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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325284 | Apparatus and method for texturizing yarn A texturizing apparatus comprising a drive housing having a false twist inlet to allow a plurality of yarns to enter the drive housing, a pair of opposing counter-rotating nip rollers positioned downstream of the false twist inlet, each nip roller having a circumfer... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7278191 | Apparatus and method for texturizing yarn A texturizing apparatus comprising a drive housing having a false twist inlet to allow a plurality of yarns to enter the drive housing, a pair of opposing counter-rotating nip rollers positioned downstream of the false twist inlet, each nip roller having a circumfer... | 10/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7152288 | Stuffer box crimper and a method for crimping The instant invention is a stuffer box crimper and a method for crimping. The stuffer box crimper according to instant invention includes a pair of nip rollers, a pair of doctor blades, and a stuffer box. The pair of doctor blades is adjacent to an exit end of the p... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6385827 | Apparatus and method for texturing yarn 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 ent... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6134758 | Method of producing improved crimped polyester fibers A method is disclosed for producing polyester fibers having uniform primary and secondary crimps. The method includes the steps of advancing fibers into a stuffer box having an upper doctor blade and a lower doctor blade, positioning the upper doctor blad... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5497538 | Device for texturizing continuous filament threads A device for texturizing continuous filament threads including plates in a crimping part which have a prolongation at both ends thereof, with the prolongation being located centrically-symmetrically, however offset, relative to each other and have rounded... | 03/12/1996 |
| 4956901 | Apparatus and process for forming a wad of yarn 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 ar... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4521944 | Dowel-aligned multiple plate stuffer box crimper construction for filter tow Novel construction of a stuffer box crimper by means of multiple precision ground plates held together in side-by-side contacting relationship and dowel-aligned so that the crimper rolls and other movable components are readily and properly aligned.... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4408377 | Stuffing chamber texturizing process A process for stuffer box crimping of a yarn of synthetic thermoplastic filaments wherein the discharge resistance on the yarn plug formed in the stuffing chamber is increased or reduced in response to a continuously measured value of advancing pressure o... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4399597 | Method and apparatus for production of textured yarn A method and apparatus for producing texturized multifilament yarn or the like which includes a control arrangement for controlling the length of a yarn plug in a bulking chamber and accumulating tube so that the processed yarn can be removed at a constan... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4395804 | Cheekplate holder assembly for stuffer box crimper A cheekplate holder assembly for use in a stuffer box crimper for continuous filament tow, with the cheekplate and its holder assembly as a unit being safely and readily removable from and reinsertable into the stuffer box crimper and the cheekplate movab... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4337557 | Method and apparatus for texturizing thermoplastic yarn Thermoplastic yarn is texturized by the known method of forwarding it in a heated condition to a crimping zone at the entrance of a stuffer chamber (7) so as to form a plug (8) of crimped yarn within the chamber and withdrawing the yarn from the other end... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4163306 | Bounce crimper outlet apparatus An improved outlet apparatus for a bounce crimper is disclosed which includes a restrictor assembly provided with a bore and an internally mounted flat leaf spring. Extending beneath the leaf spring, a longitudinal slot may be provided through which a tex... | 08/07/1979 |
| 4161054 | Method for continuously fulling and working textile material in rope form A textile material such as a fabric in an endless rope form is fed to a treatment enclosure, through which it is positively and continuously carried at a controlled speed lower than the speed at which it is fed into the enclosure, thereby causing the form... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4081886 | Method for crimping yarn Apparatus and method for stuffer box crimping yarn is disclosed in which continuous filament yarn having a thermoplastic component and varying in denier along its length is substantially uniformly drawn and then treated in the same crimping area and where... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4075746 | Compression crimping apparatus Apparatus for compression crimping fibrous material, such as synthetic continuous filament yarn, is provided comprising means defining a compression crimping zone, means for feeding fibrous material into the compression crimping zone and a pair of movable... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4067092 | Compression crimping apparatus Apparatus for compression crimping is provided comprising means defining a compression crimping zone, means for feeding fibrous material into and means for withdrawing crimped fibrous material from the compression crimping zone, at least one movable membe... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4007518 | Steam supply apparatus Steam which is free of condensate is supplied to a fluid jet yarn texturing device. The steam is obtained by passing saturated steam through a condensate separator and then through a superheater. The amount of heat supplied by the superheater is regulated... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3977057 | Apparatus for the production of yarn In the production of yarn wherein a yarn plug is formed and stacked members positioned in a chamber are used to exert a restraining force on the yarn plug as the plug is passed through the chamber, a lid is used to prevent the removal of the stacked membe... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3946469 | Polyester fibers and tows An improved stuffer box crimper and a process employing such apparatus, the process involving feeding a tow of parallel filaments in the form of a sheet of constant thickness into a stuffer box crimper in which a primary crimp is imparted to the filaments... | 03/30/1976 |
