Abstract: An aspirating jet piddler that has no moving parts and operates to achieve a soft laydown with reduced tangling.

Abstract: An apparatus for splicing a leading end of a first sliver deposited in a coiler can and a trailing end of an out-running second sliver fed into a fiber processing machine, includes a device for tapering the leading and trailing ends to obtain gradually tapered length portions thereof; a device for positioning the tapered length portions side by side to obtain a juxtapositioned relationship thereof; a pressure-applying constriction through which the first and second slivers pass for splicing together the leading and trailing ends by pressure; and a device for introducing the first sliver, spliced to the second sliver, into the fiber processing machine.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a procedure for the simultaneous transportation of one group of cans (31, 310, 311) in a row from a can rack (6, 60, 61)--the cans (3) being capable of being filled with fiber band--to a frame machine (2) and/or to another textile machine (4) or to a can depot (5). The group of cans (31, 310, 311) is brought in common with the can rack (6, 60, 61) for the filling of said cans (3) into a first work station (A.sub.1) on the frame machine (2). The can rack (6, 60, 61) remains at that point during the filling of the cans (3) of this can group (31, 310, 311) until, after the filling of all the cans (3) on the can rack, the can rack (6, 60, 61) then, once again with the cans, is transported to the additional textile machine (4) or to the can depot 5.

Abstract: An aspirating jet piddler that has no moving parts and operates by swirling a textile tow line pneumatically to achieve a soft laydown with reduced tangling.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a textile machine, particularly a stretch machine with a can agitation apparatus (7) and/or a can exchange apparatus (4) which is situated in a first chamber (3), which chamber (3) communicates with the space surrounding the textile machine (1). The drive mechanism (72 or 43) of the can agitation apparatus (7) and/or the can exchange apparatus is located in an additional chamber (8 or 5) which is separated from the first chamber (3) by an aerodynamic separative element (6 or 60). Through the separation elements (6 or 60), connection elements (71 or 42) extend from the drive mechanism (72 or 43) to the can agitation apparatus (7) and/or the can exchange apparatus (4). A cleaning element (9) is made available to the first chamber (3) which cleaning element (9) (not shown) is able to be brought into action at specified times.

Abstract: A spinning can stand of a fiber sliver-processing machine such as a flyer or a jet spinning frame having a plurality of spindles in at least one row. Rectangular cans are used instead of round cans for reducing the expenditure for exchanging the spinning cans. Each unreeling spinning can or operating can has an instantaneous filling level. The filling level differs between adjacent operating cans by a fraction of the can filling. A full can or reserve can is allocated to the position of the operating can emptied to the greatest extent.

Abstract: A method for improving the monitoring of the fill state of a sliver can (5) at a spinning station of a textile machine processing sliver wherein a defined portion (24 or 124) of a can bottom (22) is initially kept free from sliver (6) while a predetermined amount of sliver (6) is deposited on an adjoining portion (25 or 125) of the can bottom (22) and only after the adjoining portion (25 or 125) is covered with sliver, is the defined portion (24 or 124) covered with sliver (6). The method includes monitoring the defined (24 or 124) portion while the sliver is being drawn out and detecting when the defined portion of the can bottom (22) is uncovered to trigger a signal for exchanging an empty can for a filled sliver can. In one preferred embodiment, a sensor (27) for monitoring the defined portion (24 or 124) and detecting an uncovered can bottom is mounted on a service unit (16) which passes over the spinning stations.

Abstract: A guide apparatus (1) for the fiber band of a textile machine which processes fibers, is situated between a pair of delivery rolls and a pair of calender rolls. The guide apparatus (1) exhibits a nozzle assembly (2, 3) with respective guide passage axes (6, 15) which form a guide path, and which nozzle sections (2, 3) are pivotally connected at their facing contacting surfaces (9, 11). The guide passage axes (6, 15) of the nozzle sections (2, 3) are angularly offset to one another, whereby at least one nozzle section (2) is pivotable from a start-up position into an operating position about a designed pivoting axis at right angles to the guide passage axes (6, 15). In the connective position, the contacting surfaces of the nozzle sections (2, 3) lie form fit and sealingly tight against one another, and in the operational position the nozzle sections (2, 3) form at least an aperture (S), preferably in the area of the contact surfaces (9, 11).

