Patent ID: 8033089

Claim:
Method for operating a two-for-one twisting or cabling machine ( 1 ) with a large number of workstations ( 2 ), which are each equipped with at least two feed bobbins ( 6 , 13 ), one feed bobbin ( 6 ) being creeled on a spindle ( 3 ) of the workstation ( 2 ) and at least one further feed bobbin ( 13 ) being creeled on a creeling device ( 12 ) associated with the workstation ( 2 ), in that the yarns ( 7 , 15 ) of the feed bobbins ( 6 , 13 ) are guided together in a balloon yarn guide ( 5 ) and cabled, and in that the cabled yarn is wound to form a take-up bobbin ( 16 ), characterized in that the feed bobbin ( 6 ) creeled on the spindle ( 3 ) has half the weight of the take-up bobbin ( 16 ) to be produced.