The invention relates to a machine for producing a cabled yarn from two strands supplied from different supply sources. The two strands are twisted together over a freely rotatable roller disposed on the same axis as the upper bobbin, and the yarns which have been joined on the doubling roller, are subjected before winding, to the action of a compensating system which absorbs variations of tension and is adapted to actuate means for stopping the machine if one of the strands should break.

Materials for substantively preparing yarns or plied yarns, especially sewing threads and preferably those of polyester, in the form of an oil/water dispersion are disclosed. The materials contain 5 to 80 weight percent of silicone oil of a viscosity of 500 to 50,000 mm.sup.2 /sec at 25.degree. C., 10 to 80 weight percent of wax with a melting point not less than 40.degree. C., 1 to 10 weight percent of fatty acids with 6 to 22 carbon atoms, 0.4 to 12 weight percent of cationic imidazolinium sal...

A spinning apparatus is disclosed according to the invention having a drafting zone comprising at least four roll pairs for drawing a sliver comprising one or more types of staple fibers. The rolls pairs include a back roll pair, intermediate roil pairs and a front roll pair and the distance between the nip of the back roll pair and the nip of the adjacent intermediate roll pair, and the distances between the nips of adjacent intermediate roll pairs is no more than the effective fiber length of ...

A spinning apparatus is disclosed according to the invention having a drafting zone comprising at least four roll pairs for drawing a sliver comprising one or more types of staple fibers. The rolls pairs include a back roll pair, intermediate roll pairs and a front roll pair and the distance between the nip of the back roll pair and the nip of the adjacent intermediate roll pair, and the distances between the nips of adjacent intermediate roll pairs is no more than the effective fiber length of ...

Modifying a polyester with tetraethyl silicate (or like oxysilicon chain-brancher) to provide a draw-texturing feed yarn that can be draw-textured at a speed of 1,000 mpm without excessive filament breaks, and with other advantages in the resulting textured yarns, such as improved bulk and dyeability over unmodified polyester yarns textured under similar conditions, and preferably without sacrificing dye uniformity.

A sizing agent for carbon fibers comprises a water-based dispersion of a mixture of constituents A, B, C and D to be described below at weight ratios of (constituent A)/(constituents B+C)=60/40 to 90/10, (constituent B/constituent C)=2/1 to 7/1, and (constituents A+B+C)/(constituent D)=85/15 to 97/3 where the constituent A is phenyl epoxy resin or aromatic nitrogen-containing epoxy resin, the constituent B is shown by the following expression (I): ##STR1## where X is a benzene residue or a diphe...

Method to produce a spun-like textured yarn comprised of one yarn which is substantially fully oriented and the other yarn is partially oriented. The method involves plying the yarns in the draw zone before being pre-textured. The ply point of the plied yarns is located above the entrance to the heater in the draw zone.

A method of manufacturing glass yarns includes the steps of: forming a large number of glass filaments by drawing molten glass through a large number of orifices formed on the bottom of a bushing; forming a plurality of strands by separately gathering the large number of glass filaments after a sizing agent has been applied thereto with a plurality of gathering rollers aligned in such a manner that they are separated from each other by a predetermined gap; winding the plurality of strands on one...

A yarn winding method is disclosed wherein the yarn is wound onto a supporting tubular core by a traversing yarn guide. During the initial portion of the winding process, the yarn is wound in a random wind process, and during the subsequent portion of the winding process the yarn is wound in a stepped precision wind.

Textured polyester yarn is prepared from multifilament yarn composed of a synthetic linear ethylene terephthalate polyester by draw-texturing at a draw ratio of 1.05 - 1.30X, using a heat-setting temperature of about 170.degree. - 240.degree.. Feed yarn for said draw-texturing process has (a) a break elongation of 40 - 80%, (b) a density of above 1.371 g/cm.sup.3, and (c) a boil-off shrinkage of less than 8%. Said feed yarn is prepared by modified melt spinning of the foregoing polyester at a sp...