Device for the production of artificial filaments by the melt spinning method

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR QUENCHING MELT SPUN SYNTHETIC FILAMENTS CONPRISING WALL MEANS DEFINING A QUENCHING CHAMBER HAVING INLET MEANS FOR RECEIVING JUST SPUN SYNTHETIC FILAMENTS INTO SAID QUENCHING CHAMBER AND OUTLET MEANS FOR ISSUING THE SYNTHETIC FILAMENTS FROM SAID QUENCHING CHAMBER AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN QUENCHED; WALL MEANS DEFINING A PLENUM CHAMBER ADJOINING SAID QUENCHING CHAMBER, SAID WALL MEANS INCLUDING A FIRST FORAMINOUS WALL BETWEEN SAID QUENCHING CHAMBER AND SAID PLENUM CHAMBER THROUGH WHICH THE PLENUM CHAMBER COMMUNICATES WITH THE QUENCHING CHAMBER; INLET MEANS FOR ADMITTING FLUID TO SAID PLENUM CHAMBER FOR TRANSIT THROUGH SAID FIRST FORAMINOUS WALL AND INTO SAID QUENCHING CHAMBER; THE PLENUM CHAMBER WALL MEANS COMPRISING TWO OPPOSED SIDEWALLS ADJOINING THE OPPOSITE LATERAL EXTREMES OF SAID FIRST FORAMINOUS WALL; A QUENCHING FLUID-IMPERVIOUS BAFFLE SYMMETRICALLY MOUNTED IN SAID PLENUM CHAMBER WITH RESPECT TO AN IMAGINARY CENTERLINE EXTENDING PARALLEL TO THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF THE SYNTHETIC FILAMENTS THROUGH THE QUENCHING CHAMBER AND NORMAL TO THE FIRST FORAMINOUS WALL; SAID BAFFLE EXTENDING THROUGHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY THE FULL HEIGHT OF THE PLENUM CHAMBER AND BEING INTERPOSED BETWEEN THE FLUID INLET MEANS AND THE FIRST FORAMINOUS WALL; SAID BAFFLE BEING APPROXIMATELY PARALLEL TO THE FIRST FORAMINOUS WALL AND TERMINATING SHORT OF SAID OPPOSED SIDEWALLS TO DEFINE TWO GAPS, ONE AT EACH LATERAL EDGE THEREOF; AND A SECOND FORAMINOUS WALL, MOUNTED WITHIN SAID PLENUM CHAMBER BETWEEN THE BAFFLE AND THE FIRST FORAMINOUS WALL, AND EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY FROM THE INTERSECTION OF SAID CENTERLINE PLANE AND SAID BAFFLE TO SAID TWO OPPOSED SIDEWALLS, WHEREBY FLUID PASSING FROM SAID PLENUM CHAMBER INTO SAID QUENCHING CHAMBER MUST PASS AROUND SAID BAFFLE THROUGH SAID GAPS THEN THROUGH SAID SECOND AND SAID FIRST FORAMINOUS WALLS.