Abstract: An open-end spinning device with a fiber feeding channel which extends from a housing with a rotating opening roller to a spinning element. The fiber feeding channel comprises two channel sections which can be moved towards each other and can be brought into alignment with each other. The first channel section is located in an insert of the housing and is capable of axial movement in the housing. The insert is urged by an elastic element in the direction of the second channel section and is covered by a screen on its end towards the interior of the housing, at least on the downstream side (with reference to the rotational direction of the opening roller). A seal is located between the insert and the housing.

Abstract: In an arrangement for open-end rotor spinning having an opening roller, a spinning rotor and a fiber feeding duct connecting the opening roller and the spinning rotor, it is provided that the fiber collecting groove has a diameter of maximally 33 mm, that the mouth of the fiber feeding duct amounts to maximally 20 mm.sup.2, that the fiber feeding duct, on the outside of the spinning rotor, is provided with a bypass opening, and in that the rotor is provided with ventilating bores.

Abstract: A method for rejoining yarn in an open-end spinning machine in which the rejoining is effected by feeding intact fibres to the rotor but preceding the rejoining by an operation in which the sliver is cleared and the carder is cleaned by the high-vacuum suction nozzle brought into correspondence with the air intake port.

Abstract: In an arrangement for open-end rotor spinning having a fiber feeding duct starting at a feeding and opening device and tapering in the direction of the spinning rotor, it is provided that at least one bypass opening in the fiber feeding duct is provided at a point which has a larger cross-section than the mouth of the fiber feeding duct, and in that the fiber feeding duct has a deflection in front of the bypass opening by which the fibers are guided past the bypass opening.

Abstract: A method for rejoining yarn in an open-end spinning machine in which the rejoining is effected by feeding intact fibres to the rotor but preceding the rejoining by an operation in which the sliver is cleared and the carder is cleaned by the pneumatic action of a blowing nozzle brought into correspondence with the air intake port.

Abstract: A sliver feeding and opening device includes an outlet opening for passage of separated fibers to the rotor and an intake opening for the intaking of sliver to be separated into fibers. An intermediate opening is disposed in the chamber of the housing of the device at a location downstream of the outlet opening and upstream of the intake opening. An air stream reduction conduit extends from the intermediate opening to the outlet passage. The intermediate opening and the air stream reduction conduit conduct air from a revolving stream of air which revolves in the space between the opening roller and the cylindrical wall of the housing of the sliver feeding and opening device to prevent the revolving stream of air from detrimentally interfering with the orderly feeding of sliver at the intake opening to the opening roller.

Abstract: A multi-position rotary spinning machine includes an endless belt guided along the machine past a plurality of open-end spinning units each having a valve for operation by cam means of the belt to bring an eccentric port into and out of gas communication with another eccentric port of the valve by virtue of rotation of a rotary valve member driven by engagement of cam studs and carried by the belt with projections, respectively, of the rotary valve member.The valves can be used for providing intermittent application of purging suction to the beater trash box of an open-end spinning or to a slub collection trough of a friction spinner.

Abstract: A friction spinning machine comprising a perforated roller (6) and an imperforate roller (19) is so designed that high-quality yarn can be produced in various sizes and with adequate strengths at a relatively high rate of output. The adjustment parameters necessary to solve this problem are specified in detail, more particulary those determining the position, orientation and shape of the fibre feed duct (5).

Abstract: A sliver opening apparatus for separating sliver into individual fibers for feeding of the individual fibers to the rotor of an open end spinning machine includes a rotating opening roller having a hollow interior and perforations from its exterior to its interior and air flow control elements disposed in the hollow interior of the opening roller. The air flow control elements define an opening located generally adjacent the sliver intake opening and an interior hollow chamber extending from the opening, the chamber being relatively large and the opening being relatively small. When the opening roller rotates, the air flow control elements cause the fibers from the incoming sliver to project toward the opening roller for optimum separation and combing by the teeth of the opening roller.

