Abstract: The invention relates to a system of spinning yarn that comprises a filament feed system configured to vary the tension applied to at least two continuous filaments before the filaments are introduced to a roving and twisted to form a yarn. The invention allows the filaments to be introduced to the roving when under tension, under no tension, or when under slack at set distances from the roving centre line by a specialized two filament guide.

Abstract: A process for producing composite yarns comprises the steps of first wrapping a second yarn around the perimeter of and along the length of a first yarn and then heating the yarn intermediate produced by such wrapping to produce a composite yarn. When a heat-shrinkable yarn is used in producing such a composite yarn, the shrinkage of the heat-shrinkable yarn enables the production of composite yarns possessing aesthetic qualities similar to those exhibited by yarns produced by much more complicated processes, such as bouclé and chenille yarns.

Abstract: The yarns of the invention include untwisted wrapped singles yarns having a core strand and a wrapper yarn. The wrapper yarn is a base synthetic fiber and a heat-activated binder fiber with a melting point substantially below that of the base synthetic fiber. The Saxony carpets of the invention are made from untwisted singles yarn tufts and are possessed of surface appearance, individual tip retention, pile density, resilient hand and wear resistance comparable or superior to conventional Saxony carpets made from multiple plied twist set yarns.

Abstract: The yarns of the invention include untwisted wrapped singles yarns having a core strand and a wrapper yarn. The wrapper yarn is a base synthetic fiber and a heat-activated binder fiber with a melting point substantially below that of the base synthetic fiber. The Saxony carpets of the invention are made from untwisted singles yarn tufts and are possessed of surface appearance, individual tip retention, pile density, resilient hand and wear resistance comparable or superior to conventional Saxony carpets made from multiple plied twist set yarns.

Abstract: A multicolored effect yarn for use in carpeting includes a core yarn which exhibits substantially zero twist and is formed of a multiplicity of BCF singles yarns, at least one of which has a different color from another, and which are entangled at first and second frequencies of entanglement points and different degrees of entanglements, and a wrapper yarn helically wrapped around the core yarn and has a lower denier than any of the singles yarns.

Abstract: The yarns of the invention include untwisted wrapped singles yarns having a core strand and a wrapper yarn. The wrapper yarn is a base synthetic fiber and a heat-activated binder fiber with a melting point substantially below that of the base synthetic fiber. The Saxony carpets of the invention are made from untwisted singles yarn tufts and are possessed of surface appearance, individual tip retention, pile density, resilient hand and wear resistance comparable or superior to conventional Saxony carpets made from multiple plied twist set yarns.

Abstract: The yarns of the invention include untwisted wrapped singles yarns having a core strand and a wrapper yarn. The wrapper yarn is a base synthetic fiber and a heat-activated binder fiber with a melting point substantially below that of the base synthetic fiber. The Saxony carpets of the invention are made from untwisted singles yarn tufts and are possessed of surface appearance, individual tip retention, pile density, resilient hand and wear resistance comparable or superior to conventional Saxony carpets made from multiple plied twist set yarns.

Abstract: A sewing yarn is described, with at least two roving. yarns, which are twisted together with one another for the formation of the sewing yarn, whereby each roving yarn has the structure of a core yarn, comprising at least one first multifilament yarn component, forming a yarn core, and a second fiber yarn component spun over the core. In the cross-section of the sewing yarn, the spun fiber yarn covering of at least one roving yarn contains less than 41 individual fibers.

Abstract: A composite, break-resistant sewing thread having a core of continuous multi-filament, non-stretch high-tenacity synthetic yarn and a cover of drafted staple fibers air-jet twisted around and covering the core for protecting the core from heat and friction during a sewing operation. The yarn is plied.

Abstract: Entrance matting is made using a yarn comprising a wrapped bundle of thermoplastic strands having a maximum bundle thickness of 6600 denier and minimum bundle thickness of 5900 denier, with either ten or eleven strands, including a wrapping strand, with at least two, and no more than three, of these strands being monofilament strands and the remaining strands being multifilament strands, with each of the monofilament strands having approximately the same monofilament thickness as the other monofilament strands, said monofilament thickness being between 500 and 700 denier and each of the multifilament strands having approximately the same denier as the other multifilament strands.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite yarn of staple fibers and continuous multifilament yarn. The multifilament yarn is made from non-set, textured, no oil, polyester and first pretensioned before entering a spinning chamber where it is co-spun with the staple fibers which is made from pima cotton. The tension is relaxed after passing through the spinning chamber to allow the filaments of the yarn to expand and form a matrix to which the staple fibers can adhere. The expanded filaments cause the staple fibers to be tightly wound around the core. A composite yarn is also disclosed.

Abstract: A composite yarn comprises a staple fiber component that is formed by drafted sliver. A filament yarn component is formed by applying tension to a filament yarn initially having a crimp such that the crimp is temporarily substantially removed. The staple fiber component and the pretensioned filament yarn component are combined by spinning while the tension is applied to the filament yarn.

