Device for protecting tangential drives of a textile machine

Device for protecting against destruction of or damage to tangential strands and rotatable members of a textile machine having a plurality of individual work stations and operating with traveling threads, comprising monitoring means capable of traveling along the textile machine for successively monitoring rotation of the rotatable members driven by the tangential strands at each of the plurality of individual work stations, said monitoring means comprising at least one signal receiver, and at least one signal transmitter associated with the rotatable members at the respective work stations being monitored with respect to the rotation thereof, coupling means at each of the work stations for removing a faulty tangential strand from the rotatable members associated therewith and for simultaneously securing the tangential strand against renewed engagement with the rotatable members, and means associated with said traveling monitoring means for actuating said coupling means, said actuating means being controllable by said signal receiver.