Abstract: A friction spinning unit of a multi-position friction spinning machine includes a pressure tapping in the suction line to a suction port in the fibre feed duct. A suction transducer responsive to the suction in the tapping controls the fibre feed clutch of that particular friction spinning unit for disengaging the friction spinning unit when suction value sensed by the transducer deviates from a predetermined range of acceptable suction values, to shut-down the friction spinning unit well before the yarn quality has been impaired to a sufficient extent to cause a yarn break.

Abstract: A spinning unit of an open-end spinning machine is disclosed which comprises a rotor having an inner wall, a bottom portion and an open end opposite to said bottom portion and arranged to rotate about a center axis perpendicular to said bottom portion; and a stationary closing member projecting into a spinning chamber of said rotor to thereby close the open end of said rotor and provided with a fiber supply duct which opens toward the inner wall of the rotor, and a yarn guide hole which opens in an end surface thereof opposite to the bottom portion of the rotor. The fiber supply duct is arranged in the closing member so that an inner wall of the fiber supply duct located on a side of the rotational center of the rotor is extended to be near to the rotational center of the rotor or to be over the rotational center of the rotor. The width of the fiber supply duct is established to be not larger than 90 percent of the diameter of the closing member.

Abstract: A cleaning system for use with a fibre opening device used in connection with the spinning of fibres into yarns wherein an opening roller is mounted for rotation in a housing incorporating a trash separation zone and a fibre stripping zone and the roller has a cylindrical working surface with combing elements projecting thereform, wherein the roller is substantially hollow and has holes in the cylindrical wall defining its working surface to permit flow of air through the wall and the interior of the roller is divided into two or more compartments, and means are provided to remove air and entrained dust and trash from a compartment adjacent to the trash separation zone, and further means are provided to insert air or other gas into a compartment adjacent the fibre stripping zone.

Abstract: In an arrangement for open-end rotor spinning, it is provided that a fiber feeding duct, starting from its end located opposite a fiber sliding surface of a spinning rotor, is opened up by means of a lateral slot so that the cross-section that is essential for the taken-in air quantity is placed back in an area with a larger diameter, while, in addition, the end area of the fiber feeding duct is designed as a narrow groove.

Abstract: A suction insert assembly is disclosed for a suction roller of an open spinning unit having a pair of rotatably driven friction rollers defining a yarn forming wedge-shaped gap or slot therebetween.To accommodate ease of manufacture and provide variable adjustment of the suction effect at the wedge slot, the suction insert assembly for at least one of the friction rollers includes a pipe fitted to the machine frame, and an intermediate piece filling out the space between the pipe and the perforated friction roller shell. The pipe is connected to a vacuum line and has a pipe slot communicating with an intermediate slot of the intermediate piece. The pipe rotatably supports the perforated shell by roller bearings located near the pipe ends.

Abstract: The invention solves the problem of ejecting impurities out of a cleaning aperture in the fiber separating device of an open-end rotor spinning unit, particularly when there are various contaminations of fibrous slivers and of different kinds of textile fibers being processed. For this purpose an air flow regulator is provided in the separating device in an air supply duct communicating with the cleaning aperture. According to the invention, the air flow regulator is provided with an air directing wall near the outlet of the air supply duct and thus directs air flow into the cleaning aperture toward the fiber opening cylinder.

Abstract: An open-end spinning machine is provided which includes a cleaning element movable between two rows of adjacently aligned spinning units. The cleaning device sucks away and removes impurities from a stationary collecting device associated with impurity separation openings in opening devices of the spinning units. The cleaning device includes at least one suction element that extends into the stationary collecting element for drawing the impurities into the cleaning device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of forming a fibre assembly to be spun to form a yarn. The separated fibres are entrained in an air stream (61) and delivered in a tangential direction into a converging annular passage (64). The fibres are straightened in their travel through the passage (64) and issue as a peripheral curtain into a fibre collection zone (67), where the fibres merge to form a coaxial fiber assembly with the passage (64), and are shed from the airstream which is diverted to be withdrawn rearwardly from the fibre collection zone (67). The cohered fibre assembly is withdrawn forwardly from the collection zone to be spun to form a yarn.

