Process and apparatus for measuring the degree of filament intermingling of a multifilament yarn

US5140852A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Burkhard Bonigk · Königsbrunn, DE
• Ingolf Jacob · Untermeitingen, DE
• Peter Kretschmer · Bruchköbel, DE
• August Schneider · Bocholt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 1991
• Grant date: Aug 25, 1992
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N33/365
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

There are described a process and apparatus for measuring the degree of filament intermingling of an intermingled multifilament yarn. The intermingled yarn is moved through a self-conveying fluid jet (air jet). The yarn substantially fills out the jet channel and emerges from the jet in a virtually tensionless state. Owing to the pressure difference at the jet outlet, noncohesive yarn zones expand explosively in the manner of a balloon. After expansion, the yarn passes before a sensor means, preferably an electronic camera, which detects the lightness differences or light diffraction phenomena due to the yarn filaments and sends as a function thereof a signal to a signal processing means. The method of measurement of the invention makes it possible to obtain very accurate information about the nature of the intermingling (spot type or continuous) and also about the geometry of intermingling (for example number and spacing of intermingling nodes in the case of spot type intermingling).