Abstract: A method and apparatus for deregistering drawn crimped nylon multifilament tow includes the steps of stretching the tow under constant controlled tension at a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the nylon. The apparatus includes means for sensing the tension of the tow between the feed and draw sections of a stretching device and producing a signal representative of the tension sensed and a controller for changing the speed of the draw section actuated by said signal.

Abstract: The polyolefin spunbonded nonwoven fabric is defined as (A) being formed of continuous polyolefin fibers having a fineness of 0.5 to 3 denier, (B) having basic weight between 30 g/m.sup.2 and 15 g/m.sup.2, and (C) having .sqroot.S.sub.MD .times.S.sub.TD of 2.5 g or below, wherein S.sub.MD and S.sub.TD are respectively the softnesses in the machine and transverse directions as measured by a handle-O-meter. The method of producing a strip of very soft polyolefin nonwoven fabric by directing polyolefin continuous fibers in a fixed direction, comprises the steps of: orienting the axes of the continuous fibers in the direction in which the continuous fibers are fed so as to form a web having a warp orientation factor (the maximum tensile strength in the direction in which the continuous fibers are fed, i.e., in a machine direction/the maximum tensile strength in a transverse direction) of 3.0 or above; and then applying wave-like crepes propagated in the machine direction to the web by creping the web.

Abstract: Improved fabrics of fibers of a copolymer of ethylene terephthalate/hexahydroterephthalate containing a high proportion of hexahydroterephthalate are obtained by processing the fabrics and fibers within critical temperature ranges.

Abstract: Continuous polypropylene multifilament yarns are made by melt spinning and stretching in an integral process; a sufficient number of filaments for forming at least 8 continuous filament yarns each consisting of at least 10 filaments are melt spun through a spinneret (11) at a speed of at least 400 m/min into a vertical air quenching zone or shaft (12) for solidification; the filaments are arranged to form a substantially planar array of parallel and mutually distanced yarn strands; then, the filaments are stretched to achieve substantial orientation by passing the yarn strands, while maintaining them in the array, over peripheral surface portions of a sequence of rotating cylinders (141, 142, 143, 144) having parallel axes of rotation, each strand (S) passing over surface portions along a discrete path which is substantially defined by a plane intersecting perpendicularly with the parallel axes of the cylinders; each strand is in frictional contact with the peripheral surface portions for a total contact path

Abstract: Improved fibers of a copolymer of ethylene terephthalate/hexahydroterephthalate containing a high proportion of hexahydroterephthalate are obtained by a 2-stage drawing process, involving annealing, and crimping, with the annealing being performed within a temperature range of about 140.degree. to about 175.degree. C.

Abstract: Solid polyester fiber in spun yarns, and fabrics and garments and precursor staple fiber and filamentary tow, are prepared by an improved process involving treatment of freshly-extruded undrawn polyester filaments with caustic in the spin-finish, so as to improve moisture-wicking properties.

Abstract: A process for improving the properties of fibers of a copolymer of ethylene terephthalate/hexahydroterephthlate units with a high proportion of hexahydroterephthalate units by a 2-stage drawing, crimping, relaxing process to provide stretchy filaments of high elongation accompanied by low shrinkage.

Abstract: A method of forming a chain of meandering or zig-zag coupling elements for slide fasteners includes dividing or bifurcating a continuous length of substantially cross-sectionally circular monofilamentary material axially into identical halves of substantially semi-circular cross-section immediately prior to introduction to a forming apparatus. The identical halves may be provisionally joined together to provide a cross-sectionally circular monofilament and divided back into respective halves immediately prior to formation thereof into respective rows of coupling elements for slide fasteners.

Abstract: Modifying a polyester with special chain-brancher residues in carefully controlled amounts 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 prior polyester yarns that could not be satisfactorily textured under similar conditions.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for combining a low melting binder fiber with a continuous filament base yarn to form a composite yarn having good bulk and a high level of interlace. More particularly, the process involves bulking a continuous filament yarn, combining it with the low-melting binder fiber, interlacing the combined yarn, and then fixing the interlace.

