Flyer for textile apparatus

In a textile apparatus having an elongate hollow spindle for mounting a generally cylindrical package of strand material and means for drawing strand material from the package through the hollow spindle for further processing, an improved apparatus for guiding and imposing tension on the strand material as it is drawn from the package and advanced for processing and comprising:

• flyer arm means for engaging and guiding strand material as the same is removed from the package and drawn through the hollow spindle, said flyer arm means being mounted on an extremity of the spindle for rotation thereabout and having an arm extending radially outwardly of the spindle to overlie the outer circumference of a package mounted on the spindle and end guide means coaxially aligned with the hollow spindle and spaced from the extremity thereof by a first predetermined distance;
• and adjustable tensioning means stationarily mounted adjacent said flyer arm means for imposing controlled tension on strand material being guided by said flyer arm means, said tensioning means being mounted adjacent the longitudinal axis of said spindle and in longitudinally spaced relation from the adjacent extremity of the spindle and within an envelope defined by the path of movement of the strand material as the same is guided by said flyer arm means from the package into the hollow spindle;
• said tensioning means having sheave means having a predetermined radius less than said first predetermined distance and mounted for rotation about an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said spindle and spaced therefrom at a distance greater than said radius for entrainment of the strand material thereabout, and permanent magnet brake means operatively coupled with said sheave means for imposing thereon a controlled force resisting rotation of said sheave means as strand material entrained thereabout is drawn into the spindle.