Abstract: An apparatus for collecting a coreless coiled thread package having a central hollow bore, comprises a thread collecting or receiving disc which presents a central through bore, and a vertical guide column which engages the said bore of the receiving disc, in such a manner that the said disc is displaceable upwardly and downwardly along the said column. The guide column is constructed as a tubular hollow structure, and inside the said hollow structure there are arranged the means for elastically urging upwardly a carriage which is vertically displaceable along the column and carries the said receiving disc. The receiving disc is fitted in a removable, but nonrotatable, manner on the carriage, which, in turn, is not rotatable about the guide column.

Abstract: A rotating receiving plate is provided having a vertical axis, onto which the coiled yarn package is formed. Said receiving plate is urged upwardly against a rotating depositing disc, the axis of rotation of which is eccentric with respect to the axis of rotation of the receiving plate. The depositing disc is carried by a rotating hollow shaft presenting an upper open end and a radial bore in correspondence of its bottom end integral with the depositing disc. Integral in rotation with the depositing disc there is provided a thread guide. To the supporting frame there is secured a fixed member presenting an outer annular friction surface. The yarn is withdrawn from a suitable supply, passes through the hollow shaft, out of the radial bore, it is further laid onto at least a portion of the annular track and it is hence positively fed, through a bore provided in the depositing disc, onto the receiving plate, in loops progressing along an annular path, to form a coiled yarn package.