Abstract: In an apparatus for producing effect yarn, at least one pair of feed rollers is provided for supplying a yarn component creating the effect, this pair of rollers consisting of a driven feed roller and a pressure roller forced against it. Moreover, the apparatus has at least one supply arrangement for a foundation thread, a hollow spindle carrying a bobbin of binding thread and having a twist limiter, and a pair of draw-off rolls. A deflecting pin extending substantially parallel to the axes of the rollers is provided at the exit of the pair of feed rollers in the wedge formed between the two rollers. This deflecting pin serves to guide the foundation thread which is led past the pair of feed rollers on the outside. This deflecting pin is arranged substantially in the plane of thread movement passing through the line of contact of the two rollers and through the yarn components combined and false-twisted downstream of the line of contact.

Abstract: A bobbin holder arrangement having an open top stationary bobbin box with a first bobbin carrier removably mounted therein for supporting a first thread carrying bobbin thereon. A rotary flyer is rotatably secured to the first bobbin carrier and is removable therewith and has a thread guide thereon for guiding a thread from the first bobbin. A second bobbin carrier is releasably mounted on the first bobbin carrier for supporting a second thread carrying bobbin thereon and above the rotary flyer. The thread guide on the rotary flyer is located at a location which is greater in diameter than the maximum diameter of the second bobbin so that the thread on the first bobbin is unwound therefrom through the thread guide on the rotary flyer and is held in spaced relation from the periphery of the thread wound on the second bobbin.

Abstract: A double twist thread twisting frame having a plurality of double twist spindles thereon each of which is surrounded by a balloon limiter having an upper rim thereon and at their lower parts a storage disc and a whorl driven by a belt spaced below the storage disc. A closure structure is provided around each balloon limiter to define a channel which communicates with the spindles and the interior of the balloon limiters. A suction device is connected in circuit with the channel means to evacuate the air contained therein. The closure structure, particularly an upper wall thereof, is located generally at the level of the upper rim of the balloon limiter and has a circular opening coaxial with the upper rim of the balloon limiter. The circular opening is somewhat smaller in diameter than the upper part of the balloon limiter.

Abstract: A brake for the travelers of a twining ring or a spinning ring machine. Such machines have a series of rings each with an associated traveler and a common brake rod which can be operated to move braking units into the paths of the travelers. The braking units are made in ring form so that, when operated by the brake rod, they occupy substantially the whole of the paths of their associated traveler and can therefore engage the traveler and brake their motion wherever the traveler happen to be when the brake is applied.