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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356984 | Device and method for treatment of a traveling yarn with a steam-creating treatment medium A device for treatment of a traveling yarn with a steam-creating medium includes a column of several chambers provided with yarn inlet- and yarn outlet-channels and arranged one over the other, of which one of the chambers is a steam treatment chamber provided with ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7176421 | Straight ribbon heater A heater for heating a rigid fluid line or hose for freeze protection. The heater has a base made of an outer base layer, a middle base layer attached to the outer base layer; and an inner base layer attached to the middle base layer. The inner base layer can be unc... | 02/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7073318 | Apparatus and method for heat-setting carpet yarns with hot atmospheric air An apparatus and method for texture heat-setting bulk continuous filament (BCF) yarns in hot air heat-setting machines that includes a preheating device/step using a mixture of steam and atmospheric air to preheat a twisted BCF yarn bundle to develop crimp memory an... | 07/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6722117 | Apparent twist yarn system and apparatus and method for producing same A process for combining singles yarns, of different colors or dyeabilities, to form an apparent twist yarn. The process includes the sequential steps of individually and simultaneously drawing and texturing a plurality of singles yarns; converging the drawn and text... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6701704 | Processing textile materials A method of processing textile material is disclosed in which the material (13) is passed along a predetermined path through a liquid jet device (50, 70, 80, 90, 100, 120, 130) applying a force to the material (13) transversely to the axis of the material... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6668535 | Heat-resistant crimped yarn The invention provides heat-resistant crimped yarn, of which the constituent heat-resistant high-functional fibers are prevented as much as possible from being deteriorated under heat in the process of producing the yarn. Not losing excellent properties o... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6663806 | Processes for making poly (trimethylene terephthalate) yarns Fine denier poly(trimethylene terephthalate) feed yarns and drawn yarns wherein the drawn yarns are characterized by a denier per filament less than 1.5 and are drawn such that the actual draw ratio is within 10 percent of the predicted draw ratio determi... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6438934 | Apparatus and method for fabrication of textiles A method and apparatus are disclosed for fabrication of textiles. The method includes the step of passing a yarn or product along a path through a device. The method also includes applying a rotation force to the yarn or product with at least one jet of l... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6430911 | Yarn texturing machine A yarn texturing machine for texturing a plurality of thermoplastic yarns, each in a processing station. The yarns are guided and advanced in each processing station by a plurality of feed systems. One of the feed systems is mounted on a movable slide, an... | 08/13/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6408607 | Method of false twist texturing a synthetic yarn to a crimped yarn A method for false twist texturing a synthetic yarn, as well as the thus-produced crimped yarn, wherein a false twist is produced on the yarn at a speed of a false twist unit, which exceeds 2.2 times of the yarn speed and is above a saturation limit for a... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6354069 | Method and device for treating filament yarn with air The new invention proposes that filament yarns, in particular partially stretched yarns known as POY yarns, be subjected to stretch texturing via an air treatment nozzle. The air treatment nozzles are designed in miniaturized form, have a continuous yarn ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6349532 | Method and apparatus for producing textile yarn, and yarn produced thereby A method and apparatus for producing a combined textile yarn comprising two yarn components that are false twisted to different twist levels and then combined to form a combined textile yarn. The yarn components may be twisted in the same or opposing dire... | 02/26/2002 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6041587 | Machine for making a mixed yarn by combining two false-twist textured yarns A machine for making a mixed yarn by combining two false-twist textured yarns is disclosed. The machine comprises drawing systems (3A, 3B; 8A, 8B) arranged on either side of the texturing area and mounted alternately on two separately controlled parallel,... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6038847 | Process for manufacturing different shrinkage microfiber texture yarn A process for manufacturing different shrinkage micro-fiber texture yarn which uses a blend of micro-fiber yarn having a boil-off shrinkage lower than 10% and a low crimped filament having a boil-off shrinkage higher than 15%. The different shrinkage micr... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6010588 | Polyolefin fibers and their fabrics Novel fibers have been made of reactor grade isotactic poly-alpha-olefin wherein polypropylene is produced by single-site catalysis and has a melt flow rate of greater than zero to about 5,000, MWD in the range of about 1.0 to about 3.5.... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5996328 | Methods and systems for forming multi-filament yarns having improved position-to-position consistency Individual differently colored or colorable feed filament ends are withdrawn from respective creel-mounted packages and passed through a separation guide. The separation guide serves to "normalize" the filament end-to-end positions and tensions. That is, ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5943852 | Method of an apparatus for producing thick/thin and/or color effects yarn A thick/thin and/or color effect composite yarn is produced by depositing a sheath of one or more effect threads on a thick/thin filament yarn in which the thick regions are incompletely stretched, and the resulting assembly is then subjected to stretchin... