EP2084315A1

EP2084315A1 - Method and apparatus for crimping a multifilament thread

Info

Publication number: EP2084315A1
Application number: EP07821628A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Mathias STÜNDL
Original assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH and Co KG
Current assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH and Co KG
Priority date: 2006-11-04
Filing date: 2007-10-22
Publication date: 2009-08-05
Anticipated expiration: 2027-10-22
Also published as: US20090249765A1; US7712197B2; WO2008052900A1; CN101528996B; RU2009121102A; EP2084315B1; CN101528996A

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for crimping a multifilament thread, wherein the thread which is produced by melt spinning is compressed to a thread plug. The thread plug is cast on the circumference of a rotating processing drum for thermal treatment and is wrapped around the circumference of the processing drum with many side-by-side wraparounds. Following that, the thread plug is unravelled in an unravelling area on the circumference of the processing drum into the crimped thread which is pulled off the processing drum. To obtain a continuous and regular unravelling of the thread plug with multiple wraparounds and mutual touching of the wraparounds of the thread plug, the thread is guided at a slant from the unravelling area of the thread plug such that a growing axial space appears between the thread and the thread plug, on the circumference of the processing drum, during increasing wraparounds of the thread on the circumference of the processing drum.

Description

Method and device for crimping a multifilament thread

The invention relates to a method for crimping a multifilament yarn according to the preamble of claim 1 and to an apparatus for carrying out the method according to the preamble of claim 8.

In the production of crimped synthetic threads, it is known to first extrude a plurality of rope-shaped filaments from a thermoplastic melt. The filament bundle is summarized after cooling and thus forms a smooth multifϊlen thread. In order to produce a crimp in the individual filter strands, the multifilament yarn is puffed up to form a yarn plug. For this purpose, the filaments of the thread are preferably conveyed through a hot fluid and deformed on the surface of the thread plug into loops and bends. To fix the crimping forming in the filaments, the yarn plug is thermally treated. In the event that the thread plug formation already takes place by means of a hot fluid, the thus heated yarn plug is then cooled. For this purpose, the yarn plug is guided on the circumference of a treatment drum. The treatment drum is rotationally driven, so that the residence time for cooling the yarn plug is determined essentially by the peripheral speed of the treatment drum on the one hand and on the other hand by the degree of wrap of the yarn plug on the circumference of the treatment drum. Since the peripheral speed of the treatment drum is determined by process speeds and can only be changed to a limited extent, intensive cooling can only be achieved by appropriate wraps of the yarn stopper on the treatment drum. Thus, from DE 38 00 773 C2 discloses a method and an apparatus is known in which the yarn plug is guided in several wraps on the circumference of the treatment drum. Here, the wraps of the yarn plug are guided directly adjacent to each other on the circumference of the treatment drum, so that mutual influences of the individual filaments of the yarn plug are inevitable. Particularly in the case of yarn plugs having a correspondingly low yarn plug density, a loose bond of the filaments within the yarn plug results in individual filaments hooking to one another in the adjacent wraps of the yarn plug at the circumference of the treatment drum. Such entanglements have a negative effect, in particular when the thread stopper is broken up into a crimped thread, so that irregularities occur on the crimped thread which are particularly noticeable in a fluctuating thread tension when the crimped thread is pulled off. Such thread tension fluctuations have a very negative effect, in particular in the after-treatment of the thread, for example by turbulence.

It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a method and apparatus for crimping a multifilament yarn of the generic type such that after a thermal treatment of the yarn plug with several adjacent wraps on the circumference of a treatment drum safe and uniform resolution of the yarn plug to a crimped yarn possible becomes.

The object is achieved in that the thread is guided obliquely from the resolution of the yarn plug, which sets with increasing wrap of the thread on the circumference of the treatment drum, a growing axial distance between the thread and the yarn plug on the circumference of the treatment drum. Advantageous developments of the invention are defined by the respective features and feature combinations of the subclaims.

