False Twist Type Patents (Class 57/328)
  • Patent number: 4574579
    Abstract: A method for producing a twist ply yarn having two strands with the same twist direction and twist intensity includes the steps of false twisting each of two strands to produce a twist in a first direction upstream of the false twister and in the opposite direction downstream of the false twister, removing the twist in the strands downstream from the false twister and twisting the two strands together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Inventor: Sing N. Chao
  • Patent number: 4569192
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing special yarn made of a fiber strand in which a number of fibers are randomly arranged along the lengthwise direction thereof, in which special yarn at least one of the yarn structural parameters, e.g., yarn count number or number of twist, changes along the lengthwise direction of the yarn.A pattern of change of the parameters of the yarn structure with respect to the length of the special yarn to be produced is stored in a central processing device, while a spun length of the special yarn is measured by a sensor. The yarn structural parameters are changed to correspond to the pattern set to the central processing device and the special yarn is produced by the yarn forming device using another central processing device of the spinning frame.This apparatus can be used for a ring spinning frame, an open end spinning frame, a fasciated yarn spinning frame, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignees: Howa Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Daiichi Bouseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Yamada, Hirotaka Nishikawa, Hachirou Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 4569193
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a fasciated yarn comprising two air nozzles (2, 3) arranged at an angle in such a manner that a wedge shaped space (S) is formed therebetween, in which each of the air nozzles (2, 3) has a function of rotating a fiber bundle about the axis thereof in a direction that is the reverse of the other. A yarn passage from the first air nozzle (2) and to the second air nozzle (3) is so adapted that the fiber bundle is not in positive contact with an inner wall of an exit portion (7) of the first air nozzle (2) but is in contact with an inner wall of an inlet portion (4) of the second air nozzle (3), whereby a twist ascent from the second air nozzle (3) into the first air nozzle (2) is adequately suppressed and effective fasciated yarn forming is attainable. According to the wedge shaped space (S), the interference by exhaust air from the first air nozzle (2) with the second air nozzle (3) is eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Meiji Anahara, Hiroshi Omori, Kazuo Seiki
  • Patent number: 4565064
    Abstract: This is a process and apparatus for the preparation of fasciated spun yarns, which includes feeding separate single fibers formed by opening and drafting a continuous staple fiber bundle into a rotor (20), collecting and holding the single fibers on a fiber-collecting portion of the rotor (20) and taking out the collected fibers through a center piece (26) by delivery rollers (33) while strongly false-twisting the collected fibers in the same direction as that of true twists given by the rotor (20) into a twisted yarn by a false-twisting apparatus arranged between the rotor (20) and the delivery rollers (33), wherein the separated single fibers are supplied to a travelling plane for the twisted yarn between the fiber-collecting portion of the rotor (20) and the center piece (26) to entangle some of the single fibers with the twisted yarn in the strongly false-twisted state, and the entangled single fibers are entwined around the periphery of the twisted yarn by subsequent release of the false twists of the tw
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1986
    Assignee: Howa Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeru Iwasaki, Kenji Sasaki, Hiroshi Enomoto
  • Patent number: 4565063
    Abstract: A fiber sliver is drafted to a yarn count in a drafting mechanism and is fed to a false twist unit with a sliver width B1 of 10 to 19 mm. In accordance with the method, by means of the width B1, the fiber sliver leaving the delivery roller pair is divided into a yarn core rotated by the false twist member with a spinning triangle of the width B2 and into edge fibers delivered thereto. The edge fibers are taken up by the rotating yarn core in the suction passage of the false twist unit. The taking-up of the edge fibers occurs in that the front ends of the delivered edge fibers are caught by the rotating yarn core in the region of the narrowest portion of the suction passage and are wound about the yarn core with the same rotational direction as the fiber core but with a substantially larger inclination until the rear end of the edge fibers is wound into the yarn core in the spinning triangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1986
    Assignee: Rieter Machine Works Ltd.
