The spinning process on a Bigagli self-acting mule "B7 Double Drive" model is used today across the world to produce fine and extra fine high quality yarns from specialty fibers such as wool, cashmere, mohair, alpaca, angora, merino, vicuna, rabbit and so on...

1. Textile machinery since 1901
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Email: Iskender.Inceoglu@bigagli.net – T +39 335 74 31 940
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2. Italian textile machinery manufacturer since 1901
Bigagli has been producing textile machinery since 1901 and is one of the most
recognized name in the history of the woolen yarn textile machinery. Our
company is established near Florence in the Prato textile district.
Our awareness, that the quality of the yarn cannot ignore the quality of the
equipment used to produce it, has led us to always seek the most advanced
technologies to assist textile’s company all over the world to produce high
quality woolen yarns.
We specialized over the years in manufacturing modern and advance woolen
spinning frames, known as Bigagli self acting mules, specifically
designed, developed and constantly improved to produce fine and extra fine
woolen yarns; through processing natural, fine and delicate fibers such as
cashmere, angora, vicuna, camel hair and their blends with fine wool.
Our dedicated effort and passion for quality, which has been inherited from long
experience, are the fundamental driving force of our development to
ensure, through our Made in Italy textile machinery, production of consistent and
high quality yarn for our customers .
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3. Know-how : experience and expertise
As woolen yarn textile machinery specialists, our engineers team brings
precision, passion and a significant technical expertise to our work.
We developed a great technological know-how over the past 110
years, installing more than 500 self-acting spinning mules worldwide, while
improving their performance through permanent technical innovation.
The reliability and durability of our machinery, as well as the unparalleled
experience we have acquired in this manufacturing sector, ensure that our
company has internationally built up a solid leadership position having the main
producers of high quality yarns currently work with our self acting mules
(Cariaggi Lanificio Spa, Z. Hinchliffe & Sons Ltd, Todd & Duncan Ltd, Johnstons of
Elgin, Biagioli Modesto SpA, and so on) as a guarantee for our specific
competence.
Besides the ability to supply efficient and qualitative textile machinery on the
international market, we offer our customers an extensive know-how coupled with
a deep knowledge and wide experience of woolen yarn processing requirements
so as to support them to meet high quality standards, flexibility and
productivity.
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4. Quality, tradition and tecnological innovation
 A passion for quality
A keen awareness of quality inherited from long experience, expert engineering
and innovative products are at the heart of Bigagli- and this is what makes our
customers all over the world trust us completely.
 An
outstanding tradition for textile machinery able to produce the highest
possible quality of yarn
A continuous evolution that set its roots one century ago, evolved then through the
years by taking as points of reference Research & Development, highest
manufacturing flexibility and high quality standards inspired to the traditional handspinning technique.
 Technological innovation
As a manufacturer of industrial machine for yarn spinning, we have been making
improvements to our machinery and advancing the technology to create a
modern and flexible mule spinning version, able to combine the benefits of
automation with the production capacity and the high quality requirements in terms of
fine and extra fine fiber count and yarn uniformity.
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5. Customer service oriented
 Customer service is of the utmost importance to us and we show that to our
customers before, during and after the sale of our textile machinery.
 Each machine is tailored in order to meet the specific needs of our customers.
 We offer over 100 years of experience in the textile machinery industry.
 This expertise enables us to offer a broad range of assistance in meeting our
customers’ demands in the shortest time possible, with a valuable technical
assistance and an early recognition of problems.
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6. Technical assistance
 Our skilled technical specialists and engineers team are able to provide a valid
support, both for control of machines in operation, and advice on technological and
mechanical problems requests in order to meet all customer demands in the shortest
possible time.
A
remote assistance service system combines all the possibilities offered by
modern communication technology, through intranet customer’s network and internet
access, with extensive expertise in prompt and efficient customer service.
A
reliable spare parts department ensures a long operational lifetime of our
machines and spare parts can be delivered from stock on a timely basis ensuring
minimal downtime
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7. The Spinning cycle
Spinning is the process by which wool fiber is turned into yarn.
 Blending: the raw material ,fibres staple, has to be opened
, cleaned, blended and treated with oils and antistatics.
 Carding: fibres have to be well lined up and divided into slivers (soft
yarn, without mechanic firmness)
 Spinning: Slivers through operation of drafting and twisting , gain mechanical
firmness and become yarns more or less fine.
 Finishing: obtained yarns can have other structural finishing as for example
yarns coupling, or aesthetic finishing such as washing, steaming, dyeing and so
on .... These steps can be not necessary.
 Packaging: obtained yarns can be packed on paper cones, balls or directly
on plastic tubes, as frame output.
