Abstract: A method and apparatus for disposing the yarn end of a package in a further handling disposition such as, for example, in the tube of the package, is provided. A preliminarily repositioning device receives packages from a ring spinning machine or the like, some of the packaging having their yarn ends in a preferred preliminary disposition and other of the packages having their yarn ends in a disposition displaced from the preferred preliminary disposition. The preliminarily repositioning device repositions the yarn ends of packages having displaced yarn ends from a displaced disposition to the preferred preliminary disposition. Thereafter, a relocating device relocates the yarn end of each package having its yarn end in the preferred preliminary disposition from that disposition to the further handling disposition. An advancing device advances packages between the preliminarily repositioning device and the relocating device.

Abstract: A cutting assembly for severing trailing yarns on spinning bobbins being transported along a transport route includes a cutting apparatus disposed at a given level on one side of a transport apparatus for transporting spinning bobbins upright on mandrels along a transport route. A feeder is disposed at the given level on the opposite side of the transport apparatus for feeding the trailing yarns to the cutting apparatus.

Abstract: An assembly for the orderly and sequentially timed transport of bobbins includes a bobbin producing machine, at least one conveyor belt with a given load capacity and bobbin carrying capacity downstream of the bobbin producing machine in bobbin travel direction, a switching device for the conveyor belt, a controllable individual bobbin retaining device downstream of the conveyor belt including a bobbin retaining element, a bobbin transporter downstream of the bobbin retaining device with a load capacity and bobbin carrying capacity being smaller than the given capacities, the bobbin transporter including receiving elements for individual bobbins, and a device for operating the bobbin transporter in step with the conveyor belt, such as in the form of a timing device of the bobbin transporter and/or a sensor controlling the switching device of the conveyor belt.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing a constant supply of circulating textile bobbin tubes from a delivery conveyor of a textile winding machine to a return conveyor of a textile spinning machine. A reserve magazine containing textile bobbin tubes is combined with an accumulating magazine through which tubes are received from a winder and discharged for feeding to a spinning machine, with the reserve magazine discharging tubes to a transfer conveyor whenever there is an absence of supply of tubes from the accumulating magazine. An overflow collector collects tubes received from the winder in excess of the number necessary to maintain the accumulating magazine full, with the overflow of tubes being transferred manually or automatically to the reserve magazine.

Abstract: A drawing frame has a housing having an upper part and a lower part telescoping therewith, attachments for securing the parts together at any of a plurality of different vertically offset positions, a turntable in the lower part for supporting a sliver can and for rotating it about an upright axis, and an intake device in the upper part for pulling in and drawing slivers and for depositing the drawn slivers in the can. One of the parts is at least partially within the other part and the one part is formed with a plurality of vertically offset holes. The attachments are bolts engagable through the other part with the holes of the one part. These attachment bolts can simply snap in place, or can actually be screwed into threaded holes in the inner part.

Abstract: An apparatus for sorting spent tubes as they are carried on an intermittently advancing conveyor with the apparatus having a tube ejecting device that reciprocates along the length of tubes during dwells in conveyor movement and has a tube contacting element that slides along clean surfaces of the tubes without causing ejection but engages any residual windings of yarn on tubes to thereby force the tubes with residual windings to move longitudinally and out off the conveyor. The tube contacting element has a base portion with resilient flat teeth projecting therefrom longitudinally with respect to the tubes and in the direction of tube ejecting movement. The base portion is a flat resilient plate from which the teeth project at an inclination toward the tube surface for resilient biasing thereagainst to facilitate engagement of residual windings thereon and resulting ejection of tubes with yarn windings while allowing clean tubes to remain on the conveyor.

Abstract: A device for keeping a constant number of bobbin tubes in circulation between at least one spinning machine and at least one winding machine includes a device for circulating bobbin tubes between at least one spinning machine and at least one winding machine, a sorting device for sorting out partially wound bobbin tubes from the circulating device, and a tube input apparatus operatively connected to the sorting device including a tube magazine for introducing empty bobbin tubes into the circulating device in proportion to the number of partially wound bobbin tubes sorted out.

