Abstract: In a textile spinning apparatus a yarn joining device (12) begins to work to join the end of a newly spun yarn with a retrieved yarn end after the breakage of a yarn (2). During the joining process draw-off rollers (3) continue, to supply the yarn (2) such that yarn storage members (4, 11) have to be implemented during the joining process. In order to draw the yarn (2) into the interior of the yarn storage members (4, 11), air suction is applied in a known manner. After the yarn (2) joining process is completed in the yarn joining device (12), the yarn storage members (4, 11) are successively emptied by use of an acceleration in yarn draw off speed effected by a yarn storage draw-off roller (7) and an auxiliary friction roller (14).

Abstract: The spinning device for open-end spinning contains a withdrawal nozzle with a substantially spiral-shaped bead or ridge as well as a twist blocking element or twist trap containing beads or ridges and provided in a thread withdrawal passage. The inclinations of the substantially spiral-shaped bead or ridge and of the beads or ridges in the withdrawal nozzle and in the withdrawal passage, respectively, substantially extend in the same direction or sense as the twist of the yarn. This device permits increasing the stability of the yarn, reducing the number of thread breakages and/or increasing the production rate. The yarn characteristics are less dependent upon the fiber material and the yarn type. In particular, the production of yarns with a soft handle is rendered possible at higher rotor speeds than heretofore possible.

Abstract: The spinning device for open-end spinning comprises a withdrawal nozzle secured to a cover of a rotor housing for a spinning rotor and a nozzle body coacting with the withdrawal nozzle. The withdrawal nozzle and the nozzle body conjointly form a withdrawal passage or channel for the thread or the like produced by the spinning rotor. The cover is provided with a receiving socket which fixes the position of the nozzle body in radial direction, the nozzle body being inserted into the receiving socket. The nozzle body is pressed against the withdrawal nozzle by means of a manually-operable elastic device. The formation of the receiving socket permits insertion and removal of the nozzle body from the front side, that is from the service side of the spinning device. This provides the advantage of ready accessibility of the nozzle body and, in turn, thus affords easy replacement thereof. Replacement can be carried out without the use of tools.

Abstract: A corn harvester has a chassis adapted to travel along the ground and provided on its front with a device for picking ears off cornstalks. A thresher is provided on the chassis for reducing the ears to fragments including pieces of cob, corn kernels, and pieces of husk, and for displacing these fragments backwardly. A floor in the chassis is positioned to receive the fragments from the thresher and has a rear edge provided with a rearwardly extending comb having spaced apart times. The floor and comb are jointly reciprocated to displace the fragments backwardly, during which operation normally the kernels, which are of greater surface density than the other fragments, move to the bottom of the backwardly moving mass. A rotary stripper is provided on the chassis having fingers orbitable between the teeth of the comb. This stripper is rotated at high speed so as to lift most of the husk and cob pieces off the comb and propel them backwardly.

Abstract: A corn harvester has a chassis adapted to travel along the ground and provided on its front with an intake mechanism for picking ears off the cornstalks and for reducing these ears to fragments including pieces of cob, corn kernels, and pieces of husk. These fragments are displaced backwardly onto a ridged floor having a rear edge spaced by an upstream gap from a riddle having in turn a rear edge spaced upwardly by a downstream gap from a comb. A blower directs a current of air through these gaps to separate out the chaff-like husk pieces, while the smaller and denser fragments can drop through the riddle and be collected. Both the riddle and the floor are oscillated to displace the fragments backwardly. A second comb meshes with the first comb and has a plurality of tines that are continuously displaced through the tines of the first comb to separate out husk pieces from the fragments on the first comb.