Abstract: A method for continuously producing a twisted yarn with minimal curling tendency includes the steps of spinning a yarn and directly thereafter, within a time period of less than one second, twisting the yarn. The yarn tension at the end of the spinning step can be adjusted to be essentially the same as the yarn tension at the end of the twisting step, or, in the alternative, the yarn tension at the end of the twisting step is greater than 70% of the yarn tension at the end of the spinning step.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a twisted yarn by a combined spinning and twisting process includes the steps of producing in at least two spinning devices individual spun yarns and guiding the spun yarns together to a first centering location positioned coaxially to the axis of the double twisting device to subject the individual spun yarns in a first yarn feeding direction to a first twist, whereby a yarn balloon is formed. Subsequently, the spun yarns are guided to a second centering location, also positioned coaxially to the axis of the double twisting device, and through the second centering location into the interior of the yarn balloon to subject the spun yarns in a second yarn feeding direction, opposite the first yarn feeding direction, to a second twist. The spun yarns are then wound onto a rotating bobbin positioned in the interior of the yarn balloon.

Abstract: A recycled yarn or non-woven product and method for making the same, the yarn or non-woven product being made from recycled polyester fiber or fleece fabric.

Abstract: Fabrics containing melamine fibers are rendered more comfortable by carding the melamine fibers under vacuum so as to exhibit a narrower fiber diameter distribution (.delta..sub.d) and/or a narrower staple length distribution (.delta..sub.l) as compared to melamine fibers which are carded in the absence of vacuum. In addition, more comfortable melamine fiber-containing yarns are produced by spinning the staple fiber at a lower twist multiplier (TM) as compared to conventional melamine fiber yarns. Most preferably, the melamine fiber-containing fabrics and yarns will be blended with at least one other type of synthetic fibers, such as aramid fibers.

Abstract: In a spinning process for producing a yarn, fiber material in the form of at least one sliver is opened to a fibrous veil consisting of single fibers, and is deposited on an air-permeable suctioned collecting surface. The speed of the fibrous veil transported on the collecting surface is preferably not higher than the speed of the drawn off yarn. Before reaching the yarn formation line located on the collecting surface, the fibrous veil is divided into a plurality of fiber accumulations and thereby pre-twisted to strands. The position and travelling direction of the strands on the collecting surface is defined by guiding edges of suction slits. The individual strands are guided off transversely to the yarn formation line, whereby the extent of the pre-twist and the extent of the transport force is determined by the angle of the strands to the yarn formation line. Pre-twisted strands are wound around each other along the yarn formation line so that a type of ply-twisted yarn arises.

Abstract: In order to increase the operating efficiency of the spinning machine and in order to generate a response suitable to the hierarchy or quality of the error message in case of an error in the yarn or in another electrical or mechanical device of the spinning machine, the parameter signal of the yarn obtained by a measuring device (20) is transmitted to an evaluating phase (21,22) which emits error message signals. These are attributed in an attribution section (23) to pre-defined error groups (A,B,C,D). Each one of the output signals of the attribution section represents a group of errors and generate (automatically) graduated responses for the elimination of errors.

Abstract: A method for producing substantially 100% polyester yarns on an open end spinning machine is described. The process involves acting on substantially 100% polyester sliver made of high tenacity, fine denier fibers with a negative tooth combing roll to individualize the fibers and feed them to the rotor of an open end spinning machine. Superior quality industrial gauge yarns can be produced from fine denier, high tenacity polyester fibers according to this method at a high rate of throughput and with few ends down.

Abstract: A method for producing substantially 100% polyester yarns on an open end spinning machine is described. The process involves acting on substantially 100% polyester sliver made of high tenacity, fine denier fibers with a negative tooth combing roll to individualize the fibers and feed them to the rotor of an open end spinning machine. Superior quality industrial gauge yarns can be produced from fine denier, high tenacity polyester fibers according to this method at a high rate of throughput and with few ends down.

Abstract: A paraffin coating device of a textile machine which has a fixed paraffin body to coat a yarn running with paraffin is provided with a compact unit supporting the essential parts of the paraffin treatment apparatus and which can be easily removed from the paraffin treatment apparatus for maintenance purposes in order to facilitate handling and to improve even application of paraffin on the yarn.

Abstract: An open-end spinning device has a spinning rotor with a rotor pot defining a fiber collection groove therein. A rotor shaft is provided having a diameter between 5.5 mm and 9 mm. Pairs of rotatable supporting rings supported on axles define a nip therebetween. The rotor shaft is rotatably supported in the nip. The supporting rings have a diameter between 62 mm and 82 mm. A thrust imparting device imparts an axial thrust to the rotor shaft in the direction opposite the rotor pot. A non-contacting axial bearing is disposed opposite the free end of the rotor shaft for absorbing the axial thrust without contacting the rotor shaft. The axial thrust imparting device generates an axial thrust between 1N and 7N on the rotor shaft. A driving device contacts the rotor shaft for rotatably driving the rotor and has a contact pressure with the rotor shaft from between 8N and 39N.

