Patent ID: 6298647
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
In a cheese-producing textile machine, a yarn-connecting device comprising a yarn-end splicing device located outside a normal travel path of the yarn, a gripper tube for manipulating yarn ends to be spliced, the gripper tube being acted upon by suction air and being movable between a first position for retrieving the yarn ends to be spliced and a second position for placing the yarn ends into the splicing device, a pivotably seated gripper tube flap for closing a mouth of the gripper tube, and a control device arranged at the second position of the gripper tube for acting on the gripper tube flap to open the gripper tube flap in the course of movement of the gripper tube from the first position toward the second position and to close the gripper tube flap in the course of movement of the gripper tube from the second position toward the first position.