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for forming a sliver with a first regulated drafting arrangement (10) with several pairs of rollers (11, 12, 14) for the regulated drafting of the fibre mass (8) supplied to the drafting arrangement, with the fibre fleece (28) delivered by the drafting arrangement being joined and supplied to a measuring member (32) from where the measured fibre material is thereafter supplied to a second drafting arrangement (40) and with the autoleveller device (35, 52, 21) of the first drafting arrangement (10) intervening in a regulating manner in the drive of the first drafting arrangement (40) in order to compensate fluctuations in mass on the basis of the signals issued by the measuring member (32) by including a predetermined setpoint value.Various regulating and control devices are known in practice in order to obtain a high-quality sliver.

Abstract: A flat container of textile fiber sliver for receiving a sliver produced on a sliver producing textile machine and for feeding the sliver to a sliver processing machine taking over the sliver. The flat container has a movable bottom adapted to move vertically in the flat container, and includes an upper plate arranged adjustably and intended to receive the sliver being deposited, and a lower plate situated under the upper plate and likewise arranged adjustably. The upper plate and the lower plate are mutually coupled by an auxiliary coupling device permitting a common motion and independent motion of the upper and lower plates of the movable bottom.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a carding machine which has a web trumpet gathering a running fiber web into sliver and a calender roll pair arranged immediately downstream of the web trumpet for pulling the sliver therethrough. The apparatus further includes a sliver coiler having a rotary coiler head through which the sliver passes and a first sliver trumpet having an inlet which constitutes the inlet opening for the coiler head. A sliver drawing unit is arranged at the inlet opening for the coiler head for drawing the sliver running therethrough prior to entering the coiler head. Further, a second sliver trumpet is arranged at the inlet end of the drawing unit for guiding the sliver thereto.

Abstract: A sliver can for receiving a sliver has a can body with an open upper end. A spring plate is vertically moveable by a verticle travel stroke in the can body. At least one spring is arranged in the can body biasing the spring plate upwardly into a rest position. The spring plate is downwardly moveable against the force of the at least one spring by the weight force of a sliver received in the can body. A retaining device is connected to the spring plate and acts on the spring plate for preventing a return movement of the spring plate into the rest position over the entire length of the vertical travel stroke. The retaining device includes a locking element for locking the spring plate against the force of the at least one spring.

Abstract: A sliver can with improved coupling elements for raising and lowering the bottom wall of the can during filling and otherwise manipulating the cans by can transport vehicles wherein the coupling elements are disposed within the laterally outermost contour of the can and are configured in conjunction with the width of associated guide slits in the side wall of the can to receive laterally movable can manipulators, e.g. on a can transport vehicle, for interlocking connection for transmitting upward movement of the manipulators to the bottom wall of the can and, optionally, lateral movement of the manipulators to the can for pushing and pulling movements.

Abstract: An automated drafting system particularly suitable for drafting textile strands of sliver is provided. The automated drafting system includes a synchronous drive sliver drafting roller system utilizing toothed gears in the preferred embodiment operatively connecting a pair of drafting rollers with one of the rollers being directly driven by a motor to thereby cause identical rotation of both rollers. The automated drafting system also includes a system for securing and pressuring together upper and lower sliver drafting rollers wherein the lower roller of a pair of drafting rollers is preferably maintained in a fixed but rotational position while the upper roller of the pair is pressured towards the lower roller and controllably restricted as to both horizontal and vertical movement during the drafting process.

Abstract: The invention disclosed a two-head one-cubican drawing system provided with two sets of drafting mechanisms and two coilers. A cubic can is used to receive slivers from two coilers so as to decrease the space occupied by the system and facilitate the arrangement of automatic transportation. Through the control of driving mechanisms by transverse devices, evener drawing frames, and rollers the system can have two slivers equally formed in the cubic can.

Abstract: A device for monitoring and regulating the tension in the sliver produced by a carding unit and transferred from this along a path to a unit for its collection into cans for further processing, comprising a deviator bar pivoted on a pivot and an oppositely located rod provided with an element which opposes the rotary movement of the bar deriving from the variations in tension of the sliver deviated by it, the sliver tension being measured by sensors on the basis of the effect induced by the sliver on the bar, the relative signals being transmitted to the control unit which compares the values received with the allowable limiting values and implements the consequent interventions.