    Inventors: Herbert Stalder, Emil Briner
  • Patent number: 4545194
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for spinning using fiber bundles selected from a mass of loose fibers. The apparatus essentially consists of means for removing the fiber bundles comprising a perforated belt (8) and a retaining drum (5) enabling one end of the fiber bundles to be positioned in a fixed area (12) for formation of the thread in its initial stage (15). This fixed area comprises a screen beneath which there is disposed a suction device (13). A hollow twisting flyer (14) and a rotating drum (16) connected to a pressure roller (17) ensure that the thread in formation (15) is caused to rotate and move in translation. This apparatus constitutes an improvement upon open end machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Inventor: Yves Juillard
  • Patent number: 4545193
    Abstract: A method for yarn piecing in a fasciated yarn spinning unit, in which a yarn portion to be pieced is always nipped by a piecing roller means during the piecing operation, whereby feeding length and speed of the yarn in the piecing operation can be accurately controlled by the piecing roller means. Thus, a complicated restarting operation can be carried out in accordance with a predetermined time schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Kazuo Seiki, Haruyoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4543776
    Abstract: A novel method for yarn piecing in a fasciated yarn spinning unit, in which a broken end of a yarn and the fiber bundle to be pieced together are nipped and intermingled with each other between a soft nipping area between middle top and bottom aprons and thereafter are false-twisted by a vortex in an air nozzle. Motions of the associated parts are controlled as so to be able to achieve a suitable overlapping length of the yarn and the fiber bundle in the nipping area of the aprons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kazuo Seiki, Yoshihisa Suzuki, Yoshiharu Yasui
  • Patent number: 4535944
    Abstract: A spinning machine wherein a yarn knotting truck having a knotter provided thereon travels in a truck travelling spacing provided along a number of spinning units further includes an apparatus for automatically doffing winding packages which have yarns fully wound thereon. A doffing truck which has provided thereon a doffing apparatus travels in the truck travelling spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Teiji Nakahara, Shoji Sakai, Koshi Noda, Michiaki Fujiwara, Nobunori Kubota
  • Patent number: 4524580
    Abstract: Apparatus for making a high-strength yarn from a drawn roving comprises a twisting device for twisting the roving is as well as a separate winding device, which serves to wind protruding fiber ends around the roving and comprises a guide gap which is tapered transversely to the direction of travel of the roving in said gap and is bounded by sliding surfaces in contact with the roving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Inventor: Ernst Fehrer
  • Patent number: 4519203
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for twisting a yarn, such as a sliver of staple fibers, is disclosed, and wherein the yarn is advanced through a drafting zone and then through a twisting apparatus. The twisting apparatus includes two circular discs, with at least one of the discs being flexible. Also, in the preferred embodiment, two separate pressure applying members are mounted adjacent the back surface of the flexible disc, with the members being positioned on opposite sides of the plane defined by the axes of rotation of the discs. The two pressure applying members are adapted to be actuated concurrently, with one member defining a first twisting zone wherein S twist is imparted to the advancing yarn, and the other member defines a second twisting zone wherein Z twist is imparted. Means are also provided for controlling the degree of twist imparted at each of the zones, so as to obtain, for example, a twisted yarn composed of core fibers having minimal twist and which are bound by outer fibers of greater twist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Barmag Barmer Maschinenfabrik AG
    Inventor: Heinz Schippers
  • Patent number: 4509321
    Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing fasciated spun yarn by false-twisting and detwisting a bundle of fibers is provided. The apparatus has a fiber-diffusing section which utilizes differential fluid flow to separate and transfer free fibers in a stable manner for subsequent wrapping about the fiber bundle as the bundle is detwisted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Kajita, Takashi Nakayama, Seiichi Yamagata
  • Patent number: 4509322
