Yarn clearer and cutting device for a yarn clearer

Abstract

The present invention relates to a yarn clearer for a workstation of a textile machine with a cutting device for clearing out defects from a yarn as well as a cutting device for a yarn clearer which can be arranged at a workstation of a textile machine, with a housing body having a housing basic body, a housing cover which covers the housing basic body at least in sections and together with the housing basic body delimits a housing interior and a first housing opening and a cutting device with a cutting medium carrier having a cutting knife, a cutting medium drive arranged in the housing interior for adjusting the cutting medium carrier between a cutting position remote from the housing and a rest position close to the housing and a drive element connecting the cutting medium drive and the cutting medium carrier and adjustably arranged in the first housing opening. In order to provide a yarn clearer with a cutting device as well as a cutting device which ensure reliable separation of the yarn when required, there is provision for the housing body to have a bearing section for adjustably receiving the cutting medium carrier and a second housing opening adjacent to the bearing section with an opening edge extending perpendicularly to the adjustment direction of the cutting medium carrier and abutting the cutting medium carrier.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.