Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing a synthetic continuous filament textured yarn is disclosed, and wherein the yarn is wetted prior to entering the texturizing nozzle. To effect a uniform and controllable wetting, the yarn is passed over a guide surface so that the filaments are laterally spread apart, and a jet of water is directed onto the advancing yarn from a direction opposing the guide surface.

Abstract: A winding apparatus which includes a plurality of yarn supply package stations for holding a plurality of packages of multifilament yarn, a processing station for receiving yarns from the yarn supply packages and processing the yarn, and a take-up package. The improvement comprises a yarn randomizing device positioned downstream from the supply packages and upstream from the processing station for intermixing filaments within a single yarn and among the plurality of yarns in a random and irregular manner before delivery of the yarns to the processing station thereby preventing patterning in the processed yarn, such as a rotating roller having threads thereon for reciprocating the yarns from one side of the roller to the other.

Abstract: A yarn texturing system employing an air jet yarn treating device which is supplied air under pressure which is automatically controlled upon start-up and shut-down of the yarn texturing system.

Abstract: A continuous, high speed (greater than 800 meters per minute) process and apparatus enable the production of a multifilament carpet yarn having a degree of filament intermixture high enough so that a standard deviation of less than 6.0 results upon conducting a Standard Yarn Streak Potential Test, as described herein. The apparatus and process allow the production of a multicolored carpet yarn which exhibits a reduced tendency to streak and an increased retention of tip definition.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing a slub yarn from a filament yarn, in which the starting yarn is propelled by an air stream at a first rate and made to impinge on a liquid (water) surface, whereby the yarn is opened to individual single filaments which entangle and fold with each other to form a thicker portion in the yarn body, while being held in a slack condition in the water and finally withdrawn therefrom at a second rate lower than the first rate. The water is preferably whirled to form a vortex. Interlacing of the yarn after withdrawal from the water is also preferable to strengthen the yarn structure.

Abstract: A substantially twist-free, crimped, continuous, multifilament yarn containing randomly-spaced, tightly entangled nubs and the process and apparatus used for making such yarns is disclosed. The nub yarn is made by feeding a substantially entanglement-free, multifilament, crimped, continuous yarn through a forwarding jet, through an aspirating entanglement jet where nubs are formed and passing the yarn through a loop guide. The nubs of the yarn are less than one inch in length and the yarn is useful in textile and carpet end uses.

Abstract: A substantially twist-free, crimped, continuous, multifilament yarn containing randomly-spaced, tightly entangled nubs and the process and apparatus used for making such yarns is disclosed. The nub yarn is made by feeding a substantially entanglement-free multifilament crimped continuous yarn through a forwarding jet, through an aspirating entanglement jet where nubs are formed and passing the yarn through a loop guide. The nubs of the yarn are less than one inch in length and the yarn is useful in textile and carpet end uses.

Abstract: Apparatus for the effective manufacturing of bulk yarn employing fluid and comprising two assembled blocks of simple geometric form. The apparatus is characterized by a yarn path part having a polygonal cross section which is defined by planes arranged in the yarn-travelling direction. A part of the yarn path part, however, is provided with a fluid-jetting opening and is constructed with a different cross-section. That part, the yarn-treating section, is defined by curved faces and planes having a cross-section larger than that of the polygonal cross-section of the yarn path part. The bottom part of the yarn treating section has a curved face with said fluid-jetting opening therein, a separate covering part encloses the yarn path part to tunnel-like member.

Abstract: An air jet nozzle is disclosed which is adapted for imparting entanglements to continuous filament synthetic yarns. The nozzle includes a body member having a yarn passageway therethrough, and a transverse air inlet channel which communicates with the yarn passageway. A yarn threading slot is provided along the length of the yarn passageway for permitting a running yarn to be introduced laterally into the passageway, and a closure plate is mounted so as to be disposed in and substantially close the slot at the periphery of the yarn passageway. The closure plate serves to avoid any disruption of the air currents and thus the entangling process which may otherwise be caused by the presence of the yarn threading slot.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a moving multicavity texturing method for simultaneously texturing filaments which are commingled to form a yarn. The yarn readily knits producing a fabric which upon subsequent dyeing and shrinking produces a variable textured fabric similar in appearance to fabrics knit from natural fibers.

