Abstract: Resilient mounting means for a traveler cleaner fixed to a textile ring holder includes a resilient member, formed from a vibration damping material such as rubber, fixed into or integral with a textile ring holder formed either of such material itself, or of metal, or of a combination sandwich type construction in the region in which the cleaner is to be fixed to the ring, and having embedded within and bonded thereto a threaded sleeve or stud to receive the cleaner. This mounting means permits the traveler cleaner to be resiliently restored to its aligned position relative a spinning or twisting ring and its traveler following accidental impact.

Abstract: A feed roller for feeding fibers to a combing roller in an open end spinning machine. The feed roller has a plurality of circumferential grooves in the peripherial surface thereof. The grooves can extend perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the feed roller, or can be slightly inclined relative to a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the feed roller.

Abstract: In a false twist friction aggregate, the friction discs are of differing diameters, permitting more flexibility in selecting twist and tension levels.

Abstract: False-twist heat-set thermoplastic yarn having between 10 and 100 denier is collected on a pirn using a ring-and-traveller takeup mechanism at a balloon tension between 0.03 and 0.7 grams. The resulting yarn gives improved knitting performance and greatly reduced streakiness in hose and other knitted fabrics as compared to yarn collected at higher balloon tension.

Abstract: An electromechanical cable having individually jacketed non-metallic strain members.

Abstract: This invention relates to a yarn guide device for an open-end spinning frame, wherein said yarn guide device comprises a navel with a yarn guide opening arranged around the rotational axis of the rotor, and a guide roller with a yarn contact surface positioned substantially on an extension of the rotational axis of the rotor. The spun yarn is taken out through the navel substantially along the rotational axis of the rotor and is deflected for the first time as it passes along the guide roller.

Abstract: In a false twist friction aggregate, the shafts are not all driven at the same speed. This produces higher twist levels, lower inlet tensions, and higher outlet tensions as compared to conventional aggregates.

Abstract: A method of making a series of wire strand sizes bracketing the most frequently requested strand sizes from a limited number of predetermined wire sizes such as two or three stock wire sizes by combining the stock wires together into a predetermined pattern to make any required strand size in the series. By producing wire strands in accordance with the invention the inventory of wire normally kept on hand in a production facility is decreased and the promptness with which orders for strands may be supplied is increased.

Abstract: Described is cobulked continuous filament yarn containing a first yarn and a second yarn having some special quality such as an electrically conductive yarn, a flame-retardant yarn, a yarn having soil release properties or a yarn having some aesthetic quality such as an unusual dye characteristic or unusual luster characteristic, in which the filaments of the second yarn are about 4 to about 20 percent longer than the filaments of the first yarn, whereby the effect of the second yarn is increased by an increase in the appearance of its filaments at the surface of the cobulked yarn.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to a continuous process for the manufacture of heat set yarns. The process comprises firstly passing a two or more ply twisted filament or spun yarns having a latent bulk in the single ends into a first heating zone to develop the latent bulk, passing the yarn into a second heating zone where the yarn is heated to a temperature higher than it was heated in the first zone, and then passing the yarn into a cooling zone while imposing a false twist which runs back into its second heating zone. The second heating zone and the cooling zone serve to set the bulk and the twist and to increase the torque of the yarn. The yarn is then fed to a take-up and wound into a package.

Abstract: A twister adapted for the manufacture of cordage on which yarns are twisted in opposite directions in the continuous processes of plying and cabling, wherein the twisted yarns are finally wound on a bobbin under a constant stretching action irrespective of an increase in the outside diameter of the bobbin, thereby eliminating the necessity of doffing between the plying and the cabling processes.