    Abstract: A false twist unit comprises a suction portion with a suction channel and with an expansion space connected at the throat portion or narrowest position of the suction channel, which expansion space is connected by means of an air connector or exit to a source of negative pressure. A throttle location connects the expansion space with a pneumatic twist imparting means. In the pneumatic false twist spinning process known from the German published Pat. No. 2,722,319 a sliver delivered from an exit roller pair of a drafting mechanism is forwarded through the suction channel in a predetermined direction and thereafter through the throttle location into the twist imparting means. The twist imparting means produces in the core of the yarn or thread a false twist which builds up in such yarn or thread towards the exit roller pair. The wrapping fibers required for the finished yarn or thread are sucked in as edge fibers through the suction channel simultaneously with the yarn core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Rieter Machine Works Limited
    Inventors: Emil Briner, Richard Hieronymi
  • Patent number: 4507913
    Abstract: An unusual spun yarn is produced by feeding fibers or a sliver or roving into the interior of a hollow shaft. The shaft includes a perforated portion, and a vacuum is applied at the exterior of the shaft. The shaft is mounted for free rotation about an axis coincident with the direction of movement of the fibers through the shaft, and blades extend radially from the perforated portion of the shaft. When the rotates at high velocity under the influence of the vacuum it produces the unusual spun yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1985
    Assignee: Burlington Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Elbert F. Morrison
  • Patent number: 4505100
    Abstract: A fasciated yarn, consisting of wholly aromatic polyamide fibers, which is excellent in mechanical properties, especially in creep durability in a high temperature atmosphere and is suitably utilized for industrial usage. The yarn can be produced by a method comprising the steps of: stretch-breaking a filament tow of the wholly polyamide fibers to form a staple fiber bundle and imparting a false-twist to the staple fiber bundle by a vortex while retaining parallelism of the staple fibers composing the bundle, thereby obtaining the fasciated yarn. Structural characteristics of the yarn reside in a mean fiber length in the range of from 150 mm to 600 mm, a crimpability of less than 5%, a mean degree of parallelism of less than 3.degree., and a number of wrap fiber groups in a range of from 0.5 to 20 per 1 cm in length of the yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Sasaki Yoshiyuki, Matsumoto Mitsuo
  • Patent number: 4503662
    Abstract: In the piecing operation, the broken ends of a yarn and a fiber bundle are sucked into a suction nozzle, and therein are entangled due to twists imparted to the fiber bundle by first vortices utilized for forming a fasciated yarn. The broken end of the yarn may be twisted in reverse of the fiber bundle by second vortices. Further, third vortices weaker than the first vortices may be used instead of the first vortices. The apparatus comprises jets for generating the second and third vortices and piping for transporting air to the jets and from the suction nozzle, as well as a control circuit thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Mitsunori Horiuchi, Yoshihisa Suzuki, Yoshiharu Yasui, Kazuo Seiki
  • Patent number: 4499717
    Abstract: Method of and apparatus for producing twistless yarns from glued together separate fibers. Tape from interrupted or continuous fibers is fed by a pair of rollers, and moving in a straight line, is turned circularly or gyrated by a whirling air flux and as a result is false twisted. The false twisted tape, rotating circularly, passes through a recirculating glue solution by entering the top surface of a pool thereof. Passing through the glue solution, the tape is covered with glue, and carries away part of the glue solution toward a calender pair of rollers, which are thus kept always in a constant wet condition. Glue solution running out from the calender pair of rollers deviates from the trajectory of the moving tape, and glides along the working surface of the lower calender roller. The quantity of the glue thus taken away form the fibrous tape can be controlled and regulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: N P S P "Novotex"
    Inventor: Milko D. Dimitrov
  • Patent number: 4497167
    Abstract: A spun yarn is manufactured from a sliver through an action of a first fluid swirling nozzle and a second fluid swirling nozzle capable of swirling a fluid in a direction opposite to the direction of swirling of a fluid in the first fluid swirling nozzle. Fibers detached from a sliver between a front roller assembly and a first fluid swirling nozzle are caused to wind positively around the twisted fibers during spinning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Teiji Nakahara, Toshifumi Morihashi
  • Patent number: 4497168
    Abstract: A method for open-end spinning, in an apparatus having a stationary fiber-collecting groove formed therein with two ends and a bottom, includes continuously carrying and transporting fibers into the stationary fiber-collecting groove with an airstream, continuously venting the bottom of the groove, withdrawing the fibers from one end of the groove, and continuously uniting the fibers to form a thread, and an apparatus for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst & Co.
