Abstract: A yarn splicing device for piecing spun yarns without knots. It contains a yarn splicing chamber and a small pipe through which fluid flows, at a distance from the yarn splicing chamber. The small pipe serves to receive a yarn end and to prepare it for the splicing process. The small pipe has a roughened inner surface which makes contact with the yarn end in a battering manner. In the process for the yarn end preparation, the small pipe is traversed turbulently by a fluid. The yarn end is battered by the turbulent flow against the roughened inner surface of the small pipe until the yarn end is free of twist.

Abstract: A process and a device for the air-conditioning of spinning material located in a container. The spinning material is air-conditioned for processing in a spinning machine which is essentially surrounded by any room climate. The spinning material is exposed in the container to a climate which is independent of the room climate. This causes, at least, the spinning material to be taken next out of the container to be air-conditioned in such manner that it is in an optimal climatic state for such further processing. Outlet openings of at least one air-conditioning duct or an air-conditioning plant are located on the container so that an air-conditioned fluid flows out of the outlet openings on at least the spinning material to be taken out next and the spinning material is in an optimal climatic state for further processing as it is then processed further.

Abstract: An air spinning device with an injection nozzle and a twisting nozzle is adjusted to the highest possible delivery speed for a desired yarn quality by predetermining the desired spinning tension of the yarn. According to the predetermined spinning tension, the highest possible delivery speed is regulated by changing the injection nozzle pressure and/or the spinning draft. Several spinning stations are installed on the air spinning device. At the spinning station, a measuring device to determine the yarn quality is installed between the twisting nozzle and the draw-off rollers. The measuring device is connected to adjusting devices of at least one spinning station. When the yarn quality is changed, the measuring device, together with the adjusting devices influences at least this spinning station.

Abstract: Interlacing means are provided for the interlacing of multifilament yarns exhibiting a yarn channel. At given distances from the entrance and exit openings forming the yarn channel, yarn guides are so arranged that, with the supply of compressed air shut off, the yarn is laid onto the yarn channel so that it extends parallel to its longitudinal direction, and that the straight yarn sections, which are located between the entrance and exit openings of the yarn channel and the yarn guides, are inclined at acute angles to portions of the geometric longitudinal axis of the yarn channel. Furthermore, the blow angle of the blow nozzle is smaller than 90.degree.. The length of the yarn channel equals for smooth yarns maximally 40 mm and for texturized yarns maximally 30 mm. There results exceptionally high yarn advance speeds and a particularly good vortexing of the yarn.

Abstract: To piece with a spinning device having a pneumatic twisting unit, a yarn end is back-fed from an output side, through the twisting unit, to drawing equipment, and then inserted laterally into a pair of drawing unit output rollers, from where it is drawn off through the twisting unit in the form of a continuous yarn with a rove being incorporated into it. During the back-feeding of the yarn end to the twisting unit input side, the yarn end is conveyed to a grasping device located at the side of the drawing equipment. The grasping device pulls the yarn end for subsequent insertion into the pair of output rollers past such rollers until such end is alongside the drawing equipment. A yarn presenting device is provided to convey to the grasping device the yarn end leaving the twisting unit input side.

Abstract: For piecing to a spinning device operating with a pneumatic torsion element, yarn is fed back through the torsion element into a readiness position alongside a drafting mechanism, while the roving is stopped before the end of the drafting zone. The roving is then released, whereby the forward roving end which is leaving the drafting mechanism, and which typically is rendered unsuitable for piecing due to stoppage of the roving, is sucked off. When a roving segment which remained in the drafting mechanism during the prior roving stoppage has been taken away, the roving and the yarn end are brought together and are simultaneously fed to the torsion element so as to be combined. To carry out this process, the drafting mechanism preferably includes before the end of its drafting zone at least one roving stopping device which may be controllable with feedback from a yarn monitor located adjacent the path of yarn being conveyed to a yarn take-up mechanism, such as a bobbin.

Abstract: Fiber material to be spun is presented to drafting equipment in the form of a fiber sliver and is subjected to pre-stretching and main stretching in such drafting equipment. While being stretched, the fiber sliver is gathered together to a minimum width which amounts to at least 1.5 times the diameter of a torsion device to be used with the sliver. After being thus gathered together, the fiber sliver is not further gathered together before having torsion imparted thereto while such diameter is maintained. The width of a condenser situated upstream from the main stretching field amounts here to at least 1.5 times the diameter of a pneumatic torsion device situated downstream from such field. The injector component and torsion component of such torsion device are of identical diameter, from their intake opening to their outlet opening. In this way, hairy and soft yarns, similar to ring yarn, are produced.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a combined yarn, by open end rotor spinning, suitable for use in carpets is disclosed.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for stringing up or re-stringing a balanced ply-twisted combination yarn of two components to insure strong piecing-up points. The end of the combination yarn and the end of a continuous filament yarn, which becomes a component of the combination yarn, are both prepared for piecing and inserted into the rotor of an open-end spinning device. Upon start up, the combination yarn engages staple fibers in the rotor consolidating groove while the continuous filament yarn engages the combination yarn within the rotor without any contact of the continuous filament yarn with the rotor consolidating groove.

Abstract: In a spinning device of the type equipped with a torsion element having an injector nozzle and a torsion nozzle which are separated from each other during spinning by a gap which is open to the atmosphere, yarn is threaded for piecing into such torsion element, which is brought into a threading position. Threading is effected with the assistance of negative pressure which is applied to the torsion element from the side thereof which constitutes its inlet side during normal spinning. The gap between the injector and torsion nozzles is sealed against the atmosphere before threading of the yarn. Thereafter, and at the latest at the beginning of the withdrawal of the pieced yarn, the gap is opened once more. A sealing device, which may assume various alternative constructions, is provided to carry out the process by sealing the gap between the injector nozzle and the torsion nozzle during the threading phase.

