Abstract: A method for reducing broken fibers on the surface of a carbon fiber bundle involves passing the yarn past a suction nozzle having an extended trailing edge which impacts the broken fibers as they pass the slot breaking off the fibers. The broken fibers are transported to a disposal station. The differential in elevation of the leading and trailing edges of the intake slot of the nozzle provide an exposed impacting edge.

Abstract: A spinning or twisting machine comprises at least one operating unit, which is driven by a drive motor mounted near an operating unit, at least one suction or air duct, a heat collecting jacket for a drive motor at least partially enclosing the drive motor, and at least one connecting air duct connecting the heat collecting jacket with at least one suction or air duct so that heat generated at the drive motor can be exhausted through the duct. The ventilators normally associated with the drive motors can be eliminated or reduced in output and energy consumption.

Abstract: An apparatus for preventing scatter of fly in a winder having a plurality of winding units where a yarn is unwound from a yarn feeding bobbin and is taken-up on a take-up package. A first cover member for covering the yarn feeding bobbin unwound at a winding unit and a second cover member for covering a tenser portion are provided with each winding unit.

Abstract: A mechanism for pneumatically purging undesirable fiber fluff and dust from a spindle assembly of a two-for-one twister textile thread processing machine created during thread processing and particularly in the area of a rotating thread balloon and being characterized by utilizing air flow created by operation of the spindle assembly in processing thread without disturbing the rotating thread balloon is provided. The purging mechanism includes a housing jacket axially mounted on one end of a balloon limitor device and having a generally curved inner wall spaced from the axis of the spindle assembly rotor mechanism and the carrier mechanism a greater distance than the inner wall of the balloon limitor and a lateral opening on one side thereof, and a duct connected to the lateral opening and adapted to lead to a collecting container.

Abstract: In a false twist spinning unit a fiber sliver is removed from a fiber sliver can and fed into a drafting mechanism. The fiber aggregation delivered by the drafting mechanism is received by a suction portion of a spinning unit and is passed to a twist-imparting element which produces a spun yarn. The spun yarn is withdrawn by a roller pair and passes via a yarn monitoring device to a winding unit. The suction pressure required for the suction portion is produced by a suction device. In the event of blockage of the suction portion, a cleaning element or device is activated. After cleaning of the suction portion is completed, spinning is restarted.

Abstract: The spinning machine comprises a drafting frame for drawing sliver and at least one fiber suction station connected to a vacuum source associated with this drafting frame. To save energy each fiber suction station is provided with a sensing means for detection of broken fiber or roving and throttling means for throttling the suction. The throttling means is adjustable to a throttled position in the air stream which considerably reduces the air flowing into the fiber suction duct. This throttling means is also automatically disengagable into a position resulting in a considerably increased air flow rate following detection of broken fiber or roving by the sensing means.

Abstract: A servicing device is provided for a spinning machine which includes a plurality of spinning stations, which servicing device is moveable along the spinning stations and adjustably disposed adjacent to each. The servicing device is outfitted with at least one fly catching needle connected to a rotational drive unit. The fly catching needle is arranged at a holder which is moveably mounted and provided with a driving unit so that it is adjustable along one or several predetermined paths to predetermined parts of the spinning unit and especially plural positions of a drafting unit or frame.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a stretching unit (S) delivering two stretched fiber rovings (4, 5). One fiber roving (4) serves as the core for the wrapped yarn to be produced and runs to a twist-imparting device (6, 7). The fibers of the other fiber roving (5) are transferred to a moving fiber feeding and holding surface (9) constituted by a perforated peripheral surface of a hollow disk (10). This surface (9) comes into contact with the core (4) at a point (C) in front of the twist-imparting device (6, 7). At this contact point (C), the fibers fed on the surface (9) are seized by the rotating core (4) and wound up. At the contact point (C), a fiber catching device (12) is likewise arranged, having an air-permeable surface (11) behind which a vacuum is maintained.

Abstract: In a friction spinning process, a method is provided for preventing build up of dust and fly etc. inside a friction spinning machine (1) which method comprises the steps of introducing into the machine a flow of filtered air at a pressure just sufficient to substantially prevent the ingress of unfiltered air during spinning. The invention also provides apparatus for performing the method described, which apparatus comprises filter means (19), pressurizing means (20), ducting (22, 23) adapted to permit the outflow of clean pressurized air into the inside of the machine (1) adjacent the or each spinning head (3) at a pressure sufficient to substantially prevent the ingress of unfiltered air during spinning.