Abstract: A device for individually and sucessively advancing cops from a cop-producing machine in an orderly manner via conveyor belts to a cyclically stepwise advanceable cop conveyor having take-up mandrels thereon, comprising respective substantially vertical loading shafts located between the conveyor belts and the cop conveyor for delivering cops in upright position onto the take-up mandrels of the cop conveyor, the loading shafts being formed of sidewise deflectable wall elements, an actuating device operatively engageable with the loading shafts, respectively, for deflecting the wall elements thereof sidewise so as to permit the respective delivered cop to be father advanced by the cop conveyor, clock switching devices connected to the conveyor belts for actuating the belts to individually and successively advance the cops in the orderly manner, and a sensor for distinguishing between the absence and presence of a cop on a respective take-up mandrel of the cop conveyor and for enabling and disenabling the clock

Abstract: A tube transfer device for transferring usable tubes from a tube feeding device to a tube receiving device includes an elevator advancing tubes in a given transport direction from the tube feeding device to the tube receiving device is steps with pauses between the steps, the elevator having receiver elements for individual tubes, a feeler element movable back and forth transverse to the given transport direction during the pauses, the feeler element passing over usable tubes and pushing unusable tubes out of the receiver elements, and a receiver device adjacent the elevator for receiving the unusable tubes from the receiver elements.

Abstract: A method for loading a winding machine with run-off spools required by the winding machine in an irregular sequence from a rhythmically operated loading device including a spool conveyor leading toward the winding machine, and an intermediate magazine downstream of the loading device in travel direction of the spools includes storing individual spools one after the other in given storage locations on the intermediate magazine, automatically discharging the spools from the intermediate magazine in the number requested by the winding machine, and transferring the spools to the spool conveyor at a distance from each other, and an apparatus for carrying out the method.

Abstract: An installation includes a spinning machine, a winding machine, a bobbin transporting device transporting the bobbins from the spinning machine to the winding machine, and a tube or sleeve transporting device transporting tubes or sleeves from the winding machine to the spinning machine providing a circulation of wound and unwound tubes or sleeves, the bobbin transporting device including at least one automatic yarn steaming device.

Abstract: Device for unloading textile coils from a coil conveyor provided with take-up mandrels, the textile coils having coil tubes by which the coils are stuck onto the take-up mandrels, includes at an unloading station of the coil conveyor, a fork pivotable about a pivot shaft in a plane perpendicular to the axis of a take-up mandrel thereat and a textile coil stuck thereon for gripping under the lower end of at least one of the coil and the coil tube and supporting the coil tube, the fork being connected to a counterbearing disposed above the textile coil and pivotable in the same rotational sense as the fork, a lifting device connected to the pivot shaft of the fork for lifting the textile coil, a deflector wall located adjacent the coil conveyor, the fork being pivotable with the lifted textile coil and, with upper parts of the textile coil disposed against the counterbearing, until the fork is beneath the deflector wall and the textile coil comes into contact with the deflector wall, the textile coil being slid

Abstract: A device for inserting the thread end of a textile bobbin into a bobbin sleeve includes a bobbin conveyer, slip-on arbors disposed on the bobbin conveyer, each of the slip-on arbors being a tube with upper and lower open ends for receiving a bobbin sleeve thereon, a first controllable suction nozzle, a device for positioning the first suction nozzle against the lower end of one of the slip-on arbors on which a bobbin sleeve is disposed, a controllable mechanical thread stripper for stripping thread from the bobbin sleeve, a thread clamp, a second controllable suction nozzle connected to the thread stripper and to the thread clamp, a device for moving the second suction nozzle upward and downward into a stop position against the upper end of the bobbin sleeve, a controllable holding device for laterally pressing the base of the bobbin sleeve against the one slip-on arbor, a thread severing device disposed downstream of the second suction nozzle as seen in travel direction of a thread end separated from the bob

