Method for rewinding a spinning cake in a pot spinning apparatus

In a method for rewinding a spinning cake from a spinning pot of a pot spinning apparatus onto a rewinding body, which includes drawing a sliver to be spun in a drafting configuration, guiding the sliver in a pneumatic piecing aid, and depositing the sliver with a traversing yarn guide onto an inner wall surface of the rotating spinning pot as the spinning cake while maintaining a requisite rotation for spinning a yarn from the sliver, the improvement which comprises:

• moving the traversing yarn guide toward the middle of the spinning cake in a last stroke being shorter than a next-to-last stroke of the yarn guide toward the middle of the spinning cake, once a predetermined size of the spinning cake is reached, before initiating rewinding of the spinning cake onto the rewinding body;
• stopping a delivery of the sliver from the drafting configuration once a reversing point of the stroke is reached;
• introducing the rewinding body into the spinning pot and transferring a piece of the yarn extending from the traversing yarn guide to the spinning cake to a tube tip of the rewinding body;
• raising the rewinding body into a rewinding position;
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• rewinding the yarn deposited on the spinning cake in the last yarn guide stroke onto the rewinding body, and covering the yarn of the last yarn guide stroke with subsequently wound on yarn layers.