Textiles: manufacturing – Textile product fabrication or treatment – Fiber entangling and interlocking
Patent
1988-02-26
1989-02-14
Ball, Michael W.
Textiles: manufacturing
Textile product fabrication or treatment
Fiber entangling and interlocking
28283, 156158, B65H 6906, D04H 310
Patent
active
048037621
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for splicing lengths of synthetic fiber tow. The tail of one length of tow and the lead portion of another length are each separated into an equal number of bundles. Bundles from the lead portion are overlapped with bundles from the tail portion to form overlapped pairs of bundles, which pairs are confined in a pair of separate, spaced-apart, open-ended passageways. Then, the overlapped pairs in each of the pairs of passageways are subjected to a plurality of longitudinally spaced-apart jets of gaseous fluid oriented generally perpendicular to the length of the overlapped pairs. This causes fibers in the pairs of bundles from the lead portion and the tail portion to become entangled to form a splice between the lengths of full tow. With certain tows it is preferred that the direction of the jets in one of the passageways of each of the pairs of passageways is opposed to the direction of the jets in the other passageway of each of the pairs of passageways.
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Ball Michael W.
Knable Geoffrey L.
World Tech Fibres, Inc.
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