During spinning, wool fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form
yarn. They can be twisted and wound in different ways.
There are two main spinning routes for wool: worsted and woollen systems.
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8. The Spinning methods
 Worsted spinning converts “long fiber” length wool top into yarn.
 Woolen yarn spinning converts “short fiber” length carded wool into yarn
Woolen spinning , in order to obtain resistant and well-blended yarn from
sliver, consists of three main steps:
- Drafting
- Twist insertion
- Winding onto the cop
There are two major types of woolen spinning machine:
 self-acting mule spinning
 ring spinning.
The main difference between them is that these three steps are performed
differently by each machine.
On the mule they occur in a discontinuous way whereby the drafting and twist
insertion occur separately from winding onto the cop.
The ring-spinning machine combines them into a continuous sequence.
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9. Products range and installations
Though we manufacture different types of textile machinery for carded fibres
spinning, our strategy is mostly based on a specialization : we are one of the few
manufacturers in the world able to supply modern advance spinning self acting
mules that do represent our main range.
Self acting mules
Model B4
Model B5
300
installations
Model B6 e B7
260
installations
 Ring spinning frames
220
installations
 Fancy yarn machines
80
installations
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10. Why the self-acting mule(1)
The mule spinning frame guarantees the production of very high-quality woolen
yarns offering the following main advantages
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continuous draft on a 3 to 6 m- field, well above the ring spinning system.
Recent laboratory tests confirmed that draft is more natural (no fiber or yarn stress)
and homogenous, because the tensile force is spread across a much wider path
length
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Continuous yarn twist (without the false twist of the ring spinning system)
The yarn is constantly twisted before and after being spooled, thus preventing the
uneven fiber relief on the winding axis and keeping the Uster uniformity index
extremely low. The risk of ends breakage during the drafting operation is reduced
when short and/or fine fibers are present, such as cashmere and angora or fibers of
different type, fineness and length.
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11. Why the self-acting mule (2)
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The self acting mule enables to produce a vast range of yarn counts.
The ring frame can spin yarn counts only according to the ring diameter while the self
acting mule can spin from yarn count Nm 4000 up to yarn count Nm 46000.
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The self acting mule allows to produce higher quality yarns which cannot
be made successfully by a ring spinning frame
This characteristic is easy to verify when comparing the trial canvas. When
considering the spinning procedure based on the coordinated action of draft and
twists; we must keep in mind that twists are more concentrated on the thinner yarn
segments and drafts are more incisive on the thicker yarn segments in order to
thinner them and obtain a uniform yarn.
This spinning operation is more effective on the self acting mule because draft and
twists act at the same time on a length of 3-4 meters (yarn path length) while on
the ring spinning system this length is reduced in about 20 centimeters only.
Moreover in order to carry out this operation on the ring there is one more procedure
- the false twist.This is due to the fact that, without false twist, draft and twists would
be not contemporaneous on the ring.
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12. Why the self-acting mule (3)
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The self acting mule offers a competitive pricing
Considering the same production quantity (matching with the carding set), the
self-acting mule’s price is lower than the ring spinning frame’s price.
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The modern self acting mule represents a cost energy saving textile
machinery
The self-acting mule consumes less energy than the ring spinning frame because
on the ring there is one more motor (for the false twist) and the winding of the yarn
on spindle is obtained through the friction of slider on ring.
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The only advantage of the ring spinning system lies in the fact that for the
same production quantity the spinning ring frame requires a reduced space
compared with the self-acting mule.
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13. The Green Label
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14. What is the ACIMIT green label?
The ACIMIT green label is a document that aims to identify the energy and
environmental performances of textile machinery and make them easily
recognizable and comprehensible, using a process designated by the
manufacturer as an evaluation parameter.
 In the absence of an internationally recognized standard for the classification of
energy and/or environmental performance levels for textile machinery, Italian
machinery manufacturers are promoting an instrument whose goal is to
demonstrate some key performance data for their machinery.
 Specifically,
the quantity of equivalent emissions of carbon dioxide (Carbon
Footprint - CFP) produced during the machine's operation, is the parameter that
has been chosen to provide an environmental efficiency value to the machinery
being labeled.
 An international certification organism, RINA (www.rina.org), has validated the
green label issuing process and the evaluations it contains. Based on a
standardized
and
certified
procedure,
RINA
verifies
(for
some
manufacturers, drawn from those participating in the project every year and
representing about 20% of the joined companies) both the evaluation criteria and
operating conditions of the machinery being assessed for the labeling process.