Surprisingly, it has been found that even with a non-linear transition of the yarn plug to the crimped yarn, the individual filter strands have no substantial differences in their nature and crimp. Due to the oblique withdrawal of the crimped thread from the end of the thread plug, however, it was possible to ensure that even the filament strands entangled with the adjacent loop of the thread plug were inserted into the filament composite of the crimped thread after release without irregularities. By facing away from the wraps of the yarn plug on the treatment drum course of the crimped yarn is formed in the dissolution region between an inner side of the yarn plug, which is directly adjacent to the adjacent loop of the yarn plug, and an outer side of the yarn plug different force effects for forming the yarn. Thus, in particular, the sub-region of the filament strands placed in the inner region of the yarn plug are drawn more intensively in relation to the subregions set in the outer region, which considerably facilitates the triggering of possible individual overlapping points between the individual wraps of the yarn plug on the circumference of the treatment drum. In that regard, the yarn plug can be evenly transferred into the crimped yarn.

In order to obtain the most stable and uniform conditions when guiding the yarn and dissolving the yarn plug, the further development of the invention, in which the yarn is guided into a pull-off groove on the circumference of the treatment drum after the thread plug has been released, has proven particularly useful. This makes it possible to achieve reproducible and uniform operating states and yarn paths on the circumference of the treatment drum.

Depending on the density of the yarn plug, which is directly related to the mutual influence of the yarn plug wraps on the circumference of Treatment drum affects different thread patterns can be selected when dissolving the yarn plug. However, it has been found that the thread should be guided as possible with a pitch angle at the periphery of the treatment drum, which exceeds an angle of 10 °. Depending on the severity of the yarn plug, the pitch angle can be increased, whereby maximum pitch angles in the range of 80 ° should not be exceeded.

For the aftertreatment of the crimped yarn, it is particularly important that a sufficient yarn tension is produced on the yarn. For this purpose, according to an advantageous development of the invention, it is proposed that the thread is guided between the dissolution area and a discharge area via a wrap-around area on the circumference of the treatment drum, which encloses at least a circumferential angle of 45 °. On the one hand, this makes it possible to realize only the thread tension forces which are only minimal for the yarn thread break-up compared to the thread tension forces required for the aftertreatment. Thus, for example, no significant tensile force acting on the thread is desired in the area of dissolution of the yarn plug. For example, the yarn tension required for the aftertreatment of the crimped yarn could be at a value of 100 cN.

For the aftertreatment has proven particularly useful when the crimped yarn is vortexed before winding to a coil and after the treatment of the treatment drum by means of a swirling device. Thus, the cohesion of the crimped filaments in the yarn composite for further processing can be improved advantageously.

In order to carry out the formation of the yarn plug as well as the thermal treatment of the yarn plug as possible with high flexibility, the process variant has proven particularly useful in which the yarn plug is supported for storage on the periphery of the treatment drum by a conveyor, wherein the conveyor and the treatment drum independently angetrie-

- A - ben. The density and guiding speed of the yarn plug can thus be adjusted on the one hand by the conveying means and on the other by the treatment drum.

To carry out the inventive method, a device according to the features of claim 8 is proposed. The underlying object is achieved thereby according to the invention that means for guiding the crimped yarn are provided obliquely from the resolution of the yarn plug on the circumference of the treatment drum, the increasing axial distance between the thread and the. With increasing wrapping of the thread on the circumference of the treatment drum Sets the thread stopper on the circumference of the treatment drum.

Such means can be formed directly on the circumference of the treatment drum. However, it is also possible to form the means at a distance from the circumference of the treatment drum.

To be particularly advantageous has been found to form the agent through a withdrawal groove on the circumference of the treatment drum. The pull-off groove is arranged axially offset from the guideway receiving the thread stopper on the circumference of the treatment drum, so that a curled thread led obliquely out of the release area of the yarn plug can be introduced directly into the pull-off groove. This results in very stable and reproducible operating states and thread guides on the circumference of the treatment drum during the dissolution of the thread stopper.

