Patent ID: 6279619
Filing Date: 2001-08-28
Classification: D03D

Abstract:
A method for preliminarily storing yarn on a drum- shaped storage body of a feeding device wherein yarn is wound in a predetermined winding direction onto the storage body to form windings by an electric winding drive which causes relative rotational movements between a winding element and the storage body, said method comprising the steps of:interrupting the relative rotational movements between the winding element and the storage body to define resting periods;rotatably driving the winding drive in the winding direction to a stop at a slow crawl-speed for a predetermined period of time or over a predetermined rotational angle, said stop defining the beginning of a said resting period; andelectrically generating a holding torque within the winding drive and in the winding direction at the beginning of each resting period and maintaining said holding torque during said resting period without further rotation of the winding drive in the winding direction.