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15. Self acting mules available versions
Our products range includes the following available versions :
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B7SD Selfacting mule with single drive (6 axis)
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B7 DD Selfacting mule with double drive in line (12 axis)
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B7 DF Selfacting mule with double drive opposite (12 axis)
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B7 M10 Selfacting mule with double drive (10 axis)
We can either supply new and second hand spinning machinery.
In addition, we are able to modify second hand spinning mules and update
them to the last and most recent model.
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16. Extensive experience in the woollen carded yarn
textile machinery – Bigagli worldwide
Our self acting mules have been appreciated all over the world for their particular
specialization in processing high quality fine fibers.
Europe
Italy
200.000 spindles (Self) 15.000 spindles
(S/N)
United Kingdom
20.000 spindles (Self)
1.000 spindles
(S/N)
Rest of Europe
10.000 spindles (Self)
2.000 spindles
(S/N)
China and Mongolia
130.000 spindles (Self)
4.000 spindles
(S/N)
Africa
6.000 spindles(Self)
3.000 spindles
(S/N)
North America
2.000 spindles (Self)
2.000 spindles
(N)
1.000 spindles
(N)
2.000 spindles
(S/N)
South America
Rest of the world
2.000 spindles (Self)
Self = Self acting
S = Selespin N = Novafil
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17. The most famous woollen spinners trust us ….
Name
Afasia Group
Buyan LLC
Erdenet-tex
Erdos Group (H.K.) Co., Ltd.
Filati Biagioli Modesto
Filatura Papi Fabio SpA
Gudbrandsdalens Uldvarefabrik AS
Inner Mongolia King Deer Cashmere
Group
Johnstons of Elgin Limited
Lanificio Cariaggi SpA
Michell Group
Millefili SpA
Miroglio Group
Ningxia Rongchang Cashmere Group
Co. Ltd.
Novalan S.A. de C.V.
Picchi SpA
Todd & Duncan Ltd
Woolyarns Ltd
Z. Hinchliffe & Sons Ltd
Zegna Baruffa Lane Borgosesia SpA
Zhejiang Jiachun Woollen Textile Co.
Ltd.
Zhejiang Zhongding (CHNST) Textile
Co. Ltd.
Country
P. R. China
Mongolia
Mongolia
P. R. China
Italy
Italy
Norway
P. R. China
Web-site
www.afasia.com
www.buyancashmere.com
www.carpet.mn
www.erdoscashmere.com.hk
www.filatibiagioli.it
www.papifabio.com
www.gu.no
www.kingdeeruk.com
Scotland UK
Italy
Peru
Italy
Italy
P. R. China
www.johnstonscashmere.com
www.cariaggi.it
www.michell.com.pe
www.millefili.it
www.mirogliogroup.com
www.nxrcy.com
Mexico
Italy
Scotland UK
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Italy
P. R. China
www.novalanfabrics.com.mx
www.picchi.com
www.todd-duncan.co.uk
www.woolyarns.co.nz
www.zhinchliffe.co.uk
www.baruffa.com
www.jcyr.net
P. R. China
www.chnst.com
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18. Working mule spinning machine B7 DD video
The new self acting mule version "Proxima B7 DD Double Drive"
is composed by two sections completely independent.
click here to launch our You tube video and discover the Bigagli
Self acting B7DD mule spinning process
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19. Self acting mule spinning cycle :
outward stage and backing-off
A. Outward stage – draft and twists: during this first phase the bobbin¹ holder
carriage moves away from the spindles rail. Whilst this is going on a certain
quantity of yarn is fed and the spindles rotate simultaneously at high speed.
Since the yarn feeding is less than the space covered by the bobbin holder
carriage, the yarn is drafted of a certain percentage (set by the operator).
During all this phase the spindles rotate while giving a certain number of
twists per meter, programmed by the operator too. At the end of this first
phase the bobbin holder carriage will be completely opened (in the farthest
distance position away from the spindles). The yarn is processed.
B. Backing-off:
preparation for winding stage (processed yarn is slowly
unwounded on spindle). The faller² moves down to reach its winding
position. The counter-faller³ moves up in order to tension the processed
yarn.
Note: Bobbin1 = product coming from carding set - Faller2 = mechanical part
relative to yarn placing on the spindle
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20. Self acting mule spinning cycle :
inward stage and fallers stroke
C. Inward stage – winding: the bobbin holder carriage comes back to the start
position at high speed while the spindles turn so as to wind the yarn on the
cop in the position determined by the faller and with tension imposed by
counter-faller3.
D. Fallers
stroke: when the bobbin holder carriage has reached the start
position, the yarn has been completely winded on the cop, the faller springs
up quickly to reach its parking position. In the meantime the counter-faller
quickly springs down in order to reach its parking position, making free the
yarn and preparing the machine for the next yarn path (starting process from
phase A).