For the yarn guide of the crimped yarn on the circumference of the treatment drum, in particular the formation of the device according to the invention has proven to be advantageous, in which a diameter step is formed on the circumference of the treatment drum between the take-off groove and the guide track. Here, the thread is stretched over the diameter step at the circumference of the treatment guided drum. It can thus realize pitch angles in the threadline, which are possible in the range between 10 ° and 80 °.

In order to be able to guide the crimped thread in the pull-off groove with a defined wrap, the treatment drum is preferably followed by a thread guide, which tensions a guide plane with the pull-off groove. Here, depending on the position of the yarn guide a wrap of the crimped yarn in the take-off groove can be realized, which preferably includes at least a circumferential angle of 45 ° at the periphery of the treatment drum.

Since texturing means with stuffer boxes are usually used for forming yarn stoppers, which are aligned vertically, the development of the device according to the invention is preferably used, in which between the texturing agent and the treatment drum, a supply means is arranged to ensure the smoothest possible transition of the yarn plug of the Texturing to the scope of the treatment drum to receive. Thus, the preset in the stuffer box yarn thread densities can be maintained substantially unchanged. The transition to the circumference of the treatment drums is preferably acute-angled to tangential, so that the yarn plug can be guided without substantial supply.

The supply means is preferably formed by a guide means and a conveying means which are combined to form a conveying gap, which is conveyed to the yarn plug by a one-sided engagement of the conveying means along a slide formed by the guide means. This can advantageously combine low-deformation feed and a promotion of the yarn plug. By means of the conveying means, a defined and controllable outlet speed of the thread stopper from the texturing means is possible, so that a constant yarn stopper construction is ensured. In order to realize a repeated looping of the yarn plug at a substantially stretched and straight storage of the yarn plug on the circumference of the treatment drum, a guide in the direction of rotation of the treatment drum is preferably arranged a short distance in front of the guide means, so that the yarn plug after a single wrap around the circumference of the treatment drum can be moved by the conducting means. This makes it possible to realize compact guides of the yarn plug on the guide track in the treatment drum.

For thermal treatment, the cooling of the yarn plug on the circumference of the treatment drum is preferably carried out by an ambient air. For this purpose, the circumference of the treatment drum is formed by a gas-permeable guide casing, wherein in the interior of the treatment drum, a negative pressure acting with respect to the environment is generated by a suction device. Thus, a uniform flow of cooling air to flow through the yarn plug on the circumference of the treatment drum can be generated. Alternatively or additionally, conditioning of the air or the thread plug can be carried out. Thus it is possible to use a cold air or the thread plug with a fluid, e.g. To wet water.

The device according to the invention is preferably used in a spinning process, in which the crimped thread is wound up into a coil at the end of the spinning process. It is particularly advantageous if, before winding an additional turbulence of the crimped filaments is performed. For this purpose, the treatment drum is followed by a swirling device, through which the filaments of the multifilament crimped yarn are swirled after crimping. Within the spinning process it is possible to produce multifilament yarns or composite yarns, for example BCF yarns. In composite threads, for example a so-called tricolor thread, which is formed from three individual partial threads, the thread plug can be produced by bringing together all three partial threads. Regardless of the nature of the synthetic thread, a delivery nozzle combined with a compression chamber has proven to be particularly suitable as texturing agent. The delivery nozzle is connected to a compressed air source, wherein the compressed air is preferably fed heated to the delivery nozzle, so that in addition to the promotion of the filaments heating of the filaments can take place simultaneously.

The invention will be described in more detail below with reference to some embodiments of the inventive device for carrying out the method according to the invention with reference to the accompanying figures.