Abstract: A highly oriented, undrawn, conductive, composite filament is provided, which is white or colorless and has antistatic properties durable over a long period when clothing utilizing the fiber are actually put on and washed. The filament is a sheath-core composite filament comprising a sheath of a fiber-forming thermoplastic polymer (A) and a core of a composition (B) comprising a conductive material which comprises a conductive metal oxide and a thermoplastic polyamide, having a core resistance of not more than 9.times.10.sup.10 .OMEGA./cm.multidot.filament, the composite filament maintaining a critical elongation--an elongation reached in the course of extending a composite filament at which the core resistance exceeds 1.times.10.sup.11 .OMEGA./cm.multidot.filament at a D.C. voltage of 1 kV--of at least 5% and a shrinkage in hot water at 100.degree. C. of not higher than 20%.

Abstract: A composite crimped yarn comprising: at least two kinds of multifilament yarns, one of them being comprised of a crimped conjugate multifilament yarn comprising two kinds of polyester polymers different from each other in the heat shrinkability and positioned as a major component of the inner layer of the composite crimped yarn, the other of them being comprised of a crimped multifilament yarn of a single synthetic polymer and positioned as a major component in the outer layer of the composite crimped yarn. In the above, the length of the crimped multifilament yarn is 5 to 35% larger than that of the crimped conjugate multifilament yarn, part of the crimped multifilament yarn being migrated to the crimped conjugate multifilament yarn disposed in the inner layer and part of the crimped conjugate multifilament yarn being migrated to the crimped multifilament yarn disposed in the outer layer.

Abstract: A thread, suitable for use as a sewing thread, and having increased tenacity and reduced thermal shrinkage properties. A multi-filament core yarn for the thread is formed from a preoriented yarn having a titre of 100 dtex-1,000 dtex which has been turned around an unheated pin of less than 10 mm diameter, heated to a temperature of 100.degree.-200.degree. C. for 0.01-10 seconds, and drawn with a drawing ratio equal to or greater than a normal drawing ratio. At least one effect yarn is intermingled with the core yarn to form a core-jacket thread having loops, not more than 15% of which are drawn tight in a knot-like manner.

Abstract: Disclosed is a level-dyeable mixed false-twisted filament yarn composed of larger denier multifilaments (1) having a denier of 1 to 2.5 and smaller denier multifilaments (2) having a denier of 0.6 or less, which is characterized in that (a) the yarn comprises entangled portions (I) thereof whereat the larger denier filaments and the smaller denier filaments are entangled with one another and opened portions (II) thereof comprising a core composed of the larger denier filaments and a covering composed of the smaller denier filaments, (b) in the coverings of the opened portions, net-like parts thereof are formed by the smaller denier filaments extending obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the yarn and intersecting one another, and scattered therein, (c) the length L.sub.1 of the opened portions is longer than the length L.sub.

Abstract: A plurality of heavy denier thermoplastic monofilaments is gathered together and continuously wrapped with a flexible wrapper yarn. The wrapped bundle is fed into a stuffer crimper to form a multiplicity of texturized bends. The product is a stiff, pliable texturized yarn and the nomofilaments in the wrapped bundle have a multiplicity of heat-set bends repeating lengthwise along the lengths of the monofilaments.

Abstract: A continuous multifilament crimped polyamide or polypropylene yarn suitable for use in loop pile carpeting and the process for making the yarn including feeding the yarn at different tensions and then treating the yarn with saturated steam is disclosed.

Abstract: This invention discloses a yarn, and method and apparatus for making it, composed of a core component having yarn strength wrapped clockwise and counter-clockwise by wrapper components, wherein the core has a sinuous configuration and contains a greater length per unit of yarn length than the wrapper components. Optionally, the core component may be a newly texturized multi-filament yarn, wrapped according to this invention before being subjected to significant tension, thereby preserving much of the bulk that would otherwise be lost in winding or other tensioning of the texturized core in unwrapped condition.

Abstract: A composite yarn comprising a component of staple fibres and a component formed by a continuous strand is spun on a friction spinning apparatus. Staple fibres are fed to a twisting zone where the fibres are twisted to form a staple strand with one end open. The continuous strand is joined with the staple strand at a position within a portion of the staple strand which is in the process of being twisted, and such that fibres are joined with the staple strand both upstream and downstream of the joining position and some fibres join with the staple strand on both sides of the joining position. In this way a yarn is formed with some fibres forming an inner core twisted with the continuous strand, with some fibres forming on outer sheath around the core and continuous strand and some fibres having part of their length in the core and part in the sheath.

Abstract: A composite material of rubber and metal cords embedded therein is disclosed. The metal cord is produced by twisting at least three metal filaments, and has an elongation under a load of 5.0 kg/cord (P.sub.1) of 0.2-1.2% and an elongation under a load of 2.0 kg/cord (P.sub.2, %) of P.sub.2 .ltoreq.0.947P.sub.1 -0.043 prior to the embedding in rubber.

