Abstract: Method to convey roving packages (10-110) to feed spinning machines, the packages (10-110) being conveyed automatically to their working positions on the spinning machines by conveyor elements (12) on runways (13), package supports (11-111) being connected to the conveyor elements (12), the packages (10-110) being caused to arrive at their respective working positions on the spinning machines with the end of the roving (15-115) pre-positioned on roving supports (14-114-16-116) connected to the package supports (11-111), the end of the roving (15-115) having been extracted from the body of the packages (10-110) during the phase between the removal of the packages (10-110) from the package production machines and their transfer to the conveyor elements (12-13), the end of the roving (15-115) being positioned on the roving supports (14-114-16-116) substantially during the step of transfer of the packages (10-110) onto their respective package supports (11-111).

Abstract: An open end spinning machine and an associated traveling sliver can replacement carriage are provided with cooperating components for automatically replacing empty sliver cans at the spinning positions of the machine with full sliver cans and threading up the sliver for spinning resumption. An openable and closable sliver guide is provided at each spinning position in association with a sliver monitor which recognizes the presence and absence of sliver in the guide. A signal transmitter at each spinning position produces a can replacement signal when the monitor recognizes the absence of sliver in the guide. A program controller is associated with a signal receiver on the carriage to actuate exchange of the empty sliver can at the signaling spinning position with a full sliver can from the carriage.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for automatically engaging and inserting sliver fed from a spinning can into a spinning unit by means provided on a movable unit which comprises providing a spinning can containing a quantity of sliver and positioning a segment of sliver located between a coiler and the spinning can on a vertical plane and a horizontal plane. A first portion of the segment of sliver is clamped, engaged and gripped by gripping means at a second portion other than at the first portion. The sliver is broken at a portion between the first and second portions to leave a first broken end of the sliver adjacent the first portion and a second broken end of the sliver adjacent the second portion. The second broken end of the sliver is positioned in correspondence with an intake of a condenser of the spinning unit, and is introduced in the intake of the condenser. Substantially simultaneously air is introduced under pressure downstream of the intake of the condenser.

Abstract: A bobbin transporting system in which a plurality of spinning frames are connected in parallel to each other to one end side of a single transport conveyor while a plurality of winders are connected to the other end side of the transport conveyor and the transport conveyor is connected to the taking-in sides of the winders or the taking-in sides of the spinning frames by an annular circulating path.

Abstract: An object, such as a bobbin, is gripped at a location other than its center of gravity and lifted so as to rotate by gravity to a desired orientation. A carriage moves the bobbin toward a conveyor path and tilts the conveyor path into position to receive the bobbin. The bobbin is positioned on the conveyor path in the desired orientation while the conveyor path is in the receiving position.

Abstract: A device which automatically distributes new sliver to spinning machines. The device includes movable units which run in a track along parallel banks of spinning machines stopping at the machines which need to be refilled. Generally, these units transport full cans of sliver from a storage facility to the specific empty spinning machine where the units feed the silver into the spinning machine by placing the end of the sliver into a feed conduit. The units then transport the empty can to a facility where it can be refilled.

Abstract: Machine for continuous twisting and cabling of filaments of the type including a predetermined number of work positions disposed on a common support frame (4), each work position including, taken in order according to the process of transformation of the filaments:a feeding and twisting section (1) for each of the elementary filaments, on each side of the machine;means (2) for the return and joining of a predetermined number of elementary filaments thus twisted and;a cabling and winding section (3);characterized in that the cabling and winding section (3) is common to the two feeding and twisting sections (1) and is constituted by spindles disposed side by side in the vertical plane of symmetry (AA) passing between the two feeding and twisting sections (1).

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an automatic sliver distributor for spinning machines, the spinning units of which are fed from spinning cans of sliver positioned in cooperation with the spinning units, such spinning cans possibly having a horizontal cross-section which is circular or rectangular or with rounded short sides or of another shape. The distributor comprises a movable structure able to run parallel to at least one side of the spinning machine and bearing on its base at least one distribution can of sliver and a unit to distribute the sliver, such distribution can being suitable to contain a quantity of sliver several times greater than the quantity contained in a spinning can.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for piecing rovings introduced from almost exhausted roving bobbins suspended by two rows of bobbin hangers mounted on a creel of a conventional ring spinning frame provided with a roving bobbin supply rail disposed in front of the creel, with rovings introduced from full packaged roving bobbins previously carried to the respective supply positions of the supply rail, said for exchanging the almost exhausted roving bobbins for the full packaged roving bobbins. A piecing rovings operation is carried out for each pair of almost exhausted roving bobbins suspended by a front row bobbin hanger and a back row bobbin hanger of the creel, facing each other, together with two corresponding adjacent full packaged roving bobbins of the supply rail, respectively.