They show:

Fig. 1 shows schematically a cross-sectional view of a first embodiment of the device according to the invention for carrying out the method according to the invention

2 schematically shows a side view of the embodiment of the device according to the invention from FIG. 1, FIG. 3 shows schematically a rear view of the embodiment of the device according to the invention from FIG. 1

Fig. 4 shows schematically a side view of another embodiment of the device according to the invention

FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 schematically show a first exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention for carrying out the method according to the invention for crimping a multifilament yarn in several views. In Fig. 1, the device is shown schematically in a cross-sectional view and in Fig. 2 in a side view. 3 shows the rear view of the exemplary embodiment. Unless an explicit reference is made to one of the figures, the following description applies to both figures. The device, which could be integrated, for example, in a spinning process for the production of a BCF yarn, has a texturing agent 1 for upsetting a running multifilament yarn 8 into a yarn plug 9. Depending on the percentage, the thread 8 could be formed from a filament bundle or from a plurality of filament bundles comprising a plurality of sub-threads. The texturing agent 1 is formed in this embodiment by a delivery nozzle 2 and an adjacent stuffer box 4, as it is known for example from WO 03/004743. In that regard, reference is expressly made to the cited document at this point, so that at this point a brief description is sufficient.

The delivery nozzle 2 has a middle thread channel 6, in which a delivery fluid is introduced. For this purpose, the delivery nozzle 2 is connected via a fluid connection 3 with a compressed air source. The conveying fluid introduced into the thread channel 6, which is preferably formed by compressed air, is heated before it is introduced into the delivery nozzle 2. As a result of the pressurized air entering the yarn channel 6, the multifilament yarn 8, which was previously formed from a multiplicity of extruded filaments, is sucked into the delivery nozzle 2 and conveyed along the yarn channel 6.

The stuffer box 4 has an extension of the thread channel 6 to a stopper channel 7, which is formed by a plurality of annularly arranged blades 5. The lamellae 5 are held in a housing of the stuffer box 4, wherein the conveying fluid emerging from the stoppage channel 7 is discharged via a fluid outlet. Within the plug channel 7, each of the synthetic filaments of the thread 8 is deposited by means of the conveying fluid at the surface of the yarn plug 9 into loops and bows. In this case, the yarn plug 9 moves continuously from the plug channel 7 in the direction of a plug outlet.

On the outlet side of the texturing 1 a supply means 15 is provided for further guidance of the yarn plug. The feeding means 15 is in this Embodiment formed by a directly on the stuffer box 4 arranged guide means 11 and a conveyor 13, which are arranged opposite to a conveying gap 19. As a result, a holding force can be generated on the yarn plug 9, which counteracts the pressure of the conveying fluid for depositing the yarn 8 and for forming the yarn plug 9. This allows on the one hand to achieve a uniform yarn plug formation within the stuffer box 4 and on the other hand a uniform promotion of the yarn plug 9. The conveying means 13 is formed as a conveying roller 14 through which the yarn plug 9 is conveyed with a one-sided engagement of the conveying roller 14. The guide means 11 has for this purpose a slide 12, on which the yarn plug 9 is guided in a sliding manner. The conveying gap 19 formed between the guide means 11 and the conveying means 13 is designed such that the thread stopper 9 receives a change in shape, so that the forces required to convey and build up a retaining force can be generated on the thread stopper 9. For this purpose, the guide means 11 is preferably designed as a guide rail 20 which extends in an L-shaped manner between the texturing means 1 and a treatment drum 26. In this case, the free end of the guide rail 20 forms a stopper outlet 10, which is assigned directly to the circumference of the treatment drum 20. The slide track 12 in the guide rail 20 is arc-shaped, wherein in the arcuate portion of the slide track 12, the conveying gap 19 is formed by the opposite conveyor roller 14. The conveyor roller 14 is coupled to a motor 18 via a drive shaft 17.

The deflection of the yarn plug 9 from the outlet side of the texturing agent 1 to the stopper outlet 10 is matched to the circumference of the treatment drum 26 such that the yarn plug 9 can be fed to the treatment drum 26 substantially tangentially.

