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Methods and apparatus for interlacing filaments and methods of making the apparatus

US6052878A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 28, 1999
Grant dateApr 25, 2000
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Expiry dateMay 28, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD02J1/08
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to fluid jet interlace apparatus and related methods for interlacing filaments into a yarn with the filaments intermingled with adjacent ones of the filaments and groups of the filaments to maintain unity of the yarn by frictional constraint between the filaments at periodic nodes along the yarn. The invention also relates to methods of making fluid jet interlace apparatus.

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