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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8096029 | Device for maintaining the crimping of textile fibers or filaments during subsequent setting A device for maintaining the crimping of textile fibers or filaments during subsequent setting treatment, located in a line for treating filaments by crimping and setting having a crimping machine (1), whereby this device is connected to the outlet of the cri... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7712197 | Method and apparatus for crimping a multifilament thread A method and an apparatus involves crimping a multifilament thread, wherein the thread which is produced by melt spinning is compressed to a thread plug. The thread plug is cast on the circumference of rotating processing drum for thermal treatment and is wrapped ar... | 05/11/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7270777 | Method and apparatus for producing a low-shrinking smooth yarn 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... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260874 | 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... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7219516 | Heat setting machine with sealing head A continuous heat set line for setting yarn, having spaced-apart, elongate, tubular entrance and exit cooling chambers interconnected by an elongate intermediate steam heat-setting chamber communicating therewith. The entrance and exit cooling chambers and the inter... | 05/22/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7150083 | Compressive crimping device for a synthetic multi-threaded yarn The invention relates to a compressive crimping device for a synthetic multi-threaded yarn. The thread is compressed by a texturing device to form a tangle of thread. The tangle of thread is subsequently cooled by means of a cooling device and unraveled to form a cr... | 12/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7097803 | Process of making a corrugated net material The present invention is to provide a process of making a corrugated net material including the following steps. First prepare a net material with an adequate length, and then heat and soften the net material by means of a heating element. March the soften net mater... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6983519 | Textile machine texturing system and texturing nozzle therefor In a texturing system with a texturing nozzle and a first drum (22) connected thereto and a further drum (23), a thread is guided on the outlet side of a texturing nozzle (10) at the circumference of a drum (22) in the form of a strip ( | 01/10/2006 |
| 6718603 | Apparatus and method for producing frieze yarns 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 stu... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6302308 | Apparatus for handling and texturizing yarn having enhanced false twister, electro-mechanical yarn detector, and yarn take-up distance extender and associated methods An apparatus and methods for handling and texturing yarn are provided. The apparatus preferably includes a yarn supply positioned to supply a plurality of strands of yarn, a false twister positioned downstream from the yarn supply for imparting a false tw... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6141843 | Apparatus and method for stuffer box crimping a synthetic yarn An apparatus and a method of stuffer box crimping a synthetic multifilament yarn, wherein the yarn is advanced in a conveying nozzle by means of a heated conveying gas into a stuffer box and compressed to a yarn plug. At the outlet of the stuffer box, a p... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5974777 | Yarn texturizer cooling drum A rotatable yarn cooling drum for cooling yarn plugs emanating from two texturizers has a circumferential perforated shell about which the yarn plugs are wound and cooled. A deflector in the form of a finger is spaced radially from the surface of the shel... | 11/02/1999 |
| 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 |
| 4701980 | Method for the multi-stage fibre cables and the apparatus required for it An improved method for the after-treatment of washed and dried fibre cable having a minimum mass of 250 ktex by crimping, fixing, cooling and optionally cutting or tearing is achieved in that the band width of the cable issuing from the drier with a cover... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4620345 | Apparatus for crimping and setting synthetic fiber groups An apparatus consisting of a stuffer box crimping device of a conventional type with a cooling device immediately following thereafter and designed as a sieve drum under a suction draft. The dense crimped parcel, conducted to the sieve drum surface from t... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4571765 | Method of and apparatus for thermally treating fiber yarns A bundle of fibers fed from a stuffer box longitudinally in a corrugated form is wrapped with a breathable heat resistant fabric to form a continuous belt-like shape and then introduced into and drawn out of a thermal treatment region by the aid of inlet ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4547934 | Crimped staple fiber Process and apparatus are provided for the preparation of crimped staple fibers. By automatically adjusting the pressure on the stuffer crimper box discharge means as a function of staple cutter speed, a crimped staple product with uniform fiber-to-fiber ... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4301578 | Process and apparatus for texturing thread In the stuffing of synthetic continuous filamentary threads in stuffer boxes, special value is to be placed on the thermal treatment and especially the cooling of the initially crimped filaments. The filaments in the configuration of a compact thread plug... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4288893 | Method of cooling stuffer crimped yarn A liquid jet, which is not decomposed to droplets, is guided onto a hot yarn wad in a cooling section with rod guide means, and this leads to rapid, very uniform cooling. Smooth thread travel is produced during take-off at thread speeds of 2000 m/min and ... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4204301 | Strand handling system and method therefor 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 be... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4188691 | Process and apparatus for crimping filament yarn Process and apparatus for crimping a filament yarn, the process employed comprising forcing a hot fluid entrained filament yarn into a stuffing chamber in one direction, forcing a cold fluid from an opposite direction into a staying control chamber locate... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4144023 | Dyeing of high strength, high modules aromatic polyamide fibers High strength, high modulus aromatic polyamide fibers are dyed by crimping the fibers while wet to at least 10 crimps per inch and maintaining at least 15% by weight moisture based on the dry fibers in the fibers at all times before dyeing.... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4125922 | Jet tangler 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 ten... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4122588 | Yarn processing apparatus 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.... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4118843 | Processes and apparatus for thermal treatment of filaments 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 ... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4115907 | Fiber process 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 cha... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4087242 | Production of variegated polyester yarn and fabric A polyester yarn is treated, so that it may be dyed in yarn or fabric form to a variegated appearance, by running partially oriented polyester feeder yarn over a surface wetted with a liquid reagent which alters the affinity of the yarn to a disperse dye,... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4063338 | Strand treatment method and apparatus Textile strand stabilization by filament interlacing is provided by means of jet apparatus having a longitudinal strand-receiving bore intercepted by at least one fluid-receiving bore substantially perpendicular thereto and to its minor transverse axis. F... | 12/20/1977 |
| 3999262 | Apparatus for texturing continuous filament yarn A method and apparatus for texturing continuous filament yarn wherein the yarn is fed at a controlled rate and under controlled tension by a pair of feed rolls into a confined crimping zone against a mass of crimped yarn therein, causing the yarn to colla... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3994052 | Method and apparatus for texturing yarn A wad of textured yarn is removed from texturing apparatus by passing the wad into the inlet of an elongated tube having one or more openings intermediate the two ends thereof. In normal operation, a fluid is passed through the tube toward the inlet end t... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3983608 | Textile treatment apparatus Textile yarns or strands are drawn and crimped under controlled conditions of tension, speed, and temperature, at both input and output stages, with resulting beneficial effects upon the resulting product, by specified apparatus.... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3978561 | Apparatus for texturing continuous filament yarn A method and apparatus for texturing continuous filament yarn wherein the yarn is fed at a controlled rate and under controlled tension into a confined crimping zone against a mass of crimped yarn therein causing the yarn to collapse longitudinally formin... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3978559 | Yarn treating apparatus Textile yarns or strands are heated, as by contact with hot rolls, and then are crimped, preferably compressively as in a stuffer crimper, after being drawn to increased length if so drawable.... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3977058 | Method and apparatus for controlling yarn plug length 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 proces... | 08/31/1976 |
| 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 |
| 3975807 | Setting apparatus An apparatus for setting fiber crimp by steam in which a crimped filamentary tow is discharged from the tow exit portion of a stuffer-box crimper into an elongated tube sealed to said exit portion and control means for simultaneously regulating steam pres... | 08/24/1976 |
