Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

A textile machine producing cross-wound bobbins or cheeses includes a number of work stations having a creel with a bobbin changing position for holding a yarn package having an outer surface and an end surface and being disposed on a tube having an end, and a movable servicing device serving the work stations for changing takeup bobbins and having a drive apparatus for a bobbin in the changing position and a yarn suction device for seeking, aspirating and pulling off a yarn end that has run up onto the outer surface of the yarn package. An apparatus for forming a yarn reserve on a bobbin at a winding station includes a yarn guide element being disposed on the creel and movable toward and away from the bobbin for clasping the tube over a sector of at least 90.degree. in the circumferential direction of the tube and winding the yarn end on the end of the tube to make a yarn reserve. The yarn guide element has a yarn guide surface to be placed against the end face of the yarn package. The yarn guide surface has a yarn catching notch formed therein immediately adjacent the end face of the yarn package. An actuating element actuates the yarn guide element.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim