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Structure of the rotor spinning machine

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Fig. 6 – Structure of the rotor spinning machine

Modern rotor spinning machines are two-sided machines – with  spinning boxes and  winding units on both sides of the machine – in order to utilize the cost-intensive drives and  spinning robots more efficiently. A rotor spinning machine consists essentially of the following functional units (Fig. 6):

  • headstock (a) and tailstock (b) with central drives for rotors, feed, opening rollers and winding units;
  • the spinning and winding units (c), combined into sections;
  • empty tube supply (d) with empty tube magazine and empty tube transport system (at the tailstock); 
  • 1 - 2 operating robots (e) on each side of the machine for cleaning, piecing and package change;
  • package conveyor belt for transporting the full cross-wound packages to the end of the machine (f);
  • quality control and monitoring systems at each spinning position (optional).