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: This invention discloses a yarn, and method and apparatus for making it, composed of a core component having yarn strength wrapped clockwise and counter-clockwise by wrapper components, wherein the core has a sinuous configuration and contains a greater length per unit of yarn length than the wrapper components. Optionally, the core component may be a newly texturized multi-filament yarn, wrapped according to this invention before being subjected to significant tension, thereby preserving much of the bulk that would otherwise be lost in winding or other tensioning of the texturized core in unwrapped condition.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a moving multicavity texturing apparatus for simultaneously texturing filaments which are commingled to form a yarn. The yarn readily knits producing a fabric which upon subsequent dyeing and shrinking produces a variable textured fabric similar in appearance to fabrics knit from natural fibers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing novelty yarn with an unusual configuration. An effect yarn is fed to a novelty yarn jet, and a core yarn is fed to a different yarn port in the same jet, the core yarn being maintained substantially taut. The combined core and effect novelty yarn is taken up from the jet and periodically (preferably pseudo-randomly) a pronounced variation in linear density is provided in the combined yarn. This linear density variation is accomplished by introducing a first fluid pulse into the jet at a first position to form a loop in the effect yarn, which loop extends substantially coincident with a portion of the core yarn, and then utilizing a second fluid pulse at a spaced position from the first pulse to impart a spiraling and/or rotating action to the loop of effect yarn to wind the effect yarn around the core yarn.

Abstract: Method for producing an interlaced multifilament yarn comprising previously rubbing and scratching a material multifilament yarn with an intensity such that the individual filaments constituting the multifilament yarn are not substantially broken by a rotary rough surface member having sharp projections which are smaller than the cross-sectional diameter of the individual filament of the multifilament yarn; then diffusing at least one jetted fluid, each 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 section with the supply conduit being fixed with respect to the members defining the yarn passage; and then 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 which is substantially parallel to a plane defined by the yarn running dir

Abstract: The temperature of a heating fluid used in a yarn crimping zone is controlled in response to whether a yarn plug is detected at a predetermined point, and in another embodiment a fluid is heated, passed to a yarn heating zone and a yarn is heated in the zone in response to whether the yarn is being wound in a yarn winding zone.

Abstract: Method for producing an interlaced multifilament yarn comprising previously rubbing and scratching a material multifilament yarn with an intensity such that the individual filaments constituting the multifilament yarn are not substantially broken by a rotary rough surface member having sharp projections which are smaller than the cross-sectional diameter of the individual filaments of the multifilament yarn; then diffusing at least one jetted fluid, each jetted in the yarn running direction along a predetermined yarn passage from a jetting aperture of a supply conduit; and then 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 which is substantially parallel to a plane defined by the yarn running direction and the fluid jetting direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing interlaced multifilament yarn having an improved configuration is disclosed. When a material yarn is treated by an interlacing apparatus provided with an interlacing nozzle wherein a hollow longitudinal space is formed therein and a jetted fluid is introduced into the hollow longitudinal space, the jet fluid is directed to an axis of the passage of a running yarn in the longitudinal space along a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the yarn passage in such a condition that the jet fluid is diffused to a direction along the yarn passage. Accordingly, the individual filaments of the running yarn are vibrated about the axis of the running yarn passage, mainly along a plane defined by the axis of the yarn passage and the axis of a fluid conduit for supplying the jet fluid. According to such effective vibration of the individual filaments, a very stable interlaced configuration of the individual filaments can be created.

Abstract: Apparatus to provide a novel false twisted slub yarn by combining a core yarn and an effect yarn in a fluid tangling zone. The linear velocity of the effect yarn is raised to allow slubs to be produced in the combined yarn in an air jet apparatus. A baffle cage is used to prevent yarn from the air jet from interferring with adjacent air jets when an end comes down.

Abstract: A process for making yarns bulked in a hot fluid jet more uniform in bulk comprises cooling the hot and bulked yarn on a moving screen with a water mist followed by passing the wet yarn under a tension of 0.01-0.05 gpd through a turbulent forwarding jet of steam and then through a cooling stream of air which impinges perpendicularly on the yarn while the yarn is moving under slightly greater tension of about 0.02-0.15 gpd and then wound up under normal packaging tension.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing novelty yarn with an unusual configuration. An effect yarn is fed to a novelty yarn jet, and a core yarn is fed to a different yarn port in the same jet, the core yarn being maintained substantially taut. The combined core and effect novelty yarn is taken up from the jet and periodically (preferably pseudo-randomly) a pronounced variation in linear density is provided in the combined yarn. This linear density variation is accomplished by introducing a first fluid pulse into the jet at a first position to form a loop in the effect yarn, which loop extends substantially coincident with a portion of the core yarn, and then utilizing a second fluid pulse at a spaced position from the first pulse to impart a spiraling and/or rotating action to the loop of effect yarn to wind the effect yarn around the core yarn.

