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Process and apparatus for making a yarn

US4672800A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 30, 1986
Grant dateJun 16, 1987
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 30, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD01H1/11
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In the making of a yarn, a stream of drawn core fibers (17a) is twisted in a triangular twisting space (4) between two juxtaposed, closely spaced apart twisting drums (1, 2), which are rotated in the same sense, and covering fibers are wound about said stream of fibers in said twisting space. To make said yarn from a single roving (17), the drawn roving (17) is fed to the twisting space (4) on the circumference of a feed roller (8), to which a vacuum is applied, the roving which has been fed on said feed roller is divided into two streams of fibers (17a, 17b) before reaching the twisting space (4), one (17a) of said streams of fibers is intended to constitute the core of the yarn to be made and is moved on the feed roller (8) as far as to the twisting space (4), and the other (17b) stream of fibers consists of the covering fibers and is detached from the feed roller (8 ) and its fibers are caused to fly freely into the twisting space (4).

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