Abstract: A spinning winder in which a spinning frame and an automatic winder are integrally associated. The spinning winder provides carrier routes comprising routes for transporting a spinning bobbin from the spinning frame to the automatic winder and routes for returning an empty bobbin discharged from the automatic winder to the spinning frame and also provides a passage for an operator between the spinning frame and the automatic winder.

Abstract: A creel which can deliver untwisted yarns from bobbins in a weaving machine while at a same time twisting them or else twisting some of such untwisted yarns in the S twist and the remaining untwisted yarns in the Z twist with relative low investment for equipments. The creel employs a mechanism similar to a ring twisting mechanism and includes a required number of spindles for rotating bobbins supported thereon, a ring secured in a concentrical relationship to each of the spindles, a traveler mounted for movement on each of the rings, and a driving device for driving the spindles to rotate in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction such that when the untwisted yarns are unwound from the bobbins via the travelers, a twist in the S or Z direction may be applied to the untwisted yarns at a same time.

Abstract: A yarn making machine assembly includes a yarn spinning chamber; a feed table adapted to support a silver thereon; a feed roller having a periphery defining, with the feed table, a clearance through which the sliver is adapted to pass; an rpm-variable motor connected to the feed roller for rotating it to advance the sliver; an opening roller arranged adjacent the clearance to receive the sliver and to break it up into fibers; a sliver thickness sensor including the feed roller and/or the feed table to execute excursions in response to thickness variations in the sliver running through the clearance; a device for generating an electric signal as a function of the excursions; a regulator for receiving the electric signal and for emitting a setting signal as a function of a difference between desired and actual thickness values of the sliver; and a device for applying a signal, representing the setting signal, to the motor for varying the rpm thereof to thus alter the rotational speed of the feed roller, whereby

Abstract: A bobbin holder is provided for holding one or more bobbins of thread of varying heights in superimposed positions and adapted for being loosely and removably inserted into a bobbin carrier of a textile machine. The bobbin holder includes an elongate tubular body for receiving one or more hollow bobbins of thread on the outside thereof along the axial length thereof, mechanisms for varying the length of the elongate body for accommodating bobbins of varying heights, and a radially-outwardly-projecting support carried on the lower end of the tubular body for supporting the bobbin or bobbins of thread on the tubular body. The elongate body preferably comprises at least two tubular portions connected together at respective ends thereof by the length varying mechanisms.

Abstract: A spinning winder in which a spinning frame and an automatic winder are integrally associated. The spinning winder provides carrier routes comprising routes for transporting a spinning bobbin from the spinning frame to the automatic winder and routes for returning an empty bobbin discharged from the automatic winder to the spinning frame and also provides a passage for an operator between the spinning frame and the automatic winder.

Abstract: A station (24) is connected to the spinning units (4.sub.1 to 4.sub.n) along a spinning machine (2.sub.1 to 2.sub.3) via floor-conveyor installation (20). The floor-conveyor truck (22) has three arms (46, 48, 50) extendable transversally to the direction of movement, wherefrom the first is built to receive and set in place a full can (V), the second to receive and depose an empty can (L). The third arm (50) serves for the displacement of the cans(E) in use. The spinning units (4.sub.1 to 4.sub.8 to 4.sub.n) are equipped with transmitters (42.sub.1 to 42.sub.8 to 42.sub.n) through which the floor-conveyor truck (22) are set in motion starting from the station (24). The floor-conveyor truck (22) is provided with a first control unit (28) for an automatic running and with a second control unit (30) for the automatic receiving and placement of cans.