Abstract: A process for the discontinuous or (preferably) continuous production of dry spun hydrophilic acrylic fibers and threads with a core/sheath structure which have improved color fastness properties, more uniform cross-sections and better processing characteristics. By employing a new after-treatment combination of more intensive counterflow washing, stretching in steam, fixing in steam and careful drying of the fibers as staple fibers, improved hydrophilic fibers with a water retention capacity above 30% can be obtained from spinning solutions which have a much lower non-solvent content than is necessary in the present-state of the art for obtaining a high water retention capacity of the order indicated above.

Abstract: Processes for the production of mono- and multifilaments and also staple fibers of multifilaments based on polyarylene sulfides by melt spinning, multistage stretching and setting. As a result of the treatment by blowing of air onto the stabilized spun filaments in the first stretching stages at temperatures .ltoreq.100.degree. C., the chain molecules are oriented; the orientation and crystallinity required for high strengths is achieved by afterstretching at elevated temperature. The residence times in the first stage required for effective stretching can only be varied within relatively narrow limits in order subsequently to achieve the calculated orientations and effects. Overly long residence times at temperatures above 100.degree. C. result in elongation of the material with no additional orientation and hence with an inadequate increase in strength.

Abstract: A process for the production of crimped filaments and fibers of acrylonitrile polymers of copolymers containing at least 40% by weight acrylonitrile units, by dry spinning from highly polar solvents, where the filaments are brought to extremely low solvent contents in the actual spinning tube by a minimum of superheated steam prepared in the absence of water at very high spinning tube temperatures and spinning gas temperatures, but are cooled to low filament temperatures in the spinning tube by application of water or aqueous finishes in a quantity equivalent to more than 10% by weight moisture. In this way, spun PAN filaments of good natural color are safely obtained, in which there is no washing stage and no drying stage. Acrylic fibers and filaments combining a vacuolestable structure with a very high degree of whiteness and gloss are thus obtained with densities of at least 1.180 g/cm.sup.3, giving shrinkage-free to high-shrinkage fibers, depending on the aftertreatment applied.

Abstract: 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 at least 500 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.

Abstract: In this mat consisting of filament loop aggregations, irregular form loops are formed in the upright direction by respectively winding to be coil-like many filaments coarse in the arranging intervals and made of a thermoplastic synthetic resin and are fused in the intersecting parts and the other loops are formed in the laterally fallen direction and are fused in the overlapping parts.

Abstract: A process for producing high performance, metallic coated staple fibers and nonwoven insulating webs made up of such fibers includes providing a nonwoven substantially two-dimensional web of fibers wherein at least a portion of 50 percent of the fibers are exposed to one or the other side of the web. This web is metallized with a low emissivity metal(s) and/or alloy(s) to produce a coated web wherein at least 50 percent of the surface area of the web fibers are coated with metal and or alloy. The coated web is shredded into individual, staple fibers which are thereafter united to produce a nonwoven, lofty three-dimensional insulating web having a density of between about 0.02 to 2 pounds per cubic foot.

Abstract: A method is provided for heating fibrillated polyolefin film prior to crimping, to improve the crimping, and thus the yield and variability as a filter, of the tow. The fibrillated tow is crimped while still hot from the heating step. The resulting fibers have more uniform crimping at higher levels than those not subject to heating.

Abstract: A process for preparing a nylon 66/6 copolymer fiber with reduced spherulites comprising adding 1-6% caprolactam and 0.001-2% water-soluble inorganic calcium salt to 94-99% nylon 66 salt to form a nylon 66/6 salt solution, polymerizing the salt solution to form a polymer, and extruding the polymer.

Abstract: A process for diffusing and subliming water-soluble and water-insoluble materials into never-dried, shrinkable aromatic polyamide fibers, using steam heated at certain controlled temperatures, within a specially designed treatment chamber and a process and apparatus for treating a tow of shrinkable material.