For thermal treatment, the thread stopper 9 is laid on the circumference of the treatment drum 26 in a straight line. The circumference of the treatment drum 26 is designed for this purpose as a gas-permeable guide casing 27. The treatment Treatment drum 26 is rotatably driven by a drum drive 28. The peripheral speed of the treatment drum 26 and the conveying speed of the yarn plug 9 conveyed by the conveyor 13 are substantially the same, so that the yarn plug 9 runs without further changes in density on the circumference of the treatment drum 26 and is continued. However, it is also possible, via the drum drive 28, to set a peripheral speed which is slightly increased with respect to the conveying speed of the conveyor 13. Thus, a slight loosening of the yarn plug when casserole on the treatment drum 26 is achieved. An increase in the circumferential speed of the treatment drum of 5% to 40% relative to the conveying speed of the conveyor has proven to be particularly advantageous.

The treatment drum 26 is closed at the end faces and connected via a suction port 29 with a suction device 30. By means of the suction device 30, a negative pressure is generated in the interior of the treatment drum 26, so that gaseous fluid is sucked from outside via the guide casing 27 into the interior of the treatment drum 26. To treat the yarn plug 9, this is deposited on the guide casing 27 of the treatment drum 26 and guided on the circumference of the treatment drum 26.

The treatment drum 26 has on the guide casing 27 for this purpose a guideway 24. The yarn plug 9 is guided in several directly adjacent wraps. The guide means 11 has, at the end facing the treatment drum 26, a guide means 23 which is located on the side of the guide rail 20 opposite the slide track 12. The guide means 23, which is preferably formed as a sliding edge, has a substantially congruent to the guide casing 27 of the treatment drum 26 adapted shape and is held at a short distance above the treatment drum 26. In this case, the sliding edge runs obliquely to the circumference of the treatment drum 26 in such a way that a yarn plug deposited on the stopper outlet 10 via the slide track 12 and deposited on the circumference of the treatment drum 26 after a straight run on the guide track 24 of the guide casing 27 is automatically guided against the sliding edge of the lubricant 23 and is displaced on the guide track 24.

As shown in Fig. 3, the yarn plug 9 is axially displaced by the lubricant 23 on the circumference of the treatment drum 26. Thus, it is possible to guide the yarn plug 9 with several wraps in the guide track 24 of the guide casing 27, wherein the wraps of the yarn plug are guided directly next to each other. In that regard, the guide means 11 can be used both for guiding the yarn plug 9 in front of the treatment drum 26 and for guiding the yarn plug 9 on the treatment drum 26.

The guide casing 27 of the treatment drum 26 has, in addition to the guide track 24, a pull-off groove 22. The withdrawal groove 22 and the guide track 24 are separated from each other at the periphery of the treatment drum 26 by a diameter step 34. In this case, the groove bottom of the pull-off groove 22 is located on a slightly smaller diameter relative to the diameter of the guide track 24. The pull-off groove 22 and the guide track 24 are gas-permeable to the guide sheath 27, so that the guide track 24 and the take-off groove 22 are flowed through from outside to inside. Depending on the thread guide, a guide zone can be formed between the pull-off groove 22 and the guide track 24. The guide zone could be both gas-permeable or non-permeable to gas to guide the thread.

For guiding a yarn guided on the circumference of the pull-off groove 22, the treatment drum 26 is followed by a yarn guide 31. The yarn guide 31, which is formed in this case by a deflection roller, biases a guide plane of the crimped yarn 35 with the withdrawal groove 22 on the circumference of the treatment drum 26. In the management level, the yarn guide 31 is followed by a take-off means 16 with several godet units 32.1 and 32.2. Between the godet units 32.1 and 32.2, a swirling device 33 is provided, which is connected to a compressed air source, not shown here. The godet units 32.1 and 32. 2 are each formed by a driven galette and a non-driven auxiliary role.