Abstract: In the transport apparatus for roving bobbins in a plant including a group of spinning machines according to our invention each spinning machine has a closed circulating belt on which suspended carriages equipped either with full or empty roving bobbins are movable. A transport belt is provided which runs through a loading station which replaces empty roving bobbins with full roving bobbins. Each of the circulating belts is connected with the transport belt by one connecting belt for removing one of the suspended carriages with empty roving bobbins and another connecting belt for feeding in another suspended carriage with full roving bobbins. A switch controllable depending on the filling state of the approaching roving bobbin carriage is positioned at each branch of the connecting belts with the transport belt or one of the circulating belts. The roving bobbins are mounted on the transport and circulating belts so as to be movable independently of each other.

Abstract: A pre-take-up roller mechanism is provided for varying the tractive force and tension on running thread being wound by a take-up mechanism in a thread processing machine. The mechanism includes a variably driven rotating drive shaft carried by the machine, a thread pre-take-up roller rotatably mounted on the drive shaft for receiving the running thread on the surface thereof and for being driven by the running thread through adhesion, and an eddy current clutch or a combination eddy current and hysteresis clutch operatively connecting the drive shaft and the pre-take-up roller for varying the torque on the pre-take-up roller and thus the tractive force and tension on the running thread by varying the driven rotational speed of the drive shaft without affecting the constant winding speed of the running thread being wound by the take-up mechanism.

Abstract: Textile slivers tend to loose their cohesion when travelling over long distances from one piece of storage or processing equipment to another such piece of equipment. This problem is overcome by subjecting the sliver to a false twisting process during its travel, desirably by a pneumatic false twister located immediately adjacent to the sliver-receiving equipment.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the amount of delivery in a wrapping material feed system, including a rotation drive means for rotating a bobbin with a wrapping material wound thereon; a winding diameter detecting means for detecting a winding diameter of the wrapping material; an adjusting means for changing torque and brake forces of the bobbin to adjust the amount of delivery of the wrapping material, and a control means for controlling the adjusting means. The control means has a memory section which stores optimum torque and brake forces for winding diameters of the wrapping material as well as increment and decrement patterns of torque and brake forces for various operation modes of the wrapping material feed system, and upon receipt of a signal from the winding diameter detecting means the control means provides a signal to the adjusting means in accordance with the contents of the memory section.

Abstract: A pay-out stand for supply reels utilized in manufacturing cables particularly light waveguide cables having a basket-like structure mounted for rotation around a horizontal axis with carrier members extending parallel to the axis adjacent the periphery of the basket-like members. The supply reels are situated on the inside of each carrier part, preferably in pairs, and the carrier parts are spaced so that access of the supply reels can be had from the outside of the stand to enable splicing the lead from a backup reel to a waveguide of a feed reel which is feeding a lead out of the pay-out stand.

Abstract: A relatively heavy sliver creel frame is suspended from an overhead support by relatively stiff wires whose angle to the creel in combination with the weight of the creel minimize horizontal creel sway. A pair of additional stabilizing links connect the creel to and cantilever it from a support structure spaced from the floor region over which the creel is suspended.

Abstract: An empty bobbin transporting system for a fine spinning winder wherein a spinning frame and a winder are interconnected by way of a spinning bobbin transporting path and an empty bobbin transporting path. An additional transporting path for transporting an empty bobbin fed back from the winder and an empty bobbin stock device for temporarily stocking the empty bobbin transported by the additional transporting path are provided in the spinning frame.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process and product thereof, and an apparatus, for converting a twisted, continuous filament, multifilament yarn into a staple-like yarn. The process is carried out by needling the yarn with a barbed needle in order to break yarn filaments. The broken yarn filaments protrude from the yarn after the needling process. The protruding filament ends give the resulting yarn the appearance of a spun yarn.

Abstract: A guide device (20) for separating a plurality of yarn passages comprising:a rod member (24) movable in its lengthwise direction;a plurality of slide members (25a-25d), provided with yarn guides (22) and movable along the rod member (24);the rod member (24) and the slide members (25a-25d) are inserted into and movable along a hollow cylindrical guide rail member (21);the rod member (24) having at least a pair of guide pulleys (30), which sandwich the slide members (25a-25d) between them;a strand-like member (28) wrapping around the guide members (30);the strand-like member (28) is connected to one of the slide members (25a-25d) and a stationary member;connecting members (26) having engaging members (26b) at ends thereof are loosely inserted between adjacent slide members (25a and 25b, 25b and 25c, 25c and 25d); andthe distance between the engaging members (26b) of the connecting member (26) is equal to the sum of the distance between the yarn guides (22) under yarn passages separating condition and the thickn