Abstract: In the case of a friction spinning machine having at least one spinning unit containing two friction rollers that are arranged next to one another to form a wedge-shaped yarn forming gap serving as the yarn forming zone, it is provided that in the area located opposite the yarn forming point the friction rollers are covered by a housing side and that by means of periodically switchable means, an air flow is produced between the housing side and the rollers.

Abstract: Fly waste removing system for the spinning winder which has a spinning frame and a winder connected to each other. A common cleaner having ducts is run between a spinner area and a winder area to blow off or suck the fly wastes by applying air from air injection and/or air suction ports of the ducts.

Abstract: A nozzle for the pneumatic release of a broken yarn end in a spinning or twisting frame has a plurality of mutually parallel closely spaced passages trained at an angle to the yarn package so that the individual jets in closely spaced relationship are collectively effective to liberate the broken yarn end and enable it to be captured by a suction hood.

Abstract: The invention relates to the control of loose lint or fly released by textile yarns which are in contact with yarn guides, feeding and tensioning devices and the like during their travel from bobbins to textile machines. According to the invention, creels or yarn feed devices are enclosed within a housing (2, 12, 76, 94) which is divided into a plurality of compartments (A, B, C: A', B', C': A", B") at least one of which is traversed by a yarn (Y) during its travel, air circulating means (38, 58, 78, 108) to circulate air in a continuous path through the compartments, and a partition (32, 66, 88, 106) provided between two adjacent compartments comprising a filter screen capable of trapping fly or lint carried by air passing therethrough.

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning the rotor of the spinning unit for the open-end spinning of yarn. The apparatus has a cleaning head with cleaning elements arranged in the form of a rotary brush mounted upon a rotatably driven shaft. In the cleaning head, at the rear side of the brush, there is provided at least one projection which deflects or bends the bristle of the brush axially outwardly at intermediate portions thereof so as to reduce their effective diameter so as to enable them to penetrate into the inlet opening of the spinning rotor.

Abstract: A device for interrupting the feed of a roving to drawing frames of a thread spinning machine of the type wherein each drawing frame comprises a plurality of pairs of upper and lower drawing rollers, of which the lower drawing roller, located on a roving in-feed side of the drawing frame, is provided with a clamping segment for interrupting the roving feed in a released position thereof in response to a broken-end detector, which monitors the presence of a spun thread, is improved by the provision of a suction device, associated with the drawing rollers on a thread formation side of the drawing frames, for collecting rovings present in a drawing frame when the roving feed thereto is interrupted. In accordance with a perferred embodiment, the suction device comprises suction tubes which are mounted for movement away from the drawing rollers and lockable in respective operating and nonoperating positions.

Abstract: A device for the uniform retrieval of yarn ends in an air spinning device. A suction force gradient is created between the air jet nozzle and the waste suction pipe. Gravitational force and the suction gradient cause broken yarn ends to drop from the air jet nozzle orifice toward the waste suction pipe. When yarn piecing is desired, a piecing suction pipe retrieves the yarn end from the nozzle orifice.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing trash in an open-end spinning frame is disclosed herein. According to the invention, an open-end spinning unit is provided with a trash transporting chamber which is communicated with an opening which is formed on part of the inner peripheral surface of a space in which a combing roller is rotatably disposed and through which part of the circumferential surface of the rotating combing roller is exposed. The trash transporting chamber is so constructed that its interior is placed substantially under an atmospheric pressure, and a side wall thereof facing opposedly toward the opening is spaced from the circumferential surface of the combing roller exposed through said opening at a distance falling within a range from a dimension which is substantially equal to the diameter of the combing roller to a dimension which is about two times said diameter.

Abstract: Fiber separating device of an open-end spinning unit wherein the wall facing the fiber separating cylinder is provided with an impurity separating duct and with one or more air supply apertures. The air supply apertures are oriented symmetrically with respect to a plane substantially passing through the axis of the impurity separating duct and perpendicular to the axis of the fiber separating cylinder, the axes of said apertures including the same angles with the opposite walls of the impurity separating duct. The fiber separating device of the invention solves the problem of withdrawing impurities from fibrous materials supplied to the fiber separating device of open-end spinning unit, while reducing losses of the fibrous material.