    Inventor: Heinz Kamp
  • Patent number: 4495761
    Abstract: A multicolored spun yarn is provided which comprises a substantially untwisted bundle of core staple fibers and a plurality of staple fibers wrapped helically around said bundle of core staple fibers; the bundle of core staple fibers comprises a plurality of staple fibers which are different from each other in color tone or in dyeability, and the yarn having at random intervals portions wherein staple fibers of one kind cover up staple fibers of another kind, and the method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Nakayama, Kohji Kajita, Selichi Yamagata
  • Patent number: 4495757
    Abstract: Method of and apparatus for making yarn with a core, wherein the free fibers are tightly attached to the core and are wound around it. The core of fibrous material is fed by a pair of feeding rollers, the core being fed through a first jet for the formation of wrapping of fibers. In the first jet, fibers are laterally driven in by an air stream. Simultaneously with the laterally led in fibers in the first jet for the formation of wrapping, there is driven in an additional core thread, which moves with the linear velocity of the core. Such additional core thread is made of fibrous material of staple fibers or is made of filament material. The laterally led in fibers and the additional core thread have a mutual trajectory of movement and are driven in the jet for the formation of wrapping by the suction of the tangentially fed same jet air stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: N P S P "Novotex"
    Inventor: Milko D. Dimitrov
  • Patent number: 4489545
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a fasciated yarn, utilizing an air nozzle for false twisting a fiber bundle, provided with a fiber passage comprising an inlet portion, a small channel, and a large channel, characterized by the provision of at least a contact area in the inlet portion and/or the upstream region of the small channel. During the spinning operation, the fiber bundle is forced against the contact point, and, as a result, a twist imparted by a vortex can be effectively suppressed so that it does not ascend toward the upstream region.Also, since the ballooning can be suppressed by the contact point, the size of the small channel can be increased, resulting in the sufficient suction air in the inlet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Kawabata Susumu, Niimi Hiroshi, Anahara Meiji, Omori Hiroshi
  • Patent number: 4489540
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and device for making a spun yarn of fibres comprising an internal core which consists in subjecting the yarn to form the core to a momentary false twist by means of a spindle and projecting elementary fibres onto this yarn. Such elementary fibres are projected by means of a mobile guide surface on which the fibres are delivered tangentially, the core likewise being displaced tangentially with respect to the guide surface in a direction concurrent with the direction of delivery of the fibres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: ASA S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Faure, Jean Venot
  • Patent number: 4489542
    Abstract: Spun-like fiber yarn with interlaced threads, in which the fibers are of the same length. The spun yarn has alternating open, relatively bulky zones and closed, relatively compact zones. The open zones have a non-twisted structure with parallel strands. In the closed zones, the fibers are interlaced and non-bonded. The open zones furthermore have free strands. The cohesion factor of the spun fiber yarns is greater than 100 and preferably being between 120 and 180. The spun yarns are produced by a process in which at least one sliver of fibers of equal lengths is fed to a drawing unit and then to at least one open single-jet interlacing nozzle fed with gaseous fluid at a pressure of between 1 and 6 bars, the angle formed by the axis of the channel for the passage of the yarn in the nozzle and the yarn being between 10.degree. and 80.degree., and the spun yarn obtained being wound up at a speed greater than 50 m/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Fibres
    Inventors: Michel Buzano, Joanny Danancier
  • Patent number: 4488397
    Abstract: A device for stretching a rove of fibers during a spinning operation to permit forming the rove into spun yarn, the device comprising a condenser element placed after the actual stretching system.According to the invention, the condensing element is in the form of a movable guiding surface on which the fibers are delivered tangentially, the guiding surface pulling permits a force to be exerted on the end of the fibers coming out of the stretching system and limits the twist run back communicated by the spinning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1984
    Assignee: ASA S.A.
