Abstract: Yarn drying and dye setting apparatus comprising an enclosure having an inlet for receiving a dyed yarn strand and an outlet for discharging the strand, a fan and heater for circulating heated air within the enclosure, a reel comprising a pair of spaced side wheels rotatably mounted in the enclosure on which the yarn strand is wound, a plurality of rods extending between the side wheels, and the rods being angularly related with respect to the axis of the reel to facilitate movement of the yarn along the rods during the drying and dye setting process.

Abstract: A continuously moving substantially horizontal yarn strand is dyed at spaced intervals by means of an oscillatable elongated tube disposed above and generally parallel to the yarn strand and having spaced apertures in its lower portion so that liquid dye supplied into said oscillatable tube is deposited by gravity onto the yarn strand from the apertures in the tube during oscillation of the tube about its horizontal axis.