Abstract: A process for replacing spent roving packages with new roving packages, with automatic splicing and reattachment of the rovings, on machines to spin carded wool is disclosed. The new roving package is removed from a conveyor and brought to a waiting position, where the end of the new roving is manually placed in a gripper. When the old roving package is almost exhausted, the spindle of the spinning machine is stopped and the roving is sheared. The end of the roving still attached to the spinning machine is retained with an aspirator. The new roving package is then brought to the working position, causing the automatic discharge of the spent roving package, and the gripper brings the new roving to the aspiration site causing the intermingling of the fibers of the two rovings. The spindles are restarted and the spliced segments of the roving receives a false twist and subsequent real twists.

Abstract: The arrangement conveys cans which deliver and receive textile material, between machines delivering such material and machines which are substantially of the same type but use such material, along a closed transport or conveying path. The conveying path is of a structure comprising sections which extend parallel to each other including a siphon-shaped stand-by section containing parallel legs. Using such sections there is rendered possible a space-saving arrangement and simultaneously ready accessibility to the different sections of the conveying path and the machines for operating the machines and eliminating faults and malfunctions at the machines and the sections of the conveying path.

Abstract: A spinning system has a spinning apparatus having a longitudinal succession of spinning stations, a creel extending longitudinally above the apparatus and having respective pendant hangers above the stations and each capable of holding a respective yarn package, and a respective slide above each station supporting the respective hanger slidable between an inner position directly above the respective station and an outer position above but horizontally offset therefrom. A reloading apparatus is displaceable longitudinally along the apparatus at least generally under the hangers in the outer positions of the respective slides. A magazine holds a supply of fresh roving packages on the reloading apparatus and a device is provided on the reloading apparatus for displacing the slide between the inner and outer positions. A grab on the reloading apparatus can grab the package on the hanger in the outer position of the respective slide.

Abstract: A stationary service unit at one end of an elongate spinning machine coacts with a supply carriage delivering bobbins wound with rovings from a flyer at a preparatory stage and loads these bobbins onto depending grippers which are movable, manually or automatically, on an overhead guide rack. The rack may form an endless loop about the machine bed or may be divided into two parallel sections flanking same; in the latter instance the service unit may be swingable about a vertical axis toward one or the other section.

Abstract: Separate strands of embroidery floss are separated by drawing a bundle of strands of the floss through a slot and then separating individual strands which have passed through the slot and threading them through different non-aligned, spaced-apart slots by providing a tension on the downstream strands sufficient to pull them through the various slots.

Abstract: Bobbins wound with rovings from a preparatory stage are loaded onto a carriage which receives them on an orthogonal array of horizontal pegs and transports them to a holding station for transfer, one column at a time, to a service unit moving continuously or intermittently past a multiplicity of working positions of a ring spinning machine whose spindles draw the roving from bobbins on a supply rack. The service unit, whose primary function may be that of a yarn-tying device or a traveling air blower, has a vertical conveyor with stems alignable with the pegs of the carriage in the holding station for picking up the bobbins to be transferred and delivering them, individually, to storage areas at or near the supply rack where fresh bobbins are needed as determined by a sensor aboard that unit. The storage areas may have overhead grippers onto which a bobbin is pushed from an erected stem at the upper vertex of the vertical conveyor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a fancy yarn, in which a core and effect yarn 5 are fed along a path to a false twist device 6 and a binding yarn 4 is fed via a rotating component 1 adjacent the path, the component rotating about an axis transverse to the path, and having a yarn guiding portion 3 radially spaced from the axis, whereby the binding yarn is caused to perform a reciprocating, oscillating motion with respect to the core and effect yarns.

