Device for controlling the bearing pressure of a textile bobbin on a support roller or drive roller

1. An apparatus for holding a textile bobbin in peripheral surface contact on a support roller with a controlled bearing pressure there against, comprising:

a creel for grasping the textile bobbin,

a shaft supporting the creel for pivotable movement relative to the support roller,

a lever mechanism for applying a variable torque to the creel as a function of pivoted movement of the lever mechanism, and

an adjustment device for selectively pre-setting a starting torque applied to the creel via the lever mechanism upon start-up of the apparatus,

the adjustment device comprising an eccentric element rotatably positionable into a selectively fixed disposition to act on the lever mechanism for adjustably establishing a base position of the lever mechanism according to the selectively fixed disposition of the eccentric element at which the lever mechanism applies the starting torque to the creel.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , in combination with a plurality of winding heads each having one of the bobbin holding devices, wherein the eccentric element is supported on an eccentric shaft extending along the plurality of winding heads.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the adjustment device further comprises a regulator wheel having a graduated scale for adjusting the rotated position of the eccentric element.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , in combination with an open-end rotor spinning machine.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the lever mechanism and the adjustment device are cooperatively configured and arranged to decrease progressively the torque to the creel as the yarn is progressively wound onto the bobbin and to further establish, as a function of the base position of the lever mechanism, an intermediate neutral position of the lever mechanism and a corresponding zero torque to the creel at a predetermined wound size of the bobbin.