Traverse winding apparatus for a machine producing cross-wound bobbins

In a machine producing cross-wound bobbins or cheeses including a drum winding a yarn travelling in a given yarn travel direction on a cheese over a given traverse winding width with reverse points along a yarn running line, a traverse winding apparatus comprising:

• a traction mechanism transmission having an endless traction mechanism, rollers over which said traction mechanism is guided defining a first traction mechanism segment movable in a given traverse winding direction and a second traction mechanism segment movable in a direction opposite to said given direction at the same speed;
• said traction mechanism including yarn entrainers having upper ends and being spaced apart by at least substantially twice the given traverse winding width;
• first, second and at least one further yarn guide means disposed laterally of said traction mechanism for supporting the yarn during traverse winding and for transferring the yarn at the reversal points from said yarn entrainer of one of said traction mechanism segments to said yarn entrainer of the other of said traction mechanism segments;
• each of said yarn guide means having a concavely curved yarn guide contour contacted by the travelling yarn, at least one of said contours lifting the travelling yarn over said upper end of one of said yarn entrainers at the reversal points permitting the yarn sliding along said at least one contour to be entrained by said entrainer moving in the opposite direction;
• said first yarn guide means being disposed upstream of said first traction mechanism segment as seen in the given yarn travel direction, said second yarn guide means being disposed between said first and said second traction mechanism segments, and said at least one further yarn guide means being disposed downstream of said second traction mechanism segment;
• said contour of said first yarn guide means having a greater curvature than said contour of said second yarn guide means, and said contour of said second yarn guide means having a greater curvature than said contour of said at least one further yarn means, the travelling yarn sliding along and looping part way around said contour of said first yarn guide means;
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• said contours being shaped and aligned relative to one another and to the yarn running line causing the yarn to travel from said contour of said first yarn guide means toward the yarn running line with loop-free contact with said contour of at least said second yarn guide means over a portion of the traverse winding width.