Abstract: A machine for manufacturing cables by stranding individual wires, comprising: a pay-out apparatus having four pay-out reels and fixed supports therefor; a stranding apparatus situated after the pay-out apparatus and comprising a forming die receiving the individual wires; a take-up apparatus having a take-up reel, a support for the take-up reel, and a cable-puller for pulling the cable through the die at a predetermined speed; and further comprising wire-tensioning devices disposed between each of the pay-out reel supports and the die, each of the wire-tensioning devices comprising a guide member for one of the wires, disposed at a fixed location and coaxial with a respective one of the reels, a zone situated before the guide member for non-guided passage of a portion of the wire from the reel to the guide member, a motor for driving each of the pay-out reels at a variable speed of rotation, the speed being sufficient to cause the portion of wire to assume the form of a loop under the effect of centrifugal fo

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a yarn break on a textile machine having at least one yarn processing position where the transport of a yarn is to be monitored, comprising a triboelectric signal generator located at said processing position for producing a signal indicating the transport of the yarn and a signal detection circuit for amplifying and rectifying the signal to provide an output indicative of a yarn break.

Abstract: A cohesive yarn having latent twist, which is recoverable by relaxation of the yarn in heat and moisture, is composed of crimped and entangled continuous thermoplastic filaments. It provides good tuft definition and a lustrous appearance in pile fabric. Production of the yarn by hot jet-entangling crimped filaments throughout the length of a yarn bundle and heat-setting latent twist in the yarn bundle while false-twisted with an air-torque jet is illustrated.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing a coated and twisted textile product from discontinuous glass fibers that are effectively interengaged into a relatively loosely associated longitudinal sliver-like grouping. The uncoated grouping is advanced from a container, along a path, for further processing. The grouping is twisted at a location along the path of advancement of the grouping. A coating is applied to the advancing grouping by passing the grouping through a coating passageway containing coating material. The coating passageway being located at a position along the path where the grouping is relatively unaffected by the twist being applied by the twisting means, so as to promote penetration of the coating material into the interior of the grouping.

Abstract: A yarn comprising thermoplastic synthetic staple fibers or thermoplastic synthetic staple fibers and continuous filaments, in which the individual fibers constituting the yarn contain twisted crimps and having cross-sectional surfaces with a markedly flattened portion, in which the staple fibers contained therein have broken ends comprising mainly portions flattened to a lesser degree, a plurality of fibers having this structure uniformly and alternately forming the surface and inner layers of the yarn and being intertwined in a truly twisted state or in a substantially non-twisted state at fluffs formed of the broken ends of the individual fibers, and a process for producing a yarn which comprises drawing an undrawn yarn comprising multifilaments of a thermoplastic synthetic polymer and having substantially the same break elongation, in a twisted state at an elevated temperature thereby to remarkably flatten portions of the individual filaments which appear on the outer layer of the yarn, and immediately det

Abstract: An apparatus for false twisting a thread has three spindles each carrying friction elements and disposed, in plan view, at the corners of an equilateral triangle. Both ends of each of the spindles are mounted in bearings on a frame. A removable spacer is provided at each end of the frame and a resilient means urges each spindle against the spacer. The apparatus has a simple construction which can be easily disassembled to replace a spindle, friction element or bearing.

Abstract: Machines for texturizing, especially crimping, synthetic polymer filaments such as yarns or threads, wherein the latter are treated between a first set of delivery rollers and a second set of delivery rollers in a first heating system and texturizing unit, and are delivered to a take-up unit, a second heating system and a third set of delivery rollers optionally being arranged between the second set of delivery rollers and the take-up unit, the texturizing machine being in the form of a three part machine frame with the three parts of the machine frame arranged parallel to one another, wherein the take-up units are arranged on the three parts of the machine frame.

Abstract: A horizontally elongated machine for twisting a plurality of different yarns has at least one longitudinally extending drive shaft. A plurality of horizontally extending and vertically spaced rows of twisters is provided on each side of the machine with each twister being rotatable about a respective axis perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the machine. The twisters are driven in groups of two or four by a common flat belt spanned over the respective whorls of the twisters and over a single drive pulley on the drive shaft. A takeup device for each of the twisters is provided directly above the twister.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for spinning staple fibers wherein a sliver is continuously delivered to a separation roller where individual fibers are separated from such sliver. The thus separated individual fibers are accelerated by means of an air current approximately to the peripheral velocity of the inner wall of a hollow body member, and then the individual fibers are delivered approximately tangentially to a quickly rotating hollow body member to form thereat a fiber ring, and finally, the yarn is axially withdrawn out of the fiber ring.