Abstract: A spinning plant preparation machine with a rotary plate for the depositing of fiber slivers in spinning cans, The basic body of the rotary plate is a casting, A cover is attached to the underside of the rotary plate, The cover is a cover plate which is presented in different, prefabricated states and is to be attached to the rotary plate.

Abstract: A coiler can transporting assembly for advancing coiler cans in a transporting direction to a sliver-producing textile machine. The assembly includes coiler cans each having a bottom forming a conveying face; and a conveyor element having a discharge end and an upper transporting surface engaging the conveying face of the coiler cans when in an upright, standing position on the conveyor element. The conveying face and the transporting surface have a low friction value relative to one another. A can-stopping device is situated at a location along the conveyor element and has first and second states. In the first state the can-stopping device blocks advancement of a coiler can while the conveyor element continues to move in the transporting direction. In the second state the can-stopping device allows advancement of a coiler can therethrough.

Abstract: A method of depositing a textile fiber sliver into flat sliver cans. The sliver is deposited in layers of loops similar in shape to cycloids produced under the action of an inner force effect of the sliver body in the flat sliver can. The force results from the combination of the rotary motion of an outlet aperture of the can coiler and of the mutual reversing rectilinear motion of the can coiler and of the flat sliver can in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the flat sliver can. The axis of rotation of the can coiler lies in the longitudinal axis of the flat sliver can. The width of the layers of the loops in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the flat sliver can is inferior to the width of the inner space of the flat sliver can. Thus, a deflection is produced of the sliver loop towards the longitudinal walls of the flat sliver can at which there is a greater velocity of the mutual relative motion of the outlet aperture of the can coiler and of the flat sliver can.

Abstract: A system for charging a coiler can of elongated horizontal cross section with sliver obtained from a sliver producing fiber processing machine includes a stationarily supported rotary coiler head discharging sliver in coils; a sled disposed underneath the coiler head for receiving a coiler can in an upright orientation; and a sled-reciprocating device for imparting a rapid back-and-forth motion to the sled during discharge of sliver from the coiler head to effect a deposition of sliver coils into the coiler can along a length thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to the filling of a flat can with fiber sliver by a textile machine which delivers a fiber sliver, such as a carding machine or a draw frame, whereby the flat can is moved under a stationary, rotating rotary plate. The invention significantly reduces the costs for the required movements of the flat can as compared to the state of the art. The process according to the invention for the traversing of a flat can during the filling process at a textile machine delivering a fiber sliver is realized in that the flat can is shifted laterally by tilting of the flat can around an axis in the return path of the traversing path. In the device according to the invention, the traversing mechanism is equipped with a tilting device. For this purpose, the tilting device is provided with a tilter and an axis around which the flat can is tilted.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to the deposit of the fiber sliver end after the filling of a flat can. It is the object of the invention to deposit and prepare the sliver end in the area of the filling station on a full flat can in order to facilitate automatic handling of the flat can during transportation as well as automatic handling of the sliver end on a spinning machine at the least possible cost. The invention assumes that the positions between outlet (15) of the rotary plate (12), severing device (18) and flat can (1) in relation to each other are adjustable and that an influence on the point of deposit of the sliver end and on the length of the sliver end results from this selected setting.

Abstract: A distributing mechanism for depositing wet processed fabric in rope-form in a container. A tubular distributing guide is mounted for pivoting movement on a distributing ring rotatable about a vertical axis. Ribbed support rollers on the distributing ring are received in annular grooves in a concentric support ring, such that the distributing ring is mounted by the support ring, but is rotatable with respect thereto. The support ring itself is supported for rotation about a vertical axis. Both rings are driven by a common external drive motor, but at slightly different rotational speeds. A circular cam track, formed in the supporting ring, cooperates with a cam follower wheel carried by the distributing guide.

