Abstract: A method for open-end spinning, in an apparatus having a stationary fiber-collecting groove formed therein with two ends and a bottom, includes continuously carrying and transporting fibers into the stationary fiber-collecting groove with an airstream, continuously venting the bottom of the groove, withdrawing the fibers from one end of the groove, and continuously uniting the fibers to form a thread, and an apparatus for carrying out the method.

Abstract: Device for loading a textile machine with individual conical coil tubes, including a supply container for the individual conical coil tubes having a bottom with an opening formed therein, a chute disposed below the opening formed in the bottom of the supply container, reciprocating slider means including a transport compartment with an open top and bottom formed therein for dispensing single coil tubes through the opening formed in the bottom of the supply container into the chute, a feed station disposed below the chute for receiving unsorted conical coil tubes, means for successively slipping individual conical coil tubes onto spindles or creel mandrels of a textile machine, and controlled coil tube turning means for passing on a conical coil tube presented in unsorted condition at the feed station to the slipping on means with tips sorted.

Abstract: Method and device for preparing a ring spinning frame for automatic coil changing, which includes controlling a movable automatic servicing device for the spinning operation and a movable automatic servicing device for changing coils with a central automatic spinning control which controls the spinning processes of all spinning units of the machine so that both mentioned servicing devices are placed in readiness at the machine end of the ring spinning frame when the spinning process is completed.

Abstract: Method of automatically removing a coil from a spindle of a ring spinning or twisting-frame work station which includes driving along the frame and traveling device equipped with a coil transporter; in a first operating cycle, releasing a coil core from a spindle by means of a coil-core releasing device while applying in axial direction compressive forces symetrically and over a large area upon a lower edge of the coil core; and in a second operating cycle, gripping the thus released coil by means of the coil transporter, raising the coil above the respective spindle and thereafter transporting the coil to a side of the frame and depositing the coil thereat and device for performing the method.

Abstract: In a thread-joining device capable of traveling from spinning station to spinning station of a spinning machine having respective means for feeding sliver thereto, a device for measuring a dimension of the sliver at the respective feeding means of the spinning stations.

Abstract: Device for withdrawing and transporting a wound coil away from a winding device for textile filaments includes a traveling coil exchanging device for sequentially servicing a plurality of winding devices, the coil exchanging device including coil storage and delivery means for storing therein a coil wound by a respective winding device, the coil storage and delivery means being openable downwardly for discharging the wound coil therefrom.

Abstract: Method of removing fully wound cheeses from a textile machine having machine units located on both sides of a symmetry plane and respectively formed of rows of work stations, which includes gripping respective fully wound cheeses by means of a coil exchanging device capable of traveling in the direction in which the symmetry plane extends, bringing the cheeses into the symmetry plane, raising the cheeses, transporting the cheeses along the symmetry plane above the work stations, and unloading them at the end of the textile machine, and device for carrying out the foregoing method.

Abstract: Method of increasing the speed at which take-up coils are exchanged at winding stations of a winding machine for textile threads which includes, prior to exchanging a take-up coil at a respective winding station, winding a few thread windings on a coil core to form a starter coil in a winding device separate from the respective winding station, exchanging a fully wound take-up coil at the respective winding station for the starter coil previously formed on the separate winding device; tying a thread end of the starter bobbin to a thread end of a supply coil fed to the respective winding station; and setting the respective winding station in operation for winding thread on the starter coil to form a fully wound take-up coil; and device for carrying out the foregoing method.

Abstract: A device for retransporting a thread end of a take-up coil to a withdrawal tube of a spinning machine, includes a two-armed suction tube with a suction nozzle, the suction tube being pivotally mounted and being formed with a bend in a plane wherein it is pivotable, the suction tube having a longitudinally extending slot formed on the inside of the bend for passage of a thread therethrough and into the suction tube under suction, the suction tube having a suction-air flow path extending from the suction nozzle at an end of one of the suction-tube arms through the one suction-tube arm and through the other of the suction-tube arms to the end of the other suction-tube arm and therefrom through an air guidance part to a union for a negative-pressure suction source.

