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US3465509A
US3465509A US618768A US3465509DA US3465509A US 3465509 A US3465509 A US 3465509A US 618768 A US618768 A US 618768A US 3465509D A US3465509D A US 3465509DA US 3465509 A US3465509 A US 3465509A
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Philip Forward
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D02—YARNS; MECHANICAL FINISHING OF YARNS OR ROPES; WARPING OR BEAMING
    • D02G—CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS
    • D02G1/00—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics
    • D02G1/02—Producing crimped or curled fibres, filaments, yarns, or threads, giving them latent characteristics by twisting, fixing the twist and backtwisting, i.e. by imparting false twist
    • D02G1/04—Devices for imparting false twist
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  • a false twist apparatus adapted to be operated at at least 400,000 revolutions per minute without experiencing substantial loss of tenacity in the travelling yarn in a predetermining path, the combination of a rotatable hollow tubular false twist spindle having an internal diameter of at most 0.04 inch and a snubbing pin located intermediate the ends of said tubular spindle 'being inclined transversely to the axis of said spindle and having a diameter of between 0.03 and 0.04 inch.
  • Said tubular spindle surrounds one portion of the yarn and there is a further yarn guide tube surrounding another portion of the yarn having an inner cross-sectional area being ,a multiple of the inner cross-sectional area of the tubular false twist spindle and so selected to preclude contact of said guide tube with the ballooning yarn.
  • This invention relates to the false twisting of textile yarn.
  • the invention comprises a false twist spindle comprising a tubular member having an inlet end and an outlet end for yarn and an internal diameter of 0.04 inch or less between said inlet and outlet ends, and a twist locking device at said outlet end.
  • Said twist locking device may comprise a pin, around which yarn can be wrapped, extending transversely across said outlet end.
  • the internal diameter of said tubular member may exceed the diameter of the pin by not more than two yarn diameters.
  • a pin suitable for yarns of 100 denier and less may have a diameter between 0.03 inch and 0.04 inch.
  • the pin may extend across said outlet end perpendicularly to the axis of the tubular member, or inclined to a perpendicular to the said axis.
  • the twist locking device may be located in a body of circular cross-section of larger diameter than the tubular member, and from which the tubular member projects axially.
  • a second tubular member may project axially from said body on the side of the twist locking device remote from the first tubular member.
  • Said second tubular member may also have an internal diameter of 0.04 inch or less, and may be similar to said first tubular member, so that the false twist spindle is symmetrical about the twist locking device. It said second tubular member has the same outside diameter as said first tubular member, both said tubular members can afford tracks for rolling bearings by which the false twist spindle is driven and/ or supported in rotation.
  • the false twist spindle may be adapted to be magnetically located in a supporting and/or driving roller arrangement.
  • Said tubular member or members and/or said body can be of a ferromagnetic material such as steel.
  • the invention also comprises false twisting apparatus comprising a false twist spindle as herein described, and a driving and supporting arrangement therefor.
  • the false twisting apparatus may include magnetic locating means adapted to locate the false twist spindle in driving and/or supporting roller means.
  • the false twist apparatus may comprise guide means for guiding the yarn to the false twist spindle, said guide means comprising a tube having, axially aligned with said spindle, an inlet and an outlet for the yarn and between said inlet and said outlet having an internal diameter suificiently great that yarn, ballooning between said inlet and said outlet, does not touch its wall.
  • Said guide means may comprise, at said inlet and said outlet, ceramic annuli of smaller internal diameter than said tube.
  • a roller supporting and/or driving arrangement, together with said guide means, may be mounted on a bracket adapted for mounting in a false twist crimping machine.
  • a bracket may conveniently have two roller supporting and/or driving arrangements and two guide means mounted thereon.
  • FIGURE 1 is a part sectional side elevation of a false twist spindle in a roller supporting and driving arrangement, mounted on a bracket together with yarn guide means, I
  • FIGURE 2 is a view to a larger scale along the axis of the false twist spindle shown in FIGURE 1, showing parts of the supporting and driving arrangement,
  • FIGURE 3 is a sectional side elevation of another false twist spindle
  • FIGURE 4 is a diagrammatic illustration of a false twist crimping apparatus embodying such an arrangement as that illustrated in FIGURE 1, but in which two supporting and driving arrangements are mounted on the same bracket.
  • the apparatus illustrated in FIGURES 1 to 3 comprises a false twist spindle 11 comprising a tubular member 12 having an inlet end 13 and an outlet end 14 fora yarn 15 and having an internal diameter of 0.04 inch between said inlet end 13 and said outlet end 14, and a twist locking device 16 at said outlet end 14.
  • the twist locking device 16 comprises a pin of synthetic sapphire or other wear-resistant material and has a reduced diameter central portion 17, the smallest diameter of which is 0.03 inch. For commercially processed yarns of denier or less, this diameter is less than the internal diameter of the tubular member 12 by not more than two yarn diameters, and 'a pin of this size, gives good results in processing.
  • FIGURES 1 and 2 illustrate a false twist spindle 11 in which the pin 16 extends transversely across the outlet end 14 of the tubular member 12, perpendicularly to the axis thereof.
  • FIGURE 3 illustrates a false twist spindle 11 generally similar to the spindle 11 of FIGURES 1 and 2, but in which the pin 16 extends transversely across the outlet end 14 of said tubular member 12 inclined to the perpendicular to the axis of the member 12. In both cases,
  • the said outlet end 14 is close to the twist pin 16, and, in fact, is preferably as close as possible to the twist pin 16 while permitting yarn to be threaded around the pin 16.