Abstract: A friction spinning apparatus includes two drums being driven in the same direction and defining a wedge-shaped gap therebetween with a spinning region. A suction device is disposed in at least one of the drums and directed against the wedge-shaped gap. A yarn draw-off apparatus draws off yarn produced in the wedge-shaped gap. A fiber supply device is provided with a fiber guide channel. The fiber guide channel has one side with a slit-like fiber dispersion opening formed therein and disposed in the wedge-shaped gap and another side facing away from the fiber dispersion opening. A variable ventilation opening is formed in the other side of the fiber guide channel for varying fiber mass distribution in the spinning region.

Abstract: A silver feed and opening device for open-end spinning applications comprises a housing having a rotatable opening roller associated with a pivotable guide plate having a first sliver guide portion for directing incoming sliver to the opening roller, a second arcuate fiber guide portion extending along a portion of the opening roller circumference in its direction of rotation, and a third debris guide portion extending outwardly from the opening roller and defining with the housing a debris discharge opening. The guide plate is of a unitary one-piece construction without joints between individual portions to prevent undesirable fiber accumulation which tends to occur in conventional devices. Each of the fiber and debris guide portions of the guide plate are spaced sufficiently from the sidewalls of the housing to form side slots which are a multiple of the thickness of the fibers, thereby to prevent accumulation thereof between the guide plate and the housing.

Abstract: A friction spinning apparatus includes first and second perforated drums forming a spinning wedge therebetween with a spinning zone. The drums are driven in the same direction with the first drum having a greater circumferential speed than the second drum and with the first drum rotating into the spinning wedge and the second drum rotating out of the spinning wedge. The drums define an imaginary line at a location at which the drums are closest to each other. First and second suction devices are disposed in the interior of the first and second drums. The suction devices each have an intake slit formed therein. The intake slits follow paths diverging from each another and from the imaginary line at least at forward ends thereof. The intake slits are directed against the spinning wedge and each discharge in the vicinity of the inner surface of a respective one of the drums.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a yarn (6) comprises two juxtaposed, closely spaced apart twisting drums (1, 2), which rotate in the same sense and between themselves define a generally triangular twisting space (4), to which a vacuum is applied, fiber-feeding means and withdrawing means (7) for withdrawing the yarn (6) which has been formed in that the fibers fed to said twisting space have been twisted together in said twisting space.

Abstract: Open end friction spinning apparatus is provided in which there are one or more spinning units with respectively two adjacently arranged rollers, rotating in the same direction, and disposed to form a wedge-shaped slot therebetween for accepting fibers and spinning them into a thread of yarn by means of a friction effect. Devices are provided for monitoring the friction effect and adjusting the friction effect when necessary in order to maintain uniform spinning conditions at the individual spinning units and thereby control the quality of yarn produced.

Abstract: The method of, and apparatus for, producing a yarn uses a friction spinning device comprising a perforated first friction spinning drum and a second friction spinning drum which can also be perforated. Two fiber feed passages project to the first friction spinning drum and are each supplied by opening assemblies which individualize or individually separate the fibers. The fibers are transported toward the first friction spinning drum using a feed air stream in the fiber feed passages. This feed air stream is produced by the first friction spinning drum which is maintained under sub-pressure. Advantageously, the fiber double-feed to the friction spinning drum permits supplying two different fiber types to the same yarn end. Also, different inclinations of the fibers at the friction spinning drum can be obtained by different inclinations of the fiber feed passages in order to produce yarns of different character.

Abstract: A fiber opening, fiber feeding and yarn withdrawing unit for a spinning station of an open end rotor spinning machine, in which a projection of the fiber feed conduit extends into the rotor behind the fiber slide wall at a close spacing thereto and to an extent greater than the diametrical extent of the open end of the rotor. The components of the unit are mounted on a unit housing that pivots about an axis transverse to the axis of rotation of the rotor and spaced from the plane of the collection groove of the rotor to the side opposite the rotor open end and also spaced from a plane generally perpendicular to and at the rotor open end of the portion of the fiber slide wall adjacent the fiber feed conduit end, for pivoting of the projection into and out of the rotor without interference therewith.