    Inventor: Jean Venot
  • Patent number: 4484436
    Abstract: A process for producing a twisted yarn is provided. A sheaf of staple fibers is drafted and bundled to form a bundled sheaf of staple fibers having substantially zero initial twist. At least two such bundled sheaves are then twisted together to form the twisted yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Nakayama, Seiichi Yamagata, Koji Kajita
  • Patent number: 4479348
    Abstract: A spinning apparatus for a fasciated yarn is provided which comprises a fiber-opening means provided with a combing roller, a fiber-collecting means including an inlet member and a rotor, a twist-imparting means consisting of an air nozzle, and a yarn take-up means. A sliver opened by the combing roller is fed to the interior of the rotor through the inlet member. Since the rotor and the inlet member rotate reversely to each other, the fibers are evenly distributed on an inner surface of the rotor. An intermediate yarn drawn out from the rotor is supplied to the air nozzle under an overfeeding condition, whereby a good fasciating effect is imparted to the resultant yarn by a vortex. Prior to feeding the yarn to the air nozzle, the yarn may be drafted between two pairs of rollers. The apparatus is easy to maintain because a roller drafting means having an apron which rapidly wears due to high-speed processing is not utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1984
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Yasui, Kazuo Seiki, Yoshihisa Suzuki, Hisao Amano
  • Patent number: 4463549
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is a spinning frame of vortex flow type, which is composed mainly of a roller draft unit, a pneumatic false twisting unit and a take-up unit. A pneumatic tube having a rectangular cross-section is interposed between the roller draft unit and the pneumatic false twisting unit so that many floating fibers to be fasciated may be generated to make a fasciated spun yarn which has high strength and excellent quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Kajita, Takashi Nakayama, Seiichi Yamagata
  • Patent number: 4457130
    Abstract: An air nozzle for spinning yarn is positioned adjacent a pair of drafting rollers. The space between a cap covering the nozzle and the nozzle itself forms a tank for the air to be jetted through the nozzle. A tapered throttle located behind the nozzle reduces resistance to air exiting from the jetting ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoji Sakai, Michiaki Fujiwara, Nobunori Kubota, Koshi Noda, Toshifumi Morihashi
  • Patent number: 4455819
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for spinning a modified fasciated yarn at a high production rate featuring a combination of open-end spinning and fasciated yarn spinning. A sliver is opened by a combing roller and deposited as a fiber layer on a fiber collecting surface of a drum rotor rotating at a high speed. Thereafter, the fiber layer is drawn off from the fiber collecting surface as a continuous fiber bundle by a central rotor rotating coaxially with the drum rotor at a faster speed. During the drawing-off operation, the fiber bundle is flattened to a ribbon form by making contact to a deflector and is subjected to a vortex within an air twisting nozzle mounted on the central rotor to form a resultant yarn. According to the present invention, high production rate can be obtained because a roller drafting system having aprons can be omitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Suzuki, Kazuo Seiki
  • Patent number: 4455817
    Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing a fancy yarn, a rotary hollow spindle (2) carries a binding thread spool (3) and, at its discharge end, a false twist element (4). Associated with the hollow spindle (2) at the entry end are feed means having a pair (13) of delivery rolls for at least one core thread (G) and at least one fancy thread (E) which is supplied at higher speed than the core thread (G). In addition, arranged downstream of the false twist element (4) is a pair (5) of take-up rolls for taking up the finished fancy yarn at a lower speed than the supply speed of the fancy thread (E). A central drive motor (M2) drives the pair of take-up rolls (5) by way of belt drives (7, 10, 12) and the pair (13) of delivery rolls by way of a stepless control transmission (11). The feed means comprise a drawing system (S) for the fancy thread (E) comprising a pair (16) of entry rolls, a pair (17) of middle rolls and a pair (19) of exit rolls, and a separate pair (13) of delivery rolls for the core thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Saurer-Allma GmbH
    Inventor: Atul Mehta
  • Patent number: 4456188
