Patent ID: 6857259

Claim:
A yarn texturing machine comprising a plurality of yarn processing units, a plurality of yarn feed systems for serially advancing a yarn along a path of travel through the processing units, at least one of the yarn feed systems comprising a driven feed roll and a rotatable guide roll arranged in cantilever fashion and adjacent each other on a machine frame so that the advancing yarn may be looped about the rolls with several loopings, a threading device for engaging an advancing yarn as it is guided along the path of travel and then looping the yarn about the circumference of the rolls with a total looping greater than 360°, wherein the threading device comprises at least one movable yarn guide and a guide means controlling the movement of the yarn guide, wherein the guide means is designed and constructed such that the yarn guide is guided in a guide plane transverse of the longitudinal axes of the rolls along a guide path encircling at least in part the rolls in the direction of the looping, and wherein the yarn guide is formed by a wire bow, which connects at one end thereof to the guide means.