Abstract: The invention relates to a device for manufacturing spun-bonded webs with a nozzle arrangement which spins out warps of yarns. The device according to the invention has a longitudinally-extended duct for generating a gas current which transports the yarns in the duct, and a depositing chamber with an air-permeable deposit belt for deposition of the yarns. The deposit chamber (9) surrounds the conveyor belt (2) in the deposition area of the yarns, and is in the form of a gas-tight casing (9), the width of which is greater than the width of the deposit belt. By means of the casing, a greater degree of vacuum may be used to generate the gas current, and thus the yarns are more intensively drawn. Furthermore, undesirable turbulence of the yarns at the edges of the deposit belt is reduced, and an improvement is achieved in the web structure in these areas.

Abstract: There are proposed a method and a device for manufacturing polyamides, in which polyamide granulate manufactured by polycondensation in the molten mass is after-condensed in the solid phase, being heated. The polyamide granulate is heated in one step to a first temperature of between 70.degree. C. and 150.degree. C., and held for a predetermined period of time at this temperature, and then, in a second step, is heated to a second higher temperature, however lying beneath the melting point, and is after-condensed at this temperature, until the desired average degree of polycondensation is achieved.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for the continuous crystallization of plastic granules, particularly amorphous plastic granules, in which the granules are introduced into a container and form a granule bed, which is moved downwards by the action of gravity. A hot gas is passed as a primary gas in a countercurrent manner through the granule bed. The granules are kept moving by a stirrer. There is also a gas supply for a secondary gas, which introduces the secondary gas at high speed at several points distributed over the cross-section of the container into the upper area of the granule bed.

Abstract: An apparatus for delivering and depositing groups of continuous threads or filaments, which are conveyed by means of a gas flow and which are introduced substantially parallel into a passage having a corresponding cross-section is proposed, the gas flow accompanying the threads upon entering the upper part of the passage is accelerated to high speed and is then decelerated and the threads are deposited on a moving depositing surface. The gas flow delivering the threads flows at high speed through the passage preferably provided with parallel walls and then is decelerated by the suction of part of the gas in the lower passage area laterally through openings in the passage walls.