Abstract: Sliver is delivered from a drawing frame to an open-end spinning frame in sliver containing cans and, at a transfer location along the travel path of a servicing device for the spinning frame, sliver is removed from the cans in partial lots and transferred to a sliver transport location on the service device to be transported to a spinning station whose sliver supply has been exhausted, whereat the servicing device performs the transfer of the sliver lot to the spinning station as well as the introduction end the piecing-up of the sliver.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying the spinning machine with feed material includes a transport unit being movable along the spinning machine for advancing feed material produced by a production machine upstream of the textile machine to a region of the spinning stations. The transport unit has at least one pusher for transferring the feed material in the form of a transport-containerless bunch, to the feed stations.

Abstract: A textile production system utilizes a textile spinning machine and a textile winding machine and a transport assembly for transporting the support members between the machines. The transport assembly includes a container having a plurality of vertically spaced, parallel shelf members. Each shelf member includes a plurality of parallel guide channels for receiving tube support members in a row therein. A displacing device is operable to displace the tube support members from a respective shelf member onto the aligned guide channels of a lifting device positioned at an opposite side of the shelf member. The lifting device is operable to transfer the tube support members to a reorienting travel device which reorients multiple, parallel rows of the tube support members into a single row for feeding of the tube support members to the delivery device of the spinning or winding machine.