Apparatus for production of mouline yarns

Claim 1

An apparatus for the production of mouline yarn comprising guide means adapted to guide individual yarns for the mouline yarn parallel to one another without any gaps between the individual yarns; a compression crimping chamber; yarn separating means for separating the yarns after they leave the compression crimping chamber; yarn delivery means; means for guiding the yarns at a distance of at least 3 mm. apart from one another through the delivery means; a cording station formed by a cording polygon having an apexial yarn feed guide and a plurality of yarn guides corresponding in number to the number of individual filaments or an integral multiple thereof, the latter yarn guides being arranged at the vertices of a horizontal equilateral polygon; a yarn balloon guide positioned below the horizontal plane of said equilateral polygon and vertically aligned with the center of the equilateral polygon; a ring twisting spindle with its ring symmetrically positioned beneath the collecting yarn guide; means for reciprocating said ring up and down; and further means for reciprocating said yarn balloon guide up and down in synchronism with said ring of said ring twist spindle but with a shorter stroke, said stroke keeping said yarn balloon guide at a minimum vertical distance from the plane of said horizontal equilateral polygon of 0.8 times the vertical distance between said apexial yarn feed guide and said plane of said horizontal equilateral polygon.

Claim 2

An apparatus for the production of mouline yarn comprising guide means adapted to guide individual yarns for the mouline yarn parallel to one another without any gaps between the individual yarns; a compression crimping chamber; yarn separating means for separating the yarns after they leave the compression crimping chamber; yarn delivery means; means for guiding the yarns at a distance of at least 3 mm. apart from one another through the delivery means; a cording station formed by a cording polygon having an apexial yarn feed guide and a plurality of yarn guides corresponding in number to the number of individual filaments or an integral multiple thereof, the latter yarn guides being arranged at the vertices of a horizontal equilateral polygon; a yarn balloon guide positioned below the horizontal plane of said equilateral polygon and vertically aligned with the center of the equilateral polygon; a ring twisting spindle with its ring symmetrically positioned beneath the collecting yarn guide; means for reciprocating said ring up and down; and further means for reciprocating said yarn balloon guide up and down in synchronism with said ring of said ring twist spindle but with a shorter stroke, said stroke keeping said yarn balloon guide at a minimum vertical distance from the plane of said horizontal equilateral polygon of 0.8 times the vertical distance between said apexial yarn feed guide and said plane of said horizontal equilateral polygon.