Patent ID: 11905625
Assignee: SAURER INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY AG
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC D  B | IPC B  D

Claim 3:
4. A method for cleaning a yarn forming element of an air-spinning nozzle, comprising:
feeding a free end of a cleaning strip from a cleaning device, through a take-up channel of a yarn forming element, into a vortex chamber of the air-spinning nozzle,
producing a vortex air flow in the vortex chamber by at least one vortex air nozzle leading into the vortex chamber, in order to guide the cleaning strip over a surface of the yarn forming element and/or over at least one nozzle opening of the vortex air nozzle, and subsequently
retracting the cleaning strip through the take-up channel to the cleaning device.