By Direct Fluid Application To Chamber Plug Patents (Class 28/267)
  • Patent number: 11518124
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wrinkled net includes the step of guiding a net body between two opposed first rollers where the first rollers are rotated to primarily wrinkle the net body, the step of guiding the net body in between two second rollers where the second rollers are rotated to pressurize the net body and heat is generated by friction between the second rollers and the net body to soften the net body, the step of collecting the softened net body in a container where portions of the softened net body are squeezed against one another, and the step of releasing the wrinkled net body from the container after a predetermined period of time in which the portions of the softened the net body are squeezed against one another in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: OLIVETTE INDUSTRIES, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Che-Yuan Chang
  • Publication number: 20140366348
    Abstract: A crimping apparatus for crimping a filament bundle in a melt spinning process includes a conveyor nozzle and a stuffer box which is associated with the conveyor nozzle. For thermal processing, a processing unit, which includes a rotatable processing drum which, for guiding and temperature control of a thread plug, has a rotating drum wall, is disposed downstream of the stuffer box. In order to be able to carry out as gentle a processing of the thread plug as possible, the stuffer box is disposed axially parallel to the processing drum in such a manner that the thread plug can be infed in a straight run from a plug outlet of the stuffer box to the circumference of the drum wall. This allows the naturally acting weight force of the thread plug to be advantageously used for guiding the thread plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jan Westphal, Mathias Stündl, Claus Matthies
  • Publication number: 20140317895
    Abstract: A method and a device for crimping a multifilament thread are described. The thread is blown by means of a transport nozzle through a compressed air stream guided in a thread channel into a gas-permeable compression chamber. Inside the compression chamber, the thread is compressed to form a thread plug, which is then continuously removed through an outlet of the compression chamber. The compression and the removal of the thread plug are monitored by measuring the pressure of the compressed air stream. According to the invention, a plurality of pressures of the compressed air stream in the compression chamber are measured at a plurality of measurement points distributed over the length of the compression chamber for monitoring the thread plug formation in order to perform the compressing and cooling of the thread plug with a uniform filling of the compression chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GMBH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Mathias Stündl, Claus Matthies, Christian Hubert
  • Patent number: 7270777
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a high-strength and low-shrinkage synthetic flat yarn. After melt spinning, the filaments are combined to a yarn and drawn. Subsequently, the yarn is compressed to form a plug under the influence of heat. This plug is transported over a certain distance, so that the yarn relaxes in a low-tension state and under the influence of the increased temperature. Finally the plug is disentangled under tension to form the flat yarn, which is wound into a package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Saurer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Becker
  • Patent number: 7168141
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for stuffer box crimping a multifilament yarn consisting of one or more fiber bundles, wherein a conveying fluid is introduced into a yarn channel via a plurality of fluid feed channels, with each channel carrying a partial flow. The yarn is pneumatically taken into the yarn channel, and guided, and possibly twisted in the yarn channel by the conveying fluid, and subsequently advanced into a stuffer box chamber. Inside the stuffer box chamber, the yarn is formed into a plug which is compressed and advanced, with the conveying fluid emerging from the stuffer box chamber through side openings. To influence the actions of the conveying fluid on the yarn within the yarn channel, at least one of the fluid feed channels is configured such that the partial flows of the conveying fluid are introduced from the fluid feed channels into the yarn channel under the action of different overpressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Saurer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Mathias Stündl, Stefan Kalies
  • Patent number: 7155787
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for stuffer box crimping a multifilament yarn, wherein the yarn being processed is pneumatically advanced by means of a conveying fluid into a stuffer box chamber and compacted to a yarn plug, with the conveying fluid leaving the stuffer box chamber through openings and being removed by suction. To be able to influence the yarn plug formation mainly by the suction stream, the invention provides for constructing the source of vacuum as an injector, which connects to a source of pressure via a pressure connection and to a suction line via a suction connection that precedes in the direction of the flow. As a result, the suction stream of the conveying fluid is generated by a compressed air stream, with the compressed air stream and the suction stream being jointly discharged as a common airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Saurer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Mathias Stündl
