Textile thread heating apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING, GUIDING AND HEATING A LENGTHWISE MOVING TEXTILE FILAMENT COMPRISING A PAIR OF SPACED PARALLEL FEEDER MEMBERS, A MULTIPLICITY OF SPACED PAIRS OF IDENTICAL WIRE ELEMENTS SUPPORTED BY SAID FEEDER MEMBERS, EACH ELEMENT CONSISTING OF TWO STRAIGHT, ELONGATED, SPACED LEG PORTIONS DEFINING A PLANE AND AN INTEGRAL PORTION JOINING SAID LEG PORTIONS AT ONE END, SPANNING THE SPECE BETWEEN SAID LEGS, SAID LEG PORTIONS TERMINATING FREE OF EACH OTHER AT THE OTHER END, SAID WIRE ELEMENTS IN EACH PAIR ORIENTED EACH RELATIVE TO THE OTHER SO THAT A LEG OF EACH ELEMENT PASSES CENTRALLY BETWEEN BOTH LEGS OF THE OTHER ELEMENT AND SO THAT THE PLANES DEFINED BY THE LEGS OF EACH ELEMENT ARE AT AN ANGLE ONE TO THE OTHER AND CROSS IN A SINGLE LINE OF INTERSECTION PASSING THROUGH BOTH SAID LEGS OF BOTH SAID ELEMENTS IN EACH PAIR, THE LINE OF INTERSECTION OF EACH PAIR BEING ALIGNED WITH THE LINE OF INTERSECTION OF ALL OTHER PAIRS, WHEREBY A TEXTILE FILAMENT IS ADAPTED TO BE SUPPORTED AND GUIDED IN LENGTHWISE MOVEMENT ON SAID ELEMENTS ADJACENT SAID LINE OF INTERSECTION IN PROXIMITY TO BOTH LEGS OF BOTH ELEMENTS IN EACH PAIR, ONE SAID FEEDER MEMBER SECURED TO AND SUPPORTING THE FREE ENDS OF THE LEG PORTIONS OF ONE OF SAID WIRE ELEMENTS IN EACH PAIR AND CONNECTED TO MEANS PROVIDING THE FEEDER MEMBER AND THE LEGS OF ONE WIRE ELEMENT IN EACH PAIR WITH A RADIO FREUENCY OF ONE POLARITY, THE OTHER SAID FEEDER MEMBER SECURED TO AND SUPPORTING THE FREE ENDS OF THE LEG PORTIONS OF THE OTHER SAID WIRE ELEMENT IN EACH PAIR AND CONNECTED TO MEANS PROVIDING THE OTHER FEEDER MEMBER AND THE LEGS OF THE OTHER WISE ELEMENT IN EACH PAIR WITH THE SAME RADIO FREUENCY OF OPPOSITE POLARITY, WHREBY A RADIO FREQUENCY FIELD IS PRODUCED BETWEEN SAID WIRE ELEMENTS AT THE AFORESAID LINE OF INTERSECTION FOR HEATING A TEXTILE FILAMENT MOVING THEREALONG.