Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating and winding pre-treated yarn, for example, tire cord, the method comprising two stages. In a first stage, a coated and heat-set fabric, constituted of longitudinally running warp cords and laterally running picks interlaced with the warp cords, is subdivided into a plurality of elongate tapes, each tape having a lesser number of warp cords than the fabric and picks of reduced linear extent. The tapes are then wound into respective packages. In the second stage, the tapes are unwound and divided each into a plurality of independent warp cords free from the picks. The warp cords are then wound into respective packages.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing either bulked continuous filament or spun staple yarn in one continuous operation are disclosed. In the method, a first single end of either continuous filament or spun staple yarn is ballooned about and plied with a like second single end of yarn while both are under tension and advancing at a common linear speed. A higher tension is utilized during the plying operation. The plied yarn is then subjected to heat while the tension is relaxed, followed by a cooling and drying stage, to enable the yarn to be twist-set in a bulked condition, with the component single ends substantially free of any twist memory. This abstract is not to be taken either as a complete exposition or as a limitation of the present invention, however, the full nature and extent of the invention being discernible only by reference to and from the entire disclosure.