  • Patent number: 6826813
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for stuffer box crimping a multifilament yarn, wherein the yarn is conveyed into a crimping device in two steps. In the first step, the yarn is taken in by a conveying fluid stream of a first feed nozzle at a yarn intake speed. In the second step the yarn is advanced by a conveying fluid stream of a second feed nozzle at a second yarn conveying speed into the crimping device. In this process, the second yarn conveying speed is at least the same as or greater than the intake speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Saurer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Koslowski, Klaus Schafer
  • Patent number: 6718603
    Abstract: A method for crimping yarn wherein the yarn is fed into a compaction channel of a stuffer box to obtain uniform crimping, and the crimped yarn is pre-set and guided to the outlet of the stuffer box by a pre-setting fluid. A pre-setting and guiding chamber of the stuffer box has a cross-section of generally polygonal shape that is larger than that of the compaction channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Superba (SA)
    Inventor: Philippe Massotte
  • Publication number: 20040031134
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for stuffer box crimping a multifilament yarn, wherein the yarn is conveyed into a crimping device in two steps. In the first step, the yarn is taken in by a conveying fluid stream of a first feed nozzle at a yarn intake speed. In the second step the yarn is advanced by a conveying fluid stream of a second feed nozzle at a second yarn conveying speed into the crimping device. In this process, the second yarn conveying speed is at least the same as or greater than the intake speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Applicant: Barmag AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Koslowski, Klaus Schafer
  • Patent number: 6543106
    Abstract: The invention provides an air opening jet for use in a process for making a rectangular structure made from a tow of fibers, such air opening jet including a housing, an air jet for moving the tow through the housing and opening the tow, and an accumulating chamber that includes at least one, and preferably two, perforated plates located in the path of the moving tow, and an air control arrangement for controlling the flow of air so that the moving tow is urged into engagement with the perforated plates to retard movement of the tow and cause it to properly accumulate in the accumulation chamber. The invention also includes methods for using the air opening jet apparatus to produce multi-tow band products, and products produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Celanese Acetate, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Ames, Ricky Lee Kenley, Edward J. Powers, William West, William T. Wygand, Jean-Claude Abed, Bobby R. Lomax
  • Patent number: 6385827
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for texturing yarns that encompasses, after stopping the moving yarns during normal operations, increasing the opening size of the outlet of the stuffer box, and injecting a fluid through the interior of the stuffer box. The fluid entrains some of the yarns remaining within the interior of the stuffer box to move at least a portion of the yarns outside of the stuffer box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Shaw Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Brad L. Stewart, Doyle Thomas, Shane King
  • Patent number: 6253431
    Abstract: The invention provides an air opening jet for use in a process for making a rectangular structure made from a tow of fibers, such air opening jet including a housing, an air jet for moving the tow through the housing and opening the tow, and an accumulating chamber that includes at least one, and preferably two, perforated plates located in the path of the moving tow, and an air control arrangement for controlling the flow of air so that the moving tow is urged into engagement with the perforated plates to retard movement of the tow and cause it to properly accumulate in the accumulation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Celanese Acetate LLC
    Inventors: Todd Ames, William West, Ricky Kenley, William T. Wygand, Edward J. Powers
  • Patent number: 6088891
    Abstract: A device for crimping synthetic thread bundles or strips has a machine frame, two rollers supported in a machine frame and forming between their jacket a narrow roller gap for delivering a thread bundle or strip, with the first roller provided on its face ends with edge disks which embrace the second roller with slight play and form there, between an annular channel, the edge disks having inside faces forming two opposed boundary faces, a compression chamber having a rectangular cross-section, enclosed by boundary faces, and located in the annular channel between the edge disks, an outer adapter contacting the second roller in scrapper like fashion, engaging the annular channel and having a wall face oriented toward the first roller and forming a third boundary face of the compression chamber, and drive mechanisms provided for the two rollers and having motors which are designed for a circumferential speed of the rollers of up to at least 1,000 m/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Neumag - Neumuenstersche Maschinen - und Anlagenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Cohrt, Stephan Rickerts, Carsten Voigtlaeder
