Apparatus for ringless spinning

The apparatus is mounted on a pivotable housing (2), and it contains a feed device (5) for the fibres to be treated, a spinning chamber (4), a twisting member (7), a drive element (11) for the twisting member, a device (13) for braking the twisting member, and a yarn-break signal generator (19). This signal generator is inserted into the circuit of the control system for the drive element of the feed device (5). The apparatus also contains a signal generator (26) which responds to the position of the twisting member (7) in relation to its drive element (11) and which is inserted into the circuit of the control system of the drive of the feed device (5). In such an apparatus, the supply of the fibres to the spinning chamber during the drawing-in of the thread takes place only after the twisting member has been set into the working position, so that the drawing-in operation is simplified considerably and, moreover, the clogging of the spinning chamber with fibres is also prevented.