Machine for processing stranded material

Claim 1

IN A MACHINE FOR AUTOMATICALLY SETTING A CURL IN A STRAND OF MATERIAL AND FEEDING THE MATERIAL TO A DISCHARGE POINT, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: MANDREL MEANS HAVING AN UPSTREAM END AND A DOWNSTREAM END AND ALSO HAVING SLOT MEANS EXTENDING ALONG ITS PERIPHERY SPACED FROM AND PARALLEL TO ITS MAJOR AXIS; ROD MEANS NESTED IN SAID SLOT MEANS SAID ROD MEANS INCLUDING EXTERNAL THREADS HAVING ROOT PORTIONS, SAID SLOT MEANS BEING SO DIMENSIONED THAT SAID ROD MEANS NESTS THEREIN WITH SAID ROOT PORTIONS LYING TANGENT TO A CIRCLE INSCRIBED ABOUT SAID PERIPHERY OF SAID MANDREL MEANS, SAID STRAND BEING ADAPTED TO BE LOOPED ABOUT SAID MANDREL MEANS WITH THE INDIVIDUAL LOOPS THEREOF SEATED IN SAID ROOT PORTIONS; AND DRIVE MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID MANDREL MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ROTATING SAID MANDREL MEANS ABOUT ITS MAJOR AXIS, SAID DRIVE MEANS INCLUDING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID ROD MEANS FOR MAINTAINING SAID ROD MEANS IN A GIVEN ORIENTATION RELATIVE TO SAID MACHINE, SAID MANDREL MEANS BEING ROTATED ONE REVOLUTION ABOUT ITS MAJOR AXIS WHILE SAID ROD MEANS IS REVOLVED ONCE ABOUT THE MAJOR AXIS OF SAID MANDREL MEANS, WHEREBY SAID STRAND OF MATERIAL IS FED CONTINUOUSLY ALONG SAID MANDREL MEANS WHILE SAID INDIVIDUAL LOOPS ARE SUBJECTED TO A FRICTIONAL DRAG IN A BACKWARD DIRECTION SO THAT SAID LOOPS WILL BE STRETCHED TO FORM UNIFORM CURLS IN SAID STRAND.