    Abstract: A yarn slacking apparatus for slacking and retaining a fed yarn therein during the knotting operation in a winder. The sucking action is caused in the slack tube only when the knotting operation is carried out, while the sucking action of the slack tube is stopped by means of providing a shutter means for an opening of the slack tube, when the knotting operation is not conducted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoji Sakai, Michiaki Fujiwara, Nobunori Kubota, Koshi Noda
  • Patent number: 4450675
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for the production of fancy yarns from falsely twisted core and fancy threads. Staple fibers are drafted by a cylindrical drafter; the core and fancy threads are false twisted by a hollow spindle. At least one drafting of staple fibers are supplied upon the falsely twisted core and fancy threads by means of a pneumatic transporting channel. The speed of the fibers constituting the fancy threads is greater than the peripheral speed of the rollers delivering the core thread. If desired, two rovings of staple fibers may be used, the two rovings having different titre in a ratio of 1:10 and having different lengths of the fibers in a ratio of above 1:2, both rovings entering from one drafter, the two rovings after being drawn being supplied together to the combined false twisted core thread and fancy thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Assignee: Institute PO Obleklo I Textil
    Inventors: Georgi M. Petrov, Kiril K. Boev, Igor A. Fidelski, Yordan T. Pirgov
  • Patent number: 4434611
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic twisting spinning apparatus comprising a drafting device for forming a fleece, a deflection roller, a pneumatic twisting nozzle for injecting air into a twisting tube to form a swirling air stream, so that the fleece can be twisted into a yarn, a take-up roller for withdrawing the yarn, and a winding roller. The deflection roller is disposed adjacent to the front roller, for varying the direction of fleece travel and supplying the fleece along an outer peripheral wall of said front roller, and separating ends of peripheral fibers from the fleece as free fibers, which will be twisted by the pneumatic twisting nozzle so as to be wound around central main fibers, thereby forming a bundled yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Junzo Hasegawa, Susumu Kawabata, Hiroshi Niimi
  • Patent number: 4433538
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with a textile spinning machine particularly a ring spinning machine, and is directed to the provision of a tension reliever between the delivery rollers and the yarn balloon, which has the effect of producing a tension differential between the yarn forming the balloon, and the yarn travelling from the delivery rollers to the tension reliever. In order to facilitate piecing-up of the yarn after a breakage, the tension reliever has a drive wharf and a capstan device which includes a yarn engaging capstan element, the capstan device permitting threading in a radial direction, and having a snap-in connection with the wharf, so that the capstan device can be completely detached from the drive wharf for a piecing-up operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Inventor: John F. Graham
  • Patent number: 4429523
    Abstract: A process for making a fasciated spun yarn by drafting and pneumatically false twisting a bundle of staple fibers is disclosed. In the method, the width W (mm) of a bundle of fibers measured just upstream of the nip point of a pair of second rollers of a drafting zone and a yarn count N (Nm) of the spun yarn are set to satisfy the following equation: ##EQU1## and the overfeed ratio of the bundle of fibers during the false twisting operation is 5% at most. The fasciated spun yarn made by this process has a straight shape, resembles a ring-spun yarn and has sufficiently stable strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Kajita, Takashi Nakayama, Seiichi Yamagata
  • Patent number: 4412413
    Abstract: An air current rectifier plate surrounds the foremost air jet nozzle in an air spinning device. The rectifier plate produces a non-turbulent flow of air toward the waste suction pipe and prevents debris from back-flowing into the air jet nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Sakai, Michiaki Fujiwara, Nobunori Kubota, Koshi Noda
  • Patent number: 4399648
    Abstract: A method for evaluation of balloons of yarn-like materials. Ballooning of yarn-like materials is converted to an electric signal, the electric signal is amplified and the electric signal is analyed by a Fourier analyzer to know respective frequency components and voltage amplitude components which show the condition of ballooning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 4395873
