Abstract: For an air spinning frame, reluctance motors are provided for each spinning place to drive the pairs of rollers of the drafting unit, the drawing-off means, and the friction roller. Thereby, for the run-up of a spinning place, e.g., after a thread break, a specific frequency converter is provided. After reaching the stationary operating speed, a switch over onto a further frequency converter takes place, at which time, the corresponding reluctance motors of the other spinning places are driven in parallel. By the use of reluctance motors it can be done without a complex speed regulation means. A specific dimensioning of the reluctance motors permits a very fast run-up and a particularly good efficiency during the stationary operation.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the drive belt for receiving the flats in a revolving flat card employs pairs of connecting elements for snap-fitting into an aperture in an end head at one end of a flat. Each connecting element has an inclined surface which extends from the body of the belt to form an acute angle of from 60.degree. to 80.degree.. The end head of each flat has a rectangular opening to receive the pair of connecting elements and has transverse molding each provided with an inclined surface to mate with the inclined surfaces of the connecting elements of the belt. In another embodiment, the drive belt employs pairs of ribs of simple rectangular section to engage within a buckle element of a flat while each rib is able to flex about a root of the rib at the belt body.

Abstract: The combing machine has a row of combing heads which are allocated with a drive shaft extending parallel to the longitudinal direction of the row. The combing heads are provided downstream with a drafting arrangement whose cylinders are arranged horizontally and at a right angle to the drive shaft. A funnel wheel and a can plate are rotatable about vertical axes. The transmission for driving the cylinders of the drafting arrangement, the funnel wheel and the can plate has two V-drives with a crossed toothed belt each. The first V-drive connects the drive shaft to a drafting arrangement drive shaft which is parallel to the cylinders of the drafting arrangement. The second V-drive connects a shaft which is parallel to the drafting arrangement drive shaft to a vertical drive shaft for the funnel wheel and the can plate.

Abstract: One or both of the lap rollers on which a lap roll is mounted for unwinding purposes is driven with an increasing speed during the winding-off interval so as to maintain the thickness of the lap layer constant. This, in turn, maintains the count of the sliver to be formed in the comber at a constant number. The increase in the lap roller drive can be made dependent upon the length of the lap layer which is unwound from the roll, on the mass of the lap layer delivered to the comber or on the mass of a sliver produced from the combed lap as measured at a point downstream of the comber. The speed may be increased in a stepwise manner or continuously.

Abstract: A textile machine is provided with apparatus for preparing the trailing end of a lap and a leading end of a fresh lap so that each end has a reduced fiber mass per unit length of lap in the prepared end. These lap ends are thereafter superimposed and joined together for subsequent processing in a combing unit of a combing machine or a drafting unit of a ribbon lap machine. The respective ends of the two laps may be prepared by a tearing action caused by clamping of the respective lap end between two spaced apart nip lines which are moved away from each other and wherein the spacing is slightly more than the length of the longest fiber in the lap. Preparation of a lap end may also be accomplished using a suction head for clamping of a lap along a nip line in order to carry out tearing of the lap to produced a prepared end.

Abstract: A textile machine is provided with apparatus for preparing the trailing end of a lap and a leading end of a fresh lap so that each end has a reduced fiber mass per unit length of lap in the prepared end. These lap ends are thereafter superimposed and joined together for subsequent processing in a combing unit of a combing machine or a drafting unit of a ribbon lap machine. The respective ends of the two laps may be prepared by a tearing action caused by clamping of the respective lap end between two spaced apart nip lines which are moved away from each other and wherein the spacing is slightly more than the length of the longest fiber in the lap. Preparation of a lap end may also be accomplished using a suction head for clamping of a lap along a nip line in order to carry out tearing of the lap to produced a prepared end.

Abstract: A textile machine is provided with apparatus for preparing the trailing end of a lap and a leading end of a fresh lap so that each end has a reduced fiber mass per unit length of lap in the prepared end. These lap ends are thereafter superimposed and joined together for subsequent processing in a combing unit of a combing machine or a drafting unit of a ribbon lap machine. The respective ends of the two laps may be prepared by a tearing action caused by clamping of the respective lap end between two spaced apart nip lines which are moved away from each other and wherein the spacing is slightly more than the length of the longest fiber in the lap. Preparation of a lap end may also be accomplished using a suction head for clamping of a lap along a nip line in order to carry out tearing of the lap to produced a prepared end.