Abstract: To simplify and accelerate the chucking of a journal-free beam or roll mandrel in a winding machine and also to automate and accelerate the alignment of the winding machine and the journal-free beam or roll mandrel in relation to a creel middle plane or centerline, a displacement device is connected to an auxiliary side stand by at least one first extension link or hollow spindle and is also connected with a displaceable support by at least one second extension link or solid spindle. To achieve these effects, the first and second extension links or spindles are moved or positively controlled in opposite displacement directions through respectively equal distances relative to a spatially fixed plane passing through the displacement device and which plane extends transverse to the direction of displacement of the winding machine.

Abstract: The winding machine comprises a driving-side stand, an auxiliary-side stand, a support positioned between the driving-side stand and the auxiliary-side stand, and a beam, such as a journal beam containing journals or pins and clamped between the driving-side stand and the support. These journals or pins are provided with replaceable or exchangeable clamping or chucking cones. The driving-side stand and the support each possess a mating or counter-cone engagingly fitting the associated clamping or chucking cone.

Abstract: In order to pivot lifting forks and press or contact roll arms, there is employed a single cylinder unit acting by means of a piston rod upon a crank arm of a shaft member. Rotation of this shaft member causes, by means of the press roll arms connected rigidly for rotation with such shaft member, pivoting of a press or contact roll. A lever which likewise is rigidly connected for rotation with the shaft member is hingedly connected with a pair of brackets at whose other end there is located a guide roller or roll which travels in a slotted guide of a guide lever carrying one of the lifting or lift forks for the lifting-in and lifting-out of the warp beam. The other lifting fork is carried by a second analogous guide lever. Both of the guide levers are operatively connected with a pivotal shaft.

Abstract: The centering and entrainment devices, by means of which the warp beam can be clamped or chucked, are axially slidably guided at side plates of the beam warping machine. With their outer ends they are hingedly connected at a respective lever. Both of the levers are pivotably mounted, by means of their one end about stationary pivot pins, in a plane which contains both of these pivot points as well as the axis of the warp beam. At their opposite ends both of the levers are interconnected by a rod arrangement, wherein a threaded sleeve having two opposite internal threads and rotatably mounted in one side plate allows changes in the length of such rod arrangement. Consequently, both of the levers can be synchronously and axially symmetrically moved towards and away from one another, so that the coaxially guided centering and entrainment devices can be symmetrically advanced towards and displaced out of the warp beam.