Abstract: An apparatus for handling flat coiler cans before, during and after filling the cans with sliver by a sliver producing textile machine. The apparatus includes an empty-can storing device; a full-can storing device; an intermediate space defined between the empty-can storing device and the full-can storing device; and a sliver filling station for receiving a can to be filled. The sliver filling station includes a can-reciprocating device for moving the can back and forth while sliver is deposited thereinto. The apparatus further includes a conveyor extending between the intermediate space and the sliver filling station for moving a can to be filled into and withdrawing a filled can from the sliver filling station; and a transferring device for transferring a can to be filled from the intermediate space onto the conveyor and for transferring a filled can from the conveyor into the intermediate space.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing sliver in a coiler can includes a pair of cooperating pressure rolls; a coiler head rotating about a rotary axis and having a sliver inlet for receiving sliver from the rolls and a sliver outlet situated eccentrically with respect to the rotary axis for discharging sliver from the coiler head; a movable coiler can platform disposed underneath the coiler head for receiving an upwardly open coiler can thereon; and a severing device for severing the sliver at a location downstream of the rolls as viewed in a direction of sliver run. The position of the sliver outlet on its circular path, the position of the platform in its motion path and the running length of sliver are determined.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing sliver from a sliver-producing machine into a coiler can includes an arrangement for outputting the sliver by the sliver-producing machine with a delivery speed; a movable coiler can platform for receiving an upwardly open coiler can thereon; a sliver advancing device; a sliver depositing device positioned above the coiler can platform for receiving the sliver from the sliver advancing device and for depositing the sliver into the coiler can in an annular pattern; separate motors for driving the platform, the sliver advancing device and the sliver depositing device; and a lag-setting arrangement for automatically changing a speed lag between the motors upon a change of the delivery speed.

Abstract: A sliver coiler apparatus includes a machine frame; a stationary coiler plate supported in the machine frame; a coiler head rotatably supported in the coiler plate; a platform situated underneath the coiler plate; a coiler can positioned on the platform and having a vertically displaceable can bottom; and a control assembly for controlling a rate of downward movement of the can bottom. The control assembly includes an electronic control device; a mechanism for lowering the can bottom; and a pressure sensor responding to forces exerted by the sliver as the sliver filling operation proceeds. The drive of the lowering mechanism and the pressure sensor are connected to the electronic control device which controls the rate with which the mechanism moves the can bottom downwardly as a function of the signals generated by the pressure sensor.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to the deposit of the fiber sliver end after the filling of a flat can. It is the object of the invention to deposit and prepare the sliver end in the area of the filling station on a full flat can in order to facilitate automatic handling of the flat can during transportation as well as automatic handling of the sliver end on a spinning machine at the least possible cost. The invention assumes that the positions between outlet (15) of the rotary plate (12), severing device (18) and flat can (1) in relation to each other are adjustable and that an influence on the point of deposit of the sliver end and on the length of the sliver end results from this selected setting.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing sliver from a sliver-producing machine into a coiler can in an annular pattern includes two cooperating pressure rolls for advancing the sliver; a rotatably supported coiler head arranged for receiving sliver from the pressure rolls and having a sliver outlet travelling in a circular path upon rotation of the coiler head; a movable coiler can platform disposed below the coiler head for receiving a coiler can in an upright position; a drive for driving the pressure rolls, the coiler head and the coiler can platform for advancing sliver from the pressure rolls into the coiler head and for depositing sliver by the circulating sliver outlet into the coiler can moved by the coiler can platform in an annular pattern; and a control and regulating device connected to the drive for altering the angular velocity of the coiler head within revolutions thereof as a function of momentary positions of the sliver outlet on the circular path thereof.

Abstract: A conveyor apparatus for moving flat coiler cans into and out of a sliver filling station and for reciprocating the cans in the sliver filling station while being filled with sliver by a sliver producing textile machine, includes a conveyor element extending along a filling path within the sliver filling station and along a conveying path beyond the sliver filling station; and a drive for unidirectionally moving the conveyor element to introduce a can into or withdraw a can from the sliver filling station along the conveying path and for reciprocating the conveyor element to displace a can back-and-forth along the filling path.

Abstract: A device for imparting swivelling motion to a traversing flat can of a textile machine includes a traversing mechanism configured to drive the flat can between return points along a back-and-forth traversing path relative to the textile machine. The traversing mechanism has grasping plate devices for grasping the flat can therebetween. The device has a swivelling mechanism configured to alternately swivel the flat can in opposite directions at the return points of the traversing path. The swivelling mechanism includes rollers which are rotatable about eccentric axles. The rollers may be disposed either above the grasping plates or below the grasping plates of the traversing mechanism.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing sliver in a coiler can includes a pair of cooperating pressure rolls; a coiler head supported for rotation about a rotary axis and having a sliver outlet situated eccentrically with respect to the rotary axis; a movable coiler can support disposed underneath the coiler head for receiving an upwardly open coiler can thereon; and a drive for rotating the pressure rolls, for rotating the coiler head and for moving the coiler can support to advance the sliver through the pressure rolls into the coiler head and to deposit the sliver in an annular pattern into the coiler can. A control and regulating device is electrically connected to the drive and stops rotation of the coiler head at a predetermined location of the sliver outlet on its circular path while the pressure rolls continue to rotate and the coiler can support continues to move. A severing device is further provided for severing the sliver to produce an outer sliver end of the sliver deposited in the coiler can.

