Abstract:
Improvements in a conventional false-twist texturing process are disclosed which produce textured polyester yarn of improved quality (compared with that produced by conventional false-twist texturing) of the type obtained by known draw-texturing processes without the unstable feed yarn problems and feed yarn rupturing at start-up (and hence apparatus modification) problems incident thereto. The improvements comprise utilizing as the feed yarn in a conventional false-twist texturing process, a polyester yarn having (1) a spin-drawn orientation, free of mechanically-drawn orientation, with a birefringence within a range of the order of 0.02 to 012, (2) a percentage elongation-to-break within a range of the order of 60% to 200%, and (3) a zero-strength temperatue above approximately 235*C; and continuously positively feeding the feed yarn into and out of the texturing zone provided by the apparatus in performing the process, while maintaining the twistsetting temperature or heater temperature of the apparatus below the zero-stength temperature of the feed yarn, at feed rates into and out of the texturing zone in accordance with the formula DR > (OR) (EB/100 + 1)) wherein DR is the feed rate of the feed yarn out of the texturing zone divided by the feed rate into the texturing zone, or is a constant within a range of the order of 0.63 to 0.70, and EB is percentage elongation-to-break of the feed yarn.