Abstract: A spinning and winding plant includes at least one ring spinning machine, at least one winding machine, at least one first spool conveyor and at least one first tube sleeve conveyor disposed at the ring spinning machine, at least one second spool conveyor and at least one second tube sleeve conveyor disposed at the winding machine, at least one spool transfer station disposed between the first and second spool conveyors, at least one tube sleeve transfer station disposed between the first and second tube sleeve conveyors, a spool storage device with a predetermined number of storage locations at the spool transfer station, a device for emptying the spool storage device in sequence with the requirement for spools at the winding machine, a device for filling a given maximum number of the storage locations with spools supplied by the ring spinning machine, and a device for filling a minimum number of the storage locations with at least partly filled spools ejected and returned from the winding machine.

Abstract: An assembly for a bobbin creel includes a rod-shaped support and thread tensioners connected to the support, the support being a rod with a hollow profile and formed with a longitudinal slot; each of the thread tensioners having a drive unit, a loading unit and at least one cup-type thread brake connected to the drive unit; the cup-type thread brake having a substantially horizontal axis of rotation; the drive units of the thread tensioners being disposed in the interior of the rod with the hollow profile; a common drive element connecting the drive units to one another; and a releasable clamping element connecting the cup-type thread brake to the support.

Abstract: Cop preparation plant, including a device for locating, drawing off and cutting to length thread ends of a spinning cop, a device disposed down stream of the locating, drawing off and cutting device in travel direction of the cops, for separating spinning cops having thread ends of a substandard length from other spinning cops, and a device disposed down stream of the separating device for retracting the separated cops into another cop separating device connected in series with the cop preparation plant.

Abstract: Holding frame for a package beam of a heavy winding machine, including a right side frame and a left side frame. Each of the side frames is formed of a pair of flat sheet steel plates, with tension resistant and compression resistant spacer members interposed between each pair of plates. Each pair of plates is bolted together with the spacer member therebetween. First carriers formed of steel penetrate the plates at connection locations and rigidly connect the side frames to each other. A beam receiving device is disposed at least at one of the side frames. A second carrier with a tubular shape penetrates the pair of plates of the at least one side frame at connection locations and supports the beam receiving device. Detachable force transmission devices are disposed between the plates and at least one of the carriers at least at one of the connection locations.

Abstract: Bobbin separating unit, including a first charging device, a second charging device downstream of the first charging device in flow direction of the bobbins, a first separating device, and a second separating device downstream of the first separating device, and a device for controlling the bobbin delivery rate of the first charging and separating devices in dependence on the bobbin content of the second charging and separating devices.

Abstract: Creel, including a stationary supporting frame, at least one yarn tension holding element and at least one thread guiding element supported by the stationary supporting frame, bobbin holding assemblies disposed in vicinity of the stationary supporting frame, a plurality of bobbin holding elements carried on each of the bobbin holding assemblies, drive rollers connected to the bobbin holder assemblies for supporting the assemblies on a floor, a separate hood-shaped sliding frame connected to each of the assemblies, and a separate upper cover plate disposed on each of the sliding frames covering the drive rollers and part of the floor for preventing accidents and dust accumulation.

Abstract: Central connectible yarn brake mechanism for doffed threads from a creel, including a profiled metal bar having at least one groove formed therein, stationary first brake elements being mutually spaced apart along the metal bar outside the groove and each being associated with one of the threads, a first device for individually connecting the first brake elements to the metal bar, movable second brake elements each being associated with one of the threads and being movable between a braking position in which the second brake elements are biased against a thread and against a respective one of the first brake elements and a detached position in which the second brake elements are lifted from a respective one of the first brake elements, bearings disposed on the metal bar in the groove, a central rotatable bar movable in the bearings in the groove, levers each being fastened to the rotatable bar, and a second device for individually connecting each of the levers to a respective one of the second brake elements