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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7500295 | System, apparatus, and method of reducing production loss having a counterband A yarn system, apparatus, and methods of reducing production loss or increasing production speed in a continuous yarn production process are provided. A yarn conveyor receives a bundle of yarn, an oven heats the yarn, and a yarn cooler cools the yarn exiting the ove... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7318263 | Device for compression crimping The invention relates to a device for the compression crimping of a synthetic multifilament yarn, said device comprising a transport nozzle and a compression chamber. Said transport nozzle comprises a yarn channel by which means a yarn is guided to a compression cha... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7284306 | System, apparatus, and method of reducing production loss for textured yarn and other related methods A yarn texturizing system, apparatus, and methods of reducing production loss or increasing production speed in a continuous textured yarn production process are provided. The system includes a yarn supply, a yarn stuffing container to produce textured yarn periodic... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7249451 | Texturing and interlacing machine The machine comprises a texturing zone (12) trough which a covering yarn (22) advances; a feed unit (C) for an elastomer yarn (20); combining means to combine the textured covering yarn (22) with the elastomer yarn (20), said means... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7228604 | System, apparatus, and method of reducing production loss having compressor A yarn texturizing system, apparatus, and methods of reducing production loss or increasing production speed in a continuous textured yarn production process are provided. The system includes a yarn texturizer to texturize yarn, a chute positioned to receive and gui... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7185406 | Device and method for treating an elongated medium A device for treatment of an elongated medium with at least two first rotational bodies, which are pivoted around predefined rotational axes, whereby the rotational axes are essentially parallel to one another, with at least two second rotational bodies, which are p... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181817 | Method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite A method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite from continuous tow is disclosed. The method and apparatus includes the steps of or means for spreading a crimped tow; de-registering the crimped tow; shaping the de-registered tow to a substantially rectangul... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7152287 | System, apparatus, and method of reducing production loss for textured yarn and other related methods A yarn texturizing system, apparatus, and methods of reducing production loss or increasing production speed in a continuous textured yarn production process are provided. The system includes a yarn supply, a yarn stuffing container to produce textured yarn periodic... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7131172 | Textile machine texturing system and texturing nozzle therefor In a texturing system with a texturing nozzle and a first drum connected thereto and a further drum, a thread is guided on the outlet side of a texturing nozzle at the circumference of a drum in the form of a strip by friction and at least in part in positive manner... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127784 | Treatment of filament yarns to provide spun-like characteristics and yarns and fabrics produced thereby A process for forming a continuous filament yarn having the surface tactile character of a spun yarn. The process includes passing the cohesive yarn structure through the interior of a rotating sleeve member disposed in surrounding relation to the cohesive yarn stru... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7107659 | Method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite A method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite from continuous tow is disclosed. The method and apparatus includes the steps of or means for spreading a crimped tow; de-registering the crimped tow; shaping the de-registered tow to a substantially rectangul... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103946 | Method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite A method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite from continuous tow is disclosed. The method and apparatus includes the steps of or means for spreading a crimped tow; de-registering the crimped tow; shaping the de-registered tow to a substantially rectangul... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7093417 | Method for making rope Rope is made from one or more rolls of film. The rolls of film are loaded onto spindles and tension is applied to the free end of the film of each roll to dispense the films. The dispensing films are each constricted at a common focal point of tension to create subs... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7086130 | Apparatus and method for texturing a plurality of blended synthetic multifilament yarns An apparatus and a method for texturing blended synthetic multifilament yarns, wherein the blended yarns are each produced in parallel from a plurality of individual yarn components. The individual yarn components are withdrawn and drawn by a withdrawal means, with ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076848 | Method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite A method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite from continuous tow is disclosed. The method and apparatus includes the steps of or means for spreading a crimped tow; de-registering the crimped tow; shaping the de-registered tow to a substantially rectangul... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7059027 | Method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite A method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite from continuous tow is disclosed. The method and apparatus includes the steps of or means for spreading a crimped tow; de-registering the crimped tow; shaping the de-registered tow to a substantially rectangul... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7043804 | Method to produce improved polymeric yarn A process to produce a fully oriented polyester yarn from a POY polyester yarn by drawing the POY yarn at a high draw ratio in the range of 1.8–2.3. ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7020940 | Texturing yarn There is disclosed a method of texturing yarn products wherein the yarn product is passed along a predetermined yarn path through a liquid jet device applying a force to the yarn transversely to the axis thereof, comprising directing the liquid as it passes through ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6983520 | Method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite A method and apparatus for making an absorbent composite from continuous tow is disclosed. The method and apparatus includes the steps of or means for spreading a crimped tow; de-registering the crimped tow; shaping the de-registered tow to a substantially rectangul... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6942106 | Wound polypropylene yarn filter cartridge and method for making same A filter cartridge formed of wound polypropylene yarn lacking a spin-finish and method of making same are disclosed herein. The method includes the steps of: providing a filter core; providing a plurality of continuous polypropylene filaments; applying water to the ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6890166 | Spinning-drawing-texturing machine A spinning-drawing-texturing machine for producing crimped threads is described, comprising a spinning device, a drawing device, a texturing device, and a take-up device. A plurality of threads spun by the spinning device is assigned to the drawing device, the textu... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6887410 | Parallel spinning process involving the intermingling of threads between galettes and a corresponding spinning installation therefor A parallel spinning process, in particular for filaments, e.g. for textile or industrial applications, made from polymers such as, for example, PET or PA, in each case having a thread interlacing device between two godets for each individual thread, the godets being... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6880212 | Air-jet method for producing composite elastic yarns A continuous method for producing composite elastic yarns at speeds up to 700 m/min by (a) stretching (drafting) an elastomeric yarn (e.g., spandex) by 2.0× (100%) to 10.5× (950%) while heating (max. heating temperature 220° C.) in a single or double stage draft,... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6877197 | Process for treating a polyester bicomponent fiber The invention provides a process for treating a polyester fiber comprising the steps of providing a bicomponent fiber comprising poly(ethylene terephthalate) and poly(trimethylene terephthalate) which has been heat-treated at a first temperature and cooled to lower ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6848151 | Air-jet method for producing composite elastic yarns A continuous method for producing composite elastic yarns at speeds up to 700 m/min by (a) stretching (drafting) an elastomeric yarn (e.g., spandex) by 2.0×(100%) to 10.5×(950%) while heating (max. heating temperature 220° C.) in a single or double stage draft, (... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6823570 | Method for manufacturing wet absorption yarns and wet absorption yarns made from the method A method for manufacturing wet absorption yarns comprises the following steps of fabricating the polypropylene filaments into yarns; feeding the yarns to a false twisting machine for twisting the yarns; feeding the yarns to a driving roller and a package rollers for... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6811870 | Method for forming chenille yarns and the chenille yarns produced thereby A warp knit fabric having a plurality of stitches formed by overlaps arranged in adjacent, longitudinally extending wales with transverse underlaps connecting the overlaps of adjacent wales and with a binder material extending along the wales is used to produce a ch... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6763559 | Cold drawing process of polymeric yarns suitable for use in implantable medical devices The present invention provides for a method of cold drawing polymeric yarns suitable for use in implantable medical devices, such as vascular grafts. The method of the present invention produces cold drawn polymeric yarns that have a substantially uniform linear den... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6609277 | Texturing method There is put forward a method for texturing thermoplastic yarns with which the thread before the provision of texture is brought to the necessary texturing temperature (T2) and during the actual texturing provision is cooled to a setting temperature (T23)... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6397444 | Apparatus and method for texturing yarn A method and an apparatus are disclosed for texturing a yarn product. The method includes the step of passing the yarn product along a yarn path through a liquid jet arrangement. The method also includes the step of applying a force to the yarn transverse... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6374470 | Face plate for spun-like textured yarn A compact core and effect yarn producing texturing machine which employs a face plate on which the core and effect yarn godets are mounted in one area of the face plate and another pair of godets are mounted in another area of the space plate. A loop brea... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6332253 | Textile effect yarn and method for producing same A process for combining dyed or melt pigmented textile denier accent yarns in small yarn sizes, into a small building block carpet denier bundle to achieve a face yarn bundle having a wide range of special color effects and appearance, not attainable by m... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6321427 | Knit-deknit yarn and method and apparatus for making same An improved heavy denier fibrillated polymer carpet yarn is densely knit, deknit and heat treated. An improved carpet face yarn is provided in an omnidirectional carpet pile.... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6253430 | Spin draw texturing or draw texturising machine with improved fiber bundle guidance The inventive arrangement of texturising nozzles (8) in a part of a spin draw texturising machine or a draw texturising machine presents a fan-like arrangement of these texturising nozzles in which the longitudinal axes (16) of the texturising nozzles ext... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6203743 | Heat setting a tow of synthetic fibers using high pressure dewatering nip An apparatus and method for heat setting a traveling tow of synthetic filaments utilizing a high pressure dewatering nip roll mechanism to remove moisture from the tow prior to heat setting. The high pressure dewatering nip roll mechanism includes a pair ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6192667 | Spin draw texturizing or draw texturizing machine The inventive arrangement of bundles of fibrils in a part of a spin draw texturizing or draw texturizing machine presents a fan-type arrangement of these bundles of fibrils in which preferentially the longitudinal axes of the texturizing nozzles taking up... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6168747 | Calendering apparatus and method for heating a traveling multi-filament tow A calendering apparatus and method for heatsetting a traveling multi-filament tow basically utilizes plural heated rolls about which the tow travels in a sinuous path to be conductively heated by the rolls and, at each roll, a plurality of infrared lamps ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6138336 | Holographic air-jet textured yarn A process to produce a plyed holographic yarn in which the slit film is allowed to be pulled from its source rather than being driven by drive rolls. The slit film and at least one other yarn are plyed and textured in an air texturing jet.... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6134757 | Processing method for splitting thread spool A processing method for splitting thread spool is to: lay a spool of resin thread on a feeding wheel equipped with a broken end lifter; deliver the resin thread through an auxiliary piece and a first yarn cutter; split the resin thread into equalized fine... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6107218 | Chenille yarn for high speed weaving applications and improved product wear performance The present invention is directed to a new chenille yarn and a method of making the same. The chenille yarn may be used on conventional weaving equipment, including air jet and water jet weaving machines, to produce simulated pile fabrics having superior ... | 08/22/2000 |
