Patent ID: 8707667

Claim:
A textile machine ( 1 ) with a plurality of workstations ( 2 ) each equipped with at least one yarn processing device ( 41 ), and at least one drive shaft ( 35 ) extending in the longitudinal direction of the textile machine over a plurality of workstations, each yarn processing device ( 41 ) being connected to the drive shaft by a continuous traction means ( 19 ), the drive shaft including a large number of drive devices ( 20 ), each drive device guiding and entraining a respective continuous traction means ( 19 ), characterized in that each drive device ( 20 ) of the drive shaft ( 35 ) has two deflection and guide grooves ( 30 , 34 ) arranged coaxially with respect to the drive shaft ( 35 ), one of the deflection and guide grooves ( 30 , 34 ) being a component of a wheel ( 33 ) freely rotatably mounted about the drive shaft, an output means ( 22 ) connected to each respective yarn processing device ( 41 ), each output means having front and rear guide grooves ( 26 A, 26 B), the front guide groove ( 26 A) being positioned at a freely accessible end of the output means ( 22 ) and the rear guide groove ( 26 B) being positioned in the region of the respectively associated yarn processing device ( 41 ), and each continuous traction means ( 19 ) having opposite end loops joined endlessly by two connecting strands, one end loop engaged in the rear guide groove ( 26 B) of the output means ( 22 ) which is connected to the respective yarn processing device ( 41 ), the two strands extending from the one end loop being respectively engaged in the deflection and guide grooves ( 30 , 34 ) of the drive shaft ( 35 ), the two strands being twisted lengthwise relative to one another by a 180 degree rotation thereof between the drive shaft ( 35 ) and the other end loop, and the other end loop being engaged in the front guide groove ( 26 A) of the output means ( 22 ), whereby the end loops travel in the same direction as one another in the grooves ( 26 A, 26 B).