Abstract: The invention relates to a circular knitting machine for the production of knit goods with combed-in fibers, having a rotatable, needle-bearing needle cylinder and a card which has a means for feeding the fibers, a comb-in zone through which the needles pass for the purpose of contactlessly receiving the fibers, and a teasing cylinder rotating at high speed which takes the fibers from the feed means and yields them to the comb-in zone. To prevent thin areas or thick areas from being produced in the finished goods on account of the contactless fiber loading, the circular knitting machine has a protective device (60) which becomes active in the still state of the needle cylinder for the purpose of retaining the already combed-in fiber tufts (57) in the needles (3) which are in the comb-in zone in the still state of the needle cylinder.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process and a circular knitting machine for the production of knit goods with combed-in fibers, in which an amount of fibers synchronous with the needle cylinder rotatory speed is fed to a teasing cylinder rotating at high speed, transferred by the latter to the comb-in zone, and taken from the needles in the comb-in zone without contacting the teasing cylinder. To prevent the development of areas overfilled with fibers or short of fibers in the finished knit goods on account of the contact-less fiber feed, during or before abrupt reductions or increases in the rotatory speed of the needle cylinder, at least temporarily smaller or larger amounts of fibers are fed to the comb-in zone than corresponds to the synchronous amount of fibers.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a combined yarn which includes feeding staple fibers to the collection groove of an open-end spinning rotor, twisting the staple fibers into a staple fiber yarn, combining the staple fiber yarn with a continuous filament yarn which is also fed into the spinning rotor and then twisting the continuous filament yarn and the staple fiber yarn together to form a balanced ply yarn.

Abstract: Fiber material is conveyed over a sieve-like surface to remove dust from material. The fiber material is thereby exposed to a suction airstream which is guided through the sieve-like surface and which is guided away from the fiber material at an acute angle which is formed opposite to the fiber transport direction. The fiber material may be aligned in parallel before it is exposed to the suction airstream. In order to orient the suction airstream at the desired acute angle relative to the fiber transport direction, the fiber material is guided over sieve orifices which are inclined at the acute angle opposite to the fiber transport direction.

Abstract: In preparation for the start of spinning with an open-end spinning apparatus, suction is provided outside a fiber transport path on the periphery of an opening roller. Such suction is greater than spinning suction which exists at the mouth of a feed channel leading to the fiber-collecting surface. The fiber stream is thereby guided beyond such mouth to be sucked off. At commencement of actual spinning, this added suction is inactivated, to permit the fiber stream to be initially supplied to the fiber-collecting surface. The fiber stream may be controlled with a suction source connected to a sucking-off orifice via a switching device and a suction line. Less conspicuous and more even thread joins are thereby obtained. Control of suction changes may be effected automatically from a servicing trolley, or in other manners.

Abstract: To improve the re-piecing operation, especially in terms of its success rate, at high spinning speeds, the free thread end cut to the length of a piecable end and retained after cutting the length is exposed to a turbulent air flow which causes it to execute whiplash-like oscillations. The surface of the thread end is thereby roughened. The thread end prepared in this way is subsequently transferred to the fiber-collecting surface of the open-end spinning apparatus. The roughening of the surface of the free thread end is accelerated when the end is whipped against an edge-like projection or a rough surface.

Abstract: A process for rejoining the thread on an open-end friction-spinning device, in which fibers are fed into a V-shaped nip subjected to suction, and the thread formed in the V-shaped nip is drawn off from this and wound onto a bobbin. For rejoining, the fiber feed into the V-shaped nip is interrupted and a thread end drawn off from the bobbin is guided towards the V-shaped nip counter to the spinning direction. This thread end is paid out in front of the V-shaped nip and is stored in a joinable length in a storage station at the end of the V-shaped nip facing away from the bobbin. The bobbin is then advanced towards its drive roller and the thread is drawn off from the storage station. After a predetermined time after the start of the thread draw-off, the fibers are fed again into the V-shaped nip, where they come up against the thread end running through the V-shaped nip and are twisted together with this.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine for the production of knit goods with combed-in fibers, has a rotating needle cylinder in which needles having hooks for receiving fibers are mounted, at least one carding device having a feed apparatus for feeding a fiber strand, a separating apparatus for separating the fiber strand into a stream of individual fibers, and a combing-in zone through which the needles pass, and wherein the fibers are carried within the fiber stream for the purpose of contactlessly combing-in the fibers into the hooks of the needles. Guides are provided ahead of the combing-in zone for the purpose of dividing the fiber stream into partial fiber streams, thus considerably reducing or varying the percentage of fibers which are bound across several neighboring loops by several neighboring needles.

Abstract: Apparatus for the production of fixed point multifilament yarns with a whirling unit provided with a passage (15) through which the filaments to be whirled are driven and whirled together as at least one blasting nozzle injects gas into said passage. To obtain high filament feed rates and provide for the desired fixed points the blasting nozzle is in the form of a De Laval nozzle (20) whose jet is directed at an angle or perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the passage (15).

Abstract: To end or start the spinning operation on an open-end spinning unit by means of a switching device with which the connection to a spinning element or a delivery channel is alternately unblocked and blocked during the reversal of a switching device, the fiber flow is taken out of the region of the particular fiber path to be blocked, and only then is this region blocked. To influence the fiber flow, the volumetric flow rates of suction air flowing through the switching device are controlled. The switching device (6) has at least one closing member (60) with a first orifice (61) which leads to the spinning element (1) and the cross-section of which is enlarged geometrically in a discontinuous manner in the direction of the orifice opening, and with a second orifice which leads into the delivery channel (51) and the cross-section of which is reduced geometrically in a gradual way in the direction of the orifice closure.