Patent ID: 6959532

Claim:
A method for at least one of starting a spinning process and piecing a yarn end within a spinning position of an air spinning frame, the method comprising steps of: returning a yarn end from a thread take-off through a twist generator of the air spinning frame; opening a drivable pair of output cylinders at an outlet of a drafting unit; placing the yarn end between the pair of output cylinders in alignment with a longitudinal fiber structure in a drivable inlet side of the drafting unit; closing the drivable pair of output cylinders with the yarn end between the output cylinders so that the drivable pair of output cylinders form a clamping point; determining an end position of the yarn end after the yarn end is placed between the output cylinders; starting the drivable pair of output cylinders at the outlet of the drafting unit so that the yarn end moves toward the twist generator; and starting the drivable inlet side of the drafting unit subsequent to the starting of the drivable pair of output cylinders in a coordinated and delayed manner, so that end portions of the longitudinal fiber structure and the yarn end overlap each other as both the yarn end and the longitudinal fiber structure pass through the clamping point of the drivable pair of output cylinders.