Patent ID: 6942174

Claim:
An apparatus for winding a cross-wound bobbin onto a bobbin tube, comprising: a bobbin creel comprising at least one bobbin creel arm for the mounting of a bobbin tube centering plate, a thread intake device that is effective in the region of the centering plate and with which is associated a thread severing device, a drive unit for a bobbin shaft/cross-wound bobbin, and a traversing thread guide that is adapted to be driven so as to move back and forth along said bobbin shaft/cross-wound bobbin; wherein said centering plate is provided with at least one intake or suction channel that is directed radially inwardly from a periphery of said centering plate, wherein said intake or suction channel opens into a hollow shaft that is guided outwardly through an associated one of said bobbin creel arms; and a suction head that is adapted to be placed against said hollow shaft in an axial direction, wherein said suction head is provided with a thread clamping mechanism and said thread severing device.