Ribbon winding preventing method and traverse drum

Abstract

Although many conventional ribbon winding preventing methods have substantially solved a ribbon winding problem in terms of the appearance of a package, there is still a large difference between a ribbon winding layer and the other layers in, for example, unwinding performance for fast unwinding during a postprocess. In a configuration for using a traverse groove 11 formed in a traverse drum 6 to traverse and wind a yarn into a package 3, the traverse drum 6 has a plurality of continuous traverse grooves 11 for different winding values formed therein. This configuration also has means 24 for switching a yarn path to determine which of the plurality of continuous traverse grooves 11 for different winding values used to traverse the yarn. Means for detecting a diameter at which ribbon winding may occur is also provided to effect such control that the winding number for the traverse drum 6 is changed when a package diameter is close to the ribbon winding diameter.

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