Abstract: Method of joining a thread of a take-up coil in a spinning rotor of a spinning station of a rotor spinning machine having a normal travel course therethrough from the spinning rotor to the take-up coil for a thread that has spun therein and having a thread draw-off device and a thread guide disposed in the normal travel course, the joining being effected by means of a traveling joining device having a thread draw-off device for drawing off a thread end from the take-up coil and having a thread delivery device for transfering the drawn-off thread end to the spinning rotor of the spinning station, the method includes the steps of guiding a thread back from the take-up coil to the spinning rotor through the thread draw-off device of the joining device, that has been switched to reverse operation, and through the thread draw-off device of the spinning station that has been switched to idling operation, switching the thread draw-off device of the joining device to forward operation at an instant at which the threa

Abstract: Device for controlling the contact pressure of a textile coil on a support or drive cylinder includes articulatingly suspended coil holder means for rotatably supporting the coil over the cylinder, a spring-loaded toggle-joint assembly being movable in a given plane into positions thereof wherein it is partly and fully extended, the toggle-joint assembly including a lever articulatingly connected to the coil holder means, and means for adjusting in the given plane the direction in which the toggle-joint assembly extends in the fully extended position thereof.