Abstract: A method of producing a mat consisting of filament loop aggregations. The first step is that of forming a first filament loop aggregation low in the filament density wherein many filaments are made. These by extruding a thermoplastic synthetic resin out of a T-die and arranging the resin longitudinally and laterally at intervals for continuous molding. The resin is deposited on a boiling water surface. The filament temperature is maintained close to the temperature at the time of molding by heating while the filament bundle is vertically lowered toward a cooling water surface and is sunk into water in the vertical direction.

Abstract: For continuously crimping thermoplastic filaments, a filament bundle is blown by a jet nozzle into a stuffing chamber of a texturing wheel to produce a crimped filament bundle in the stuffing chamber. The stuffing chamber has a receiving zone, a treatment zone and a delivery zone. The filament bundle is subjected to a texturing or crimping treatment in the receiving zone and, depending upon the fiber material to pe processed, undergoes a heating or cooling treatment in the treatment zone. The heating or cooling treatment is accomplished by a blowing agent which blows a gaseous medium into the stuffing chamber. At the delivery zone, the crimped filament bundle is taken-off or lifted-out of the stuffing chamber by fiber bundle-lifting means and moved towards a suction drum receiving the filament bundle.

Abstract: An increased volume synthetic fiber consists of a porous central core and a large number of short porous lateral threads integral with the core and distributed along the whole length of the fiber so as to form a voluminous branching structure. The process used to produce the fiber consists of the mixing of a synthetic polymer with an expanding agent which expands when heated, then spinning by melting the mixture which results in the expansion and fringing of the threads produced, caused by the expansion agent, followed by the drawing and fixing of the threads thus produced while they are still hot.

Abstract: Preparation of a novel polyester fiber, such as a poly(ethylene terephthalate) fiber, having at least one continuous groove wherein the surface of the groove is rougher than the surface outside the groove is accomplished through a drafting process involving surface hydrolysis. The fibers have improved cover, softness, and wetting characteristics.

Abstract: A method for making nonwoven fabrics includes the steps of preparing heat-adhesive composite fibers including first and second components, forming a web of the composite fibers alone or containing at least 20% by weight of the composite fibers, and heat-treating the web at a temperature higher than the melting point of the second component but lower than the melting point of the first component, while increasing the temperature of the web at a rate of temperature rise of 100.degree. C./30 seconds and more. The first component is polypropylene having specific physical values with respect to density, isotactic pentad ratio, pentad ratio having two different kinds of configurations, and melt flow rate, and the second component is a polymer composed mainly of polyethylene.

Abstract: Non-flammable, high-temperature resistant polyimide fibers have irregularly lobed or serrated cross-sections, a wool-like smooth hand and high brightness. They are produced by a dry-spinning process which is carried out in a spinning column, wherein a 20 to 40% solution of the polyimide is spun from spinnerets having circular orifices, the orifice numbers ranging from 20 to 800 and the orifice diameters from 100 to 300 .mu.m. An extrusion speed of between 20 and 100 m/min, a take-up speed of between 100 and 800 m/min, an amount of spin gas between 40 and 100 m.sup.3 /h under standard conditions and a spin gas temperature of between 200.degree. and 350.degree. C. are applied. The tows leaving the spinning column, which contain residual solvent from 5 to 25% by weight--based on dry polymer--and have a single filament titer of between 3.

Abstract: A synthetic polymer multifilament yarn capable of being converted to a bulky yarn is composed of a plurality of irregular individual filaments each having at least two belt-shaped filamentary constituents, at least one core filamentary constituent located between the belt-shaped constituents and extending in a sinuous manner and having a thickness varying alternately between thick and thin, and at least two thin middle filamentary constituents located between the core constituent and the belt-shaped constituents to thereby connect those constituents to each other.

Abstract: A fibrous web comprising fibers which have been differentially cooled to provide a crimped fiber conformation thereto and then thermally relaxed to a sufficient degree to at least partially decrimp the fibers and increase the loft and decrease the density of the web. Also disclosed is a process for forming a web of such type, comprising the steps of forming a web of fibers, bonding the fibers to form a bonded web, differentially cooling the fibers to provide a crimped fiber conformation thereto, and thermally relaxing the fibers to a sufficient degree to at least partially decrimp the fibers and increase the loft and decrease the density of the web, wherein the differential cooling step preferably is carried out prior to bonding of the fibers to form the bonded web and the thermal relaxing step is carried out after bonding of the fibers to form such web.

