Abstract: Winding machines having a traversing member, a contact roller, said roller or a winding tube chuck being mounted on a linearly movable carriage moved by piston-cylinder members, pneumatically operated control systems connected with said piston-cylinder members to move said carriage horizontally or vertically relative to the winding package or the contact roller, and frictionlessly operating membrane cylinder(s) mounting a support member for the carriage-mounted chuck or contact roller on the carriage, the pneumatic control system and membrane cylinder(s) maintaining constant pressure between the winding package and contact roller.

Abstract: Bobbin transport apparatus movable along a textile machine front in a prescribed path for the conveyance of bobbins to be fed in and finished bobbins to be removed by means of an automatic bobbin changer in multi-station, multilevel textile machines.

Abstract: An automatic spool-changing system for textile machines with an array of high-speed winding heads, for example of the type having a spool revolver and a lossless thread transfer device. The system has a conveyor moving along the machine front and a spool changer with a gripper movable between the conveyor and a spool holder in a spool-changing position. The conveyor is located below and in generally the same vertical plane with the spool holder, and the gripper, which is arranged for both rotation and axial translation, is mounted for movement along a three-legged spool doffing and spool-donning path extending forwardly of the machine front. Two embodiments are shown. In the first, a separate empty-spool magazine is provided and the conveyor merely serves to carry away the empty spools.