Abstract: A transceiver for operating in a network wherein the transceiver is arranged to synchronize to a time reference common to the network having distinguishable instances, the transceiver containing a controller for effecting the reading or writing of a real time clock at an identified instance of the common time reference; a transmitter for transmitting an identification of the real time clock value of a first instance and an identification of the first instance, and a receiver for receiving a transmitted identification of a real time clock value and an identification of a first instance.

Abstract: In the case of a card flat bar for a carding machine, which card flat bar comprises a carrier element with a clothing support part (card flat heel), two end head parts are associated with the carrier element, the carrier element and the end head parts form at least three assembled components, and the end head parts comprise at least one sliding-contact region, which is in contact with the slideway, and at least one fixing region, which is fixed to the carrier element and at the same time holds the sliding-contact region. In order in a simple manner to render possible a clothed card flat bar that is dimensionally stable and dimensionally accurate and to allow a simpler manufacture, between the fixing region of the end head part and at least partial regions of the carrier element there is a distance (clearance), and the distance between the lower limit of the sliding contact region and the card flat heel and/or the free tips of the clothing is adjustable and fixable.

Abstract: A transceiver for operating in a network wherein the transceiver is arranged to synchronize to a time reference common to the network having distinguishable instances comprising:

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a twisted yarn by a combined spinning and twisting process includes the steps of producing in at least two spinning devices individual spun yarns and guiding the spun yarns together to a first centering location positioned coaxially to the axis of the double twisting device to subject the individual spun yarns in a first yarn feeding direction to a first twist, whereby a yarn balloon is formed. Subsequently, the spun yarns are guided to a second centering location, also positioned coaxially to the axis of the double twisting device, and through the second centering location into the interior of the yarn balloon to subject the spun yarns in a second yarn feeding direction, opposite the first yarn feeding direction, to a second twist. The spun yarns are then wound onto a rotating bobbin positioned in the interior of the yarn balloon.