Patent ID: 6109014
Filing Date: 2000-08-29
Classification: D01H

Abstract:
In a method of pot spinning wherein a yarn is deposited on the interior wall of a rotating spinning centrifuge in the form of a spinning cake having a conically wound portion at at least one end of the spinning cake, a method for initiating rewinding of the spinning cake onto a rewinding tube after a yarn break by introducing a yarn detaching device into the spinning centrifuge and applying the yarn detaching device to the spinning cake deposited on the interior wall of the centrifuge, the applying of the yarn detaching device to the spinning cake comprising providing a drive for the yarn detaching device, placing the yarn detaching device against the conically wound portion of the spinning cake using the drive, providing a yarn guide contour on the yarn detaching device, lifting the winding layers of the spinning cake to the level of the rewinding tube using the yarn guide contour, and preventing yarn from winding around the yarn detaching device during rewinding.