Method for handling a thread end and a winding station

A method for handling a yarn end of a cross-wound bobbin at a winding station of a textile machine that produces the cross-wound bobbins, wherein at the textile machine:

• the cross-wound bobbin is held and driven in a bobbin holder;
• a thread is laid in a cross-wise manner on the cross-wound bobbin by means a traverse device;
• and
• a suction nozzle having a movable suction mouth is subjected to negative pressure;
• the method comprising:
• moving the suction mouth relative to the suction nozzle such that a distance between the suction mouth and the cross-wound bobbin is changed for one or both of finding the thread end on the cross-wound bobbin and sucking the thread end into the suction nozzle, or stretching the thread end sucked into the suction nozzle between the suction mouth and the cross-wound bobbin;
• moving the stretched thread to a unit of the textile machine for further processing;
• and
• wherein the suction nozzle is stationary and the suction mouth is rotated or linearly displaced relative to the suction nozzle.