Abstract: A spinning pack for wet spinning a tow having at least 20,000 bicomponent acrylic filaments is described. The pack includes a plurality of specially designed plates arranged so as to provide filaments having a substantially uniform distribution of the components along the entire length of each filament and from filament to filament.

Abstract: A method for stretching a tow of filaments wherein the tow is passed under tension through a chamber, the chamber having openings at the ends thereof for passage of the tow, and streams of heated liquid are forced transversely through the tow at the chamber openings at a critical minimum rate at least as great asx = 3,000T.sqroot.(WN/h(.mu./.rho.)where x is the heated liquid flow rate in gallons per minute through each opening, T is the thickness of the streams of heated liquid in inches at said openings, W is the width of the openings and the liquid streams in inches, h is the height or thickness in inches that the tow is free to assume in passing through the openings, N is the number of filaments in the tow, .mu. is the viscosity of the heated liquid in pounds per foot-second and .rho. is the density of the heated liquid in pounds per cubic foot.