Abstract: A twister apparatus and method in which filamentary material is wound onto rotating bobbins are provided. A guide rail reciprocates within a range for distributing the filamentary material onto the bobbins, and the guide rail range itself is reciprocated along the height of the bobbins to distribute the filamentary material over a plurality of portions of the bobbins. Means for measuring the yardage of the filamentary material onto the bobbins is provided. Means responsive to a predetermined yardage for determining the presence of the guide rail within one of a plurality of predetermined portions of the bobbins is provided. There is also provided means for discontinuing the movement of the guide rail at a preselected position within the range of reciprocation of the guide rail.

Abstract: A machine for the open-end spinning of yarns includes a machine frame which supports a plurality of side-by-side spinning units, each including a fibre opening roller and a spinning rotor, the arrangement being such that the rotational axes of the spinning rotors and opening rollers lie in respective first and second planes. The housings are mounted on the machine frame for pivotal movement about an axis transverse to the rotational axis of the spinning rotor and positioned between the first and second planes.A catch for holding against pivotal movement additionally acts to hold a cover extending over the housing in place. A second cover, which may be transparent, lies beneath the first cover and separately covers the opening roller. The supporting brackets for the housings are arranged such that each housing can be readily removed from the machine frame.

Abstract: A grommet for leading the roving to a flyer of a roving machine which grommet is composed of an oil impervious plastic material which may be molded and which has an upwardly flaring opening with a friction means therein for contacting the roving. The conical outer surface is substantially parallel to the conical inner surface of the grommet and fins or ribs project outwardly from the outer surface of the grommet.

Abstract: There is described a double twisting machine with a guide to receive the element to be twisted which is unwound from a bobbin arranged on the bobbin holder, and to lead said element from opposite the one bobbin-holder end about the bobbin up to opposite the other bobbin-holder end, said guide being revolvable about an axis in parallel relationship with the bobbin-holder rotation axis relative to said frame and said guide being located completely outside the bobbin-holder with a part at each end of said bobbin-holder. That guide part which first receives the element to be twisted from the bobbin, opens on the one end of the bobbin-holder in such a way that said element to be twisted is unwound substantially axially from the bobbin, and the device comprises means for opposing the rotating of the bobbin holder about the rotation axis thereof as the guide revolves and consequently for retaining the bobbin-holder stationary.

Abstract: A yarn piecing and knotting device for use in a pneumatic spinning machine for spinning slivers directly into a yarn by air jetting nozzles is disclosed. This yarn knotting device comprises means for retaining a spun yarn temporarily during a period ranging from the time of completion of the operation of a yarn knotter for connecting the spun yarn with a yarn taken out of a package to the time of resumption of winding.

Abstract: A double-yarn package of elastic and non-elastic yarns is produced by preparing a non-elastic yarn twisted periodically and alternately in opposite directions, doubling an elastic yarn which is in a stretched condition with said twisted non-elastic yarn, twisting the doubled yarn periodically and alternately in such directions as are opposite to the directions of said periodical and alternate twist of said non-elastic yarn, and then winding the thus twisted doubled yarn on a winding core.

Abstract: A fluid temperature transducer comprises a housing having two housing members, one of which defines a passageway controlled by a valve therein and the other is provided with a bimetallic disc subject on both faces to a fluid whose temperature is to be sensed, and arranged to engage actuating means for actuation of the valve when the temperature of the fluid sensed by the bimetallic disc changes between the crack point and set point temperatures.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel spun yarn composed of staple fibers only and having the average number of fibers in cross section and the rate of yarn evenness being within a limited range, and a process for manufacturing the same directly from continuous multi-filament yarn.

Abstract: Improvements in apparatus for the manufacture of a cable by laying or assemblying pre-twisted outer strands around a pre-twisted core. For smooth transmission of the pre-twist through the core length from a pay-out reel to a laying die, a series of interspaced pairs of opposed guide rollers are disposed along the path of the core to engage the same therebetween. Further, for smooth transmission of the pre-twists through the lengths of the outer strands from respective pay-out reels to the laying die, a series of interspaced tapered guide rollers are disposed along a curve in the path of each outer strand. At least some of the tapered guide rollers are set an an angle to the axial direction of the outer strand being fed thereover and, preferably, further to the direction normal to the vertical plane containing the curve in the outer strand path.

Abstract: A stable plied yarn is produced by false-twisting two or more singles yarn strands with jets and passing the strands around a yarn wheel whereon the nodes are joined. The strands leave the wheel and ply together. The plied yarn passes through a reversible jet aspirator which assists the plying and propels the yarn through a coiled tube. The aspirator is supplied with air or with steam to bulk the yarn. After leaving the tube, the yarn can be caused to strike a solid surface to further enhance bulking. A press roll at the yarn wheel aids in defining a twist trap.

Abstract: An improved process is provided for simultaneously drawing and false-twist texturing of partially oriented polyester yarn. The process is of the type wherein the yarn from a supply source is passed through a yarn feed system; a heating zone in which the yarn is heated to a temperature of from about 175.degree. to about 235.degree. C; a cooling zone in which the yarn is cooled to a temperature below about 80.degree. C; a false-twisting means; and take-up means whereby the yarn is drawn to a desired draw ratio; to winding up means; and is characterized in that the yarn emerging from said heating zone and before entering said cooling zone is passed through a heat-maintenance zone, in which the yarn is maintained at a temperature and for a time sufficient to permit substantially complete crystallization of the yarn so that the fully-drawn textured yarn product has a tenacity of at least 3.5 gram per denier. Apparatus for carrying out said improved process is also provided.

