Abstract: A yarn-forming element is provided for a roving machine that produces a roving from a fiber structure using compressed air. The yarn-forming element includes an intake opening for fibers of the fiber structure, an outlet for emergence of the roving produced from the fiber structure, and a draw-off channel that connects the intake opening and the outlet. A front end surrounding the intake opening is formed as a first truncated cone in at least some sections thereof. The first truncated cone includes a larger base surface and a smaller opposite cover surface that is adjacent the draw-off channel. An angle (?) between a lateral line of the first truncated cone and an axis of the first truncated cone is less than 90° and greater than 70°.

Abstract: A method for processing a strand-type fiber bundle includes sending the fiber bundle to an air nozzle of a pre-spinning machine used to produce roving. A twist is imparted to the fiber bundle via a vortex air current within the air nozzle to form the roving, wherein the roving leaves the air nozzle through an outlet and is deposited in a receptacle. Normal operation is interrupted in a stop phases during which roving is not produced by the air nozzle. A start-up phase is commenced between the stop phase and subsequent normal operation wherein the roving produced during the stop phase is discarded after leaving the air nozzle when quality of the roving does not meet a desired specification. The roving discharge is deactivated when the quality of the roving meets the desired specification and the roving removed by the roving discharge is separated from the roving.

Abstract: A traversing element is provided for a spinning machine that produces a roving. The traversing element includes a guide segment disposed to guide the roving onto a surface of a tube or a roving bobbin, and a support segment. The guide segment is configured at an end of the support segment and an opposite end of the support segment is connectable to a support of the spinning machine. A closed cavity is provided in the traversing element, the closed cavity partially filled with a liquid. Heat that occurs in the guide segment due to friction between the guide segment and the roving when the traversing element is operating is absorbed by the liquid.

Abstract: A method for processing a strand-type fiber bundle includes sending the fiber bundle to an air nozzle of a pre-spinning machine used to produce roving. During normal operation, a twist is imparted to the fiber bundle via a vortex air current within the air nozzle to form the roving, wherein the roving leaves the air nozzle through an outlet and is deposited in or on a receptacle. Normal operation of the pre-spinning machine is interrupted in a stop phases during which roving is not produced by the air nozzle. A start-up phase is commenced between the stop phase and subsequent normal operation wherein the roving produced during the stop phase is discarded via a roving discharge after leaving the air nozzle when quality of the roving does not meet a desired specification. The roving discharge is deactivated when the quality of the roving meets the desired specification and the roving removed by the roving discharge is separated from the roving.

Abstract: A textile machine and associate method are provided for producing a roving, wherein a consolidating means produces a roving having a protective twist from a fiber bundle. A winding device is arranged downstream of the consolidating means in a transport direction of the roving and winds the roving onto a tube driven by a tube drive. An arrangement is disposed to bring the roving leaving the consolidating means during a roving production start procedure into contact with the tube. The arrangement includes a movably mounted suction unit with a suction opening that is configured to suck up the roving during ongoing roving production. Means are provided to bring the roving running between the consolidating means and the suction opening into contact with the tube during ongoing roving production.

Abstract: A method for operating a textile machine is provided to produce roving from a fiber bundle with a consolidating means, the roving having a protective twist. The produced roving is wound onto a tube with a winding device. During the winding process, the roving is guided a guide element arranged between the consolidating means and the tube, wherein the guide element exerts a decelerating effect on the roving. The decelerating effect is controlled during operation of the textile machine such that the decelerating effect is lower during a start procedure while the roving leaving the consolidating means is brought into contact with a tube or during a tube change while a wound tube is replaced by an empty tube than during a winding process that takes place between the start procedure and the tube change.