Abstract: Denim fabric suitable for use as apparel is made from about 40-100% fibers produced from denim waste (pre-consumer and/or post-consumer). The denim waste is collected, starch and size are optionally removed, and it is subjected to garnetting to produce denim fibers, the vast majority of fiber lengths greater than about 0.4 inches, and an average length greater than 0.5 inches. The denim fibers are then opened, and subjected to low-tension carding, as by using a Rieter C-4 type card with conveyor belt. The carded denim fibers are spun into filling yarn having a yarn count between about 4.0/1 to 16.0/1, and/or a warp or knitting yarn having a yarn count between about 4.0/1 to 16.0/1. The warp or knitting yarn may be plied with like reclaimed warp yarn, or with virgin fiber warp yarn.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for spinning fibres into yarn including providing a supply of fibres, providing a yarn-building region, opening fibres from the supply into the region, landing opened fibres in said region, removing energy from landing fibres, building and twisting the fibres landed in the region into a yarn and withdrawing the yarn from the region. The fibres may be landed leading-end first in said region. The fibre trailing-end may be flicked to remove energy from the landing fibre.

Abstract: A method for producing high quality fabrics using recycled fabric scraps is disclosed. By use of pre-gin contacting of the virgin carrier fibers as well as moistening the fiber scraps that are recycled, fiber length and fiber uniformity percentages are maintained higher then typically achieved by the prior art. The process has many advantages such as: the need for redyeing the resulting material is minimized and shrinkage is substantially reduced.

Abstract: Denim fabric suitable for use as apparel is made from about 40-100% fibers produced from denim waste (pre-consumer and/or post-consumer). The denim waste is collected, starch and size are optionally removed, and it is subjected to garnetting to produce denim fibers, the vast majority of fiber lengths greater than about 0.4 inches, and an average length greater than 0.5 inches. The denim fibers are then opened, and subjected to low-tension carding, as by using a Rieter C-4 type card with conveyor belt. The carded denim fibers are spun into filling yarn having a yarn count between about 4.0/1 to 16.0/1, and/or a warp or knitting yarn having a yarn count between about 4.0/1 to 16.0/1. The warp or knitting yarn may be plied with like reclaimed warp yarn, or with virgin fiber warp yarn.

Abstract: An artificial turf with high water rentivity. A cut pile is formed over the surface of a backing structure by implanting a multiplicity of tufts. Each tuft comprises one or a plurality of pile yarns. Each of the pile yarns is composed of one flat filament or a plurality of bundled flat filaments twisted and fixed in the twisted state into a slender form having an approximately spiral cross section. A pile yarn for such artificial turfs and a process for producing such a pile yarn.

Abstract: A yarn lap preventor for deflecting a parted yarn end away from an enlarged diameter area of a rotating take-up shaft of the open end spinning machine, particularly of the type for forming cylindrical yarn packages. The yarn lap preventor is preferably integrally molded plastic including a body portion and a mounting arm portion extending radially outwardly from the body portion. The body portion of the yarn lap preventor includes a tapered edge which is positioned adjacent the enlarged diameter area of the take-up shaft and preferably in closely spaced apart relation from where the advancing yarn leaves the enlarged diameter area. The body portion of the yarn lap preventor also preferably includes a shield portion which extends along a circumferential portion of the enlarged diameter area.

Abstract: A yarn lap preventor for mounting in an open end spinning machine to deflect a parted yarn end away from an enlarged diameter area of a rotating take-up shaft of the open end spinning machine. The yarn lap preventor is preferably integrally molded plastic including a body portion connected to a base mounting portion. The body portion of the yarn lap preventor includes a tapered edge which is positioned adjacent the enlarged diameter area of the take-up shaft. The body portion also includes a shield portion which extends along an arcuate portion of the enlarged diameter area. The base mounting portion includes a slotted opening to facilitate mounting with an existing fastener, such as the fastening screw which secures a yarn guide eyelet mounting plate to a traverse bar. A method for preventing the accumulation of yarn laps is also disclosed which includes deflecting a parted yarn and shielding the enlarged diameter area of the take-up shaft from the parted yarn end.

Abstract: Industrial dust mop having a homogenous yarn composed of high melt staple fibers and low melt staple which has been heated to homogeneously melt the low melt fibers throughout the yarn to form a fused yarn product in the mop.

Abstract: Industrial dust mop having a homogenous yarn composed of high melt staple fibers and low melt staple which has been heated to homogeneously melt the low melt fibers throughout the yarn to form a fused yarn product in the mop.