In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the multifilament yarn 8, which has been drawn off and stretched, for example, directly from a spinning zone, is fed to the texturing agent 1. The thread 8 formed from a multiplicity of extruded filament strands is conveyed through the delivery nozzle 6 by means of a hot fluid in the thread channel 6 and guided into the adjacent stuffer box 4. Within the stuffer box, a thread plug 9 is formed in the plug channel 7, with the filaments of the thread 8 laying down in loops and sheets on the surface of the thread plug 9. The thread plug 9 is then guided out of the texturing means 1 via the feed means 15 with a gentle deflection to the circumference of the treatment drum 26. For this purpose, a conveying means 13 engages on one side on the yarn plug 9, and promotes the yarn plug 9 continuously along the slideway 12 formed in the guide means 11. The yarn plug 9 continuously emerges from the plug outlet 10 at a uniform guiding speed and is separated from the rotating treatment drum 26 taken over. The peripheral speed of the treatment drum 26 and the outlet speed of the yarn plug are in this case substantially identical, so that no loosening of the yarn plug 9 occurs. The yarn plug 9 is guided in several wraps on the guide track 24 of the guide casing 27. In this case, the wraps of the yarn plug 9 are adjacent to each other, so that touch the individual yarn plug wraps on the circumference of the treatment drum 26.

As is apparent from Fig. 2, the yarn plug 9 is guided on the guide track 24 of the guide casing 27 with two wraps. After two turns Conditions of the yarn plug 9, a resolution range 25 is at the periphery of the treatment drum 26, in which the yarn plug 9 is dissolved to a crimped thread 35. To dissolve the yarn plug 9 to the crimped yarn 35 in the resolution region 25 of the thread 35 is guided obliquely out of the resolution of the yarn plug. Here, between an imaginary circumferential line, which corresponds to the course of the last looping of the yarn plug 9 on the circumference of the treatment drum 26, and the thread 35 a pitch angle, which is marked in Fig. 2 with the Greek letter α. The pitch angle α is selected such that, as the thread 35 wraps around the circumference of the treatment drum 26, a constantly increasing axial distance between the thread plug 9 and the crimped thread 35 is set. The pitch angle α for guiding the thread 35 may in this case be formed in the range of 10 ° to 80 °. Depending on the density and guidance of the thread plug 9 in the guide casing 27, the pitch angle of the thread can be selected.

To guide the thread 35 is inserted from the guideway 24 in the withdrawal groove 22. In this case, the diameter step 34 formed between the guideway 24 and the pull-off groove 22 represents a deflection of the thread 35 on the circumference of the treatment drum 26, so that a stable thread guide with uniform pitch angle remains ensured from the resolution area. Within the pull-off groove 22, the thread 35 is guided with a substantially straight thread run in the groove base until the thread separates from the circumference of the treatment drum 26 in a drainage region 36 marked in FIG. 3. In this case, the run-off region 36 and the dissolution region 25 are preferably held relative to one another in such a way that a wrap-around region for the thread 35 adjoins the treatment drum 26, which encloses at least a circumferential angle of> 45 °. Thus, a yarn tension required for the further treatment of the crimped yarn 35 can be sufficiently generated. For further treatment, the crimped thread 35 in the swirling device 33 is swirled by means of a compressed air flow. This achieves intensive intertwining of the crimped filaments, which in particular improves the cohesion of the thread.

FIG. 4 schematically shows a further exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention for carrying out the method according to the invention in a side view. The embodiment according to FIG. 4 is essentially identical in construction and function to the previous exemplary embodiment, so that only the differences are explained at this point and otherwise reference is made to the preceding description.

The exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 4 has as feed means 15 a pipe stub 37 which is associated with the texturing means (not shown here) directly with one end. The supply means 15 is arranged above the treatment drum 26, wherein a plug outlet 10 opens directly on the circumference of the treatment drum 26.