  • Patent number: 5601765
    Abstract: Crimped fibres of solvent-spun cellulose are made and checked for damage in a method in which:i) cellulose is dissolved in an amine oxide solvent to form a hot cellulose solution,ii) the hot cellulose solution is extruded through a die assembly to form a tow of continuous filaments,iii) the tow is passed through a water bath to leach out the amine oxideiv) the tow is crimped by passing through a stuffer box in which it is compressed to apply crimp,v) dry steam being injected into the stuffer box during the crimping process, andvi) the crimped tow leaving the stuffer box is passed through detection means in whichvii) a beam is projected across the path of travel of the tow and is received by receiving means on the opposite side of the tow, the receiving means being calibrated to initiate a signal if obscurement of the beam by the tow varies beyond a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Courtaulds Fibres (Holdings) Limited
    Inventors: Alan Sellars, Ronald D. Payne, Penny E. Letts, Neville P. Bluckert
  • Patent number: 5591388
    Abstract: Staple fibres of solvent-spun cellulose are made by a method in which:i) cellulose is dissolved in an amine oxide solvent to form a hot cellulose solution,ii) the hot cellulose solution is extruded through a die assembly to form a tow of continuous filaments,iii) the tow is passed through a water bath to leach out the amine oxide,iv) the tow is crimped by passing through a stuffer box in which it is compressed to apply crimp,v) dry steam being injected into the stuffer box during the crimping process, andvi) the crimped tow is passed to a cutter and cut to the desired fibre length. An apparatus is also provided in which the staple fibres can be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Courtaulds Fibres (Holdings) Limited
    Inventors: Alan Sellars, Patrick A. White, Philip I. Robinson
  • Patent number: 5485662
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for crimping fiber, especially polypropylene fiber, includes feeding a tow through driven rolls into a stuffer box. Heat, in the form of steam, is applied to the tow prior to the rolls. The stuffer box includes doctor blades for cooling the tow. The doctor blades include a leading tip portion, through which compressed air is fed over the tow, and a trailing section including at least one internal compartment for a cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Hercules Incorporated
    Inventors: Ray W. Hodges, Jr., Shiv Sibal
  • Patent number: 5419023
    Abstract: An apparatus for crimping continuous tow of textile material and application of the finish to the crimped continuous tow, including a pair of rollers and a stuffer box chamber having two regions therein. In particular, the stuffer box chamber has a first region for crimping the tow and a larger second region for application of a finish to the tow. Using the novel apparatus to crimp the tow and apply finish thereto, improves adherence of the finish to the tow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corporation
    Inventors: Roland L. Hawkins, Lotfy L. Saleh
  • Patent number: 5187845
    Abstract: A method of producing crimped tow by continuously feeding a tow against an adjustable counter pressure means; the tow is maintained at an average predetermined thickness and steam enters the chamber and is exhausted from the chamber in a manner to provide uniform heating of the tow to provide a fiber that is uniformly annealed as determined by measuring light reflectance for yarn dyed with a structural sensitive Milling Blue "B" dye or shrinkage uniformity determined by thermal analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Joseph J. Duffy, Jerry F. Potter, Elwood A. Roth, Kalika R. Samant, Maurice C. Todd
  • Patent number: 5088168
    Abstract: A yarn texturing apparatus is disclosed which includes a nozzle having a yarn duct therethrough, and a perforated stuffer box at the outlet end of the duct. Heated air is introduced into the duct, and the air is heated by a heater which is positioned in the air supply line leading to the nozzle. The output of the heater is controlled by a temperature sensor which is positioned inside the stuffer box. Also, the nozzle comprises two confronting sections which can be separated to facilitate yarn thread-up, and a valve is provided in the supply line to divert the heated air to an exhaust line when the nozzle is opened. A second temperature sensor is positioned in the supply line and is operative when the nozzle is opened to regulate the output of the heater and avoid large fluctuations of its output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Barmag AG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Berger, Klaus Burkhardt, Klaus Gerhards, Hans-Peter Eck
  • Patent number: 4956901