Abstract: A system for handling sliver produced by a fiber processing machine includes a sliver coiler head forming part of the fiber processing machine; and a coiler can supported in a substantially upright position under the coiler head for receiving sliver therefrom. The coiler can has a vertical wall and a can bottom surrounded by the vertical wall and being vertically displaceable relative to the wall. The system further has a can bottom shifting apparatus disposed externally of the coiler can and facing the vertical wall. The apparatus includes a carrier arrangement for at least indirectly engaging the can bottom for vertically shifting the can bottom.

Abstract: A flat can for receiving textile fiber slivers deposited therein while a jigging motion is imparted thereto comprises can sides defining an upper can bead at the top thereof. A can plate is configured to be vertically movable within the can sides between an empty position and a full position. In the empty position the can plate is at a height lower than the upper can bead. The can plate may comprise a rim around the circumference thereof which has a top generally adjacent to the upper can bead when the can plate is at the empty position. The rim may include oppositely facing incline surfaces at the ends thereof. The can sides may also include stops defined on the inner surface thereof. The stops serve to define the upper limit of travel of the can plate within the can.

Abstract: A system for handling sliver produced by a fiber processing machine includes a sliver coiler head forming part of the fiber processing machine; and a coiler can supported in a substantially upright position under the coiler head for receiving sliver therefrom. The coiler can has a vertical wall and a can bottom surrounded by the vertical wall and being vertically displaceable relative to the wall. The system further has a can bottom shifting apparatus disposed externally of the coiler can and facing the vertical wall. The apparatus includes a carrier arrangement for at least indirectly engaging the can bottom for vertically shifting the can bottom.

Abstract: In a container, or vessel for roving, comprising a fixed bottom, a movable bottom parallel to said fixed bottom and a side wall perpendicular to said bottoms, said wall is constituted by at least two distinct elements, fastenable to one another and/or to said fixed bottom.

Abstract: A device for filling a series of non-circular cans, which are disposed on a conveyor, with sliver from a sliver producing textile machine. A coiler for delivering sliver to the cans is supported on an ancillary frame which is, in turn, supported for movement on a main frame. The cans are supported on the conveyor that moves past the coiler in a direction perpendicular to the long axis direction of the respective cans. A double acting piston cylinder arrangement moves the coiler and a cover over the can in which the coiler is disposed along the path of movement of the conveyor for moving the coiler over the can to be filled. The cover and can coiler together are moveable along the long axis plane of each of the cans by a drive for moving the coiler to deliver the sliver into the can.

Abstract: The invention is a process and a device for the jigging of a flat can in a textile draw frame. According to the invention, the flat can is subjected to different dynamic moments in the translational movement along the jigging path. It is a characteristic of the invention that the speed is regularly modified in proximity of the reversal points (P1, P2), i.e. in the area of the reversal paths (UW1, UW2). The jigging device is provided with a driving device which renders the constant translational movement changeable in proximity of the reversal point (P1, P2). The driving device may be a servomotor controlled by a computer which serves as the control device. In another embodiment the diving device is a different, less expensive electric motor on the drive shaft of which belt pulleys capable of being coupled are installed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drafting apparatus and method having a plurality of pairs of rollers which pairs are each driven in the same rotational direction and have silver contact points oriented along a common straight line. Sliver is fed to the primary rollers through a trumpet guide connected to a strain gage to determine the size of incoming silver and adjust the draft ratio accordingly to equalize the output silver weight. A silver presence and position detecting device operative on a reflected signal is provided adjacent the output of silver, which sends a signal through a computer to adjust the speed of the silver take up apparatus.

