Abstract: A friction disc for rotating a twisting tube of a false twisting device for crimping thread is provided with a peripheral surface which slings any oil on the surface therefrom. The peripheral surface of the disc has an annular groove therein which is substantially frusto-conically shaped in cross-section and intersects the surface at an angle to provide an edge from which the oil will be slung by centrifugal force as the disc rotates.

Abstract: An open end spinning device or a false twisting device having two mutually parallel pairs of rollers for driving a spinning rotor or a twisting tube and a horseshoe-shaped magnet associated therewith for retaining the twisting tube or rotor in a wedge-shaped nip between the pairs of roller, each pole of the magnet acting on a collar on the rotor or twisting tube and being provided with a recess extending parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor or tube and having a semi-circular cross-section to receive the collar is provided with a magnet having one pole shaped so that upon axially displacement of the rotor or tube away from its normal position by pull of the thread each of the collars still lies opposite the magnet at least at the base thereof.

Abstract: A friction roller for rotating twist tubes in twisting apparatus in which the friction ring is protected from contact with ambient oil by means of a protective coating and a slinger edge disposed on at least one side of the friction ring. The protective layer may be a protective ring which may be integral with the roller or it may be a protective layer of lacquer applied to the friction ring. The layer protects the friction ring from the spinning oil and the slinger edge acts to fling off by centrifugal force that oil which collects around the periphery of the friction roller so that the running surface of the friction ring remains unaffected.In one embodiment the slinger edge projects radially beyond the running surface of the friction ring and there is a peripheral groove on the associated twist tube which cooperates with the slinger edge in the manner of a labyrinth seal, which increases the protection against adverse influences from the spinning oil.

Abstract: A false twisting apparatus having three spindles supporting over-lapping friction discs and having a means for feeding a thread between the friction discs where it will be false twisted and into a balloon preventing member is provided with an improved means for threading the apparatus by moving a thread into position between the friction disc comprising a thread guide member on an arm supported by a rotatable shaft with the guide member above the friction disc, the rotatable shaft being rotatable from a position where the guide member is disposed above the gap between the edges of the friction disc to where the guide member is disposed outside the friction disc and a thread slide member supported on a shaft and projecting inwardly between longitudially spaced friction discs, the slide member having arcuate shaped edges over which the thread can slide as it is moved by the thread guide member into or out of the gap between the friction members.