Abstract:
Apparatus for winding an advancing strand of yarn into a package is disclosed. The apparatus includes means for rotatably supporting and driving a package at a substantially constant rate of speed and means for traversing a strand onto the package as the package is rotated. Drive means for operating the traversing means is provided and regulating means for periodically increasing and decreasing the speed of the drive means as the strand is traversed onto the package is included. The control means is operable in response to the regulating means to disrupt the synchronism between the rotation of the package and the traversing of the strand onto the package to thereby prevent the formation of bands or ''''ribbons'''' wherein the strand coils in the package are crowded together or ''''piled.
Abstract:
Continuous process and apparatus for bulking textured yarn includes combining a plurality of strands of the textured yarn into a continuous tow, forming the tow into a continuous series of loops, moving the looped tow through a bulking zone, setting the bulked tow, separating the tow into individual bulked strands, and collecting the strands into packages. The bulking chamber includes a plurality of positively driven screw-like members, which advance the tow through the chamber under bulking conditions at a predetermined rate. In one embodiment the tow is delivered into the chamber through a course which includes forming the tow into relatively large loops which are permitted to shrink and thus bulk promptly upon introduction into the bulking zone. The bulking zone includes controlled conditions of temperature and humidity. In another embodiment the tow is first subjected to a preconditioning step within the bulking zone and thereafter is bulked while being relaxed under controlled conditions in the bulking zone. Subsequently, the bulk is set in a separate zone by dry heat.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for forming a wound yarn package on a winder having a rotary traverse cam and a cooperating follower yarn guide for traversing a strand of yarn as it is wound onto the package. The winder is equipped to synchronize ribbon breaking, scattering, and shortening of the traverse stroke of the yarn guide, for slowly or rapidly winding a cheese (or cone) shaped yarn package usually with tapered end faces so that the package is suitable for very rapid over-end unwinding within tolerable yarn breakage limits, as on a ''''shuttleless'''' loom. A package drive roll is operated at constant speed and the traverse cam speed is varied in the neighborhood of 10 to 30 percent or more to provide a form of ribbon breaking and constantly varying high and low wind ratios. Scattering is provided at opposite end portions of the package for a length sufficient to avoid hard corners at the opposite end faces of the package. Traverse stroke shortening is not always required but, depending on the characteristics of the yarn, is generally desirable for tapering the end faces to deter stitching. Stroke shortening and scattering are accomplished by axial shifting of the rotary traverse cam. The ribbon breaking and scattering features are synchronized so that the sharpest yarn reversals are provided at the end faces with broader reversals immediately inwardly of these faces.
Abstract:
A novel process and apparatus for twisting filamentary material such as yarn is disclosed wherein yarn is twisted down stream of a heating means and intermediate of take-up and feed stations. Opposite sides of the yarn are contacted at successive points therealong thus gripping the yarn while both an advancing and rolling motion is imparted thereto. Such motion is imparted to the yarn in one physical embodiment of the invention by means of a pair of rolls provided with meshed teeth formed along circumferential surfaces thereof. The rolls in such embodiment are mounted in angular relationship to each other so as to permit the teeth of respective rolls to engage opposite sides of a filamentary piece of material passing between said rolls at opposite sides and at successive points therealong. Such contact along successive opposite portions of the yarn causes the yarn to take a continuous and essentially stable path between the rolls and enables a positive grip to be imparted to the yarn thereby overcoming the torque imparted to the yarn as a frictional twist component of the meshed teeth. The apparatus of the present invention may thus be characterized as a friction twist head and its method of operation a process for imparting false twist to filamentary material by frictional contact.