Abstract: The invention relates to a process and apparatus for the treatment of bulky fibrous webs, derived at least partially from thermoplastic fibres, so as to impart cohesion to the webs. The process involves passing the webs between at least one pair of rotating cylindrical metallic electrodes, of which one is connected to a high frequency generator and the other is connected to earth, the web being compressed between the electrodes and being driven by them. One of the electrodes is covered with a layer of dielectric material having a smooth surface, and the discharges produced between the electrodes are partial discharges (or glow discharges), the path of which extends over only a part of the gap between the electrodes, starting from the electrode covered with dielectric material and extending to near the surface of the other electrode.

Abstract: Each spinning ring of a ring-frame spinning device is carried by a fluid bearing supplied with compressed air for centering and lifting the ring. The flow of compressed air is selectively interrupted or at least reduced by means of an automatic or hand-operated valve or cock in order to reduce or suppress the ring-lifting action. A braking action is thus produced on the ring as it is brought into frictional contact with a top horizontal radial surface of a ring carrier or stator. The braking action can be applied selectively to one or a number or all the rings of any ring spinning frame employed in the textile industry.

Abstract: A psychrometer or pick-up for measuring the content of water in a gas flow comprises a first sensor or probe for measuring the dry temperature of the gas and is arranged directly in the flow of gas, a second sensor or probe for measuring the wet temperature of the gas and is surrounded by a sheath of a material capable of absorbing a volatile liquid, the second sensor or probe with its sheath also being arranged in the flow of gas, a pair of screens mounted on opposite sides of the second sensor and the sheath for protecting the sheath against thermal radiation, and a wetting device, preferably formed by a dosing pump connected to a nozzle, for injecting successive doses of a predetermined amount of the volatile liquid directly into the interior of the sheath and onto the screens to prevent excessive and insufficient moistening of the sheath and the screens.

Abstract: In order to produce a fancy yarn with protuberances along its length in a simple manner, and without adding either a binding yarn or an effect yarn, a multi-filament yarn of continuous filaments is forwarded by a positive drive means and twisted and taken up by a spindle. When engaged with a surface of the drive means the yarn is engaged by an edge which brakes some of the filaments.

Abstract: Tension detector for an advancing layer of straightened yarns.A section of yarns of the layer 5 is guided along a V-path 5a by means of three guide member 1,4 of which a first group 1 is situated on one side of the layer 5 and a second group 4 is situated on the other side of the said layer and between the two members 1; the relative positions of the axes of the three guide members 1,4 are fixed and the force exerted by the yarn layer 5 on one of the said groups of members is measured with respect to that (or those) of the other group.The invention is particularly applicable to the slashing of yarn warps on a slasher.

Abstract: A multidifferential device of the type comprising a plurality of differentials, whereby each comprises a differential holder with at least two epicyclic gears and two planetary gears and in which the imaginary rotation axis of all the differential holders and planetary gears is the same. The differential holders and planetary gears are designed as rotary members, whereof two serve as input members and one serves as the output member. They comprise two end members and, between them, a plurality of intermediate members in which an end input and output member is constituted as a planetary gear, whereby the epicyclic gears of every other intermediate differential holder member are located at the same radial level relative to said rotation axis. A plurality of intermediate differential holder members each comprises an external or internal planetary gear path on both of its faces. At least one inner or outer epicyclic gear of each end member comprises a planetary gear.

Abstract: A method for producing crimped textile elements by extruding a bilaminate film each face of which comprises a different thermoplastic macromolecular polymer and one face of which comprises a mixture of such a polymer with a vinyl copolymer, orienting the bilaminate film by stretching, and then fibrillating the oriented film. The fibrillated film may be chopped into discontinuous fibers. The crimped products include fibrillated webs or sheets, continuous filaments and short fibers.

Abstract: The invention relates to fancy yarns, and a method of making them, in which at least two yarns, of which one forms a core and one an effect yarn, are fed to a junction point and then fed together through a heat treatment zone and assembled into the fancy yarn in a false twisting step, the core yarn having been provided with a thermoplastic binder upstream of the junction point by which the effect yarn is adhered to the core yarn.

Abstract: Apparatus for introducing fabric article parts to an assembling machine which comprises a first slide assembly incorporating a device for entraining the parts along the slide assembly and thence into the machine. The fabric article parts are initially suspended from a second slide assembly and a caliper which are movable along separate, but substantially parallel, paths leading to the intake of the first slide assembly.

Abstract: The invention comprehends a method of twisting core strands, of the type comprising a sheath of fibres surrounding a central strand, a method in accordance with which a sliver of fibres is drawn between a point of entry of the said sliver and a pair of downstream drawing cylinders, a central strand is drawn under constant tension and is introduced without drawing into the sliver upstream of the said drawing cylinders, characterized in that a torsion in one sense and the other is conferred successively on the assembly constituted by the sliver of fibres and the central strand downstream of the said drawing cylinders.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for detecting defects in needles on a knitting loom which is operating. The device comprises at least one Hall probe magnetic detector the active surface of which has a width less than the thickness of the needles to be detected. The detector is mounted such that the needles all pass successively in front of it during their working movement, and an electronic circuit transforms the signals received from the magnetic detector into a signal for controlling the stoppage of said loom. The electronic circuit comprises first and second electronic circuits each of which is adapted to supply a signal for controlling the stoppage of the loom.

Abstract: A thread feed device for a hosiery knitting machine comprises a tensioning mechanism for the thread, a cylindrical drum for positively driving the thread, a shaft coaxial with the drum and having an axial groove therein cooperating with radially inwardly extending projection means on the drum, and a plurality of rotary magnetic drive members surrounding the shaft and cooperating with a magnetic core on the shaft so that, by movement of the shaft, the magnetic core can be selectively aligned with one of the rotary magnetic drive members.

Abstract: A yarn supply device for a rectilinear knitting machine capable of supplying the needles of the machine with a predetermined quantity of yarn irrespective of the speed of operation of the machine. The supply device comprises a yarn feed unit incorporating a drive member such as a pulley around which the yarn is wound in order to obtain positive drive engagement, the pulley being driven by an electric motor energized with an error signal derived from the output signal of a transducer sensitive to the actual displacement speed of the yarn feed device, and a signal representing the desired speed derived from the displacement and speed of a cam bar and thrower bar of the knitting machine. Arrangements are made for compensation in the error signal for the different stretch in the yarn in dependence on the position of the thrower with respect to a fixed yarn guide, and also for the inertia of the drive member of the yarn feed unit.