Abstract: Disclosed is a process for accumulating yarn from a continuous supply source to waste and apparatus for cutting the yarn initially and upon preparation for threading the yarn into a continuous process.
Abstract: An automatic transfer device and process for the transfer of a continuously supplied yarn from a first take-up tube, which usually has a full package thereon, to a second take-up tube, which has usually no yarn thereon. In carrying out this process, the apparatus automatically cuts and aspirates the continuously supplied yarn, and an actuator arm applies the yarn to the second take-up tube by moving the continuously-supplied yarn into contact with a yarn snagging device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 7, 1988
Date of Patent:
August 15, 1989
Assignee:
BASF Fibres, Inc.
Inventors:
Robert W. Horsey, Laurent C. Pilon, Grant M. Fletcher, Arland W. Horner