The treatment drum 26 has on the guide casing 27 on a guideway 24 which is gas-permeable. The guide casing 27 is rotatably driven via the drum drive 28. The guideway 24 on the circumference of the treatment drum 26 has in the guide casing 27 a first region for guiding the yarn plug 9 and an axially offset second region for guiding a crimped yarn 35. In the thread guide region of the guide track 24, a thread guide element 21 is assigned to the circumference of the treatment drum 26. The thread guide element 21 is arranged in the region of the second section of the guide track 24 axially offset from a resolution region 25 on the circumference of the treatment drum 26. The thread guiding element 21, which in this exemplary embodiment is formed, for example, as a loop-shaped thread guide, is followed by a take-off means, not shown here. In the exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention shown in Fig. 4, the yarn plug 9 is guided after storage on the circumference of the treatment drum with two wraps. To dissolve the yarn plug 9, the crimped yarn 35 is pulled off the circumference of the treatment drum 26 via the yarn guide element 21. For this purpose, a helical yarn course arises on the guideway 24, which causes a formed between the yarn plug 9 and the thread 35 axial distance on the circumference of the treatment drum 26 with increasing looping of the thread 35 on the guide casing 27 increases continuously. As a result, an oblique discharge of the thread 35 from the dissolution area 25 is achieved. The thread 35 is thus guided helically with the pitch angle α on the circumference of the treatment drum 26.

For thermal treatment, a tempered gaseous fluid is sucked from the outside through the gas-permeable guide casing 27 and discharged inside the treatment drum 26. In this case, the gas-permeable region of the guide jacket 27 extends over the entire guide track region 24, so that the thread 35 is held under suction on the circumference of the treatment drum 26.

For cooling an already tempered yarn plug 9, the ambient air is preferably used to cool the guided in several wraps yarn plug on the circumference of the treatment drum 26. In principle, however, it is also possible by means of additional fluid sources to suck in and remove a fluid discharged in the environment of the treatment drum 26, for example for heating the yarn plug. Thus, advantageously, a plurality of treatment zones can be formed on the treatment drum 26, so that the yarn plug can be treated in a plurality of wraps in a plurality of stages. In the exemplary embodiments illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 4, a treatment drum is shown in each case, on which a yarn plug is guided in several wraps. In principle, however, it is also possible to guide a plurality of yarn plugs parallel to one another on a treatment drum. The invention also advantageously extends to such devices. It is essential here that the crimped thread is guided at a pitch angle on the circumference of the treatment drum, which leads to an increase in the axial distance between the thread and the yarn plug.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1 texturing agent

2 delivery nozzle

3 fluid connection

4 stuffer box

5 lamellae

6 thread channel

7 plug channel

8 threads

9 thread plugs

10 stopper outlet

11 guide means

12 slideway

13 subsidies

14 conveyor roller

15 feeding means

16 extraction means

17 drive shaft

18 engine

19 conveying gap

20 guide rail

21 thread guide element

22 pull-off groove

23 conductive agents

24 guideway

25 resolution range

26 treatment drum

27 guide sheath

28 Drum drive

29 suction connection 30 suction device

31 thread guides

32.1, 32.2 godet unit

33 swirling device 34 diameter step

35 crimped thread

36 drainage area

37 pipe socket

Claims

claims

A method of crimping a multifilament yarn, wherein at least one yarn produced by melt spinning is upset into a yarn plug in which the yarn plug is deposited for thermal treatment on the circumference of a rotatable treatment drum wherein the yarn plug is in multiple juxtaposition Wraps around the circumference of the treatment drum is performed, in which the yarn plug is dissolved in a dissolution area on the circumference of the treatment drum to the crimped yarn and in which the crimped yarn is withdrawn from the circumference of the treatment drum, characterized in that the yarn is so inclined the dissolution range of the yarn plug is performed, that with increasing wrap of the thread on the circumference of the treatment drum, an increasing axial distance between the thread and the yarn plug adjusts to the circumference of the treatment drum.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the thread is guided after the dissolution of the yarn plug in a take-off groove on the circumference of the treatment drum.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the thread is guided from the resolution area with a pitch angle at the periphery of the treatment drum, that sets an angle of> 10 ° between the yarn path and a circumferential line of the treatment drum.