    Abstract: A layered yarn package is formed of continuous filament yarn wads wherein the yarn alternates between compacted an extended lengths by axially compacting the yarn into a length, segmenting the length into alternating extended and compacted lengths then arranging the compacted lengths in a common axial direction one next to the other to form a layer. The layer may be compressed. One or more layers may form the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Joseph E. Koskol, Robert J. Santucci, Louis G. Rosanio, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4854020
    Abstract: Filament cables are crimped and the crimp cake of the filament cable obtained is passed over a gas permeable screen plate while gas flows to the bottom of the cake from flow through the screen plate so that the cake can be moved over the plate without making contact therewith or with reduced contact force and can be treated during its residence over the screen plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfram Wagner, Dieter Paulini, Peter Widder
  • Patent number: 4811441
    Abstract: A tool for cutting a hose to length and for inserting a fitting into the end of a hose is provided. The tool includes a base which mounts a slide member for reciprocal movement therealong. The slide mounts a knife and a fitting member die, and is actuated by a handle connected by a linkage thereto. The base includes a notch to support a hose for cutting by the blade, and a support and bar engaging cam to retain the hose is positioned to have a fitting inserted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Stride Tool Inc., a New York Corporation
    Inventor: Richard E. Potesta
  • Patent number: 4316312
    Abstract: This invention relates to method and apparatus to intermittently apply a treating fluid to a wad of yarn in a texturing device comprising intermittently injecting the fluid under pressure into at least one port at the texturing device and impregnating the yarn with the fluid for a period long enough for the fluid to coat, react, or bond with the yarn. Continuous injection can be used for chemically reactive agents, which do not affect yarn coloration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1982
    Assignee: Allied Corporation
    Inventors: Dick C. Vermeer, Raymond J. Biron
  • Patent number: 4315355
    Abstract: Textile strands are dyed while being bulked or crimped by lengthwise compression. The dyestuff advantageously is supplied in finely divided liquid or preferably solid form and is injected, as by aspiration or by positive pressure methods, into fluid hot enough to vaporize it before such fluid together with such dyestuff comes into contact with strand so treated. Such strand, forwarded with or by flow of hot propellant fluid into a foraminous region in which the strand is confined laterally but from which the fluid may escape except where the strand is compressed into a compact mass, is exposed to the dyestuff by permeation with such fluid. Lateral escape of the propellant fluid is effected, preferably before such exposure, and is utilized to control an operating condition, such as temperature of strand input into and/or speed of removal of strand from the chamber, for improved uniformity of dyeing and bulking or crimping of the strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Assignee: Techniprises Limited
    Inventor: Robert K. Stanley
  • Patent number: 4268940
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for controlling a filament pad in the stuffing chamber of a pneumatic crimper and for imparting an improved filament cohesion to the crimped filament yarn within said crimper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1981
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Toshimasa Kuroda, Mitsuo Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 4258457
    Abstract: Synthetic thermoplastic fibers are produced by drawing the fibers, applying a finishing agent to the drawn fibers, and crimping the fibers in the presence of steam in a crimping zone wherein there are present a defined first region of low but increasing steam pressure, a defined second region of substantially constant, relatively high steam pressure, and a defined third region of decreasing steam pressure. Superior crimped products are obtained having a more permanent bulkiness which resists deterioration during further processing and subsequent use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventors: James K. Hughes, Wayne K. Erickson
  • Patent number: 4221838
    Abstract: The crimped products are produced having a more permanent bulkiness which resists deterioration during further processing and subsequent use. Such products are disclosed having deposited on the surface of the fibers a thin coating of a finishing agent comprising distearyl dimethyl ammonium chloride. Such products can be produced by crimping in the presence of steam in a crimping zone wherein there are present a defined first region of low but increasing steam pressure, a defined second region of substantially constant, relatively high steam pressure, and a defined third region of decreasing steam pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventors: James K. Hughes, Wayne K. Erickson
  • Patent number: 4197622