Note: Counter-faller3 = mechanical part relative to yarn tensioning on the cop
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21. Self acting mule spinning cycle features
 For each yarn path (phase A+B+C+D) the quantity of yarn produced is given
by the length of yarn path multiplied for the number of spindles. In order to match
the self-acting mule with a carding set, spindles have to be 2,5 times the number
of good ends of carding set (with yarn path 4 mt. on the self-acting mule)
 The
self-acting mule spinning process can include additional phases as for
example jacking-in and/or extra feeding that enable to reduce yarn brakes due to
the high number of twists per meter.
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22. Mule spinning frame mod. B7 DD :
main advantages
 Maximise production capacity reducing downtimes
The possibility of operating on a single section reduces the total spinning
machine downtimes, related to cop replacement, bobbins replacement and
generally speaking all the machine stops carried out through the switch bar.
Indeed a section can be stopped meanwhile the other section can continue
to work normally.
 Increase of quality standard and performance
Mechanical, electronic and software improvements have permitted to produce
very fine and delicate yarns like cashmere 100% up to count Nm 46.
 More flexibility for an easier management of small lots and lot ends
The two independent sections of the spinning self acting mule recent model B7
DD allow to process two different yarns at the same time as if you would
have two self acting mules operating simultaneously. The main advantages of
such an improvement are related to the production flexibility achieved when it
comes to small lots production and lot ends.
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23. Mule spinning frame mod. B7 DD :
technological innovation
The control system is placed in the central part of the self acting mule. It
contains the push buttons to easily operate both sections of the machine and a
computerized operator interface. The modern touch-screen monitor allows
to interact with the program in a simple way.
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24. Mule spinning frame mod. B7 DD
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25. Mule spinning frame mod. B7 DD
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26. Mule spinning frame mod. B7 DD
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27. Mule spinning frame mod. B7 DD
The accurate tension control
system of the spooling and yarn
tension fallers guarantee a
perfect cop formation, so as to
maximise productivity and
quality of the subsequent
spinning process phases.
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28. Siemens Simotion and Sinamics S120
The movement of the mule spinning machine B7 Double Drive model is
granted by 12 Siemens brushless motors controlled by the Siemens
"Sinamics" modules while Simotion is the system that handles the Motion
Control tasks – from basic to highly complex tasks, focusing on flexible
solutions.
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29. Operator interface
The machine can
be fully controlled
through intranet
network and
internet access.
The interaction between the operator and the spinning mule happens through an
interface with a guided menu that enables to command either the right and left side
of the machine by a simple pressure on the touch-screen.
The computerized system controls all the machine functions, including the carriages
movement, the feed carriage speed, the adjustment of yarn feed speed and drafting
percentages, the reverse speed, the spooling speed, the cops formation. The
centralized computer can also store the working data, alarms, production and setting
data modification history.
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30. Mule spinning frame mod. B7SD (ex B6 model)
The Bigagli self acting mule B6 version, which ran out of production and is now
replaced by the B7SD model, has always stand out as a reference for the woollen
yarn
spinners
and
is
mainly
used
in
plants
producing
wool, cashmere, angora, camel, silk, other natural and synthetic fibers and their
blending.
By now our company have carried out around 300 installations of this spinning
mule model all over the world
The B6 spinning frame has replaced the mechanical previous B5 model
 This version is electronic and completely computerised
 Additional optional devices are available, like ABR APD ATL
 Optional device for inserting elastic yarn may also be added (Elaspin)
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31. Mule spinning frame mod. B6
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32. Proxima Warper 10 axis
The B6 version self acting mule
functions are controlled through
our Warper10AX digital
module that allows to define
the entire spinning cycle.
Production specifications and
settings can be inserted and will
be displayed on the computer
incorporated into the machine
control panel.
The main axes are
predetermined and
synchronized for a delicate and
extremely precise control.
All the Bigagli spinning mules
models are prepared with a
remote assistance function.
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33. Siemens converter system Simodrive
A Simodrive Siemens converter system steps our spinning mule machine up
to maximum productivity with a power electronics completely made by
Siemens, that guarantees the quality and reliability of the entire system. The
system individual drive assemblies can be combined thus enabling fast and
flexible synchronization of the drive performance and number of machine
axes.
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34. Ring spinning frames
Our textile machinery range include ring spinning frames
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Selespin DS
Selespin BGS
Optional devices APD ABR
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35. Fancy yarn machines
We also manufacture some fancy yarn machines
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NOVAFIL BR400-T1 e T2
Fancy yarn twister NOVAFIL BR1 e BR2
NOVAFIL double hollow spindle DFC
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36. State of the art : Cashmere 100% Count Nm 46.000
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