Abstract: Coil core magazine assembly for conical or cylindrical coil cores disposed mutually adjacent one another includes a coil core magazine, means for loading the magazine with coil cores, and means for removing coil cores from the magazine, the magazine having a plurality of axially parallel coil core holders disposed in a given plane and loadable with coil cores in axial direction of the coil cores, and a coil core feeding device operatively connected to the coil core holders for feeding the coil cores loaded in the coil core holders to the coil core removing means in a direction transverse to the axial direction of the coil cores.

Abstract: Apparatus for accommodating changing of bobbins on open-end spinning machines. Spooling devices are provided for joining a thread reserve section and a starting winding to an empty spool tube which is to be inserted in place of a completed bobbin. The spooling devices are constructed to form a starting winding of sufficient length to form a plurality of one-time piecing operations at a spinning station. A spool transfer device is provided for transferring a prepared spool with starting winding and reserve thread section into a bobbin holder. In certain preferred embodiments the spooling device is carried on a movable unit which travels along the spinning stations and includes an auxiliary bobbin for supplying the reserve and starting winding thread section. In other preferred embodiments, the spooling device is provided separate from the movable unit along the spinning machine and includes apparatus for forming and storing a plurality of pre-prepared bobbins.

Abstract: In apparatus for winding a friction-driven conical cross-wound coil, at least one first rotating member in the form of a body of rotation disposed so as to support the coil at the peripheral surface thereof from below without directly driving the coil by friction, and a second rotating member engaging the peripheral surface of the coil from below for effecting direct frictional drive of the coil.

Abstract: Method of feeding unwound conical coil cores to individual winding stations of a textile machine having a coil-exchanging device servicing a plurality of the winding stations for replacing fully wound coils with unwound conical coil cores, which comprises initially telescoping unwound coil cores into sticks of cores, supplying the sticks of cores to a core magazine wherefrom the coil exchanging device successively replenishes its own supply of cores, and separating a respective individual unwound conical coil core from the supply of cores of the coil exchanging device and exchanging it for a fully wound coil at a respective winding station; and device for carrying out the foregoing method.

Abstract: Winding equipment for textile coils includes a device for adjusting retrograde rotary motion in a coil being frictionally driven by a winding cylinder. The device has reduction gearing, and means for inserting said reduction gearing between the winding cylinder and the coil.

Abstract: Device for automatically starting or resuming operation by joining a thread for spinning in an open-end spinning machine, the device having a pivotable bent suction tube for seizing a thread end located on a take-up coil, the suction tube being formed at the inside of the bend thereof with a longitudinally extending slit for passage therethrough of a sucked-in thread, includes a pivot bearing for the pivotable suction tube, a negative pressure supply line connected to the suction tube at the pivot bearing, a transfer arm connected at one end thereof to the suction tube at the pivot bearing, and thread gripping means mounted for movement from the pivot bearing to the free end of said transfer arm for transfering a thread end from the pivot bearing to the free end of the transfer arm.

Abstract: Method of replacing a sliver container in a spinning machine formed of a plurality of individual spinning stations, sliver containers being disposed in tandem in two rows by means of a transporting device carrying a limited supply of the containers and being constrained to travel on a given travel path along the spinning machine, which includes disposing at the spinning machine a respective pair of sliver containers in tandem on a carriage or slide movable transversely to the given travel path of the transporting device, loading the transporting device with filled sliver containers at one end of the spinning machine and unloading the transporting device of exchanged sliver containers at the same one end of the spinning machine or at the other end thereof, shuttling the transporting device back and forth, ready for operation past the spinning stations of the spinning machine after the transporting device has been loaded with filled sliver containers, stopping the transporting device in front of a sliver contai

Abstract: A system for cleansing spinning turbines of a spinning machine which includes driving a cleansing device having a telescoping tube assembly provided with a rotary cleansing brush at one end thereof from spinning turbine to spinning turbine located at respective spinning stations of the spinning machine, inserting the one end of the telescoping tube assembly with the rotary cleansing brush provided thereat into the respective spinning turbine, and connecting the other end of the telescoping tube assembly to a source of compressed air.