Abstract: An apparatus for locating a servicing device which travels along a parent textile machine, such as a spinning frame, having a plurality of stations and stops at any designated station of the parent machine to there perform a servicing operation, such as yarn piecing or cleaning by use of fluid, such as compressed air or vacuum, supplied from a fluid source provided separately from the servicing device. The apparatus comprises, on each station of the parent machine, a stationary connector communicating with the fluid source and a locating guide member having a locating guide groove therein, and, on the servicing device, an air cylinder, a locating rod actuated by the cylinder toward and away from the locating guide member and engageable with the guide groove and a communicating member movable together with the locating rod and engageable with the stationary connector.

Abstract: Apparatus for separating fibers in open-end spinning units having a fiber separating cylinder in a cavity of a housing in which on a cylindrical surface there is provided a cleaning aperture with an impurity separating duct which latter opens by its impurity rebounding wall into a cylindrical impurity collecting chamber communicating, on the one hand, with an air supply aperture and, on the other hand, with an impurity sucking-off duct. In accordance with the invention at least one of the walls of the impurity sucking-off duct tangentially merges into the cylindrical wall of the cylindrical impurity collecting chamber, and the height of said sucking-off duct in the region of joining said collecting chamber is the same as or larger than the height of the outlet from said impurity separating duct into said collecting chamber.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for supplying vacuum to a serving device which travels along a multi-station parent textile machine such as a spinning frame and providing a servicing operation such as yarn piecing or package doffing to the stations of the parent machine are disclosed, wherein a vacuum duct, which has vacuum outlet openings corresponding to the individual stations of the machine and lids rotatably supported for closing the vacuum outlet openings, is arranged along the parent machine and the servicing device includes a nozzle which takes in vacuum from the duct. The nozzle is advanced toward the vacuum duct just before the servicing device reaches a station which calls for the servicing, and the end of the nozzle rotates the lid to uncover its vacuum outlet opening and then is stopped in alignment with the opening. Then, the nozzle is moved with the servicing device to rotate the lid thereby closing the outlet opening, whereafter it is retracted to its original position.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus which is movable along a spinning machine having numerous drafting mechanisms. The cleaning apparatus has air jets directed onto the drafting mechanism to loosen lint or fiber fly, which is taken up by suction openings. First air jets are arranged above and below the working or operating region of the drafting mechanism; these air jets respectively produce a horizontal air veil in order to prevent the fiber fly from being blown onto adjacent machine parts, or onto the floor of the workshop. Additionally, a second jet produces a strong flat air stream which essentially extends at right angles to the horizontal air veils of the first air jets, and extends approximately in the center thereof. A row of suction mouthpieces is respectively provided on both sides of the flat air stream of the second air jet.

Abstract: A wrapped yarn spinning unit equipped with a delivery device for a sliver, a hollow spindle that carries a binding thread to be wrapped about the sliver and rotating together with the hollow spindle, a take-off device for the wrapped yarn, a feed tube between the delivery device and the hollow spindle and an air line connected to the feed tube at a distance downstream of the inlet opening of the feed tube and adapted to be connected to a vacuum source; a twist-producing device is further provided within the area of the inlet opening of the hollow spindle.

Abstract: A spinning assembly for a wrapped yarn spinning machine in which a staple sliver is guided by a delivery device into a hollow spindle which carries a co-rotating binding thread; the thread is wound around the staple sliver by the rotation of the hollow spindle. A stationary balloon limiter is provided in the vicinity of the binding thread and a screen is mounted in front of the delivery device, which screen comprises a passage for the staple sliver. This screen is constructed as a screen plate, mounted at an axial distance from the balloon limiter. This construction of the present invention has the advantage that an air stream is generated within the balloon limiter, which flows upward from below and leaves radially through the gap between the upper end of the uncovered balloon limiter and the screen plate. This air stream is directed counter to both the sliver and the binding thread entering the hollow spindle, so that no fiber fly can penetrate the interior of the hollow spindle.

Abstract: To ensure for the effective removal by suction of thread breaks, even at long ring spinning machines in an economical manner, a second duct or channel is provided above a package creel and parallel to a first suction duct or channel. Both ducts discharge into a common suction chamber. Connecting channels conduct a portion of the air quantity sucked-up by suction nozzles into the second duct or channel. The cross-section of the second duct is enlarged, with increasing length of such duct, in a manner such that there prevails in both ducts essentially the same mean air velocity.