Abstract: In an open-end spinning process, fibers are twisted together into a yarn, alongside a suction slit, in a spinning nip formed by two friction rollers, in close proximity of each other and driven in the same direction, and subsequently drawn off therefrom. The length of the suction orifice of the suction slit is varied, before beginning the spinning process, in accordance with the thickness of the yarn to be produced. The spinning process is then started after such adjustments are made. Practice of the invention improves quality of the yarn, and saves power consumption and other resources by reducing required air consumption.

Abstract: An open-end friction spinning arrangement is disclosed with two adjacently arranged rollers driven in the same rotational direction in forming a wedge-shaped year forming gap with their cover surfaces. It is provided that a suction device generates an air current directed into the wedge-shaped gap. This suction device creates differential suction forces at different zones of the wedge-shaped gap. The suction device includes different length suction slots in the respective friction rollers. An air inlet device having varying cross-sections along the length of the yarn forming gap is provided to optimize the effect of the slots and the air inlet opening in the forming yarn.

Abstract: A method of producing a twisted thread from spinning fibers by friction spinning includes moving two friction elements of a friction spinning machine in opposite directions defining a spinning wedge therebetween, at least one of the friction elements having a perforated wall, feeding spinning fibers into the spinning wedge in a given direction with a transporting air current, continuously withdrawing a twisted thread from the spinning wedge in the given direction, sucking a first part of the transporting air current through the perforated wall of at least one of the friction elements, and sucking a second part of the transporting air parallel to the spinning wedge, parallel to the thread and opposite to the given direction in which the thread is withdrawn and the fibers are fed into the spinning wedge, and a device for carrying out the method.

Abstract: A friction spinning device includes two drums being driven in the same direction and defining a wedge-shaped gap therebetween having a spinning region. A yarn draw-off device draws off yarn produced in the wedge-shaped gap in a given yarn draw-off direction. At least one of the drums is perforated and a suction device is disposed in the at least one drum and directed against the wedge-shaped gap. A fiber supply device has a fiber guide channel disposed at an angle relative to the given yarn draw-off direction. The fiber guide channel has substantially parallel side wall sections being mutually spaced apart by a given distance and the fiber guide channel has a slit-like fiber dispersion opening disposed in the wedge-shaped gap being delimited by the side wall sections and having a width substantially equal to the given distance. The fiber guide channel has a pipe-like enlargement at an end of the fiber dispersion opening being wider than the fiber dispersion opening.

Abstract: The invention relates to an open-end rotor spinning unit and particularly solves the problem of the relationship between a fiber defining stud of a separator, a fiber supply duct and a yarn take-off duct passing through the separator and the stud.According to the invention, there is established a dimensional relationship of the defining stud to the mean staple length of fibers, and the orientation of the supply duct at an acute angle to the front wall of a cylindrical projection partially engaging into the spinning rotor.In inner section of the peripheral wall of the defining stud is curved in the direction of a natural fiber flow trajectory into the direction of the spinning rotor rotation while the outer section is either in contact with or radially set back from the cylindrical wall of the projection at a distance of up to 4 millimeters from the edge of the wall.

Abstract: Apparatus for making a yarn comprises two juxtaposed, closely spaced apart twisting drums (1), which are adapted to be driven in the same sense, and an inclined fiber-guiding duct (4), which succeeds fiber-opening means (3) and protrudes into the generally triangular twisting space (2) between the two twisting drums (1) and serves to supply singled fibers in an entraining air stream to the generally triangular twisting space (2).In order to ensure a supply of properly oriented and uniformly distributed fibers into the generally triangular twisting space (2), the length (L) of the shortest boundary wall (5) of the fiber-guiding duct (4), which wall faces the generally triangular twisting space (2), is at least as large as the average length of the longest fibers to be processed in the apparatus, the ratio of the length (1) to the width (b) of the flow area is between 10:1 and 2:1, and the entraining air stream has a mean velocity of flow corresponding to a Reynolds number of 5,000 to 50,000.