Abstract: A process is provided for space dyeing synthetic yarn in which the synthetic yarn, such as polyester yarn, wound upon a yarn package, is first treated by immersing the ends of the package into a solution of at least one sublimatable ink, thereby dyeing the yarn located at the ends of the package but leaving the yarn at the center of the package undyed, and then at least two ends from at least two such packages are passed through otherwise conventional drawing and texturizing apparatus. Each yarn so fed is intermittently dyed and undyed along its length, the color strength near the dye boundaries being attenuated and muted due to sublimation of the inks and diffusion and migration of the dyes through the yarn ends and into the package. By utilizing at least two feed yarn packages in such process having significantly different diameters and different colored ends thereof, very highly random dyeing effects are achieved in a knitted or woven fabric produced from such yarns.

Abstract: Multi-filament thermoplastic bounce crimped yarns having improved fiber-fiber coherency and intermediate non-entangled yarns and methods and apparatus for making such yarns. The process is characterized by the use of a novel bounce crimper which produces a bounce crimped yarn substantially free of filament loops and filament entanglement which is then fluid vortex interlaced to produce a very fiber-fiber coherent yarn.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for handling textile yarn strands in which textile yarn strands subjected to a heat treating operation are continuously directed from the heat treating apparatus by a stream of air through an oscillating tube onto a moving conveyor belt to deposit and accumulate the yarn strand thereon in a substantially tensionless condition for cooling. The yarn strand is removed from the accumulated yarn on the belt surface in a direction generally parallel to the surface and to the direction of movement of the accumulated yarn thereon to minimize tangling of the yarn, and the strand is subjected to a cooling air stream directed oppositely to its direction of movement to detangle the same prior to collection on a package. The speed of yarn package take up is controlled by means of a photoelectric sensing device located above the conveyor belt to sense the amount of yarn accumulated on the belt, and to ensure that a predetermined amount of yarn is maintained on the belt during the cooling operation.

Abstract: A method of producing commercially usable textured synthetic multifilament yarn from commercially produced undrawn multifilament synthetic yarn of a type which has normally a limited operational life and which has exceeded the normal operational life for undrawn yarn in which the overage undrawn yarn is fed continuously without pause through two discrete successive treatments with hot fluid at a temperature high enough to plasticize the yarn. The yarn is drawn to a chosen ratio of extension while it is passing through the first treatment with hot fluid. Next the yarn is jet textured while it is passing through the second treatment with hot fluid. The yarn may be subjected to a cooling action between the two successive treatments with hot fluid.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of texturized multifilamentary polyester yarn possessing a stable crimp, in which the yarn passes first through a crimping device comprising an injector where the yarn is subjected to a stream of hot fluid which separates the filaments, and thereafter through a stacking nozzle to cause crimping, characterized in that the fluid is fed in at a temperature below the second order transition temperature of the polyester yarn, which feeding temperature is usually between 95.degree. and 220.degree. C., and in that the stack, after it issues from the nozzle is kept in the compressed state, subjected in this state to a high pressure of the order of 20 to 200 kg/cm.sup.2, and kept at ambient temperature or subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature below the second order transition temperature of the polyester yarn, which is usually at a temperature of up to about 220.degree. C., for a period of time ranging from one minute to 150 minutes.

Abstract: The invention is related to a process for the production of staple-fibre-like textured continuous filament yarns by interlacing and false-twisting, wherein a partly drawn filament is heat-treated before the texturing process, this filament is subsequently interlaced with a non shrunken filament and both are finally subjected to draw texturing.

Abstract: The temperature of a heating fluid used in a yarn crimping zone is controlled in response to whether a yarn plug is detected at a predetermined point, and in another embodiment a fluid is heated, passed to a yarn heating zone and a yarn is heated in the zone in response to whether the yarn is being wound in a yarn winding zone.

Abstract: A jet tangler is provided having a sharply angled passageway for the yarn and having a special air passageway arrangement which minimizes or substantially eliminates the aspiration effect encountered in jet tanglers of the prior art, especially at low tension. The tangler operates efficiently at low or high yarn tension, on texturized or as-produced yarn.