Abstract: An air current rectifier plate surrounds the foremost air jet nozzle in an air spinning device. The rectifier plate produces a non-turbulent flow of air toward the waste suction pipe and prevents debris from back-flowing into the air jet nozzle.

Abstract: The invention concerns the pneumatic cleaning of spinning rotors for open-end spinning. Cleaning is accomplished in a manner such that the spinning rotor is brought to standstill and a cleaning device is snugly seated by means of its cleaning cover upon the rotor housing. Thereafter, during a suction operation there is particularly sucked away the part of the contaminants or impurities forming a fiber ring. Then, there is formed an air jet by means of pressurized or compressed air and a blower head which is introduced into the internal space of the rotor. This air jet while rotating frees the remaining contaminants or impurities, especially the dust-like contaminants, which are then likewise removed by suction.

Abstract: A textile machine such as a spinning machine has, for each spindle, a comparator which senses the voltage at a motor driving said spindle and compares it with a reference voltage. Upon the comparator sensing such a change in the motor voltage as would be consistent with breakage of the material being worked on the machine (e.g. a roving passing towards the spindle and being spun into a thread), it operates a switch which serves both to switch off the motor driving the spindle and to arrest the material passing to the spindle.

Abstract: A spinning frame having a frame mount, a plurality of spindles and, suction elements for each spindle, a ventilating fan arranged in the frame mount and connected to the suction elements, and a filter on the pressure side of the ventilating fan, the filter forming at least part of the rear wall of the frame mount, and including pneumatic cleaning means for the filter, said cleaning means including a suction arm which is movable along the filter and is connected to a suction device.

Abstract: For automatic feeding of slivers through drawing rollers there is provided a sliver-processing frame having drawing rollers, tubes for conveying slivers to be drawn and a plurality of suction elements connected to a common source of low pressure wherein the drawing rollers are enclosed in a casing of which the interior is connected to the source of low pressure the casing having inlet orifices for admitting cleaning air to the surfaces of the drawing rollers, one end of each tube leading into the casing.

Abstract: The spindles of a flyer spinning frame are each mounted in respective chambers which are defined by telescopically slidable rings. The lowest ring on each sleeve is sealingly fixed on a spindle rail, while the uppermost ring on each sleeve is attached to a common, vertically movable support. The chambers, which are open at the top, are connected to the suction side of a ventilating fan by ducts, which extend through the spindle rail, and by flexible lines.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a doubled yarn draws a core yarn off a core-yarn supply, pulls the core yarn longitudinally in a travel direction along a yarn path, and drafts the core yarn longitudinally along this path. A tube through which the yarn passes longitudinally extends along the path downstream of the drafting station has relative to the yarn-travel direction an upstream portion and a downstream portion. A current of air is passed longitudinally in the travel direction through the upstream tube portion and another current is passed longitudinally opposite the travel direction through the downstream portion. Thus upstanding fibers are first laid against the core yarn to be integrated into it as same twists in the upstream tube portion and any remaining fibers are laid back against it so that a winder yarn can be wound around the core yarn immediately downstream of the tube to bind in these fibers too.

Abstract: Device for preventing the discharge of dust and fiber particles from textile machine work zones having running threads disposed therein, including an air screen system disposed between the work zones and the ambient air in the vicinity of the machine, the air screen system including air discharge nozzles and air suction nozzles.

Abstract: An open-end spinning unit has a housing having a cylindrical space, with a complementary cylindrical fiber-opening roller disposed in that space which communicates with a dust removing chamber having a dust separating zone and a dust discharge promoting zone, said zones being connected together through an intermediate passage positioned on the downstream side of a dust removing opening communicating with said space, a wall portion of the casing defining a downstream side of the dust separating zone being comprized by an inclined wall which faces an end portion of a partition separating said zones, the partition having an end wall which is inclined with respect to the vertical direction at an angle equal to or smaller than an angle of inclination of the inclined wall.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for individually piecing up yarn on an open-end spinning machine which has a spinning rotor and a rotor brake. A rotor cleaning apparatus is carried on a pivotal cover and is used for cleaning the rotor responsive to being activated. A pivotal lever which when moved relative to the cover simultaneously activates the rotor cleaning apparatus and the rotor brake causing the rotor to be cleaned as the rotor is being stopped. The yarn is pieced up when the rotor is being brought back up to running speed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing waste of supply strands passing to a series of yarn processing units, in which a detector moves along the yarn processing units alternately in a first direction and a second direction opposite from the first direction while sensing breakage of any one of a series of strands being delivered from the processing units and also sensing the direction of movement of the detector, and in response to sensing breakage of any strand, and irrespective of the direction of movement of the detector, passage of the corresponding supply strand is interrupted in its course to the corresponding yarn processing unit by a flowing stream of air being directed from a nozzle moving with the detector into engagement with a corresponding, normally inactive, strand interrupting member for actuating the same.

