Abstract: The invention provides a multiple pants hanger for supporting a plurality of pairs of pants. The hanger includes a plurality of horizontally extending parallel bars each substantially wider than thick, means for securing the bars together in a spaced relationship so that at one end the bars are free and unconnected and so that slots are formed between each bar and an adjoining bar with the slot ends being open at the free ends of the bars. The inside adjoining faces of the bars on each side of one of the slots is essentially flat and lie in vertical planes so that the fabric of the legs of a pair of pants positioned in one of the slots is in frictional contact with the adjoining side faces of adjacent bars over substantially the full length and width thereof.

Abstract: In an air jet texturing machine or the like for bulking a multifilament yarn with means to conduct the bulked yarn through a heating tube under relatively low tension at high speed, said tube having a nominal inner diameter which is more than 10 times the diameter of the bulked yarn and a length of more than 1 meter, the improvement wherein the yarn tube has at least one yarn encircling beaded segment with a radially inwardly protruding edge which reduces the inner diameter of the tube by at least 5% up to 50% of said nominal diameter.

Abstract: Method for producing an interlaced multifilament yarn by rubbing and scratching a material multifilament yarn with a rotary rough surface member and with such intensity that individual filaments constituting the filament yarn are not substantially broken, the rotary surface member having projections which are smaller than the cross-sectional diameter of the individual filaments of the material yarn; diffusing a jetted fluid which is jetted in the yarn running direction along a predetermined yarn passage from a jetting aperture of a supply conduit through a nozzle formed with a rectifying and diffusing portion having a substantially uniform cross-section, and impinging the diffused jetted fluid against the running material multifilament yarn so that the individual filaments of the multifilament yarn mostly vibrate in a direction substantially parallel to a plane defined by the yarn running direction and the fluid jetting direction, the vibration taking place in a section of the yarn passage facing the rectifyi

Abstract: Differentially stretched plastic with a dyed border along one side suitable for shaded interlayers of laminated windshields moves in an arcuate path away from a frustoconical roll of a continuously operating differential web stretcher toward an intermittently operated web cutting machine, which tends to veer the web transversely every time it starts to pull a length of web into the cutting machine. The present invention realigns the arcuately shaped web between cutting operations when necessary to compensate for lateral veering of the arcuate plastic web from the arcuate path it takes so as to cause the web to enter the web cutting machine at a proper angle and orientation for cutting.

Abstract: The improvement in a tow delivery apparatus downstream of a crimper of a jet device mounted in the laydown spout of the apparatus in the path of the tow. The jet is operated to tension and forward tow through the spout only during startup of the crimper when operating speed is reached at startup the jet is inactivated.

Abstract: A moving web expanding and guiding apparatus comprises, in combination, an expander device having three screw rolls arranged side by side, and a guide device having a required number of centering rolls, wherein the intermediate screw roll is movable in a direction at right angles to the web surface and the centering rolls are tiltable in the direction which corrects the deviation of the web.The apparatus is provided with a screw roll emergency stop mechanism for quickly stopping the rotation of the screw rolls when the moving web excessively zigzag deviates, and a centering roll time delay stop mechanism for stopping the operation of a centering roll tilting mechanism when the centering rolls have returned to their neutral position.

Abstract: A method of preparing a spun yarn for use in a fine gauge wrap knitting machine having the following steps: (a) spinning polyester stable fibers having a denier of less than 2 and having a staple length in a range of about 1.5 to about 2.0 inches, (b) twisting the yarn in a range of 24 to 36 twists per inch, (c) waxing and steaming the yarn, and (d) warping the yarn in an environment having a humidity in a range of 65% to 70% and having a temperature in a range of 70.degree. to 72.degree. Fahrenheit.

Abstract: A self-stringing jet device which is compact and easy to string up includes a body, a yarn inlet section, and a movable venturi and a cylindrical baffle located at the outlet end of the jet. The venturi may be moved from a string up position to an operating position by engaging the movable venturi located within the jet with a rotatable cam surface actuated by an external handle that can be rotated between stops, one of which is a rotatable eccentric for adjusting the operating position of the jet.

Abstract: The warp threads presented from a curtain of threads are slightly spread apart and tensioned by a constantly rotating tensioning shaft with an enlarged part. A sleeve with a screw-like guidance groove is slipped over the last part of the tensioning shaft, this sleeve being switched as needed by means of a coupling to be driven in synchronization with the tensioning shaft or to be shut off in a specific angular position. The sleeve is provided at its beginning with a knife-like guide beak which during rotation separates the outermost warp thread from the curtain of threads and deposits it into the guidance groove. The spacing between the turns of the groove corresponds to the spacing between the draw-in needles. When the sleeve is stopped, the separated warp threads individually deposited into the turns of the groove are arranged in the proper transfer position to the draw-in needles.

Abstract: Pin or clip chain for web tensioning machines, including a pin or clip chain link, a connection chain link, a connection pin holding the links together, the pin or clip chain link having a C-shaped box section with a side disposed in a given plane having an opening formed therein and longitudinal ends, and a bearing half shell being disposed in each of the longitudinal ends of the C-shaped box section, the bearing half shells having axes extended perpendicular to the plane of the side of the C-shaped box section, the connection pin being insertable in the opening formed in the C-shaped box section.