Abstract: The present invention relates to filaments based on a mixture of atactic polyvinyl chloride and postchlorinated polyvinyl chloride, and also to the process for their production.The filaments according to the present invention possess a residual shrinkage in boiling water of less than 2%, a modulus of elasticity of more than 3 kN/mm.sup.2 and a shrinkage stress, after shrinkage in an aqueous fluid medium at a temperature between 98.degree. and 130.degree. C., which is greater than or equal to 1.6.multidot.10.sup.-2 g/dtex.The filaments are obtained by spinning and stretching in a manner which is in itself known, then continuous stabilization under tension, at a temperature between 105.degree. and 125.degree. C., in the presence of steam under pressure, for 1 to 3 seconds, and then shrinkage in an aqueous fluid medium at a temperature between 98.degree. and 130.degree. C.

Abstract: A process is provided wherein a polymer blend of a poly(butylene terephthalate) and about 5 to 25% by weight of poly(ethylene terephthalate) is melt spun to form a fiber or yarn which is then drawn at an elevated temperature resulting in the poly(butylene terephthalate) having a stable beta crystal form in relaxed condition. The fiber or yarn may then be subjected to a heat relaxation treatment which changes the crystal form of the poly(butylene terephthalate) from the beta to the alpha form resulting in some shrinkage of the fiber or yarn and causing it to have a greater degree of stretchability.

Abstract: A crimped fiber having a plurality of cells and bends characterized by the total area occupied by the cells within a cross-section of the fiber at the bends being less than 50% of the area occupied by the cells within a cross-section of the fiber at other than the bends.

Abstract: Polyamide conjugate filaments are prepared by a spin-stretch process wherein two nylon 66 polymers having different relative viscosities are melt spun at a spinning speed of at least 2286 mpm to form filaments in which the polymers are arranged in a side-by-side configuration along the length of the filaments. The filaments are then stretched in-line at a stretch ratio greater than 1.0 prior to their being collected with said stretch ratio being selected to provide filaments having a high level of high-load crimp and a low level of boiling water shrinkage. The filaments are particularly useful in the construction of stretch garments and, especially, ladies' leg hose and pantyhose.

Abstract: Polyester polymer is extruded at different speeds through groups of parallel closely spaced orifices at relatively high spinning speeds. The resulting filament have high and low shrinkage regions substantially regularly spaced apart along their length. A yarn including a number of these filaments spontaneously develops crimp when relaxed.

Abstract: Yarns and fibers based on atactic polyvinyl chloride possess a residual shrinkage in boiling water of less than 3%, a modulus of elasticity which is greater than or equal to 2 kN/mm.sup.2, an orientation index of the crystalline zones which is greater than or equal to 70%, an orientation index of the mesomorphic zones which is greater than or equal to 8%, and an orientation index of the amorphous zones which is greater than or equal to 5%. They are obtained by spinning and stretching in a known manner, then stabilization under tension at a temperature between 105.degree. and 130.degree. C., in the presence of steam under pressure, for 1 to 3 seconds, and then shrinkage in an aqueous fluid medium at a temperature between 98.degree. and 130.degree. C.

Abstract: Damage to the natural tone of acrylic fibres, produced according to a continuous dry spinning process, can be avoided if from 0.025 to 0.2% by weight of ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid, based on the fibrous solids material, is added to the spinning solution.

Abstract: A continuous high speed spin-draw-false twist texturing process for producing a textured nylon yarn having high yarn uniformity is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of (a) melt-spinning a plurality of nylon filaments from nylon polymer; (b) cooling the filaments and combining them to form a yarn; (c) controlling the processing conditions of the nylon polymer of step (a) such that the relative viscosity of the yarn formed in step (b) is at least 45; (d) partially drawing the yarn at a draw ratio of from 2.3 to 3.5 and a temperature of at least 50.degree. C.; (e) simultaneously false twist texturing and further drawing the partially drawn yarn in a draw-false twist texturing zone at a draw ratio of from 1.1 to 1.5; and (f) withdrawing the textured nylon yarn at a speed of at least 1500 meters per minute. The process is particularly useful for the manufacture of textured nylon yarn having a linear density in the range of from about 10 dtex to about 50 dtex.