Abstract: A method and associated textile machine are provided to produce a roving having a protective twist from a fiber bundle fed to a consolidating means. The produced roving is wound with a winding device onto a tube arranged at a winding position. After the wound tube has been fully or partially wound with the roving, a tube change is initiated. During the tube change, the wound tube is removed from the winding position and an empty tube is moved into the winding position. During the tube change, the roving is wound onto the wound tube at least until the roving comes into contact with the empty tube as a result of the tube change such that the production of the roving is not interrupted during the tube change. During the tube change, the roving is wound onto the wound tube in a region that lies outside a region last wound prior to the tube change.

Abstract: A yarn-forming element is provided for a roving machine that produces a roving from a fiber structure using compressed air. The yarn-forming element includes an intake opening for fibers of the fiber structure, an outlet for emergence of the roving produced from the fiber structure, and a draw-off channel that connects the intake opening and the outlet. A front end surrounding the intake opening is formed as a first truncated cone in at least some sections thereof. The first truncated cone includes a larger base surface and a smaller opposite cover surface that is adjacent the draw-off channel. An angle (a) between a lateral line of the first truncated cone and an axis of the first truncated cone is less than 90° and greater than 70°.

Abstract: A spinning preparation machine includes a consolidating means for producing a roving having a protective twist from a fiber bundle, a drafting system arranged upstream of the consolidating means, a winding device arranged downstream of the consolidating means, and a movably mounted traversing element adjacent the winding device to guide the roving being wound onto a tube. In a side view of the spinning preparation machine, the consolidating means is arranged vertically between at least one feed roller of the drafting system and the traversing element, and the feed roller and the traversing element are arranged on a same side of the consolidating means so that in operation of the spinning preparation machine, the roving experiences a change in direction after exiting the consolidating means and prior to being wound onto the tube.

Abstract: A drawing frame for a textile machine includes at least two drawing frame modules, with module having a roller and an opposite counter-roller supported on an individual carrier, wherein the roller is movable back and forth independently of the rollers of the other drawing frame modules between a load position and a release position. For each drawing frame module, the roller bodies of the roller and of the counter-roller are out of contact in the release position and are pressed together in the load position in order to guide the fiber assembly in a clamping manner. Each carrier includes a first carrier section and a separate second carrier section, wherein the roller is supported on the first carrier section and the counter-roller is supported on the second carrier section. A guide is configured between the first carrier section and the second carrier section so that the first carrier section and the second carrier section are displaceable relative to each other.

Abstract: A spinning preparation machine has consolidating means for producing a roving from a fiber bundle and a drafting system for drafting the fiber bundle. The drafting system is arranged upstream of the consolidating means in a transport direction of the drafting system. A guide is arranged upstream of the drafting system for guiding the fiber bundle between a container providing the fiber bundle and the drafting system. The guide has a feed segment opposite from the drafting system and a delivery segment facing the drafting system. The spinning preparation machine has a winding device for winding the roving onto a tube, and a tube transport device for providing empty tubes and/or for removing tubes loaded with roving by the winding device. The tube transport device has a conveyor for transporting empty tubes and/or tubes loaded with roving, wherein the conveyors are arranged at least in part between the feed segment of the guide and the drafting system.

Abstract: A sleeve for winding a roving thereon includes an elongated sleeve body with opposite upper and lower end faces. A contact region is defined on the sleeve body to contact the roving and includes a paper layer. A capture structure is defined within the contact region and is configured to grip an end of the roving wound onto the sleeve body. The paper layer includes a surface structure of one or more of: a mechanically processed surface roughness section in the contact region; an additive in the contact region that increases surface roughness of the contact region; or a surface structure comprising overlapping individual paper layers forming the contact region.