Abstract: The scaffolding intended for supporting the entire structure of a spinning frame or a like machine is made of individual intermediate sections which are united to a header and a tail section and are serially connected to each other in the intermediate portion of the machine. Each section is composed by two spaced apart shell-like sidewalls connected together by tubular longitudinally extending members. The sections are united by bolting them together so that the tubular members form conduits for removing linters and like airborne materials sucked by an exhauster. Sound-absorbing slabs are inserted between every two adjoining section sidewalls to diminish the noise level.

Abstract: A method and device for cleaning a rotor in an open-end spinning machine. While the rotor is running at a speed less than the normal r.p.m. a first flow of cleaning air is directed to a collecting groove of the rotor and a second flow of cleaning air is simultaneously directed to the periphery of the spinning rotor at an angle different from the first flow of air. In one embodiment, at least one of the flows of air is directed in a pulsating manner. The flows or streams of air are fed through ducts provided in an extension of a cover which extends within the rotor or is supplied to the rotor by means of a movable housing.

Abstract: A dust removing mechanism is applied to each unit of an open-end spinning machine. In each spinning unit provided with an opening roller and a spinning rotor for creating a yarn from fibers supplied from the opening roller, a casing partly surrounds the opening roller and a dust removing opening is formed in the casing. In such mechanism, a dust removing zone is formed so that it communicates with the dust removing opening and the dust removing zone is divided into a dust separating zone and a dust discharging zone. An air-takein opening is provided so as to create an auxiliary air stream, by which the separation of dust from the useful fibers can be effectively carried out.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for removing debris and for cleaning components of spinning assemblies of an open-end spinning machine of the type having a plurality of spinning assemblies arranged side-by-side and including shedding devices for shedding debris from the fibrous material to be spun. In order to accommodate changing configurations of collecting openings and other structure of the spinning assemblies, the component cleaning elements are provided separately exchangeable and/or adjustable with respect to the debris removing structures. Various preferred embodiments are provided, including embodiments with conveyor belts for removing debris from a plurality of collecting openings at the respective spinning assemblies, with cleaning elements being carried by the conveyor belts and being disposed so as to clean guide surfaces at the respective collecting openings. Other embodiments include movable scrapers running along a channel which accepts the debris from the collecting openings.

Abstract: A method of, and apparatus for, consecutively controlling the operating conditions at a plurality of spinning positions or locations of a ring spinning machine, wherein there are detected yarn breakages and lap-up formations on rolls of the drafting arrangements. Upon detection of a yarn breakage at a predetermined spinning position the suction air stream of the suction system at such spinning position is rendered ineffectual at such spinning position of the ring spinning machine and such spinning position is checked for the presence of a fiber stream.

Abstract: A yarn rupture-suction installation or broken end-collecting installation for the drafting systems or drafting gears of spinning machines, comprising a respective suction head for each drafting system connected with an air pressure sink and having a substantially slot-shaped suction opening associated with a delivery or feed roller of each drafting system. The suction opening extends from one end situated close to the spinning triangle to an end situated closer to an air pressure sink in the direction of flow of the air.The method of operating such installation and for preventing clogging of the suction head thereof contemplates imparting to a ruptured yarn piece or broken end leading to the rupture location a different position than the path of travel of the fiber material which is further delivered to the drafting system.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for pneumatically removing a fibrous ribbon or a severed yarn end from the spinning rotor of an open-end spinning machine in the event of an interruption in the spinning process having the steps of withdrawing the fibrous ribbon or severed yarn end from the spinning rotor by directing a first pressure air stream against the mouth of an air withdrawing duct, and scavenging the spinning rotor by directing a second pressure air stream against a collecting channel of the spinning rotor in order to remove any severed fibers and impurities.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing trash and the like from an elongated collection chamber provided on an open-end spinning apparatus. The trash, after separation from the fibrous material, is deposited in the collection chamber. A conveyor belt running through the collection chamber removes the large, coarse trash particles therefrom. A pneumatically intermittently operated collecting device removes the finer trash particles from the collection chamber without adversely affecting the separation operation wherein the trash is initially separated from the fibrous material. In one particular embodiment, a stripper cooperates with the conveyor belt that is used for removing the coarse trash particles for successively positioning a stream of air through the collecting chamber for removing the finer trash particles therefrom. A mechanical stripper is utilized with the stream of air for removing the fine trash particles from the walls of the chamber.