Abstract: The subject invention provides a new method for manufacturing yarns using recycled cotton waste and a new type of recycled cotton yarn. Various types of cotton waste materials such as manufacturing by-products and post-consumer material are used in conjunction with virgin yarns to produce recycled yarns of sufficient quality to be used for garment manufacture.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to a spinning process and to a device for the production of a yarn. In the spinning process the fibers are conveyed to a perforated collection surface which is subjected to suction in one zone. They are brought together into a fiber accumulation on the collection surface. The fiber accumulation is drawn off from the collection surface and twisted into a yarn of predetermined twist in a twisting element which follows the collection surface in the direction of yarn draw-off. The fibers are accumulated at a suction edge constituting a collection line and are pre-twisted at said collection line.

Abstract: A spinning or twisting device in which a yarn is to be back-fed into the bore of a pipe-shaped element subjected to negative pressure in order to repair a yarn break. This pipe-shaped element is made in form of a yarn draw-off pipe of an open-end spinning device or as part of a pneumatic twisting device.A presenting device is moved over and beyond the pipe-shaped element into a yarn inserting position. The end of the pipe-shaped element towards the moving path of the presenting device is provided with a nozzle which is provided, in relation to the bore, on its side towards the yarn inserting position of the presenting device with a yarn support, and on its side away from the yarn inserting position with a yarn insertion groove, oriented in the direction of movement of the presenting device. The bottom of the yarn insertion groove is at a greater distance from the moving path of the presenting device than the yarn support.

Abstract: An arrangement is disclosed for spinning staple fibers to a yarn which has a feeding and opening device which opens up fiber material supplied in the form of slivers into a individual fibers, and a disk-type collecting element which takes over the separated fibers. It is provided that the collecting element has a conical fiber collecting surface which ascends toward the outside with centrifugal forces assisting in compacting the separated fibers to a composite.

Abstract: An apparatus for drafting a continuous strand of staple fibers into a finer strand of the staple fibers and including a mechanism for supplying separated fibers suspended in a fluid and a rotating fiber chute receiving the fluid with the separated fibers axially and dispensing the fluid and the fibers radially. A collection belt with a porous portion is used for passing the fluid but holding back the fibers wherein the belt moves in a circular path around the chute and leaves the circular path to move the collected fibers thereon out of the circular path. A vacuum housing is positioned in close proximity to the collection belt and with an opening facing the collection belt for collection of the fluid.

Abstract: Staple yarns of cotton and high modulus fiber are wet and then dried under tension to provide warp yarn for durable, abrasion resistant fabrics.

Abstract: In an arrangement for open-end rotor spinning having a spinning rotor which, by means of a rotor shaft, is disposed in wedge-shaped gaps formed by pairs of supporting disks and is driven by means of a tangential belt, it is provided that a cleaning element is assigned to the peripheral area of the pressure roller.

Abstract: In open-end rotor spinning, imparting lesser false twist to the yarn being formed as it revolves through the yarn receiving zone and greater false twist as it revolves away from the zone. This is accomplished by different frictional resistance surface characteristics on the surface of a navel, or by shaping the surface for lesser extent of yarn contact in one surface portion and greater extent of yarn contact in another surface portion.

Abstract: For improving spinning results, a sideways limited swarm of fibers (11) is applied tangentially at the mantle of a rotating perforated drum (3) whose interior is supplied with suction air, is transported further on this drum (3) in the peripheral direction by the action of suction air, then is clamped between drum (3) and a contacting clamping element (20), and is continuously sucked out from the clamping line (23) by a pneumatic spinning device (27), and transformed to a thread (28).

Abstract: Vacuum spinning of yarn produces yarns having good properties, and which may have a wide variety of different effects and constructions. A core filament yarn may be fed into operative association with a nipped sliver or roving, and then fed to a perforated rotating hollow shaft operatively connected to the vacuum. The core filament yarn may be a full stretched textured yarn, which is placed under tension and while under tension is dragged over a sharp edge of nonconductive material, and after the tension is relieved develops crimp. This causes individual fibers to be repelled, and provides for intermixing of the nipped sliver or roving fibers and the core filament yarn fibers. Alternatively, the filament yarn may be acted upon by draft rollers before the entrance to, and after the exit from, the hollow rotating shaft, to apply a force that breaks up to about 20% of the fibers. The yarns produced utilizing the broken fibers has a spun-like appearance.

Abstract: Vacuum spun yarn is produced that has strength property approaching that of ring spun yarn, and significantly greater than air jet spun yarn, and may be produced at speeds greatly in excess of production speeds for ring spun yarn. An elongated hollow shaft has a through-extending passageway from a first end to a second end thereof, with a portion of the shaft adjacent the first end being perforated (e.g. four equally spaced perforations). The perforations shaft in the direction of the second end from the through-extending passageway, and a generally spherical vacuum reservoir is formed in the shaft in communication with the passageway and perforations. The portion of the passageway between the shaft first end and the vacuum reservoir is significantly larger in cross-sectional dimension than the portion of the passageway from the vacuum reservoir to the second end of the shaft.

