Abstract: A multi-station textile machine, especially a double twisting machine or cabling machine, has spool containers arranged adjacent to one another in rows for receiving feed spools. A guide rail of a continuously or intermittently driven endless conveyor extends about the periphery of the machine frame in close contact therewith and has spool holders for conveying the feed spools. The lowermost position of the feed spools conveyed by the spool holders defines a horizontal plane which is substantially at the same level as the plane defined by the upper side of the spool containers. The spool holders are spaced apart from one another by a distance which is three to eight times the distance between neighboring spool containers.

Abstract: A bobbin transfer apparatus simultaneously transfers consecutive individual adapters having at least one fully wound bobbin of yarn thereon and consecutive individual adapters having at least one substantially empty bobbin of yarn thereon between a yarn bobbin winding machine adjacent the transfer apparatus and a bobbin suspension transporting mechanism positioned over the transfer apparatus for consecutively moving full bobbins from the transfer apparatus to a yarn processing machine and returning substantially empty bobbins therefrom to the transfer apparatus. The transfer apparatus includes a conveying device for consecutively conveying the individual adapters in a generally vertical position through a closed path of travel.

Abstract: A double-sided textile machine comprising a plurality of winding units for producing cross-wound packages, in particular a two-for-one twisting machine, and further comprising a device for collecting and conveying the produced packages, which device includes two transport means moving in the region of the machine center in the longitudinal direction in the interior of the machine, which means are directly superposed in at least two planes and of which each can be loaded at least from one machine side. A package delivery station is arranged at the end of the transport system. The transport systems may comprise two superposed conveyor belts, a transfer mechanism for delivering the cross-wound packages from one conveyor belt to the other conveyor belt. The transport systems may also comprise a plurality of package cages, which move in the longitudinal direction of the machine, each package cage comprising two superposed repositories for one package each.

Abstract: A thread monitoring mechanism for a thread processing location with a swivel lever which is mounted on a swivel axis and on which a thread guidance roller overrun by the thread that is to be monitored is mounted and which is elastically supported by a supporting member adjustable in accordance with a predetermined thread tension, in which respect the swivel lever has a switching member for interrupting the thread travel and/or for switching-off the thread processing location as soon as the actual thread tension deviates by a specific amount from a predetermined thread tension value, is characterized in that the suporting member is pneumatically supported, in which respect serving for supporting the swivel lever are preferably two supporting members which are supported pneumatically by membranes which have effective membrane surfaces of different sizes.

Abstract: For an automated removal of a package and transport adapter with a hollow core, on which at least one empty winding tube or a winding tube holding a residual length of yarn is inserted, from a yarn processing station, in particular from the protective pot of a two-for-one twisting spindle, the present invention provides for an operating method and an apparatus, so as to obtain for a troublefree further transportation of the package and transport adapter a yarn length of a defined length from the yarn end extending to a not-fully unwound winding tube, which yarn length is inserted into the hollow shaft of the package or transport adapter.

Abstract: A maintenance device is provided in a two-for-one twister textile yarn processing machine having a plurality of spindle assembly stations in side-by-side relationship along the length of the machine for processing of yarn at each station as the yarn is fed from yarn supply packages carried by an adapter device and mounted in the spindle assembly, and an overhead conveyor mechanism extending the length of the machine generally above the spindle assembly stations and including spaced-apart downwardly-directed suspension holders for releasably receiving and carrying adapter devices with full yarn supply packages thereon and adapter devices with substantially empty yarn supply packages thereon to and from respective spindle assembly stations.

Abstract: In yarn processing stations, in which two yarns are withdrawn from feed yarn packages inserted on a package adapter, the problem arises that a residual yarn wind is left on the tube of a feed yarn package. To remove this residual yarn wind, the maintenance and servicing device of the present invention is provided witha rotatable, upward and downward movable gripper for the removal of the package adapter from the yarn processing station, at least one rotatably supported mandrel to receive the package adapter, a rotatably supported, upward and downward movable cutting device for severing a residual yarn wind left on a feed yarn tube, and a rotatably supported suction device for the removal of the cut residual yarn, so as to be able to perform, according to the method of the present invention, the cleaning of feed yarn tubes still carrying yarn remnants directly after their removal from the yarn processing station.