Abstract: An improvement in solid electrolytes of advanced secondary batteries of the sodium-sulfur, sodium-halogen, and like combinations is achieved by providing said battery with a cermet electrolyte containing a metal dispersion ranging from 0.1 to 10.0 vol. % of a substantially nonreactive metal selected from the group consisting essentially of Pt, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Nb, their alloys, and their physical mixtures in the elemental or uncombined state, the remainder of said cermet being an ion-conductive ceramic material.

Abstract: The invention is directed to filament yarns made from synthetic polymers and having false-twist texture, comprising a core filament group and a sheath filament group wrapped around and partially covering the core. The sheath filament group comprises at least two filament groups 4 and 5 with different cross-sections, the smaller component of the sheath filament group including fibrils with the coarsest denier, and the larger component of the sheath filament group containing fibrils with the finer fibril denier, the finer fibrils in the filament group having a lesser fibril denier than the fibrils 3 of the core group 1.

Abstract: A process for the production of a core/mantle yarn, in which a core thread is continuously conducted through a spinning zone in a gap formed between two adjacent and oppositely moving surfaces; staple fibers are fed into the path of the core thread and come into frictional contact with the moving surfaces in said zone to spin the staple fibers about the core thread; the core thread is preferably stretched during the spinning in order to bring about a defined, predetermined elastic stretch of the core thread in the spinning zone; and the core thread has a roughened surface which may be obtained by using a staple fiber yarn or thread obtained by texturizing, weaving, twisting, etc. The invention is especially characterized by an improved adherence of the fibers of the mantle to the core thread by pre-coating the core thread with an adhesive, or preferably by preapplying colloidal silicic acid to the core thread.

Abstract: Disclosed is a textured composite yarn composed of a first multifilament yarn having a lower extensibility and a second multifilament yarn having a higher extensibility, as well as a process for manufacturing such textured composite yarn. The first multifilament yarn forms a core yarn, while the second multifilament yarn is wrapped at least partially around the core yarn. Some individual filaments of the second multifilament yarn are entangled and interlaced with some filaments of the first multifilament yarn in the boundary region between the core yarn and the wrapping yarn.

Abstract: A double layered yarn having a sheath and core structure is prepared through a roving process, drawing process or fine spinning process. The sheath portion of the yarn is composed of staple fibers which have a high thermal shrinkage in boiling water of at least 5%, and the blended fiber ratio of which is between 50% and 25%. The core portion of the yarn is composed of staple fibers which have a property being spontaneously extensible, and the blended fiber ratio of which is between 25% and 75%. The double layered yarn is subjected to a heat treatment in hot water, and a bulky spun yarn which comprises staple fibers A and B is obtained. The staple fibers A are concentrated toward the inside of the bulky spun yarn after they are shrunk. The ends of staple fibers B are held within the inside of the bulky spun yarn, and the intermediate portions of fibers B are bulged as a loop from the body portion of the bulky spun yarn, after the fibers B are spontaneously extended.

Abstract: A decorative composite novelty yarn which has use as a craft item as in making floral decorations. The composite yarn includes a core including a deformable wire strand and a plurality of textured core yarns generally in aligned contact with each other and said wire strand. A first frieze yarn is wrapped in one direction about the core and a second frieze yarn is thereafter wrapped about the core and the first frieze yarn in the opposite direction. The novelty yarn is formed on a modified spinning frame having vertically spaced spindles for rotationally wrapping the frieze cover yarns and drive means for positively feeding the wire strand.

Abstract: A composite yarn of a falsetwist textured continuous multifilament end and spun yarn end fluid entangled with an interyarn tangle factor of at least 20 is disclosed. The spun yarn end is wrapped around the continuous filament end in alternate and varying degrees while individual filaments of the continuous filament yarn are wrapped around the spun yarn at "locking points" along the length of the spun yarn and interlaced together. A method for manufacture of the composite yarn is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of producing twine composed of a plurality of thermoplastic mono filaments in a bundle which comprises, passing a bundle of thermoplastic monofilaments continuously along a path, imparting a false twist of 3 to 30 turns per linear foot to said bundle, applying a compatible molten thermoplastic spiral band to said twisted bundle as a spiral band to fuse said spiral band to the outer monofilaments, and recovering a twine having a portion of said false twist captured therein by fusion of the spiral band thereon.The apparatus for obtaining this twine consists of a path along which a bundle of thermoplastic synthetic monofilaments having a false twist therein can be continuously moved, means to direct a molten compatible thermoplastic on to said twisted bundle to form one or more spiral bands on said bundle and to fuse the outer monofilaments of the bundle to the spiral band, and means for imparting a false twist to said bundle at a point prior to said directing means.