Abstract:
A yarn collecting bobbin comprising an elongated, tapered tube having a frustro-conical skirt affixed thereto is disclosed. The skirt encircles generally the base section of the bobbin, with a relatively short extension from the tube projecting beyond the lower end of the skirt. The skirt is firmly secured to the tube by any of several different techniques and is notched so as to entrain a yarn end adjacent thereto and commence winding of the yarn on the bobbin.
Abstract:
A ''''balloon'''' is formed by an advancing yarn and is deflected to cause the yarn to be severed. In one environment, a tender patrols spinning stations of a spinning machine and automatically stops to service any of the stations requiring servicing which might occur, for example, because a bobbin being wound at the station is full. Upon stopping at a station, an operating assembly on the tender causes a yarn guide of the station to be retracted, and also causes a deflecting unit on the tender to deflect normal ballooning of the advancing yarn. This action, in turn, slows or stops a ring traveler which normally carries the advancing yarn about the bobbin, thus increasing the advancing speed of yarn while its withdrawal rate remains constant, and thereby severing the strand. In another environment, a supply bobbin is stationary and over-end withdrawal of the unwinding end at a generally constant speed causes the yarn to balloon transversely of the bobbin which facilitates faster unwinding. The balloon is deflected so that the yarn cannot be withdrawn as rapidly from the supply bobbin resulting in severing of the yarn.