Abstract: A yarn package transfer apparatus is provided which includes devices for removing hollow yarn package adapter devices from downwardly and generally vertically-extending package holders movably and serially-mounted on an overhead conveying system, for inserting such hollow adapter devices into the hollow tubes of a desired number of yarn packages positioned in a generally horizontal position in a package supply assembly, and for transferring such packages of yarn from the package supply assembly and mounting the hollow adapter devices and yarn packages carried thereby onto the vertically-extending package holders of the overhead conveying system for conveying of the yarn packages. The apparatus preferably includes devices for positioning the loose ends of the yarn from the yarn packages on the adapter device in desired positions during the transferring operation.

Abstract: Transport and holding device for thread packages, comprising an adapter insertable into the packages and an adapter carrier, characterized in that the carrier for the package adapter is provided with a mandrel insertable into the lower end of the package adapter, and a positioning element, so as to position the adapter in a certain angular position relative to the carrier.

Abstract: A device for switching off and switching on the operation of a spindle of a textile twisting or spinning machine having a rumming thread is provided which includes the following elements. A pneumatic switching device is adapted to be operatively connected to a spindle stop mechanism of the textile machine for actuation and de-actuation thereof. A movable running thread sensor device is held in a first normal operating position by the running thread in the textile machine and moves to a second switching position upon breakage of the running thread. A movable breaking sensor device is adapted to be operatively connected to a spindle breaking mechanism of the textile machine for moving between a first position during normal operation of the spindle to a second position upon actuation of the spindle breaking mechanism after thread breakage.

Abstract: A stop motion for textile machines for transmitting a signal for stopping a working station in case of a thread breakage or a used-up supply bobbin. The stop motion includes a thread guide eyelet secured to a thread sensor bar which is pivotable about a horizontal pivot shaft, and is characterized by a guide element located between the pivot shaft and the thread guide eyelet. The guide element supports the thread sensor bar in its normal operating position against lateral vibrational movements exerted by the running thread.

Abstract: A two-for-one twisting spindle has a compressed-air-actuating device which is disposed in the region of the hollow axle (21) of the spindle (1) above the spindle rotor, and which influences the run of the yarn and to which a compressed-air passage (29), extending through a stationary part (7) of the spindle, leads, in order to prevent the yarn from being drawn through the hollow axle of the spindle in the event of breakage of the yarn. The compressed-air-actuated device is a compressed-air-cylinder (27) whose axis intersects the hollow axle of the spindle at right angles thereto and whose outer wall has two openings (25) which are located diametrically opposite one another and which are in alignment with the hollow axle of the spindle, and a piston (26) which is displaceable within the compressed-air cylinder and whose rear end is subjectable to compressed air for the purpose of clamping (FIG. 1), or cutting (FIG. 5) through the yarn.

Abstract: An apparatus for braking and positioning a spinning or twisting spindle with the spindle rotor in a specified position, having a spindle brake which engages with a rotary part, preferably a wharve, of the spindle, and, separate from said brake, positioning means comprising an additional braking surface which extends over part of the periphery of a rotary part, preferably a wharve, of said spindle and up to which an additional brake member is movable. The apparatus provides a more simply constructed braking and positioning means where it is permissible for the spindle to be stopped within a certain angular range about a prescribed central position. In the illustrated embodiment, a spindle brake proper comprises shoe means 7 engageable with an inside periphery of a skirt 5 of wharve 4, and there is provided positioning means comprising an additional braking surface 9 which preferably extends over an angle from 15.degree. to 30.degree. and which is engageable by an additional brake shoe 12.

Abstract: A textile yarn processing machine, such as a two-for-one twister or the like, having respective yarn processing stations is provided with an improved yarn monitoring system for stopping the operation of the yarn processing station in response to the absence of a yarn running therethrough, as for example, upon the occurrence of a yarn breakage. The improved yarn monitoring system of the present invention is constructed generally as follows: A yarn sensor is constructed and mounted so as to be held in an operative setting by yarn tension when the yarn is running in normal operating condition and to be released in the event of the release of such tension, as upon a yarn breakage. A switching mechanism is provided for stopping the operation of the yarn processing station, and means is provided for operably connecting the yarn sensor to the switching mechanism for actuating the switching mechanism upon the release of the yarn sensor from its operative setting.