Abstract: A straightened, textured yarn is produced employing an apparatus comprising a crimping means, an entangling means and a heating and tensioning means which heats and applies tension to the crimped and entangled yarn prior to packaging.

Abstract: Apparatus and process for thermal treatment of thermoplastic polymer multifile filaments embodying at least one stuffing chamber for forming at least one multifile filament into at least one tightly coherently packed filamentary body, feeding one or more of said filamentary bodies onto gas-permeable, slowly rotating drum on which it or they are conveyed in a side-by-side, spiral orientation by the rotating drum while a fluid, e.g., air is drawn through the filamentary bodies, said filamentary bodies being conveyed from the stuffing chamber at a constant rate and being deflected at a predetermined pitch angle before or during initial contact with the drum surface.

Abstract: A plurality of synthetic fibrous textile materials such as polymeric yarns and staple fibers are textured by a procedure which imparts a variety of spaced deformations in a random sequence. The fibrous textile materials are fed between two opposed pressure surfaces, one of which has a raised pattern of closely spaced pyramids while the other is made of a resilient material having a meshing pattern of pyramid shaped depressions. The textile material is maintained at an elevated temperature during its passage between the pressure surfaces and is then cooled to give a permanently textured product.

Abstract: An apparatus for interlacing or entangling continuous multifilament synthetic yarn wherein the yarn to be interlaced is fed along a feed path through a yarn feed bore to a jet nozzle member defining with a surrounding housing and an outlet tube member a shaped turbulence chamber within the housing at the exit of the yarn feed bore in the nozzle member. The jet nozzle member has one or more jet passages directing fluid from a pressurized air chamber into the turbulence chamber along jet axes inclined to the yarn feed axis and offset sidewise in nonintersecting relation thereto to produce interlocking entanglements of filaments of the yarn during passage therethrough.

Abstract: Process for the production of a crimped metal-coated continuous-filament or a crimped yarn of a plurality of metal-coated filaments which filament or yarn is adapted for combination with other filaments to form an improved yarn for use in making anti-static fabrics, such as pile carpets or the like, wherein the continuous-filament or yarn comprising a plurality of filaments is first made into a knitted fabric, the fabric is treated to deposit a continuous metal coating on the filament or yarn thereof, and the coated fabric thus obtained is deknitted, thereby yielding the metal-coated continuous-filament or yarn in a crimped disposition characteristic of the knitted loop construction existing in the knit fabric. Heat treatment of the crimped filament or yarn after the metal-coating step significantly improves its anti-static properties when incorporated into fabric.

Abstract: A low denier, high tenacity poly(ethylene terephthalate) fibrillated tape yarn particularly suited for conversion into a sewing thread which exhibits excellent sewing performance is produced by intimately mixing poly(ethylene terephthalate) polymer with from about 0.1 to 20 percent polypropylene based on the weight of poly(ethylene terephthalate), extruding the polymer mixture in the form of a tape through a slit die having a modified entry port wherein the depth of the slit is greater at both ends than at the middle, at a melt draw down of from about 26:1 to about 75:1, quenching said tape, hot drawing said tape in two stages wherein said tape is initially hot drawn to a draw ratio of from about 3.3 to about 4.2 while being subjected to a temperature of from about 80.degree. to about 140.degree. C, thereafter hot drawing to a total draw ratio of about 5.0 while heated to a temperature about 160 degrees and thereafter subjecting the tape to fibrillation.

Abstract: A continuous synthetic filament yarn is processed by crimping, entangling, and straightening the yarn. The yarn is straightened by heating under tension, resulting in a yarn that can be used in its straightened form and later bulked by a subsequent process such as dyeing, boiling, heating, etc. The length of a yarn plug formed by crimping is controlled by controlling the temperature of the yarn.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing novelty yarn with an unusual configuration. An effect yarn is fed to a novelty yarn jet, and a core yarn is fed to a different yarn port in the same jet, the core yarn being maintained substantially taut. The combined core and effect novelty yarn is taken up from the jet and periodically (preferably pseudo-randomly) a pronounced variation in linear density is provided in the combined yarn. This linear density variation is accomplished by introducing a first fluid pulse into the jet at a first position to form a loop in the effect yarn, which loop extends substantially coincident with a portion of the core yarn, and then utilizing a second fluid pulse at a spaced position from the first pulse to impart a spiraling and/or rotating action to the loop of effect yarn to wind the effect yarn around the core yarn.