Abstract: A rotor brake (8) for an open-end spinning rotor rotating at a high speed in a rotor housing. The open-end spinning rotor is rotatably supported by its rotor shaft (2) in the bearing nip (3) of a support-disk bearing (4). The rotor brake (8), which is preferably designed in a tong-like manner, comprises brake levers (9, 10) that can be placed on the rotor shaft (2) and comprise a replaceable brake lining (16) on their end. The brake lining (6) is manufactured from sintered bronze.

Abstract: An opening cylinder (1) for an open-end spinning device with a detachably fixed opening ring (2) which can be fixed by a torque-free rapid tension device (7) in a readily replaceable manner on a rotatably supported structural component of an opening cylinder (1) driven by an opening cylinder drive (4).

Abstract: An open-end spinning arrangement (1) comprises a stationary spinning box housing (2) arranged on a base frame of a textile machine for seating a high speed spinning rotor (7) in a vacuum-charged rotor housing (8), a sliver opening unit (4) connected to the spinning box housing (2) via a linear guide (3), and a cover element (23) for closing the rotor housing (8). The sliver opening unit (4) is releasably connected to a connecting bracket (30) of the linear guide (3), and an opening roller (12) driven by an individual motor and a sliver draw-in cylinder (14) driven by a step motor (15) are arranged inside the sliver opening unit (4).

Abstract: A bearing of a spinning rotor 3 of an open-end spinning apparatus, in which the rotor shaft is radially supported by means of support disks and is axially positioned by a magnetic bearing. The center axis 51 of the rotor 3 is offset relative to the center axis 50 of the static bearing component 27 of the axial bearing 18 in the direction of the bearing nip 56. In addition, at least in the region of the end of the axial bearing 18 toward the support disks 54, 54′, an engagement surface 40 with an anti-friction surface layer is provided, which supports the rotor 3, especially during rotor cleaning.

Abstract: An open-end spinning frame (1) having a spinning rotor (3), whose rotor shaft (4) is supported, free of axial thrust, in the bearing wedge of a support disk bearing arrangement (5) and is fixed in place by means of a magnetic axial bearing (18). The axial bearing (18) has a stationary magnetic bearing component (27) fixed on the bearing housing (26), and a rotating magnetic bearing component (44) arranged at the end of the rotor shaft and having at least two annular shoulders (46) defined by recesses (47) in the rotor shaft (4). The sharpness of the annular shoulders (46) is reduced in the area between their outer circumference (58) and the adjoining radial faces (50) of each annular shoulder, e.g., via curved or beveled surfaces in such area, and the base surfaces (49) of the recesses (47) are each connected via rounded sections (51) with the radial faces (50) of the adjoining annular shoulders (46).

Abstract: A spinning rotor adapted to be seated in a spinning box of an open-end spinning machine and having an identification mark (9), preferably embodied as alpha-numeric characters, formed at a location on the rotor cup (8) at which the information content of the identification mark (9) can be visually determined while within the spinning box after opening and stoppage of the rotor but without removal from the spinning box, thereby permitting a user-friendly, time-saving and dependable visual check of the spinning rotor type.

Abstract: A spinning rotor for use at high speeds in open-end spinning machines has a rotor cup having an annular wall portion defining a rotor opening, a bottom wall portion merging with the annular wall portion, and a mounting hub extending exteriorly from the bottom wall portion. A rotor shaft is affixed to the mounting hub coaxially with the rotor cup. The merger of the bottom and annular wall portions of the rotor cup defines a maximum exterior diameter of the rotor and an interior rotor groove. The annular wall portion, the bottom wall portion and the mounting hub are of different cross-sectional thicknesses with the cross-sectional thickness of the bottom wall portion increasing from the rotor groove to the mounting hub. The wall thickness is less than 1.

Abstract: An opening roller (1) for an open-end spinning device with a rotatably seated cylindrical roller body (7) is encircled by a sawtooth card clothing, (10, 10") molded in the form of a helical coil spring essentially entirely of a commercial ceramic material, e.g., aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, or a mixture thereof. The ceramic helical sawtooth card clothing may be directly positioned on the cylindrical roller body by the use of an interlocking base body of the card clothing or by friction fitting a square cross-sectional base body or the ceramic card clothing may be indirectly positioned on the cylindrical roller body by winding the helical card clothing around a support structure that surrounds the cylindrical roller body.

Abstract: A support disk bearing (1) for an open-end spinning rotor (9) with support disks (4, 5) arranged in pairs, each of which has a hub body (14) made of a metallic material and a bearing ring (15) made of a polymeric material. On its circumference, the hub body (14) has a radial circumferentially extending profiling (20), between whose V-shaped center structure (21) and lateral ribs (22, 23) the free flanks (24, 25) of an M-shaped bearing ring (15) can be fixed, and which has a thickness (D) which is almost constant in cross section.

Abstract: A method for producing a spinning box frame for an open-end spinning machine wherein lateral elements (2, 3) of a spinning box frame (1) are connected with interposed bracing elements (4, 5, 6) by means of a welding process which substantially prevents the occurrence of heat distortion tensions. The bracing elements (4, 5, 6) are joined by means of a laser welding process, preferably with a CO.sub.2 laser, squarely on the interior wall (20) of the lateral elements (2, 3). The components (2 to 6) of the spinning box frame (1) are fixed in place in a welding device (26), which permits the exact positioning of the individual components during the laser welding process.

