Patent ID: 8256199

Claim:
Method for operating a spindle ( 2 , 22 ) of a two-for-one twister or cabling machine, in which a yarn ( 5 , 25 ) is withdrawn from a supply bobbin ( 7 , 21 ) and fed to a guide device, which is arranged below a twisted yarn plate ( 8 , 24 ) of the spindle ( 2 , 22 ) and from which the yarn ( 5 , 25 ) exits virtually perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the spindle ( 2 , 22 ) and is deflected to the outer edge of the twisted yarn plate ( 8 , 24 ) and runs along the spindle ( 2 , 22 ) as a free yarn balloon (B) encompassing the spindle ( 2 , 22 ), until the yarn ( 5 , 25 ) is fed into the twist or cabling point of a yarn guide device ( 9 , 27 ) above the spindle ( 2 , 22 ), characterized in that the supply speed of the yarn ( 5 , 25 ) is adjusted by a yarn tension influencing device ( 6 , 26 ), without a yarn storage means, for varying the yarn tension according to a determined yarn requirement which produces a modified discharge geometry of the yarn and minimizes the diameter of the free yarn balloon (B) encompassing the spindle ( 2 , 22 ) as a function of the geometry of the spindle ( 2 , 22 ).