Abstract: A synthetic polymer hollow irregular multifilament yarn useful for producing bulky yarn products comprises a plurality of hollow irregular individual filaments each comprising a hollow filamentary constituent, a non-hollow sinuous filamentary constituent sinuously extending in a wave form along the hollow filamentary constituent, having a smaller average thickness than the hollow filamentary constituent and being connected to one side of the hollow filamentary constituent through a middle filamentary constituent distortedly extending along the hollow filamentary constituent and having a cross-sectional profile in the form of a waist, and is produced by extruding at least one polymer melt through a spinneret having a plurality of spinning orifices each consisting of a first orifice segment adequate for forming a hollow filament, a second orifice segment adequate for forming a non-hollow filament and having a smaller cross-section than that of the first orifice segment and a third orifice segment in the form of

Abstract: Polyacrylonitrile filaments and fibers may be obtained without interruption by spinning the spinning solution into a hot-air spinning duct, washing, drawing, crimping, preparing, steaming, drying cooling and, optionally, cutting at a take-off rate kept at 150 to 400 m/minute and for a tow weight of from 10 to 100 g/m when(a) the washing process is carried out in several stages on the countercurrent principle and a vibrating duct is used for transporting the spun tow through the washing process,(b) drawing is carried out before and/or after washing in a steam atmosphere at 100.degree. to 120.degree. C.,(c) crimping is carried out in an aerodynamic crimping unit using a hot, gaseous medium under a pressure of from 5 to 16 bars and at a temperature in the range from 50.degree. to 210.degree. C.

Abstract: Polyester polymer is extruded at different speeds through groups of parallel closely spaced orifices at relatively high spinning speeds. The resulting filament have high and low shrinkage regions substantially regularly spaced apart along their length. A yarn including a number of these filaments spontaneously develops crimp when relaxed.

Abstract: The dyeability of carpet yarns prepared from random copolymers of nylon 66 and 6-12 wt. % nylon 6 is improved by subjecting the yarn to saturated steam at temperatures close to the melting point of the copolymer. The copolymers used in the invention have an amine end content of 30-80 gram equivalents per 1000 kilograms of polymer and a relative viscosity of 55-85 in filament form.

Abstract: Novel heat bondable bicomponent fibers useful in the production of nonwoven fabrics, as well as methods for the production of such fibers, are disclosed. The fibers comprise a latently adhesive component for forming interfilamentary bonds upon the application of heat and subsequent cooling, and another component, and are characterized by the fact that upon the application of heat sufficient to melt the latently adhesive component and subsequent cooling, a substantial shrinkage force appears in said other component only after resolidification of said latently adhesive component.

Abstract: An improvement is provided in an integrated process for the production of textured multifilament yarn from a fiber-forming, thermoplastic, linear, high-molecular-weight polymer of caprolactam by the combination in immediate succession of the procedural steps of melt spinning, drawing, texturing, and packaging. The present improvement combines the following procedural steps with those of melt spinning, drawing, texturing, and packaging:(1) Lubricating the filamentary polymeric material from the melt spinning step by applying thereto a lubricating composition containing (a) a lubricant, and (b) solvent in an amount of from 0 to 20 percent by weight of the lubricating composition;(2) Pre-tensioning the lubricated melt spun filamentary polymeric material beyond its elastic limit between a first godet at room temperature, viz. between about 15.degree. and 25.degree. C.; followed by(3) Pre-heating the pre-tensioned filamentary polymeric material on a second godet to a temperature between about 40.degree. and 70.

Abstract: Provided is a process for forming and modifying a self-crimping polyester yarn comprising a plurality of polyester filaments having thick and thin regions along their lengths which are out of phase from filament to filament. The plurality of filaments are produced by first forming a plurality of combined streams of molten melt spun polyester by combining at least first and second extruded molten streams of fiber forming polyester travelling at different extrusion speeds to thereby form thick and thin regions in the combined streams out of phase from other combined streams. The combined streams are then quenched and thereby transformed into solid filaments in a solidification zone provided with a gaseous atmosphere at a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the polyester.