Abstract: Method of joining a thread of a take-up coil in a spinning rotor of a spinning station of a rotor spinning machine having a normal travel course therethrough from the spinning rotor to the take-up coil for a thread that has spun therein and having a thread draw-off device and a thread guide disposed in the normal travel course, the joining being effected by means of a traveling joining device having a thread draw-off device for drawing off a thread end from the take-up coil and having a thread delivery device for transfering the drawn-off thread end to the spinning rotor of the spinning station, the method includes the steps of guiding a thread back from the take-up coil to the spinning rotor through the thread draw-off device of the joining device, that has been switched to reverse operation, and through the thread draw-off device of the spinning station that has been switched to idling operation, switching the thread draw-off device of the joining device to forward operation at an instant at which the threa

Abstract: A system for transporting cheeses produced by one spinning machinery into a container located in a predetermined position near the end of the spinning machinery is disclosed. The system comprises a first conveyer extending along the major length of the spinning machinery to receive the doffed cheeses thereon directly from the spinning machinery, and a second conveyor extending between the end of the first conveyer and the container to receive and transport the cheeses from the first conveyer to the container. The second conveyer is driven at a higher speed than the first conveyer to allow the cheeses to be automatically contained in the container which has an inner diameter slightly larger than an outer diameter of the cheese in a manner which allows the bobbins of the cheeses to be stacked in end-to-end relationship.

Abstract: A temperature measurement device for rotary kilns comprises a stripping sleeve rigidly mounted in a bore or the shell of a rotary kiln and has one end portion extending into the rotary kiln. A ceramic ring is mounted at the one end portion of the sleeve and a protective tube is slidably mounted in the stripping sleeve and through the opening in the ceramic ring. A thermocouple is disposed in the protective tube at one end portion thereof that corresponds to the one end portion of the stripping sleeve. The protective tube is lifted to retract its one end portion until the end thereof is disposed in the ceramic ring thereby scraping off any crust thereon and the tube is then lowered to such an extent that the one end portion thereof protrudes from the ceramic ring so that temperature measurement can be effected.

Abstract: A zero twist, staple fiber yarn of good strength, outstanding cleanness and good uniformity is produced from continuous filaments by a direct spinning process followed by entangling to a pin count of less than 50 millimeters. Filaments of less than 70 percent break elongation are stretch broken to fibers having an average length of 18 to 60 centimeters with at least 5 percent short fibers, at least 1.5 percent long fibers, and 50 to 93.5 percent fibers of lengths between 12.7 and 76 centimeters.

Abstract: A 2-for-1 twister equipped with at least two antiwrapping members is effective to prevent entanglement of the yarn between the spindle and the spindle support means when the yarn breaks out immediately downstream of the twister.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a novel voluminous multi-filament stretch of set yarn and a method for manufacturing the yarn. The yarn, formed from continuous filaments, substantially all of which have the same extension to break, has the appearance of spun yarn, i.e., yarn produced from staple length fibers. The continuous filaments constituting the yarn are spun with contaminents present therein. Subsequently, the undrawn or partially drawn yarn is subjected to simultaneous drawing and false twisting which causes generally all of the filaments to break in regions where the contaminents are entrapped while the yarn is contemporaneously processed into textured yarn. The false twisting step includes the usual twisting and untwisting. Since substantially all of the filaments are broken into relatively short lengths, hereinafter sometimes called "staple," during false twisting it is necessary to preclude disintegration of the yarn as it is untwisted. This achieved by any of several techniques.

Abstract: Polyester yarn having the desirable crimp properties of false-twist textured, heat-set yarn is produced from melt-spun and drawn bicomponent filaments wherein poly(ethylene terephthalate) of 12 to 15 relative viscosity is one component and a copolyester of 23 to 26 relative viscosity, preferably poly(ethylene/2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propylene terephthalate) containing about 90 mole percent ethylene terephthalate units, is the other component. The bicomponent filaments are annealed at constant length to crystallize the polyethylene terephthalate component, forwarded in a jetted stream of heated compressible fluid, impinged in a plasticized condition against a moving screen, cooled and then taken up from the screen. The process can be operated continuously at high speeds, e.g., windup speeds of 3,000 to 4,000 meters per minute.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing interlaced multifilament yarn having an improved configuration is disclosed. When a material yarn is treated by the interlacing apparatus provided with an interlacing nozzle wherein a hollow longitudinal space is formed therein and a jetted fluid is introduced into the hollow longitudinal space, the jet fluid is directed to an axis of the passage of a running yarn in the longitudinal space along a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the yarn passage in such a condition that the jet fluid is diffused to a direction along the yarn passage. Accordingly, the individual filaments of the running yarn are vibrated about the axis of the running yarn passage, mainly along a plane defined by the axis of the yarn passage and the axis of a fluid conduit for supplying the jet fluid. According to such effective vibration of the individual filaments, a very stable interlaced configuration of the individual filaments can be created.

Abstract: A twist tube for a false twist device is described which is of the type wherein textile yarn being textured passes through a straight tubular part to a transverse pin of hard material round which the yarn is wound once prior to leaving the tube. To avoid ballooning at very high rotational speeds of the twist tube about its axis, the pin is fixed in the tubular part with its axis displaced laterally with respect to the tube axis by a distance which is a fraction of the pin diameter. Between its cylindrical ends the pin is formed with a cylindrical concave surface providing a gap with respect to the tube axis of a width of the order of half the yarn thickness. To aid threading, openings are provided on opposite sides of the tubular part and the one nearest the laterally displaced pin is enlarged to balance the twist tube about its axis.