Apparatus for supporting a stop member of a textile ring spinning machine

Apparatus for supporting a stop member of a stop motion device of a textile ring spinning machine, the stop member being of the type having a leading tapered end insertable between a drive roller and an opposed driven roller of a drafting device of the ring spinning machine to stop the rotation of the driven roller and the feed of roving through the drafting device and having a projecting cam follower portion, comprising:

• a carriage having a cam portion for removably receiving and manipulating the projecting cam follower portion of the stop member;
• means for reciprocating said carriage between an operating position in which the stop member is in a roller and roving stopping position and a non-operating position in which the stop member is retracted from said stopping position;
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• means for releasably positioning said carriage on said reciprocating means in a predetermined position, said carriage being disengagable from said positioning means for movement therefrom sufficiently to permit removal and replacement of said stop member from said carriage and being reengagable with said positioning means for positioning said carriage in said predetermined position.