Abstract: Ready-for-dispatch highly shrinkable filaments and fibers made of acrylonitrile copolymers can be prepared in a continuous dry-spinning method in which:(a) the spinning solution spun has a viscosity at 100.degree. C. of 10 to 60 falling-ball seconds,(b) the evaporation of the solvent in the spinning cell is controlled in such a way that on leaving the spinning cell the solvent contact of the filaments is at most 10% by weight, relative to the solids content of the fiber,(c) before the stretch the filaments are treated with a spin-finish which contains a lubricant and an antistat and gives the filaments a moisture content of at most 10% by weight, relative to the solids content of the fiber, and(d) before or during the stretch the filaments have no contact with any other extraction liquid for the spinning solvent.

Abstract: Polyester polymer is extruded through converging capillaries at different speeds to merge and form a combined stream. The stream is cooled to form a filament, which is withdrawn at a high speed. A plurality of such filaments are combined into yarn which self-crimps upon heating. In some embodiments, the yarn has a variable denier.

Abstract: In order to produce random changes in texture of pile fabrics, continuous multifilament bulked yarn is treated to detexturize spaced portions along its length.

Abstract: In producing nylon yarns having latent crimp by the process disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,202,854, the polymer throughput (i.e. extrusion rate) is increased without sacrificing the amount of uniformity of the bulk resulting from development of the latent crimp by adding a nucleating agent, such as calcium fluoride, to the nylon prior to extrusion.

Abstract: Ready-for-despatch filaments and fibres made of acrylonitrile polymers which contain at least 40% by weight of acrylonitrile units can be prepared from a spinning solution in a continuous dry-spinning method in which(a) the spinning solution spun has a viscosity at 100.degree. C. of 10 to 60 falling-ball seconds,(b) the evaporation of the solvent in the spinning cell is controlled in such a way that on leaving the spinning cell the solvent content of the filaments is at most 40% by weight, relative to the solids content of the fibre,(c) before the stretch the filaments are treated with a spin-finish which contains a lubricant and an antistat and gives the filaments a moisture content of at most 10% by weight, relative to the solids content of the fibre, and(d) before the stretch the filaments have no contact with any other extraction liquid for the spinning solvent.

Abstract: A self-crimping multi-component polyamide filament is provided and a process for producing the filament. In its simplest form, the filament is composed of two components each of which comprises a polyamide of the same chemical composition and one of which contains a minor amount of a polyolefin admixed with the polyamide. The filament is formed by co-extruding the components to form a conjugate filament that is attenuated in the molten state, solidified and then collected. Attenuation of the filament in the molten state imparts self-crimping properties and molecular orientation to the filament.

Abstract: A low density matting structure of improved transverse strength obtained by vertically laying continuous melt-spun thermoplastic macrofilaments (diameter=0.1-1.5 mm) onto a horizontally moving profiled support in overlapping rows of irregularly looped filaments to form a peak and valley three-dimensional structure undulating in its longitudinal and/or transverse directions. The matting articles consist essentially of the melt-spun filaments which are self-bonded or fused at random points of intersection without using any bonding agent or reinforcing inserts, and the resulting matting is especially distinguished by a high transverse strength per unit of surface weight of at least 2 Nm/g and preferably 4 Nm/g.

Abstract: Production of a high-strength, convoluted polyester staple fiber which includes use of a spinneret having a slot aperture having a width of greater than about 0.07 mm, and a length to width ratio of at least 2, spinning at a spin stretch factor of equal to or greater than 100N, where N is the number of elongated slots that make up each outlet orifice, at a spinning speed of greater than about 1500 m/min., drawing the fiber under amorphous retaining conditions by an amount greater than the natural draw ratio, mechanically crimping the fiber, cutting it to staple lengths, and relaxing the fiber 10 to 40%. The fiber is cotton-like. The preferred polyester is polyethylene terephthalate.