Apparatus and method for coloring yarn continuously in sheets thereof, the apparatus including a spatial sequence apparatus for testing the yarn by pre-stressing; a yarn tension relaxing means; a printing apparatus for coloring the yarn in an accurately predetermined longitudinal pattern; control means for correcting wet yarn length increase as the yarn progresses through the printer; wet hot box for fixation of the dye stuff onto the yarn fiber; yarn washing means; combined apparatus for yarn d...

Described is cobulked continuous filament yarn containing a first yarn and a second yarn having some special quality such as an electrically conductive yarn, a flame-retardant yarn, a yarn having soil release properties or a yarn having some aesthetic quality such as an unusual dye characteristic or unusual luster characteristic, in which the filaments of the second yarn are about 4 to about 20 percent longer than the filaments of the first yarn, whereby the effect of the second yarn is increase...

An improved process for the manufacture of fibers and yarns comprises drawing a sheet-like moss (web) of molecularly-orientable organic polymer at a temperature above its crystalline melting point, profiling said web followed by stretching and fibrillation of the web into filaments, the improvement comprising the intermediate step before stretching that the profiled polymer is chilled to a temperature below the crystalline melting point of the polymer and subjected to melt draw-down between the ...

A novel and improved carpet yarn for cut-pile carpets is produced by twisting a strand of yarn having pre-existing latent filament crimp characteristics to a predetermined twist level in a given direction and then plying it with a similar strand or strands having the same amount of twist inserted therein in the same direction. The yarns are plied together, receiving a ply twist essentially equal in amount to the twist in the single strands, but in the opposite direction. The plied yarn is then w...

A spin system for thermoplastic yarns is provided with a melt line, in which the main flow of the melt is transported to a distributor pump. The distributor pump comprises several individual pumps, which divide the main melt flow into several partial flows. Each partial melt flow is supplied to a spinneret. Arranged on one of the driven shafts of the pump are mixing elements. The main melt flow is supplied to the pump via a chamber, in which these mixing elements are arranged.

A disk brake for placing tension on textile yarns is provided with an air-cleaning system for blowing lint and fiber dust particularly from the underside of the disks to prevent a buildup which may interfere with operation of the brake disks and prevent proper clamping action between the disks.

Polyester filaments of high shrinkage and high shrinkage tension may be prepared by heat treatment of undrawn crystalline filaments of low shrinkage and shrinkage tension, and may be used for making polyester yarns of mixed shrinkage and bulky polyester yarns and fabrics therefrom.

Composite yarns having a total diameter of less than about 0.017 inch are formed with one or more core strands, each having a denier in the range of 100-300, preferably 150-300; a first covering strand of stainless steel wire having a diameter of from 0.0015 to 0.0030 inch; and a second covering formed of one or more strands which may be selected from the same material and range of sizes as the core strands.

A godet for heating and advancing yarns which includes a stationary support member and a rotatable member which includes a heatable godet jacket. The temperature of the godet jacket is measured by means of temperature sensors, the output signals of which are transmitted by induction from the rotatable member to the stationary member. The godet is provided with an electronic memory, which is connected with the temperature sensors and stores the data supplied by the temperature sensors. The memory...

A winding process for winding yarn into a cross-wound bobbin in the textile machine includes depositing the yarn on a bobbin in a transversing stroke by a transversing movement of a yarn guide. The process includes intermittently decreasing the traversing stroke from a maximum value to a minimum value and then increasing the value of the traversing stroke from the minimum value back to a relatively constant maximum value and holding the stroke at the maximum value for a predetermined period of t...