Abstract: Fiber material is conveyed over a sieve-like surface to remove dust from material. The fiber material is thereby exposed to a suction airstream which is guided through the sieve-like surface and which is guided away from the fiber material at an acute angle which is formed opposite to the fiber transport direction. The fiber material may be aligned in parallel before it is exposed to the suction airstream. In order to orient the suction airstream at the desired acute angle relative to the fiber transport direction, the fiber material is guided over sieve orifices which are inclined at the acute angle opposite to the fiber transport direction.

Abstract: A friction spinning device has a pneumatic fiber transport passage or channel inclined at an angle to a perforated friction spinning element and a yarn formation position of the perforated friction spinning element is located at a spacing from an opening of the pneumatic fiber transport passage or channel. In such a friction spinning device, it is desired to ensure that the fibers located on the perforated friction spinning element are transported towards the yarn formation position neither parallel to nor at right angles to the yarn formation position. For this purpose, the perforations of the perforated friction spinning elements are so arranged that straight lines joining the perforation centers are disposed neither parallel to nor at right angles to the yarn formation position. In this way, fibers transported onto the perforated friction spinning element are laid on such perforated friction spinning element in the direction of the rows of perforations due to the intensity of the transporting air.

Abstract: In the case of an open-end friction spinning machine having a plurality of spinning units, measuring devices are provided for examining the quality of the moving yarn at each spinning unit. Preferably, the tension of the yarn between a withdrawal device and the yarn forming point is measured which permits the drawing of conclusions concerning the respectively existing yarn twist. When deviations from an indicated quality are determined, measures are taken so that at least one parameter of the spinning conditions at the respective spinning unit is changed for eliminating the deviations.

Abstract: In order to start or recommence spinning of a yarn in a friction spinning device, the following method steps are carried out upon start-up of a new spinning operation or upon piecing after a thread break: fibers separated by an opening device are delivered by means of a fiber transporting passage to a rotating friction spinning drum and are twisted to form a twisted fiber structure; when the twisted fiber structure has substantially reached a predeterminate diameter or size, then the twisted fiber structure is transported by an airstream delivered by a pressure duct towards and into a guide tube and is forwarded therein into a convergent space of rotating withdrawal rolls; and the twisted fiber structure is caught at production speed by these withdrawal rolls and delivered on a divergent side of the withdrawal rolls to a receiving suction device which transfers the spun yarn subsequent to the twisted fiber structure to further processing elements.

Abstract: An opening roller assembly for open end spinning machines wherein the roller is releasably and slidably supported on a drive shaft of the open end spinning machine to enable easy removal of the roller for refurbishing, replacement or repair. Non-mechanical means is provided to maintain the roller in an operative position on the drive shaft. Such means may comprise magnetic or fluid pressure means, or gravity. When in its operative position on the shaft, mechanical drive means extending directly or indirectly between the drive shaft and the roller will automatically become engaged. These drive means may be provided by a drive pin or mating engaging surfaces, for example.

Abstract: In preparation for the start of spinning with an open-end spinning apparatus, suction is provided outside a fiber transport path on the periphery of an opening roller. Such suction is greater than spinning suction which exists at the mouth of a feed channel leading to the fiber-collecting surface. The fiber stream is thereby guided beyond such mouth to be sucked off. At commencement of actual spinning, this added suction is inactivated, to permit the fiber stream to be initially supplied to the fiber-collecting surface. The fiber stream may be controlled with a suction source connected to a sucking-off orifice via a switching device and a suction line. Less conspicuous and more even thread joins are thereby obtained. Control of suction changes may be effected automatically from a servicing trolley, or in other manners.

