Rieter Machine Works, Ltd.

Eduard Schenkel

Dieter Thalmann

Hans Schellenberg

Andreas Schwander

Jakob Fluck

With the creel for a spinning machine according to the invention at least two rows of rotatably suspended roving bobbins, which extend essentially in parallelism with respect to one another, are adjacently lined-up. Normally in ring spinning machines there are employed for such creels roving deflecting rods which extend horizontally in the longitudinal direction of the ring spinning machine. The rovings extending from the roving bobbins to the drafting arrangements are guided around the deflecting rods for the purpose of guiding the rovings. If the deflecting rod is located behind the bobbins, then insertion of the rovings about the rods is extremely cumbersome, and additionally, there exists the danger of damaging the rovings. If the deflecting rod is located further towards the front, then exchange of the bobbins becomes tedious. These drawbacks are eliminated with the invention in that a row of substantially rod-shaped holders is arranged behind the front row of roving bobbins. One end of each of the holders is rigidly mounted, and the other end of each holder is provided with at least two guides for rovings. These rovings extend directly from the related roving bobbins by means of the guides to the drafting arrangements.

Creel for a spinning machine

The false twist machine has a texturing part arranged below heat treatment zones in which three supply devices and a false twist device are superimposed and staggered from the back to the front in such a manner that in threading in of the thread into these devices turning about and overhead working processes of the operator are avoided. The thread paths formed by the threading in are placed one in front of the other in the sequence of the threading in process. A bobbin creel is movable to the texturing part and is equipped with a thread transfer device which transfers the threads coming from the individual creel bobbins into the vicinity of the first supply device. The winding device is arranged opposite the texturing part at a distance forming an operating alley and gives off the full bobbins to the outerside of the winding device opposite the operating alley. The empty bobbins can be moved from the machine end into a readiness reserve position.

False twist machine

A travelling scanning apparatus for successively checking the working conditions at the spinning position of a ring spinning machine is enabled, in order to determine whether a yarn breakage has occurred at a spinning position, and, in the affirmative case, whether there prevails a danger of damage due to lap-up formation on a roll of the drafting arrangement. Using a yarn feeler first the presence of a normally spun yarn is detected. If no yarn is present, the broken yarn suction nozzle, which is used for eliminating the fibres not spun in, is lowered from its normal working position into a scanning position, and an optimum fibre stream is obtained between the delivery rolls of the drafting arrangement and the lowered nozzle for scanning using a second feeler. In case of non-presence of this fibre stream, that is in case possible lap-up formation, a roving supply interrupting device is activated and the roving supply to the drafting arrangement is interrupted.

Travelling scanning apparatus for successively scanning the working

A method of, and apparatus for, taking-off a thread or the like alternately from one of two bobbin packages arranged side by side in a creel for textile machines. The method contemplates taking-off a thread from a bobbin package, the tail end of such removed thread being knotted to the lead end of an essentially parallelly arranged reserve bobbin package. The knot is formed by first pulling the leading thread end of the reserve bobbin package through a thread take-off opening operatively associated with such reserve bobbin package. Then the thread is pulled in a direction opposite to the thread take-off direction through or at a location near a take-off opening operatively associated with the bobbin package from which thread is in the process of being removed, in other words the momentary withdrawal bobbin package. A loop, which progressively disappears as the thread take-off process switches-over to the reserve bobbin package, is formed by the knot connecting the leading end of the reserve bobbin package to the tail end of the bobbin package being unwound. The apparatus for performing the method is mounted upon a support member of the bobbin package creel and is provided with two pivotable wing members which extend upwardly at an inclination, each wing member having an extended or elongate opening. Two wires mounted on each wing member form the related thread take-off opening. Each such thread take-off opening is arranged in the extension of the bobbin axis of the associated bobbin package when the related wing member is in its working position.

Method and apparatus for continuously taking-off a thread alternately

A moveable thread guide element is disposed for movement from a thread receiving position located below a stationary thread guide pin element to a thread-transfer position engaged with the pin element. The moveable thread guide element is pivotally mounted so as to pivot upon engagement with the pin. This allows the thread on the moveable guide element to slide onto the pin element. After transfer, the moveable guide element can be lowered.

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Seuzach, Switzerland

Eduard Schenkel