(19)
(11) EP 0 119 044 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
26.03.1986 Bulletin 1986/13

(43) Date of publication A2:
19.09.1984 Bulletin 1984/38

(21) Application number: 84301407

(22) Date of filing: 02.03.1984
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE DE FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 02.03.1983 US 471239

(71) Applicant: ENTERPRISE MACHINE & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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(72) Inventor:
  • Price, Samuel T.
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(54) Air jet texturing system


(57) @ A process is provided for producing highly resilient, textured, continuous multifilament polymeric yarns and combinations of such yarns with other continuous filament yarns and with spun yarns. The unstable or wild loops which form in conventional air jet textured yarns are substantially eliminated in the product yarns of this invention. The product yarns are formed by continuously drawing polymeric yarn under controlled temperature conditions, texturing the yarn in an air jet texturizer (14) and subjecting the textured yarn to saturated steam (18) while restraining the linear shrinkage of the yarn in the presence of the steam, followed by continuous take-up of the yarn on a package (22).







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