Abstract: The method of producing reinforced thread includes feeding loose fibres o the disc of a rotary twisting member, guiding the core thread through the disc eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation of the twisting member and conducting the winding of the fibres about the core thread, to form the reinforced thread by rotating the twisting member. The apparatus for performing the method of producing reinforced thread comprises fibre-separating means communicating with a twisting member having a flat disc with an axial bore and an opening for the passage of the core thread, arranged eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation of the twisting member, a holder for a bobbin with the core thread, a unit for winding the reinforced thread, and a guide for the core thread having its geometric center overlying the plane of the disc and aligned with the axis of rotation of the twisting member.

Abstract: Method of forming spinning fibers for producing a thread, which includes applying at least one laterally limited swarm of spinning fibers continuously to an outer cylindrical surface of a rotating, perforated drum having an interior, to which suction air is applied, further transporting the spinning fibers on the drum in peripheral direction of the drum along a spatial, spiral path wherein the spinning fibers are, respectively, accelerated, decelerated and individually separated from one another, clamping the spinning fibers at an outer end of the spiral path at a clamping line between the drum and at least one clamping element engaging the drum, and continuously conducting the spinning fibers away from the clamping line to at least one thread forming device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a drive apparatus for a device for applying paraffin wax to yarn. In the device, a solid block of paraffin is mounted on a polyhedral bolt which is driven by a whorl or drive pulley. The whorl, in turn, is driven by a continuous drive belt. Advantageously, a plurality of similar devices are mounted on the same open-end spinning machine so adjacent devices may be driven from the same drive belt. Bracing elements hold the yarn against the rotating face of the paraffin block of each device to ensure uniform application of paraffin.

Abstract: A twisting member of a ringless spinning apparatus comprises a cylindrical ousing with blades on its peripheral side surface. Secured on the blades is a first disc with an eccentric passage extending therethrough for the advancement of fibres, this disc acting as one gripping element of a device for gripping the fibres. The other gripping element is in the form of a second disc with an axial passage which is coaxially mounted on one end of a spring-biased sleeve in a position facing the first disc with the eccentrically extending passage and defining a gap with this first disc. The sleeve is coaxially accommodated in the housing.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing a spun yarn having true twist comprising extracting staple fibers from a bundle of staple fibers; and collecting the extracted staple fibers on the periphery of a spinning rotor; and recontacting the extracted fibers with the bundle of staple fibers to form a combined untwisted yarn; and twisting the combined untwisted yarn to produce a twisted yarn; and withdrawing the twisted yarn from the spinning rotor.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling production in a spinning machine is disclosed herein. Sliver consumption quantity at each of the spinning stations is computed from the count of pulse signals generated in synchronism with the rotation of a drive shaft, e.g., of a winding drum, and from the count of those pulse signals generated in the same way but during yarn piecing or doffing operations when no spun yarn is wound. When a reference value of preset data is reached by the computed sliver consumption quantity with respect to any spinning station, a device is operated to give an alarm signaling the need for sliver can replacement with a full one at that station.

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.

Abstract: An arrangement for open-end friction spinning is disclosed having two adjacently arranged friction rollers driven in the same rotational direction forming a yarn forming wedge shaped gap or slot. A fiber opening device is provided for opening fibers to be spun and a fiber feed channel guides the fibers from the opening device to the yarn forming gap. A yarn withdrawal device is provided for drawing off the produced yarn in the direction of the longitudinal extension of the yarn forming gap. The opening device is configured to simultaneously treat a plurality of fiber bands and the fiber feed channel is divided into several sections in its cross section. The mouths of the feed channel sections are disposed to open to the yarn forming gap at least partially one behind the other along the longitudinal extension of the yarn forming gap.

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.

Abstract: An open-end spinning method and an apparatus wherein a flow of discrete fibers is supplied to a fiber spreading element by which they are spread over the entire periphery of an inner fiber deposit surface of a drum where a fibrous layer is continuously created. Fibers are successively withdrawn from the fibrous layer by taking off the open end of yarn and rotating it about its axis, due to a twisting moment acting on the yarn, such twisting moment being created in a region beyond the drum axis. The yarn can be given an additional twist by causing its open end to revolve about the axis of the drum. The invention enables the attainment of a high degree of the so-called cyclic fiber doubling in the spinning process, a high productivity at a relative low peripheral velocity of the operating elements of the spinning device, and the possibility of manufacturing yarns of various parameters and characteristics in one and the same spinning unit.