Abstract: A guard is provided for a take-up shaft of an open-end yarn spinning machine. The shaft rotates about a first axis and cooperates with a cot (a small rubber wheel) which is rotatable about a second axis parallel to the first axis. The guard comprises a tubular body member, preferably circular in cross-section, having a central axis and first and second ends spaced from each other along the central axis. A slot is formed in the body, and the body surrounds the shaft. The body is concentric with the shaft and the slot is disposed beneath the shaft. A cut-out is formed adjacent, but spaced from, the first end of the shaft, and the cot operatively engages the shaft through the cut-out. The slot and cut-out preferably interconnect. A mounting bracket is joined to the body member at the second end of the body member preferably comprises a Y-shaped bracket having a stem integral with the body member and branches with openings for receipt of fasteners.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for producing a cabled yarn from two strands supplied from different supply sources. The two strands are twisted together over a freely rotatable roller disposed on the same axis as the upper bobbin, and the yarns which have been joined on the doubling roller, are subjected before winding, to the action of a compensating system which absorbs variations of tension and is adapted to actuate means for stopping the machine if one of the strands should break.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for spinning using fiber bundles selected from a mass of loose fibers. The apparatus essentially consists of means for removing the fiber bundles comprising a perforated belt (8) and a retaining drum (5) enabling one end of the fiber bundles to be positioned in a fixed area (12) for formation of the thread in its initial stage (15). This fixed area comprises a screen beneath which there is disposed a suction device (13). A hollow twisting flyer (14) and a rotating drum (16) connected to a pressure roller (17) ensure that the thread in formation (15) is caused to rotate and move in translation. This apparatus constitutes an improvement upon open end machines.

Abstract: An apparatus for sliver can controlling in a spinning mill having a plurality of spinning machines each comprising a plurality of spinning stations. The apparatus includes various lines of sliver can transporting tracks through which a full sliver can may be brought to a position adjacent to any of the spinning stations, as required. Sliver consumption quantities at the respective stations are computed by a control circuit as a central processing unit. When the sliver consumption at any one of the spinning stations reaches a predetermined quantity at which its sliver can is nearly empty, the control circuit operates to energize a warning means and means for indicating the number designating such spinning station calling for sliver can replacement.

Abstract: Apparatus for withdrawing a thread from a spinning station comprises at least two withdrawing rollers, which are preceded by a reciprocating thread guide and are succeeded by a winding device, which comprises a traversing device. In order to ensure that a reciprocating motion will be imparted to the thread guide, the latter is provided on one arm of a double-armed lever, which is freely rotatably mounted and provided on its other arm with another thread guide which is disposed between the withdrawing rollers and the traversing device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for switching the relative position between roving bobbins held by bobbin hangers of a front row and the roving bobbins held by the rear row in a spinning frame. The roving bobbin exchange operation is carried out as successive unit operations from one end-side of the spinning frame to the other end-side thereof. In each unit operation, first the axial distance between a bobbin hanger of the front row and a bobbin hanger of the rear row, which are positioned adjacently in the lengthwise direction of the spinning frame, is reduced to a predetermined distance, then the relative position of those two bobbin hangers is reversely changed while maintaining the reduced axial distance. Thereafter, the axial distance between those two bobbin hangers is returned to the initial condition for carrying out the spinning operation.

Abstract: A combination yarn processing machine and overhead creel assembly comprising a machine mounted overhead creel assembly including a bobbin carriage which pivots about an axis mounted on a framework above the yarn processing machine. The bobbin carriage pivots through a circular arc between an up position substantially above and over the processing machine and a down position substantially above and beside the machine without substantially changing the length of the yarn extending between creel bobbins or other yarn packages in the bobbin carriage and the processing machine and is loaded and unloaded to replace empty yarn packages while the processing machine is in operation drawing yarn from still laden yarn packages on the same bobbin carriage. A spring loaded counterbalancing system holds the bobbin carriage in the up position and in the down position and aids in minimizing the effort expended by operators servicing the machine while moving the bobbin carriage between the up and down position.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatic creeling in ring spinning frames, constituted by a frame capable of patrolling along a ring spinning frame, in inspection service to detect missing rovings, and is provided with an upwardly movable operative body and a supply of full roving packages to cover the needs and comprises also in combination:(a) structure for detecting missing roving;(b) creeling structure for releasing the exhausted bobbin or roving with broken strand;(c) structure for retaining the end of a new roving;(d) structure for gripping the new roving end and passing it around the spinning frame roving rods and delivering it to the drafting system; and(e) structure for replacing the roving sliver loading device.

Abstract: A method of forming a fabric from yarns includes wrapping each yarn about a cylindrical pin in the feed zone of a fabric-forming machine and varying the angle of intersection of the pin with the yarn path to permit alternating real twist to pass the pin and become locked in the fabric being formed.

