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Method for catching, severing and rethreading a thread and an apparatus for implementing the method

US4108388A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 7, 1976
Grant dateAug 22, 1978
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 7, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H2701/31
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of and apparatus for catching, severing and sucking-off a continuously arriving thread and rethreading said thread onto a new empty bobbin tube, wherein the thread is caught in the zone of a thread traversing triangle, severed and continuously sucked off, retracted from the zone of the bobbin package and after the bobbin change the thread is inserted into the bobbin tube and the incoming thread is taken up by the bobbin tube and simultaneously is severed from the thread end extending to the suction device.

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