    Abstract: A bundle of textile fibres 1, e.g. a sliver or roving supplied by a drafting apparatus 2, is passed over a frictional surface 7 provided by a rotary disc 6 so that the surface 7 moves transversely to the path of movement of the bundle 1. The resultant twist is prevented from running back into the drafting apparatus 2 by exit rollers 5, and from running forward to take-up bobbin 16 by draw-off rollers 13, 14. The resultant product is a fancy thread containing a false twist but on which the sum total of the residual twist is substantially zero. Thread 17 is used for threading-up the apparatus, but such a thread may also be fed to the disc 6 to form a composite with the bundle 1. Modifications provide for two or more bundles to be supplied simultaneously to the same disc 6 with one or all contacting the roughened surface 7 and for one or more bundles to be treated in successive discs 6 and combined at one of the successive discs 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: Filature Saint Andre
    Inventor: Ludovic Frys
  • Patent number: 4387487
    Abstract: A high draft apparatus in a spinning machine for forming a spun yarn from a roving or sliver. The draft apparatus comprises back rollers, apron-provided middle rollers and front rollers and a gripping and a pressing means for a sliver disposed on the front end portion of the apron so that the arrangement of fibers in the drafted sliver is regulated and a high draft ratio can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Teiji Nakahara, Toshifumi Morihashi, Teruo Nakayama, Shinichi Nishimura, Hisaaki Kato, Ikuzo Uematsu, Takashi Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 4384448
    Abstract: Improvements in conventional ring spinning processes of the type wherein a strand of staple fibers if drafted, twisted and collected on a ring spinning frame are obtained by the added step of subjecting the strand to the twisting action of a pneumatic false twister between the drafting and collecting steps. The added step improves performance and/or permits the process to be operated at higher front roll delivery speeds for any given spindle speed without sacrificing performance. The higher delivery speeds results in improvements in the productivity of the process and the apparent value of staple yarn produced thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: Monsanto Company
    Inventor: Arnold E. Wilkie
  • Patent number: 4351146
    Abstract: A process for producing a yarn with alternate twist, which is obtained by intermittently varying the distance which the twist extends back upstream of a false twister. The variation in the distance is produced without braking the yarn and is achieved by means of a blocking device acting intermittently at a point located close to the false twister. The duration of action of the blocking device approximately corresponds to the time taken by a given point on the yarn to cover the distance from a delivery member to the false twister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1982
    Assignee: ASA S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Faure, Michel Vanhelle
  • Patent number: 4322944
    Abstract: Method of and apparatus for break spinning yarn in a spinning machine. A fiber ribbon is formed into a fiber ribbon, the ribbon is false twisted in a first twisting element, staple fiber ends are lifted from the false twisted ribbon in a second, re-spinning twist imparting element, the second element being driven in the same direction as but at a higher speen than the first element, the thus resulting spun yarn is given an additional, true twist, and is then wound on a bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1982
    Assignee: Elitex, koncern textilniho strojirenstvi
    Inventors: Stanislav Sraitr, Hana Srejberova
  • Patent number: 4276740
    Abstract: Two or more single strands are formed and false twisted to provide sections of S-twist and Z-twist which are longitudinally spaced apart and separated by nodes which have no twist. The strands while moving longitudinally are held against rotation at points between which the adjacent strands twist in a same direction. The twist between each pair of points becomes redistributed, and the strands are released to enable them to twist together to form a self twist plural strand yarn.The strands are held against rotation during twist redistribution by apparatus which includes a device for interconnecting the strands at the points, and a rotation preventer which moves with and lies between the strands adjacent to the interconnected points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Assignee: WWG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip W. Chambley, Alan H. Norris