Abstract: A friction spinning apparatus comprises a combing roller (19) for opening and feeding fibers in a duct (16, 15) to a throat (Q) formed between the outer surfaces of a pair of perforated and smooth surface drums (10, 12) arranged in parallel to each other and rotating in the same direction. A yarn (Y) formed at the throat (Q), by frictional contact between the fed fibers and the surfaces caused by a suction force, is withdrawn along the throat (Q). The duct (15, 16) is arranged to feed the fibers in an air stream having a direction inclined to the yarn axis (YL) and has a nozzle (17) in the form of a double pipe in the midportion thereof. A compressed air is ejected from the annular slit (17a) between the inner and outer pipe of the nozzle (17) to drag the fibers out from the nozzle (17) to cause them to stretch, whereby the fibers can be conveyed on the throat (Q) in the stretched state.

Abstract: An arrangement is provided for open-end friction spinning including a pair of adjacently arranged suction rollers rotatable in the same rotational direction. One roller rotates into the wedge-shaped gap formation zone and the other rotates out of the wedge-shaped gap. It is provided that the suction slot of the suction insert inside of the roller rotating into the wedge-shaped gap is longer than the suction slot of the suction insert of the roller rotating out of the wedge-shaped gap. The portion of the suction slot of the roller rotating into the yarn formation zone which extends beyond the slot of the roller rotating out of the yarn formation zone is displaced circumferentially from the wedge-shaped gap so as to provide for enhanced spinning conditions in the region of the yarn tip.

Abstract: Fibers delivered in a freely floating state in a fiber transport passage are to be laid in a predetermined disposition on a friction spinning element, such as a friction spinning drum or disc. For this purpose, an opening region of the fiber transport passage is provided with a converging portion in which the airstream is supplementarily accelerated relative to a preceding acceleration. This supplementary acceleration serves to assist in bringing the fibers into the predetermined disposition on the friction spinning drum. The friction spinning device comprises an opening roller which is rotatably supported in a housing. The housing is connected to the fiber transport passage. The opening of the fiber transport passage extends close to a cylindrical surface of the friction spinning drum. The fibers leaving the opening are transported on the friction spinning drum towards a yarn formation position where they are twisted into a yarn which is withdrawn in a selectable withdrawal direction by withdrawal rollers.

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: A method and an apparatus for production of yarn by friction spinning is disclosed. The friction spinning method employs a perforated friction spinning drum towards which a fibre feed passage projects. An opening roller, known from the open-end rotor spinning process, feeds separated fibres into the fibre feed passage, which fibres are taken up by a transport air flow in the fibre feed passage. This transport air flow is produced by the perforated friction spinning drum which is subjected to underpressure. Fibres leaving an opening of the fibre feed passage are laid in an inclined disposition on the perforated friction spinning drum and transported in this disposition towards a yarn end forming at a yarn formation position. The spun yarn is withdrawn by a withdrawal roller pair. Advantageously, a second friction spinning drum is provided parallel to the first perforated friction spinning drum to cause the fibre twisting-in process to take place in a more accurately defined manner.

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: In the case of a device for open-end friction spinning having two friction rollers that are arranged next to one another to form a wedge-shaped gap and are drivable in the same rotational direction, an arrangement is provided for the feeding and opening of a sliver which contains an opening roller from which a fiber feeding duct leads to the wedge-shaped gap. A compressed air duct that is led past the opening roller is connected to the fiber feeding duct for supporting the fiber transport. A dirt discharge opening assigned to the circumference of the opening roller is arranged at a distance to the compressed air duct in such a way that the effect of the excess pressure does not reach back into the area of the dirt discharge opening.

Abstract: In the case of an arrangement for open-end friction spinning having two friction rollers that are arranged next to one another to form a wedge-shaped yarn forming gap, the frictional effect is reduced in the area of the yarn tip of the forming yarn. As a result, it is avoided that the yarn tip moves through the wedge-shaped gap. It is also ensured that a fiber transport takes place into this area of the wedge-shaped gap where the yarn tip is formed. This fiber transport is caused by an air current generated by an additional suction device, acting as an extension of the yarn tip.

