Installation formed of a spinning machine and a winding machine

Installation, comprising a spinning machine, a double-sided winding machine, a bobbin transporting device transporting the bobbins from said spinning machine to said winding machine, a tube or sleeve transporting device transporting tubes or sleeves from said winding machine to said spinning machine providing a circulation of wound and unwound tubes or sleeves, said bobbin transporting device including at least one automatic yarn steaming device, another yarn steaming device, said bobbin transporting device including a separate bobbin conveyor belt and one of said yarn steaming device for each side of said double-sided spinning machine, and automatic switching and control means for alternatingly operating said yarn steaming devices of said two machine sides, said two yarn steaming device including a common middle wall, a steam pipe disposed in said common middle wall swiveling about a longitudianl axis thereof, two pipes branching from said steam pipe and having ends, and respective rows of yarn steaming elements disposed at said ends of said two pipes, said automatic switching and control means lifting said yarn steaming elements of one machine side off the ends of the tubes or sleeves when said yarn steaming elements of the other machine side are near the ends of the tubes or sleeves.