Abstract: A twisting machine for twisting several filament yarn strands which are preferably an aramid (aromatic polyamide) and wound on spools, has a creel for supporting the spools, a delivery system which includes several feed rollers, and a first thread guide which is supported before the delivery system along the strand paths for movement back and forth in directions parallel to the axes of the delivery rollers. The first thread guide is a cylindrical first guide roller which has a circumferential guide groove for each yarn strand and is rotatable about an axis which extends parallel to the feed roller axes. A second cylindrical guide roller is arranged following the delivery system along the strand paths, is freely supported for rotation about an axial movement along an axis which is parallel to the feed roller axes, and has a circumferential guide groove for each yarn strand.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the production of fancy yarns, in which during open-end spinning a roving is supplied program-controlled to the spinning unit for the yarn to be produced. According to the invention at least one roving bobbin is supported by a support member, which is detachably arranged on a can used as a receptable for the fibre material to be processed. The bobbin creel used up to the present for the bobbins impairs the accessability of the winding locations for the fancy yarn produced. This creel, according to the invention, no longer is required. Thus, the cumbersome mounting and dismantling of the creel in changing over from normal yarn to fancy yarn and vice-versa is dispensed with. According to the invention the alterations required for such changes of the yarn production mode are extremely simple.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for drawing and blending textile fiber and conductive metal filaments. The method is characterized by feeding at least one bundle of a first textile material through draw rollers of a drawing frame, unwinding at least one roll of a bundle of second material in the form of conductive fibers adjacent the first pair of rollers of the drawing frame, feeding the conductive fiber bundle into the back rollers of the drawing frame simultaneously with the textile material fiber bundle, and guiding the textile material fiber bundle and the conductive fiber bundle relative to each other such that the latter continuously cushions the textile material fiber bundle with respect to the draw rollers when passing therethrough.

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: A filament-feeding apparatus for a wet freshly dyed yarn has a feed wheel centered on and rotatable about an axis and having a pair of side parts having generally circular peripheries lying in parallel spaced-apart planes perpendicular to this axis, and a plurality of angularly spaced center parts axially bridging the side parts and having outer edges axially aligned with the peripheries. The wheel is open and free of structure in zones radially inward of the peripheries and radially outward of secants extending between the outer edges. A flexible endless belt having a width equal at least to the axial spacing between the peripheries is held by a plurality of pulleys in a circular arc radially against these peripheries so that the belt forms upstream and downstream nips at the ends of the circular arc.

Abstract: An apparatus for infeeding textile band material to a consumer, especially for infeeding a sliver deposited in a can to a spinning machine, comprising a transport tube extending between a feed location and a consumer. There is provided means for generating, within the transport tube, an infeed flow or current which flows in the direction of the consumer. Also, holder means are operatively correlated with an inlet opening of the transport tube in order to hold a starting portion of the sliver or other band-like material, such holder means enabling seizing of the starting portion of the sliver with the aid of the infeed flow.

Abstract: In a method of and apparatus for feeding a tow to a textile machine, the leading end of the tow is automatically twisted by a vortical gas flow during transport through a tube to the machine. Preferably the vortical gas flow is also used to draw the tow through the tube.

Abstract: Device for aligning and attenuating soft or brittle fiber mats employing a rotating vacuum roller for gently grasping the fiber mats under sufficient compressive force to hold the same without breaking or otherwise damaging the fiber mats.

Abstract: A creel for a twisting machine includes an arm which is pivotally mounted at its upper end to a point on a support over an aisle alongside of the machine and which secures at its lower end a peg supporting element which may be arc shaped. The creel normally is latched in a stowed position above the twisting machine not blocking the aisle, and in this position yarn from spools on the pegs of the creel is supplied to the twisting machines. When it is desired to remove the empty spools and replace them with full ones, the latch is released, whereby gravity causes the creel to swing to a second position, this one over the aisle adjacent to the machine and sufficiently lower than the stowed position that the spools easily are accessible to an operator.

Abstract: A conventional spinning or twisting machine is easily and inexpensively adapted for producing a unique novelty yarn by mounting an auxiliary strand guide device in accordance with this invention onto the strand guide support conventionally provided above the spindle. The auxiliary strand guide device is in the form of an elongate wire element having respective guides formed therein and located for directing respective effect and binder strands onto an advancing foundation strand for being wound thereabout to produce a novelty yarn.