Abstract: Via a textile guide system for flat textile goods, the textile goods are fed by a continuous conveyor to processing stations and the textile web is fed between conveyor elements of the continuous conveyor and a stationary support whereby means is provided to press the textile web against the stationary support and whereby each pressing member has a vertical guide means in which a housing-fixed holding pin engages and apart from the guide means at least one pressing spring means is provided whereby the noise formation is largely suppressed. The vertical guide means is close to the oncoming end of the pressing member approached by the conveyor and the pressing spring means is arranged close to the downstream end of the pressing means.

Abstract: To implement a process for operating a device for making labels from strip material with a roll (1) of strip material, a feed device (2, 3) for the strip material, clamping tongs (16) to take the end of the strip from the feed device, a folding sheet (23) which inserts the strip between the jaws of positioning tongs (8) which transfer it to a processing device, and a separating device (7) to separate the strip from the strip material, by means of which strips of different lengths can be simply folded and processed, it is proposed that the movement cycles of the components of the device are controlled in such a way that, after the end of the strip has been transferred to the clamping device, first of all the folding device advances towards the positioning device, then the separating device (7) separates the strip from the strip material upstream of the feed device (2, 3) and either the positioning device closes and secures the folded strip while the folding device returns to the initial position, or after the

Abstract: A piece of textile goods is selvedged along an edge extending between ends of the piece by gripping a strip of the piece offset from the edge and displacing it parallel to the edge at a constant travel speed such that successive portions of the edge pass through a plurality of folding stations followed by a sewing station. The edge is folded over as it passes through the folding stations and the folded-over edge is stitched together in the sewing station. The portions are gripped in each station upstream of the sewing station as they pass through. To eliminate an out-of-square condition the gripped portion is advanced when it is adjacent one end of the goods at a speed that is greater than the constant travel speed, the gripped portion is advanced when it is adjacent the other end of the goods at a speed which is less than the constant travel speed, and the gripped portion is advanced when it is offset the ends of the goods at a speed which is substantially equal to the constant travel speed.

Abstract: An automatic bobbin-winding machine, in particular for lockstitch machines, comprises a changing head (27) with pneumatically driven gripping levers (30,31) for removing the lower part (35) of the bobbin case holder from the sewing machine. The changing head (27) can pivot or oscillate about various axes (39,40,41) and move on a carriage (26). It cooperates with a magazine (22) arranged alongside the axis (39). A second changing head (27') which can pick up empty and full bobbins (2) alternately may also be arranged on the carriage (26).