Abstract: Low friction drafting system for yarn and having in sequence a driven feed roll, a low friction freely rotatable hot roll for preheating the yarn, a low friction freely rotatable hot roll for thermally stabilizing the yarn, a driven output roll, with tension automatically transferring upstream of the preheater roll to preheat the yarn and with the two heated rolls being driven by engagement with the yarn; the thermally stabilizing roll operates at a greater speed than the preheater roll and drafting of the yarn occurs between the two freely rotatable hot rolls.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for individually separating heddles arrayed in a pack on slide rails. It is assumed that the heddles are of a magnetizable material. One magnetic plate is mounted at each of the opposite sides of the pack, these plates being polarized in opposite directions whereby they exert a repelling action. The foremost elements of the pack are split from one another by the magnetic action and are positioned with a significant mutual spacing between the pair of magnetic plates. The pair of magnetic plates evinces a flaring field distribution in the direction of advance of the heddles.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method of drying tubular knitted fabric on a continuous basis, which method includes the steps of:(A) overfeeding a rope of wet fabric (4) after untangling to a first transverse stretcher (20);(B) transversely stretching the untangled fabric to from 100% to 150% of a final dry fabric width to thereby bring the number of knitted courses per unit fabric length to substantially that in the final dry fabric;(C) expressing water by nip rollers (10) from the transversely stretched fabric to remove water carried in the interstices of the fabric;(D) overfeeding the expressed fabric to the exterior of a rotating drying drum (32) at from 0% to 25%;(E) revolving the fabric around the drum (32) and reducing the water content to from 10% to 40% of the dry fabric weight while passing heated air from the drum exterior to the interior to thereby produce an unstretched, moist elastic fabric;(F) drawing the fabric from the drum upwardly onto a second transverse stretcher (41) to finally adjust the fabr

Abstract: Boot removal apparatus includes a platform portion, an undercarriage portion and a boot gripping portion. The platform portion includes a substantially rectangular bed section with a length significantly longer than the width thereof. The undercarriage portion includes a transverse axle section extending under the bed section with free ends of the axle section extending beyond the side edges of the bed section and wheels mounted on the free ends of the axle section. A first U-shaped member is mounted under the bed section adjacent an end thereof so free ends thereof are in contact with an underside of the bed section and an arcuate section thereof extends beyond the bed section. The free ends of the first member are aligned longitudinally of the bed section. The first member has a thickness significantly less than a radius of the wheels to incline the bed section upwardly from the first U-shaped member.

Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing endless needled paper machine felts comprising at least one ply formed by a plurality of overlapping loops of a sliver web comprises a needling machine having a working width corresponding to the width of the paper machine felt, and a sliver web feeder which is adapted to be reciprocated throughtout the working width of the needling machine. To ensure that the needling can be properly effected without a formation of wrinkles, a needling device having a working width corresponding to that of the feeder is provided between the feeder and the needling machine and is adapted to be reciprocated in unison with the feeder throughout the working width of the needling machine.

Abstract: Apparatus for the production of fixed point multifilament yarns with a whirling unit provided with a passage (15) through which the filaments to be whirled are driven and whirled together as at least one blasting nozzle injects gas into said passage. To obtain high filament feed rates and provide for the desired fixed points the blasting nozzle is in the form of a De Laval nozzle (20) whose jet is directed at an angle or perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the passage (15).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for guiding a body into the ground by means of a single hammer acted on by a reaction mass which is driven by a double-acting piston-cylinder unit via a controlled, periodically changing stream of pressure medium and which generates forces which act on the body in its longitudinal direction, the body being driven by first causing the pressure stream to have an approximately sinusoidally pulsating form for imparting a vibratory movement to the hammer, and then, when the speed with which the body is being driven into the ground decreases below a given minimum value, causing the pressure medium to drive the reaction mass according to a periodic, approximately unsteady displacement-time function for imparting a hammering movement to the hammer, while, during such hammering movement, simultaneously monitoring the hammering energy being generated.

Abstract: An inflatable wader tree receivable in the upper opening of footwear, such as fishing waders, and shaped, when inflated, to sealingly engage and distend the upper portion of footwear, an air inlet for inflating the tree, and mechanism for distending the lower portion of the footwear, when the tree is inflated, including an outlet in the lower portion of the inflatable tree for passing air from the inflatable tree to the lower footwear portion.

Abstract: Corduroy cutting machine, including a shaft, a multiplicity of circular knives laterally aligned on the shaft, a cutting edge associated with the knives, a plurality of needles having points and longitudinal slots formed therein and being insertible against a given travel direction of a web of material into floating wefts of the material to be cut open, each of the needles being immersible into one of the slots, a contact table disposed beneath the points of the needles, a switch for stopping the machine being actuatable by contact between the contact table and needles, a working surface being disposed upstream of the contact table in travel direction of the web of material on which the web of material can be fed from below, a feed cylinder disposed upstream of the working surface in travel direction of the web of material around which the web of material to be cut can be looped from below and fed past the contact table to the cutting edge, the working surface being defined by the needles, contact table and f

Abstract: A rotor for cutting the loops or surface of a fabric having a plurality of segmented blades interconnected together to form a helix which when used to cut the surface of a fabric does not cause a rowing effect in the surface. The cutting blades in adjacent rows are positioned to be between two blades on any one row.