Process for preparing

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF ROLLED FILAMENTARY ARTICLES COMPRISING THE PASSAGE OF CONTINUOUN, COHERENT, UNORIENTED, FLEXIBLE RIBBON OF AN ORGANIC, THERMOPLASTIC, RESINOUS MATERIAL IN FLAT, UNDISTORTED FORM INTO FIRST GUIDE MEANS, REMOVAL OF SAID RIBBON FROM SAID FIRST GUIDE MEANS SO THAT A PLANE THROUGH THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID RIBBON AND PERPENDICULAR TO THE WIDTH OF SAID RIBBON IS AT AN ACUTE ANGLE TO AN EXTENSION OF SAID PLANE OF SAID RIBBON ENTERING SAID FIRST GUIDE MEANS, THE PASSAGE OF SAID RIBBON THROUGH A SECOND GUIDE MEANS, DISPOSED PARALLEL TO SAID FIRST GUIDE MEANS SO AS TO DIVERT OR TO DEFLECT SAID RIBBON INTO A DIRECTION OF TRAVEL SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO AND FINITELY DISPLACED FROM SAID PLANE OF SAID RIBBON ENTERING SAID FIRST GUIDE MEANS WHILE IMPARTING A TORQUE TO SAID RIBBON BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND GUIDE MEANS TO CAUSE SAID RIBBON TO ROLL INTO A FILAMENT OF AN INVOLUTE CROSS SECTION HAVING THE ORIGINAL EDGES OF SAID RIBBON ESSENTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE FILAMENT AND WHILE MAINTAINING SUFFICIENT TENSION ON SAID FILAMENT THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS TO IMPART THERETO ORIENTATION PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID FILAMENT.