable to be crimped by the rolls is inserted. One of the rolls is displaced from an operative position to a readiness position at a full apparatus speed. Upon displacement of the pressing roll into the ready-to-operate position, a gap between the rolls becomes wider and the crimping chamber opens longitudinally so that a passage is formed, which allows the cable to be inserted into the chamber from the front side thereof by means of a suction injector.

Abstract: A staple fiber cutting machine for continuously cutting cables of synthetic ibers, has a rotation-symmetrical rotary cutter supporting member provided with a plurality of cutters, a ring member mounted on end portions of the cutters and defining an inlet slot for a cable, and a drum member mounted on an outer side of the ring member and having an inner diameter substantially corresponding to an inner diameter of the ring member, and a length that could be anything but shorter than the small spacings between cutting edges of two neighboring cutters.

Abstract: A staple fiber cutting machine has a cutter supporting member which suppo a plurality of cutters and is driven in rotation by a drive, a gap formed so that a cable can be introduced into the gap, and a pressing member which is driven in rotation during idle running of the machine, prior to introduction of a cable into the gap. The machine works so that not only the cutter supporting member rotates, but also the pressing member rotates during the starting phase or the idle running of the machine.

Abstract: A bobbin holder, particularly in thread winding machines, comprises an elated support operative for replaceably receiving a set of separate bobbins. The bobbins are subject to axial withdrawal from the support upon winding onto the bobbins of a predetermined amount of thread. The holder is further provided with an element for cutting the thread when a bobbin is filled. This element is mounted on the support for movement relative to the latter between a rest position and a working position in which it is operable to cut the thread.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed by which ropes and similar elongated objects can be accumulated in storage cans. The object is advanced through an upright stationary upstream guide tube and through a rotating downstream guide tube and its discharging end distant from the axis of rotation. A braking drum coaxially surrounds the orbiting trajectory of the discharging end of the downstream guide tube so that the portions of the objects which are being discharged through the discharging end impinge against the inner surface of the braking drum. The inner surface of the braking drum is arched, such as partly circular or partly parabolical in axial section and the objects rebound therefrom at an angle corresponding to the angle of incidence of the object on the inner surface. The downstream guide tube has a cross section exceeding that of the upstream guide tube. A ceramic annular element is arranged at the lower end of the upstream guide tube.