    Abstract: Utilization of finish and recovery of materials for control of pollution are improved in a tow crimping process wherein an advancing tow of fibers which have been processed in an aqueous bath or series of aqueous baths is uniformly compressed in a confined space under a nip pressure of 600-1,000 lbs./in. to exude solvent-containing water from the tow, the exudate being returned to the last aqueous bath, a predetermined amount of finish is applied to the tow, the fibers are crimped in a stuffing box crimper whereby some of the finish and a small amount of residual moisture are exuded from the tow, the exudate is recovered and removed to a storage container, the exudate is re-applied to the tow at a rate corresponding to the rate of exudation and the crimped tow is collected and then dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1980
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Thomas D. Williamson
  • Patent number: 4158298
    Abstract: A device is provided for the continuous treatment of relatively wide textile webs in a treatment medium, wherein the web and the treatment medium move through a trough having squeezing rollers associated therewith for intensifying the treatment of the web with the treatment medium and wherein a funnel-shaped diffuser is disposed at the entrance end of the trough for introducing the web of material into the trough. The device includes squeezing means which are disposed adjacent to the diffuser means and which include a pair of coacting, rotatable squeeze rollers which define therebetween a squeezing nip disposed beneath the surface of the treatment medium and through which the web passes prior to introduction into the diffuser. Deflection means are also provided which are disposed adjacent to the discharge end of the nip of the rollers for facilitating removal of the web from engagement with the circumferential surface of the rollers and for guiding the web into the trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1979
    Assignee: Artos Dr.-Ing. Meier-Windhorst KG (GmbH & Co.)
    Inventor: Gerhard W. Bahre
  • Patent number: 4133087
    Abstract: Continuous filaments are fed by aspiration into a stream of heated fluid. The filaments are then contacted with at least a second stream of heated fluid to increase the temperature of the filaments. The combined streams of fluid containing the filaments are directed into contact with a barrier disposed within a chamber at a force sufficient to initiate crimping of the filaments. A major portion of the fluid is separated from the filaments and expelled from the chamber. The filaments are transported through the chamber by continuous movement of a surface therein at sufficient velocity to cause overfeeding of the filaments, whereby the filaments are forced against a mass thereof producing crimps therein. One or more streams of heated fluid are then contacted with the mass of filaments to set the crimps. The crimped filaments emerge from the chamber through an outlet opening therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: Allied Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hsin L. Li, Hendrikus J. Oswald, Alfred L. Liland
  • Patent number: 4115907
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for the continuous production of heat-set, crimped, thermoplastic filaments by passing a tow of filaments through a stuffer box crimper and then a heat setting device attached to the exit of the crimper. The tow in the crimping chamber is cooled to a temperature not exceeding 100.degree. C in order to separate the heat setting and crimping processes, whereby the crimp ratio may be varied by adjusting the temperature of the tow in the crimping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Ronald Lawson, David Watson
  • Patent number: 4040153
    Abstract: Yarn in the form of a yarn wad is passed to a cooling and restraining zone wherein the surfaces of a plurality of balls are pressed directly against the surface of the yarn wad and simultaneously the movement of the balls relative to the yarn wad is restricted so that the balls are prevented from entering the yarn wad and the yarn wad is restrained due to the action of the balls upon the yarn wad. In addition, apparatus is provided useful in the method of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventors: Charles S. Hatcher, Gary S. Atchley
  • Patent number: 4030169
    Abstract: Method of treating synthetic threads, particularly filament or foil threads comprises heating the threads up to the center of their cross-section, crimping the heated thread, forming the crimped threads into a wadding, heating and compressing the wadding to reduce its volume and thereafter cooling the compressed wadding. An apparatus for treating the yarn includes a continuous heating chamber which is arranged adjacent a cooling chamber. An apparatus is provided for feeding the yarn to be treated toward the heating chamber and for crimping the yarn preferably while it is heated and perhaps also stretched. Crimping may be carried on by directing the thread under a fluid force against a screen, by passing the thread between a pair of rollers which have crimping means or by a combination of the two and, in addition, stretching means may be provided to stretch the thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: Industriewerke Karlsruhe Augsburg Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Enneking, Gunter Schubert, Karl-Heinz Baumann