Abstract: A friction spinning apparatus, includes oppositely-disposed, rotationally-symmetrical friction elements rotating in the same direction, the friction elements having perforated casings defining a line of closest mutual approach between the casings and two wedge-shaped regions adjacent the line of closest mutual approach, stationery suction devices disposed in the casings, the suction devices having suction apertures directed toward the perforated casings, a fiber feeding device for feeding spinning fibers along a yarn withdrawing direction, and a yarn withdrawing device for withdrawing yarn, each of the casings including a yarn formation zone receiving the spinning fibers at substantially the furthest upstream portion of the casings in the yarn withdrawing direction for continuously forming yarn, a curved transition zone downstream of the yarn formation zone, and a yarn consolidation zone downstream of the transition zone, the yarn consolidation zone being separate from and having a longitudinal axis disposed

Abstract: A method and apparatus for open-end friction spinning is disclosed having two adjacently arranged friction rollers, driven in the same rotational direction and forming a wedge-shaped gap therebetween. A suction device effective in the area of the gap as well as a fiber feed channel leading to the gap and a yarn withdrawal device for drawing off the produced yarn in the direction of the gap are also provided. It is further provided that the mouth of the fiber channel extending at a tangential angle to the gap is widened in the area of the gap in that the channel wall facing the same is formed with a rounded curve. By these measures the fiber deposition in the gap is improved by modifying the fiber transport air stream path to deposit the fibers in a straightened and parallel manner in the gap.

Abstract: Method of spinning staple fibers by imparting false twist to a continuous fiber bundle. The continuous fiber bundle is formed by a successive doubling of separated fibers, and is thereupon twisted by means of a false twisting element, the separated fibers being distributed along the twisted length of the fiber bundle, as well as along the untwisted section of the continuous fiber bundle.

Abstract: This is a process and apparatus for the preparation of fasciated spun yarns, which includes feeding separate single fibers formed by opening and drafting a continuous staple fiber bundle into a rotor (20), collecting and holding the single fibers on a fiber-collecting portion of the rotor (20) and taking out the collected fibers through a center piece (26) by delivery rollers (33) while strongly false-twisting the collected fibers in the same direction as that of true twists given by the rotor (20) into a twisted yarn by a false-twisting apparatus arranged between the rotor (20) and the delivery rollers (33), wherein the separated single fibers are supplied to a travelling plane for the twisted yarn between the fiber-collecting portion of the rotor (20) and the center piece (26) to entangle some of the single fibers with the twisted yarn in the strongly false-twisted state, and the entangled single fibers are entwined around the periphery of the twisted yarn by subsequent release of the false twists of the tw

Abstract: A fiber control apparatus in an open-end spinning frame is disclosed. According to the invention, in an open-end spinning unit having a fiber passage through which fibers opened by the combing roller are carried into the spinning chamber of the rotor, one or more nozzles are provided in the unit, each nozzle having an outlet opening located adjacent to the fiber outlet opening of the fiber passage so that one or more streams of jet air, emitted from the nozzle or nozzles, direct and guide the fibers introduced into the chamber toward the interior peripheral surface of the spinning chamber of the rotor, thus causing the fibers to reach said surface immediately without being slowed or bent by ambient air streams within the chamber. Consequently, formation of yarn having bent or randomly attached fibers is substantially prevented, whereby the strength and quality of the spun yarn is greatly improved.

Abstract: A single-step stable method of producing spun-twisted yarns. A twist point is located on the frictional surface of a take-off funnel of the spinning rotor. A strand material which forms a component of the final spun-twisted yarn product is exposed, between feed rollers and said twist point, to an appropriate combination of transport effects of a pneumatic field of force and a mechanical field of force. For this purpose, the tube, through which the strand material is supplied, is determined in dependence on the pneumatic conditions prevailing in the spinning rotor.