Abstract: An autoleveller draw frame achieves changes in the draft by changing the supply speed. The can press nevertheless works evenly. A storage device between the sliver calenders and the can press compensates for changes in the amount of supplied sliver. The storage device can be arranged in such a way that it allows a "flying change of cans." In one aspect, between the sliver calenders and the can press, the sliver forms a hanging loop which varies in depth, depending upon any changes in the supply speed of the sliver, while the can press operates relatively evenly and is not required to be accelerated or braked in response to changes in the supply speed. In another aspect, the storage device includes a conveyor belt arrangement between the supply of the sliver and the can press. Sliver loops are formed on an upper conveyor belt strand, whereafter they are deflected to a lower conveyor belt strand and then fed to the can press.

Abstract: This invention relates to a coiler using tongue and groove rollers preferably for measuring sliver thickness and guiding sliver emerging from between these rollers, using guide means such as a pair of calender rollers driven for rotation in the same conveying direction.Optionally the sliver between the conveying nip at the tongue and groove rollers and the guide means (when embodied as calender rollers) is severed by intermittent operation of the conveying and guiding nips.

Abstract: A non-circular sliver container (1) is used for transporting sliver (2) to a spinning machine having a support table (3) fixed to one of its rounded ends at its upper edge. A groove (31) for receiving a reinforced introducing point (4) of the sliver (2) is provided. A recess (32) is provided in the groove (31) for allowing the point (4) of the sliver (2) to be gripped and inserted int a spinning machine.

Abstract: A rotary plate is provided for fiber sliver depositing devices, in particular for draw frames and carding machines. The plate includes a spatially curved sliver channel made of a pipe element with two arcs of circles verging directly into each other. The sliver channel of the rotary plate is preferably made of special friction reducing steel. The plate may also include a cover attached to the bottom thereof also formed of the friction reducing material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sliver channel of a spinning plant preparation machine for the deposit of a fiber sliver in a container. The sliver channel is designed in form of a helix with changing gradient.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing sliver in a can. The sliver is introduced from above and is deposited continuously in the can in layers one above the other from bottom to top. The sliver is guided by a guiding device. The device includes rollers contained by an annular device. At least one of the rollers has a conical shape. The rollers make contact with and draw the sliver into the can. The guiding device includes a funnel which is movable in a radial direction such that the sliver is deposited in successive spiral paths in the can. A counterbalancing device is provided so as to counteract the movement of the funnel. The sliver is guided such that the spiral path runs alternately from an outer radial position to an inner radial position approximately adjacent the can center and from the inner radial position to the outer radial position adjacent an inner wall of the can.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a drawframe having a sliver delivery device and a computer part for maintaining a predetermined quality of sliver, wherein there is a predetermined overproduction from a card and/or a drawframe relative to a spinning machine. The arrangement temporarily decreases production to temporarily compensate for the overproductions. The sliver which is produced during the decrease in production may be delivered to a separate can.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a card having a sliver delivery device and a computer part for maintaining a predetermined quality of a carded sliver, wherein there is a predetermined overproduction from a card and/or a drawframe relative to a spinning machine. The arrangement temporarily decreases production to temporarily compensate for the overproductions. The sliver which is produced during the decrease in production may be delivered to a separate can.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for filling textile material into containers having an elongate cross-section, contemplates suspending each container by releasable holder elements secured to displacement devices. Advantageously further provided for each container, during the filling operation, is an external elevation positioning device which can be releasably coupled with the container to be filled with textile material. A displacement device moves the container which is being filled beneath a coiler to deposit loops of the textile material into the container. A device serves to automatically remove the filled containers and a further device delivers empty containers which are to filled.

Abstract: A drive between an autoleveller output and a coiler in a carding and deposition assembly comprises slack take-up means, and means for varying the length of the sliver path. In a belt drive, the slack take-up is effected on both sides of the belt drive by dancing pulleys. These may be resiliently biassed, either by a helical tension spring, by the belt elasticity and pulley geometry, or other suitable means.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing a textile fiber strand in a spinning can. Mounted in a housing are two rotary plates (4, 5) for rotation about their respective axes, one of the rotary plates being smaller and mounted at an eccentric position inside the outer periphery of the other rotary plate. The rotary plates are connected to a lay-down pipe through which the fiber strand is guided. The two rotary plates are coupled to one another by a revolving belt transmission, the lay-down pipe being composed of a plurality of pipe sections (18, 22, 23, 19, 8) rotatable relative to one another and associated with the rotary plates (4, 5). Disposed adjacent the outlet end of the lay-down pipe is a pneumatic pressure injector (48) for automatically threading the fiber strand.