  • Patent number: 4265082
    Abstract: After a polyester tow having a total denier of 5000 de is drafted at a ratio of between 10 and 20 and stretch broken, the obtained fiber bundle of staple fibers is subjected to a false twisting operation by means of a fluid jet nozzle, and then the false twisted fiber bundle is wound several turns around a hot roller heated at a temperature of 220.degree. C. and located in a detwisting region downstream from the false twisting nozzle. The surface fibers, which extend outwards because of the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the fiber bundle during the detwisting thereof, suddenly stopped rotation when the fiber bundle contacts the hot roller, and the surface fibers wrap around the body portion of the fiber bundle to form a plurality of individual wrapping portions, in each of which the surface fibers are interlaced each other. Thus a spun-like yarn is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1981
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sasaki, Katsuyuki Kasaoka
  • Patent number: 4237685
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are provided for producing a yarn comprising; supplying a web of staple fibers to a first region; forming said web into a bundle at a zone intermediate said first region and an after-defined second region; tensioning said fibers at a second region to draft said bundle into a yarn advancing at a predetermined rate; and collecting said yarn at a third region at a rate substantially equal to said predetermined rate of advancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1980
    Assignee: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory A. Pelagio, Wiley B. Holland
  • Patent number: 4228643
    Abstract: In a method for the manufacture of twistless yarn a sliver of staple fibre material is drafted in two drafting zones, which are separated by a neutral zone. The drafting in the first zone occurs in a dry condition and in the second zone in a wet condition. The drafting liquid, which can contain a bonding agent, is supplied to the sliver through a false twister inserted in the neutral zone. This drafting process provides an increased uniformity of twistless yarn in a range of counts of 10-300 tex at a production rate of 300 to 600 m/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1980
    Assignee: Hollandse Signaalapparaten B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Nijhuis, Thomas H. M. Terwee
  • Patent number: 4219998
    Abstract: An apparatus for twisting a fibre strand to have repeated along its length alternating zones of opposite twist comprises a fluid vortex device having two fluid inlets and a valve controlling fluid flow to the inlets. The valve comprises a hollow cylindrical rotatable valve member and a sleeve having a number of outlet ports surrounding the member. Fluid supplied to the hollow member is distributed to the outlet ports by rotation of the member. Plastics dry bearings between the member and the sleeve act to prevent improper flow of air along the abutting surfaces. The vortex device comprises a member formed with a bore, the bore having a wide port into which the fluid is injected through the inlets and a restricted port forming a venturi of diameter of the order twice that of the yarn. A plug through which the yarn passes at the end of the bore remote from the venturi inhibits escape of air from that end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1980
    Assignee: Platt Saco Lowell Limited
    Inventor: William M. Farnhill
  • Patent number: 4207729
    Abstract: Textile strands or threads with no twist at least partially coated by wax are formed by immersion in a molten wax while in a false twisted state. The coated strands or threads are then cooled and the wax solidifies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Assignees: Agence Nationale de Valorization de la Recherche (ANVAR), Agence Nationale de Valorisation de la Recherche (A.N.V.A.R.)
    Inventors: Pierre E. Exbrayat, Richard A. Schutz
  • Patent number: RE31705
    Abstract: This present invention relates to a spun yarn having novel structure and a method of producing the same. The spun yarn of the present invention consists of a number of fibers arranged in a predetermined direction and twisted together, one end of which fibers is spirally wound around the surface of the yarn. The yarn of the present invention is spun by successively passing a sliver through a pneumatic yarn twisting device, untwisting tube, and false twisting device in turn. The twisting device, untwisting tube and false twisting device are disposed between front rollers and delivery rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihumi Morihashi