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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7997055 | Method for the thermal treatment of a running yarn and twisting machine for carrying out the method Method for thermal treatment of a running yarn (14) on a multi-workstation twisting machine, each station having a device (1) for thermal treatment of the yarn, and a delivery system (2, 3) preceding or following such device (1). The yarn... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7337555 | Manufacturing method and continuous drying apparatus for head decorating regenerated collagen fiber Provided is a method for manufacturing a regenerated collagen fiber and a drying apparatus therefor in a manufacturing process of a head decorating regenerated collagen fiber, the method enabling suppression of fluff (fiber breakage) and process trouble and providin... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7155893 | Method of producing heat-resistant crimped yarn The present invention relates to a method for producing a heat-resistant crimped yarn comprising: twisting yarn of a heat-resistant high functional fiber; twist-setting this twisted yarn by heat treatment; and untwisting this twist-set yarn, wherein a snarl value of... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6921803 | Poly(trimethylene terephthalate) fibers, their manufacture and use A process for preparing poly(trimethylene terephthalate) fibers comprising (a) providing a poly(trimethylene terephthalate) composition comprising about 0.05 to about 5 mole % tetramethylene terephthalate repeat units and (b) spinning the polymer composition to form... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6911105 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6848248 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6725640 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6705070 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6631609 | Method and stranding device for producing a cable or a cable element A method for producing a cable or cable element from individual elements is provided. The method comprises heating the individual elements before or during a stranding process until they are at least close to plastification and cooling the individual elem... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6625970 | Method of making twisted elongated yarn An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments which are attached and woven onto a frame forming woven panels. Subsequent to the weaving and attachment process, the completed article is placed in an oven to heat set the resulting woven m... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6581365 | Controlling thermally induced beam twist Twist control system and method for controlling twisting distortion in a beam caused by temperature changes. In a beam having an inherent amount of temperature induced twisting a wrap can be helically bonded to the beam. The wrap has a wrap material type,... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6430912 | Yarn false twist texturing apparatus A yarn false twist texturing apparatus having a plurality of side by side processing stations for texturing a plurality of thermoplastic yarns, wherein at each station a first feed system withdraws the yarn from a feed yarn package, and advances the yarn ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6345491 | Fluid-jet twist-inserting method An apparatus for inserting twist into a moving strand, including a first body including an orifice extending therethrough for permitting passage of a moving yarn. An air channel extends therethrough and communicates with the orifice. The air channel commu... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6279307 | Tension control method using fluff control device The present invention introduces a yarn y that is unwound from a supply bobbin 1 into a control member 3 for controlling the propagation of twisting toward a supply bobbin, then introduces the yarn into a friction-disk-type false twister 4 to suppress flu... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6138448 | Yarn heating apparatus To provide a yarn heating apparatus offering greater heating efficiency and ease of manufacture than a conventional yarn heating apparatus. Provide two heating spaces for yarn, and make the middle heating part 13a between these two heating spaces 10a, 10b... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6089009 | Fluid-jet false-twisting method and product A process of producing an assembled yarn, including the steps of providing two or more yarns moving downstream from a supply to a take-up, inserting alternating-direction zones of twist into at least one of the yarns, the at least one yarn having an area ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6076345 | Method and apparatus for generating a yarn composed of at least two yarn components A method is provided for producing a yarn from at least two individual yarn components having different physical characteristics so that the produced yarn has a desired visual effect. The method includes continuously supplying at least one yarn component ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5985192 | Process for the manufacture of spiralled bristles The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of screwlike bristles by extruding monofilaments. In order to provide a method with which screwlike bristles can be inexpensively manufactured in the same way as conventional bristles with an identical... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5817417 | Method for continuous production of polyester weft yarn for tire cord fabric and weft yarn made by same The method for continuous production of a multifilament stretchable weft yarn for tire cord fabric includes swirling polyester-POY-filaments with an initial titre of from 170 to 260 dtex by means of a gas having a pressure of from 0.5 to 3 bar in a swirli... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5644906 | Hot feed draw texturing for dark dyeing polyester A method is disclosed for increasing the dyeability of polyester yarn and comprises heating the partially oriented yarn to a temperature between its crystallization temperature and its melting point while preventing the partially oriented yarn from shrink... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5628175 | Heating apparatus for heating an advancing synthetic filament yarn An elongate heater for heating an advancing synthetic filament yarn with reduced friction. The yarn is advanced in contact with a generally flat contact surface of the elongate heater, with yarn guides being arranged along the heater in spaced apart relat... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5578231 | Heater for an advancing yarn A heater (1) for an advancing thermoplastic yarn which is guided along a heated surface over ring segments (2). The flow of heat to the yarn is adjustable by changing the geometric parameters of the heat transfer.... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5534334 | Base fabric for ink ribbons The present invention relates to base fabrics for ink ribbons used in impact printers, not allowing the graphic spots to occur. They are woven fabrics composed of synthetic multi-filament yarns, the warp of which are 30 to 50 D in yarn thickness and 330 T/M to... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5477669 | Process for stretching staple fibers and staple fibers produced thereby A process for stretching natural staple fibers to reduce the diameter includes the steps of treating a substantially untwisted traveling assembly of natural fibers to plasticize the natural fibers, twisting the traveling assembly sufficiently to substanti... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5478624 | Synthetic yarn with heat-activated binder fiber A synthetic yarn made from a blend of base fibers selected from the group consisting of polyester, nylon 6 and nylon 66, and 1-12 weight percent of a heat activated binder fiber having a melting point within the range of 165°-190° C., said binder fiber ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5471828 | Hot feed draw texturing for dark dyeing polyester A method for increasing the dyeability of polyester yarn comprising heating the partially oriented yarn to a temperature between its crystallization temperature and its melting point while preventing the partially oriented yarn from shrinking, and immedia... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5462778 | Artificial turf, pile yarn for artificial turf and process and spinneret for producing pile yarn An artificial turf with high water rentivity. A cut pile is formed over the surface of a backing structure by implanting a multiplicity of tufts. Each tuft comprises one or a plurality of pile yarns. Each of the pile yarns is composed of one flat filament... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5442903 | Thermoset twist composed of synthetic monofilaments Monofilament twist for applications, such as, for example, use as a reinforcement in tires, for paper-machine junction felts, as a canopy support and for knitting, braiding or other textile operations, consisting of at least two monofilaments of synthetic... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5414987 | Pre-stuffer box conditioning of ply-twisted carpet yarn A process for treating a ply-twisted crimped multifilament yarn. The process involves adjusting the temperature and moisture content of the yarn prior to passing the yarn through a stuffer box which is essentially free of steam. Excess hot fluid is remove... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5267430 | Apparatus for the continuous production of an elastane-based elastic yarn An apparatus for continuous production of a covered elastane-based yarn in which a partially stretched multi-filament yarn is twisted about a tensioned bare elastane yarn, at less than 500 revolutions per meter, and then heated and stretched again to comp... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5154044 | Process and machine for the continuous production of an elastane-based elastic yarn An apparatus and process for continuous production of a covered elastane-based yarn is shown in which a partially stretched multi-filament yarn is twisted about a tensioned bare elastane yarn, at less than 500 revolutions per meter, and then heated and st... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5146739 | Yarn false twist texturing process and apparatus A yarn false twist texturing process and apparatus wherein the tension of the advancing yarn is monitored. The resulting signal is processed through a time filter to produce a time averaged signal, and the time averaged signal is compared with a set point... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5034174 | Texturing yarns Modifying a polyester with special chain-brancher residues in carefully controlled amounts to provide a draw-texturing feed yarn that can be draw-textured at a speed of 1,000 mpm without excessive filament breaks, and with other advantages in the resultin... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4966740 | Texturing polyester yarns Modifying a polyester with tetraethyl silicate or like oxysilicon chain-brancher to provide a draw-texturing feed yarn that can be draw-textured at a speed of at least 500 mpm without excessive filament breaks, and with other advantages in the resulting t... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4845934 | False twisted bulky multifilament yarn, method of making and end use of this yarn A false twisted bulky synthetic multifilament yarn of a uniform polymer consisting of at least two filament bundles of different filament deniers, with the filaments in each of said bundles having the same denier per filament. The smaller denier per filam... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4760690 | Process for the production of a weft fiber of polyester-poy A process is disclosed for production of a heat-treated, coarse fiber of polyester-POY, whereby the fiber is first twisted and then continuously relaxed and tempered at a temperature from 130° to 250° C. to an extent from 20 to 55%. The slide-resistant ... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4637207 | Pneumatic spinning method and pneumatic spinning device A pneumatic spinning method includes conducting sliver formed at least partly of spinning fibers through at least one swirl nozzle, and contacting the sliver in the swirl nozzle with at least one heated compressed air jet operating the swirl nozzle, and a... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4625503 | Method and device for stranding multifilament superconductor strands Multifilament superconductor strands of less than 1 mm diameter able to carry alternating current are stranded to a pitch of between 7 and 3 diameters, at a temperature above 200° C. and a speed between 30 and 5,000 rpm.... | 12/02/1986 |
