Abstract: An apparatus for braking and positioning a spinning or twisting spindle with the spindle rotor in a specified position, having a spindle brake which engages with a rotary part, preferably a wharve, of the spindle, and, separate from said brake, positioning means comprising an additional braking surface which extends over part of the periphery of a rotary part, preferably a wharve, of said spindle and up to which an additional brake member is movable. The apparatus provides a more simply constructed braking and positioning means where it is permissible for the spindle to be stopped within a certain angular range about a prescribed central position. In the illustrated embodiment, a spindle brake proper comprises shoe means 7 engageable with an inside periphery of a skirt 5 of wharve 4, and there is provided positioning means comprising an additional braking surface 9 which preferably extends over an angle from 15.degree. to 30.degree. and which is engageable by an additional brake shoe 12.

Abstract: On a ring spinning or twisting frame having winding units with rotatable thread follower rings, the difference in the speed of rotation between the ring and its follower during the restarting of the winding unit, after repair of a thread break, is maintained within acceptable limits while the frame continues to run at its high operational speed, by controlling the rotational speed of either the ring or the spindle, the speed of the controlled element being varied either continuously, or in one or more steps during the restarting operation.

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 yarn throwing and twisting machine has at each of a number of working positions two or more throwing spindles, a twisting spindle, a manually disengageable yarn feeder, and yarn break detectors. Pneumatic jacks are provided to disengage the spindles and feeder upon yarn breakage and are controlled by air supplied through a solenoid valve responsive to the yarn break detectors and by a manually operable valve between the throwing and twisting spindles. The solenoid valve is closed, however, upon manually disengagement of the yarn feeder for the purpose of allowing starting up at an individual working position after yarn breakage.

Abstract: A rotor braking apparatus at each spinning unit of an open-end spinning machine, wherein at each spinning unit, for stopping the rotor, said rotor is arranged to be pivotable from an operating position away from a drive belt into an idle position, in which position there is pressed against the rotor shaft a brake lever provided with a brake shoe. An additional mechanism is provided which activates the rotor brake shoe without pivoting the rotor shaft from its operating position.

Abstract: Spinning machine apparatus is provided which includes a vacuum housing for a spinning rotor which has a moveable housing section which forms a lid. A brake lever which serves to actuate a rotor brake simultaneously serves as a locking lever for locking the moveable housing section in the closed position such that movement of this lever from the locking position automatically actuates the brake so that the rotor is braked prior to actual opening movement of the housing section forming the lid.

Abstract: Apparatus for driving spinning rotors at a plurality of spinning units to an open-end spinning machine is provided which includes a tangential belt extending adjacent rotor shafts of the spinning units, as well as movable pressure rollers for selectively forcing the tangential belt against the respective rotor shafts to drive the same. In order to prevent sliding the tangential belt against the rotor shafts when in the non-driving position, guide rollers are disposed at the side of the tangential belt opposite the pressure rollers, which guide rollers are offset so that a common tangent to the guide rollers is spaced from the surface of a rotor shaft therebetween, whereby the guide rollers serve to hold the tangential belt out of driving contact when the pressure rollers are moved away from their driving positions.

Abstract: A brake device is provided for stopping the rotation of a rotor shaft of an open-end spinning unit wherein a rotor shaft is turnably supported by a bearing assembly which is held by a bushing member by way of a resiliently yieldable member disposed between the bearing assembly and the bushing member, a brake shoe is resiliently held by a spring means disposed to a bracket of the brake device so that an excess force for urging the brake shoe toward the rotor shaft can be absorbed into the spring means.

Abstract: A spinning apparatus has a flyer which is rotated about its axis by a belt drive at one axial end of a spindle carrying the flyer. Received within the flyer and rotatable relative thereto is a yarn-package holder comprising a plush-lined cup snugly receiving a coreless package of glass-fiber yarn, and a takeup tube whose mouth lies within the package. A thread brake is provided within the takeup tube and the yarn holder is prevented from rotating with the flyer. The yarn of one or more threads is drawn off the inside of the package into the mouth of the nonrotating takeup tube, thence enters the end of the rotating spindle, passes radially out through the flyer under the yarn-package holder, and thence axially out through the rotating sleeve of the flyer. The tube of the flyer is formed by a pair of nested tubes connected by a corrugated stiffening element.