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 or 3, characterized in that the thread between the resolution area and a discharge area is guided over a wrap around the circumference of the treatment drum, which includes at least a circumferential angle of 45 °.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the crimped thread is swirled after expiration of the treatment drum by means of a Verwirbelungseinrichtung.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the yarn plug is supported for storage on the circumference of the treatment drum by a conveyor, wherein the conveyor and the treatment drum are driven independently.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the yarn plug is placed with a substantially straight plug course to the periphery of the treatment drum, wherein the yarn plug for the transition from a first wrap to an immediately adjacent second wrap around the circumference of the treatment drum is moved axially.

8. Apparatus for carrying out the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7 with a texturing agent (11) for forming a yarn plug (9) from at least one multifilament yarn produced by melt spinning (8), with a rotatably driven treatment drum (26) for thermi - see treatment of the thread plug (9) and with a withdrawal means (16) for removing the crimped thread (35) from the scope of treatment drum (26), wherein the yarn plug (9) is guided with several wraps on the circumference of the treatment drum (26) and wherein the yarn plug (9) in a dissolution region (25) on the circumference of the treatment drum (26) to the crimped thread (35). is resolvable, characterized by

Means (22, 34, 21) for guiding the curled thread (35) on the circumference of the treatment drum (26) obliquely from the release area (25) of the yarn plug (9), that with increasing looping of the thread (35) at the periphery of the treatment drum ( 26) there is an increasing axial distance between the thread (35) and the thread plug (9) at the circumference of the

Treatment drum (26) sets.

9. The device according to claim 8, characterized in that the means by a distance from the treatment drum (26) arranged thread guide element (21) is formed, which to a yarn plug (9) receiving guide track (24) axially offset the circumference of the treatment drum ( 26) is assigned.

10. The device according to claim 8, characterized in that the means by a pull-off groove (22) on the circumference of the treatment drum (26) is formed, wherein the pull-off groove is axially offset to a thread plug receiving guide track on the circumference of the treatment drum.

11. The device according to claim 9, characterized in that a diameter step (34) on the circumference of the treatment drum (26) between see the pull-off groove (22) and the guide track (24) is formed, through which the thread (35) so inclined the scope of the treatment drum (26), that an angle of> 10 ° is established between the yarn path and a circumferential line of the treatment drum (26).

12. The device according to claim 10 or 11, characterized in that the treatment drum (26) is associated with a yarn guide (31) which spans a guide plane with the pull-off groove (22) and generates a wrap-around region of the curled thread (35) at least a circumferential angle of 45 ° on the circumference of the treatment drum (26) includes.

13. Device according to one of claims 8 to 12, characterized in that a feed means (15) between the texturing means (1) and the treatment drum (26) is arranged and that the supply means (15) with a

Stopper outlet (10) of the guide track (24) is assigned to the circumference of the treatment drum (26).

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, characterized in that the feed means (15) by a guide means (1) and a conveying means (13) is formed, which are combined to form a conveying gap (19) that the yarn plug (9) by a one-sided engagement of the conveying means (13) along a slide formed by the guide means (11) slide (12) is conveyed.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, characterized in that the conveying means (13) by a driven conveyor roller (14) is formed, which abuts with a rotating conveyor casing on the yarn plug and that the guide means (11) by a guide rail (20) is formed . whose one-sided slide track (12) is arranged to form the conveying gap (19) opposite to the conveyor roller (14).

16. The apparatus of claim 14 or 15, characterized in that a guide means (23) in the direction of rotation of the treatment drum (26) is arranged at a short distance in front of the guide means (11).

17. Device according to one of claims 8 to 16, characterized in that the circumference of the treatment drum (26) by a gas-permeable guide casing (27) is formed, which is connected to a suction device (30) through which in the interior of the treatment drum (26 ) A relative to the environment acting negative pressure can be generated.

18. Device according to one of claims 8 to 17, characterized in that the treatment drum (26) downstream of a swirling device (33) through which the filaments of the multifϊlen thread (35) are swirled after crimping.

19. Device according to one of claims 8 to 18, characterized in that the texturing means (1) by a delivery nozzle (2) and one of the delivery nozzle (2) on an outlet side associated stuffer box (4) is formed, wherein the delivery nozzle (1). connected to a compressed air source.