Abstract: An apparatus providing a hot section in a continuously moving synthetic yarn wherein at least one jet of hot fluid obliquely is directly across the moving yarn. The jet intersects the yarn at an obtuse angle to the approaching yarn. The apparatus also produces drawn yarn by passing undrawn yarn into the jet and tensioning the yarn as it passes through the jet. The apparatus includes a body member formed with a chamber formed with yarn entry and exit passages and a fluid ejecting nozzle. The body member may be additionally formed with a cavity opening from the chamber opposite the nozzle.

Abstract: A method of providing a hot section in a continuously moving synthetic yarn comprises directing at least one jet of hot fluid obliquely across the moving yarn. The jet intersects the yarn at an obtuse angle to the approaching yarn. The method also produces drawn yarn by passing undrawn yarn into the jet and tensioning the yarn as it passes through the jet. Apparatus for performing the method includes a body member formed with a chamber formed with yarn entry and exit passages and a fluid ejecting nozzle. The body member may be additionally formed with a cavity opening from the chamber opposite the nozzle.

Abstract: A method of producing commercially usable textured synthetic multifilament yarn from commercially produced undrawn multifilament synthetic yarn of a type which has normally a limited operational life and which has exceeded the normal operational life for undrawn yarn in which the overage undrawn yarn is fed continuously without pause through two discrete successive treatments with hot fluid at a temperature high enough to plasticize the yarn. The yarn is drawn to a chosen ratio of extension while it is passing through the first treatment with hot fluid. Next the yarn is jet textured while it is passing through the second treatment with hot fluid. The yarn may be subjected to a cooling action between the two successive treatments with hot fluid.