Abstract: A mobile service device is provided for servicing spinning assemblies of an open-end spinning machine. The servicing device carries cleaning apparatus including a cleaning brush, a drive motor for rotatably driving the cleaning brush around its support shaft, and a selectively movable lever mechanism for moving the brush into and out of a penetrating position in a spinning rotor. Preferred embodiments of the invention include cleaning brushes having a diameter smaller than the open side of a spinning rotor to be cleaned, with the cleaning brush and its support shaft being carried by a crank mechanism for moving the shaft and brush in a circular motion so as to assure engagement of the brush with the yarn collecting groove in the spinning rotor being cleaned.

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring yarn travel at a multiple spindle spinning machine which is equipped with a suction device servicing at least one group of the spindles. In a collecting channel of the suction device there is arranged a probe which upon passage therepast of fiber flocks or the like delivers an electrical signal to an evaluation circuit equipped with a periodically resettable signal counter having pre-settable counter value and an alarm device. The alarm device can be switched-in by means of a further cumulative counter with a higher, pre-set counter value. This further cumulative counter is coupled by means of a logic circuit with the periodically resettable signal counter in such a manner that the cumulative counter is reset whenever there is missing once or twice a signal from the periodically resettable signal counter.

Abstract: An open-end spinning apparatus having a fiber conveying path between a fibrous material feed device and a spinning compartment. A trash separating device which includes an aperture and a dividing edge is provided for removing trash from the fibrous material as it is conveyed along the conveying path extending around an opening roller. A collection chamber is provided for receiving the trash from the trash separating device. Interposed between the trash separating device and collection chamber is an auxiliary chamber. A first aperture extends through a wall of the auxiliary chamber through which a stream of air flows for being introduced into the fiber conveying path. A second aperture is provided in an opposed wall of the auxiliary chamber through which a smaller stream of air is removed from the auxiliary chamber along with small particles of fly and trash.

Abstract: A movable cleaning device is provided for cleaning the individual rotors on spinning assemblies of an open-end spinning machine. In order to accommodate cleaning of the rotors, with the rotor shafts being out of driving contact with their operational drives, the cleaning device is equipped with braking and/or driving means for controlling the rotational speed of the spinning rotor during cleaning operations. In this manner, cleaning elements such as rotary brushes, can be held in one position, while the relative rotational movement of the spinning rotor and the brush effects cleaning of the rotor. In certain preferred embodiments, the cleaning brush itself serves to impart rotational movement to the spinning rotor, with the drive for the brush being controllable so as to assure differential velocity of the brush and spinning rotor rotation.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing underwound yarn wraps from the spindle of a spinning frame, including a carrier member mounted for driven movement along the spinning frame, and a pair of rotating brushes which are independently driven and independently arranged for movement toward and away from the spindles. A non-rotatable brush may also be associated with the carrier member, behind the rotatable brushes, to remove any wraps not removed by the rotatable brushes. A suction source is provided for collecting removed yarn wraps. The carrier member includes floor engaging wheels, and means for engaging rails extending along the spinning frame, and the carrier member permits vertical adjustment of the rail engaging means to facilitate mounting the carrier member on the rails. The apparatus is designed so as not to interfere with the movement of the traverse ring of the spinning frame, or with the fixed structure of the spinning frame during operation of the apparatus or during mounting of the apparatus on the rails.

Abstract: A yarn-twisting apparatus comprises a spindle receiving the supply spool or bobbin, a rotating can or sleeve surrounding the spool and the bobbin, a yarn takeup arrangement for drawing the yarn from the upper end of the can, and a housing surrounding the can. According to the invention, the stationary housing and the upper and lower ends of the spindle are provided with closures which reach close to the spindle at the bottom and form an opening traversed by the yarn at the top. Means is provided for enabling the upper closure to be removed or displaced for ready access to the interior of the housing. The system reduces the power consumption required for twisting the yarn.