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5827464 | Making high filament count fine filament polyester yarns A direct melt spinning process for providing high filament count fine filament polyester yarns having excellent mechanical quality and along-end uniformity and unitary interlace by spinning all the filaments of such high filament count yarn from a single ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5802832 | Texturing yarn A method of controlling the manufacture of false twist textured yarn characterised by adjusting non-isothermally in a closed loop the heat flux taken up by the yarn in tension to a specific yarn dyeability. Adjustment can be achieved by feeding back the o... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5802836 | Method for making thread using substantially equal overfeed to an intermingling device A method of making yarn comprises feeding at least two drawn, continuous filament starting yarns (18, 19), of which at least one is a multifilament yarn, together to an intermingling device (21) to form a single bulked thread of which the filaments of the... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5794427 | Process of and apparatus for making low shrinkage yarn A process of making a low-shrinkage, air-textured yarn, in particular sewing yarn, of synthetic, pre-oriented polymer multifilaments, includes the steps of drawing multifilaments in the form of a single strand at a temperature of about 180° to 230° C. b... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5724802 | Method of texturing yarn There is disclosed a method for false twist texturing comprising the steps of supplying a yarn hot (11) to a twist trap (12) upstream of a false twist device (13) instead of supplying heat to the yarn intermediate the twist trap and the false twist device... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5558825 | Method and apparatus for producing polyester fiber This invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing a polyester fiber which cools a plurality of molten polyester fibers from a spinnert 2 to a temperature below a glass transition point, then takes up the fibers by a non-heating first godet ro... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5462790 | Combined and multi-component false-twist textured filament yarn, production method thereof, and knitted/woven fabric using the yarn In a polyester multi-filament yarn consisting of at least two kinds of false twisted filament yarns having different sectional shapes, the present invention relates to a combined and multi-component false twisted filament yarn which comprises at least one... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5439626 | Process for making hollow nylon filaments A melt spinning process and the nylon hollow filaments and yarns made by such process which includes extruding molten nylon polymer having a relative viscosity (RV) of at least about 50 and a melting point (TM) of about 210° C. to about 310° ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5417902 | Process of making polyester mixed yarns with fine filaments Polyester mixed fine filament yarns having excellent mechanical quality and uniformity, and preferably with a balance of good dyeability and shrinkage, are prepared by a simplified direct spin-orientation process by selection of polymer and spinning condi... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5417046 | Method of manufacturing a composite yarn having a spandex core and a texturized thermoplastic covering A method of manufacturing a composite yarn and composite yarn produced thereby in which a spandex yarn is fed to an air entangling or covering jet while being pre-elongated. Simultaneously, a multifilament partially oriented thermoplastic yarn is fed to t... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5407621 | Process for preparing polyester fine filaments Polyester fine filaments having excellent mechanical quality and uniformity, and preferably with a balance of good dyeability and shrinkage, are prepared by a simplified direct spin-orientation process by selection of polymer viscosity and spinning condit... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5384082 | Process of making spin-oriented polyester filaments Polyester filaments of high shrinkage and high shrinkage tension may be prepared by heat treatment of undrawn crystalline filaments of low shrinkage and shrinkage tension, and may be used for making polyester yarns of mixed shrinkage and bulky polyester y... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5356582 | Continuous hollow filament, yarns, and tows Hollow polyester undrawn filaments having excellent mechanical quality and uniformity are prepared by a simplified post-coalescence melt spinning process at speeds of e.g. 2-5 km/min by selection of polymer and spinning conditions whereby the void content... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5014404 | Air entangled yarn A technique for combining at least two unlike yarn ends to produce a composite yarn. One of the two unlike yarn ends is a spun yarn and the other of the two unlike yarn ends is a continuous multifilament yarn. The technique includes removing each of the t... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4969322 | Ultra-soft and flat multifilament yarn and process for the production thereof A flat multifilament yarn having a very soft unique touch is obtained by arranging two or more types of multifilament yarns having different drawings properties in parallel, and applying a false twisting procedure which includes a twist applying and twist... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4897989 | Method to produce three-ply yarn and fabric made therefrom A novel pile fabric and method of making the pile fabric which employs a three-ply yarn having one yarn being textured and the other two yarns being non-textured to provide a wool-like appearance to the fabric and eliminate the tendency of such a fabric t... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4790132 | Process for making a false twisted differential tension yarn A continuous multifilament crimped polyamide or polypropylene yarn suitable for use in loop pile carpeting and the process for making the yarn including feeding the yarn at different tensions and then treating the yarn with saturated steam is disclosed.... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4693071 | Vacuum texturizing process Positive twist control and a gentle action on the yarn are provided by a vacuum texturizing process for yarn. Single filament and multi-filament yarns can be processed, including fine denier filaments and/or weak thermoplastic filaments. Yarn is fed by fe... | 09/15/1987 |