  • the pin 16 is located in a body 18 of circular crosssection of larger diameter than the tubular member 12, and from which body 18, the tubular member 12 projects axially.
  • the body 18 has a transverse throughway 19 affording access to the pin 16 for threading, and the pin is located by cementing into a transverse bore through the body 18 substantially at right angles to the axis of the throughway 19.
  • a second tubular member 21 projects axially from the body 18 on the side of the twist pin 16 remote from the first tubular member 12. It is not necessary for this second tubular member 21 to have the same internal diameter as the first, but it is convenient to make the spindle 11 symmetrical about the twist pin in all respects as it does not then matter which way up it is located in the driving and supporting roller arrangement. In any event, it is desirable that both said tubular members 12 and 21 have the same outside diameter (as illustrated), since the spindle 11 can then be supported in a roller supporting arrangement by rollers engaging the spindle 11 on opposite sides of the body 18, on tracks afforded by both said tubular members 12, 21.
  • the spindle 11 is adapted to be magnetically located in a supporting and/or driving roller arrangement, by its body 18, at least, being of ferro-magnetic material such as hard steel.
  • FIGURES 1 and 2 also illustrate a driving and supporting arrangement in which the spindle 11 is located.
  • the arrangement comprises two parallel shafts 22 (of which one only can be seen in FIGURE 1), each carrying a pair of axially spaced rollers 23, which may be entirely of polyurethane or have polyurethane tyres.
  • the shafts 22 are carried in bearings 24 fixed in a bracket 25 adapted to be mounted in a false twist crimping machine.
  • the bracket 25 also carries a magnet 26 whose pole pieces 26a lie between the shafts 22 and act on radial enlargements 18a of the body 18 of the spindle 11 to hold the tubular members 12, 21 against the peripheral surfaces of the rollers 23.
  • One of the shafts 22 projects through its bearing 24 and has a belt-engaging wharve which contacts a driving belt 27, whereby the rollers 23 on that shaft 22, and hence the spindle 11 are driven in rotation.
  • a tube 28 axially aligned with the spindle 11 having an inlet 28a and an outlet 28]) for the yarn 15, and, at said inlet and outlet ceramic annuli 29, of smaller internal diameter than the tube 28 in which they are cemented.
  • the tube 28 acts as guide means for the yarn 15, guiding it past the belt 27, and has an internal diameter sufficiently great so that the yarn 15, ballooning between the ceramic annuli 29, does not touch the wall of the tube 28.
  • yarn can be processed at high speed (400,000 revolutions per minute) without substantial loss of tenacity.
  • Prior art arrangements have been found to reduce the tenacity of nylon yarn from about grams per denier to as little as 2.5 grams per denier.
  • An arrangement as above described, running at 400,000 revolutions per minute inserting 70 turns per inch produced a false twist crimped yarn with a tenacity of 4.7 grams per denier.
  • FIGURE 4 illustrates diagrammatically a false twist crimping apparatus comprising a support for two yarns supply packages 41, feed roller means 42 forwarding yarn from both packages 41 to a contact heater 43 in which the yarns run in separate tracks, and then to false twist spindles 44 as above described each supported in a supporting and driving roller arrangement 45 mounted, together with guide tubes 46 on a common bracket 47 fixed in the machine. Yarn is withdrawn from the false twist spindles 44 by further feed roller means 48 whence it passes to wind-up means 49, of which two are provided so that the yarns can be taken up singly, or together on one of said wind-up means.
  • a false twist crimping machine comprises a plurality of such apparatus located side by side, together with associated driving and power supply means.
  • a false twisting apparatus for false twisting a yarn travelling in a predetermined path, the combination comprising a rotatable tubular false twist spindle surrounding a portion of said path and having an inlet end and an outlet end spaced from said inlet end downstream thereof, said spindle having an internal diameter of at most 0.04 inch; and a yarn guide tube surrounding another portion of said path upstream of said inlet end and in axial alignment with said tubular false twist spindle, said yarn being subject to ballooning and said guide tube having an inner cross-sectional area being a multiple of the inner cross-sectional area of said false twist spindle so selected as to preclude contact of said guide tube with the ballooning yarn.
  • said yarn guide tube having a constriction at its inlet end and a constriction at its outlet end, the inner cross-sectional area of each of said constrictions being a fraction of the inner cross-sectional area of said yarn guide tube.
  • twist locking means provided at said outlet end of said false twist spindle and including a pin extending transversely across said outlet end.
  • a false twist spindle according to claim 3, wherein the internal diameter of said spindle exceeds the diameter of said pin by at most two yarn diameters.
  • a false twist spindle according to claim 4 suitable for yarns of denier and less, wherein the diameter of said pin is between 0.03 inch and 0.04 inch.
  • both of said yarn guide tubes have identical outside diameters and each provide at the respective exterior circumferential surfaces thereof tracks for supporting roller means supporting said false twist spindle for rotation of the latter.

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US3748842A (en) * 1971-04-30 1973-07-31 N Kodaira Apparatus of driving spinning for false twisting yarn
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US3768129A (en) * 1969-01-04 1973-10-30 Kugelfischer G Schaefer & Co Friction roller for driving high-speed spinning or twisting tube
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US2949721A (en) * 1954-06-17 1960-08-23 American Enka Corp Process and apparatus for making curled thermoplastic yarn
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GB998091A (en) * 1960-07-21 1965-07-14 Georg Schafer Devices for false-twisting threads
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