Abstract: An open-end spinning device (1) with a spinning rotor (17) which is mounted with its rotor shaft (8) in the V-slots of a support-disk bearing (5) and whose spinning cup (17) rotates at a high speed in a rotor housing (6) which is open to the front and can be loaded by suction. The rotor housing (6) can be closed by a pivotably mounted cover element (10) which comprises a sliver opening device and is arranged so that it can be disengaged if required. The cover element (10) comprises a locking and unlocking device (20) with locking bolts (23) which can be controlled in a defined manner and which are movably mounted in bearing brackets (22) of the cover element (10). The locking bolts (23) engage during spinning operation in bearing locations (34) on the spinning box frame (2). The cover element (10) can be readily taken off the spinning box frame (2), if required, by appropriately actuating the locking and unlocking device (20).

Abstract: An open-end spinning device (1) with a spinning rotor (3) whose spinning cup rotates at a high speed in a rotor housing (2) loaded by a vacuum and closed by a yarn guide plate. A fiber guide conduit (14), arranged between a sliver opening device (26) and the spinning cup, has a wall section with an elevated coefficient of friction comprised of conduit sections (29, 30) of different surface roughnesses. The wall of the entrance-side section (29) of the fiber guide conduit has a distinctly greater surface roughness (R.sub.t) than the wall of the exit-side section (30) of the fiber guide conduit.

Abstract: An open-end spinning device having a spinning rotor housed within a rotor housing which includes a yarn conduit plate for closing the front side of the rotor housing and a conduit plate adapter, defining a mouth area of a yarn conduit guide and including a yarn draw-off jet, which is removeably arranged in a receptacle of the yarn conduit plate and is easily and quickly replaced in connection with the replacement of a rotor, while providing a reliable and tight fastening of the conduit plate adapter in the open-end spinning device. The conduit plate adapter comprises an extension including fixing elements which can be secured by a fixing arrangement which is movably arranged for selectively abutting the fixing elements for fixing the conduit plate adapter within the receptacle of the yarn conduit plate.

Abstract: In an open-end spinning machine (1) with a plurality of open-end spinning devices (3), each having a spinning rotor (15) whose rotor shaft (26) is seated in the bearing wedge of an axial thrust-free support disk bearing (27) and is positioned by a magnetic bearing (29), and a service unit (10), which automatically services the spinning devices, a sensor device (41) is provided on the service unit (10), which is connected to the control device (18) of the service unit (10) and checks an identification marker (34) applied to each spinning rotor (15). The control device (18) actuates a yarn piecing operation by the service unit only upon detection of an identification marker (34) identifying the spinning rotor (15) to be compatible with the associated spinning device.

Abstract: An open-end spinning device comprises a spinning rotor rotating in a vacuum-loaded rotor housing which can be closed by a conduit plate having a receptacle receiving a replaceable conduit-plate adapter and a locking device, e.g., a bar spring, for spring-biasing the conduit-plate adapter into the receptacle. A blocking device comprising a hood-like cover is associated with the locking device for movement into an operating position only when the locking device is positioned in a locking position in which it reliably fixes the conduit-plate adapter.

Abstract: In open-end rotor spinning devices, an axial engagement element, typically a ceramic pin, is inserted as a wear protector in a receptacle at the free end of the rotor shaft which is supported on a ball of an axial bearing. In order to receive the air displaced during the insertion of the axial engagement element, the free end of the shaft is formed with at least one radial bore connecting the receptacle with the ambient environment through which the air displaced during the insertion can escape.

Abstract: In open-end rotor spinning devices, an axial engagement element, typically a ceramic pin, is inserted as a wear protector in a receptacle at the free end of the rotor shaft which is supported on a ball of an axial bearing. In order to receive the air displaced during the insertion of the axial engagement element, the axial engagement element is formed with a bore in the end thereof facing inwardly within the receptacle.

Abstract: An open-end spinning device (1) has a spinning rotor (2) supported by its rotor shaft (3) in the bearing wedges (4, 4') of a supporting plate bearing (5). A rotor brake (12) arranged in the area of the supporting plate bearing (4) has brake elements (13) operable vertically downwardly on the rotor shaft (3). The brake elements (13) of the rotor brake (12) are arranged centered above the respective bearing wedges (4, 4') of the supporting plate bearing (5) and are seated in a box-like component (14) to be linearly displaced in the vertical direction (R).

Abstract: An open-end spinning apparatus (1) has a spinning rotor (4) rotating in a vacuum-applied rotor housing (2) closed by a conduit plate (37) with a sliver opening device (51) delivering individualized spinning fibers into the rotor housing through a fiber guide conduit device (14) connecting the sliver opening device (51) to the conduit plate (37). The fiber guide conduit device (14) is replaceably supported in a connection bore (31) of the sliver opening housing (17). The fiber guide conduit device (14) is a cast part comprising a fiber guide conduit body (43) with a position fixing device (34) to assure a given mounting position with respect to the opening housing, a cylindrical foot having a groove (36) receiving an O-ring (35) for sealing with respect to the opening housing, and a contact shoulder (41) to support a hose nozzle (38) for sealing with respect to the conduit plate.

Abstract: A rotor brake (8) has a brake element holder (22) releasably fixed in place on a jaw-like brake lever (9, 10) and a dovetailed retaining slot (26) on its end. A brake element (30), which in cross section (A) has the shape of an equilateral triangle, is held in this dovetailed retaining slot (26). The brake element (30) has three brake surfaces (31, 31', 31"), which can be used alternately.