Abstract: A method is provided for adjustment of a textile machine workstation based on yarn parameters measured by an associated yarn quality sensor at the work station. The method generates a first reference value of a selected yarn parameter by measurement of the yarn parameter or by calculation, wherein the first reference value is generated from the yarn parameter for a deliberately defective yarn intentionally produced at the workstation. The method then compares a current value or second reference value of the yarn parameter for yarn produced at the workstation of production quality or higher-than-production quality to the first reference value.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sleeve (1) for winding with a roving (2), wherein the sleeve (1) has an elongated sleeve body (3) with three end faces (4), wherein the sleeve (1) is provided with a receptacle on its first end face (4), said receptacle being formed by an undercut (18), and wherein the sleeve (1) is provided with attachment (12) on its second end face (4), and wherein the sleeve body (3) has a contact region (5) intended for contact with a roving (2), and wherein the contact region (5) is formed at least predominately by a paper layer (9), and a capture structure (14) is provided for gripping one end of the roving.

Abstract: A method and associated textile machine are provided to produce a roving having a protective twist from a fiber bundle fed to a consolidating means. The produced roving is wound with a winding device onto a tube arranged at a winding position. After the wound tube has been fully or partially wound with the roving, a tube change is initiated. During the tube change, the wound tube is removed from the winding position and an empty tube is moved into the winding position. During the tube change, the roving is wound onto the wound tube at least until the roving comes into contact with the empty tube as a result of the tube change such that the production of the roving is not interrupted during the tube change. During the tube change, the roving is wound onto the wound tube in a region that lies outside a region last wound prior to the tube change.

Abstract: A drive unit is provided for powering a turret winding head for winding roving onto bobbin tubes. The drive unit comprises a closed housing, a first and a second spindle disposed in a turret base plate, wherein the turret base plate is formed as part of the housing and the spindles are disposed outside of the housing. A first drive is provided for the first spindle and a second drive is provided for the second spindle. The drives are disposed inside the housing, and the first and second drives are each provided with a fan wheel. An intake duct, through which air is drawn in by the fan wheel from outside of the housing, is in each case provided on the intake side of the fan wheel of the first and second drives.

Abstract: The invention relates to a presser finger (4) which is a component of a winder for winding a roving on to a rotating bobbin (1) with a longitudinal axis (10). The presser finger (4) has a carrying arm (40) with a longitudinal axis (8) and a roving 4 guide element. The presser finger (4) also has a guide plate (5) for guiding the roving on to a rotating bobbin (1). The presser finger (4) is alternatingly movable in the direction (X) of the longitudinal axis (10) of the rotating bobbin (1), and this movement of the presser finger (4) is provided by a drive means. The invention also relates to a roving winder with the aforementioned presser finger (4) and a method of winding a roving with the aid of the aforementioned presser finger (4).

Abstract: A spinning position on an air-jet spinning machine has a yarn-forming element extending at least partially into the turbulence chamber; and air jets directed into the turbulence chamber to impart to the fiber strand a twist in the area of an intake mouth of the yarn-forming element. A guide arrangement for guiding the fiber strand is situated in the area of the inlet port of the turbulence chamber and comprises at least two guide sections spaced a distance apart from one another, their mutual spacing decreasing in at least some sections in the direction of conveyance of the fiber strand. The guide arrangement also comprises at least one central guide element, which extends at least partially between the guide sections in a section running perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the draw-off channel and produces a deflection of the fibers of the fiber strand perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the draw-off channel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a textile machine which serves to produce roving (1), wherein during roving production a roving (1) having a protective twist is produced by means of at least one consolidating means from a fiber bundle (3) that is fed to the consolidating means, wherein the roving (1) produced by the consolidating means is wound by a winding device (5) onto a tube (7), wherein the roving (1) during the winding process is guided by means of a guide element (23) which is arranged between the consolidating means and the tube (7), and wherein the guide element (23) exerts a decelerating effect on the roving (1).

Abstract: The invention relates to a textile machine for producing roving (1), comprising at least one consolidating means, by which a roving (1) having a protective twist can be produced from a fiber bundle (3) that is fed to the consolidating means, and comprising a winding device (5), arranged downstream of the consolidating means in a transport direction (T) of the roving (1), for winding the roving (1) produced by the consolidating means onto a tube (7) which can be driven by a tube drive (6).