<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE ep-patent-document PUBLIC "-//EPO//EP PATENT DOCUMENT 1.4//EN" "ep-patent-document-v1-4.dtd"><!-- Disclaimer: This ST.36 XML data has been generated from A2/A1 XML data enriched with the publication date of the A3 document - March 2013 - EPO - Directorate Publication - kbaumeister@epo.org --><ep-patent-document id="EP97121097A3" file="EP97121097NWA3.xml" lang="en" doc-number="0848093" date-publ="19990331" kind="A3" country="EP" status="N" dtd-version="ep-patent-document-v1-4"><SDOBI lang="en"><B000><eptags><B001EP>ATBECHDEDKESFRGBGRITLILUNLSEMCPTIESILTLVFIROMK..................................</B001EP><B005EP>R</B005EP><B007EP>DIM360 (Ver 1.5  21 Nov 2005) -  1100000/0</B007EP></eptags></B000><B100><B110>0848093</B110><B120><B121>EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION</B121></B120><B130>A3</B130><B140><date>19990331</date></B140><B190>EP</B190></B100><B200><B210>97121097.6</B210><B220><date>19971201</date></B220><B250>en</B250><B251EP>en</B251EP><B260>en</B260></B200><B300><B310>335868/96  </B310><B320><date>19961216</date></B320><B330><ctry>JP</ctry></B330></B300><B400><B405><date>19990331</date><bnum>199913</bnum></B405><B430><date>19980617</date><bnum>199825</bnum></B430></B400><B500><B510><B516>6</B516><B511> 6D 01H  13/10   A</B511></B510><B540><B541>de</B541><B542>Fadenspanner zum Zwirnen</B542><B541>en</B541><B542>Twisting tenser</B542><B541>fr</B541><B542>Organe de tension pour le retordage</B542></B540><B590><B598>3</B598></B590></B500><B700><B710><B711><snm>Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha</snm><iid>00308932</iid><irf>PA 2 EU bt</irf><adr><str>3 Minami, Ochiai-Cho,
Kisshoin</str><city>Minami-ku,
Kyoto-shi,
Kyoto 601</city><ctry>JP</ctry></adr></B711></B710><B720><B721><snm>Uehare, Masao</snm><adr><str>E-202,
34, Ishihara Minami-cho,
Kisshoin</str><city>Minami-ku,
Kyoto-shi,
Kyoto</city><ctry>JP</ctry></adr></B721><B721><snm>Kimura, Tatsuo</snm><adr><str>146-1, Aono-cho</str><city>Nara-shi,
Nara</city><ctry>JP</ctry></adr></B721></B720><B740><B741><snm>Patentanwälte Rüger, Barthelt &amp; Abel</snm><iid>00100575</iid><adr><str>Webergasse 3</str><city>73728 Esslingen</city><ctry>DE</ctry></adr></B741></B740></B700><B800><B840><ctry>AT</ctry><ctry>BE</ctry><ctry>CH</ctry><ctry>DE</ctry><ctry>DK</ctry><ctry>ES</ctry><ctry>FI</ctry><ctry>FR</ctry><ctry>GB</ctry><ctry>GR</ctry><ctry>IE</ctry><ctry>IT</ctry><ctry>LI</ctry><ctry>LU</ctry><ctry>MC</ctry><ctry>NL</ctry><ctry>PT</ctry><ctry>SE</ctry></B840><B844EP><B845EP><ctry>AL</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>LT</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>LV</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>MK</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>RO</ctry></B845EP><B845EP><ctry>SI</ctry></B845EP></B844EP><B880><date>19990331</date><bnum>199913</bnum></B880></B800></SDOBI><abstract id="abst" lang="en"><p id="pa01" num="0001">To enable composite yarn, including thick elastic yarn, to be twisted.</p><p id="pa02" num="0002">The present invention provides a twisting tenser 10 of composite yarn Y, including elastic yarn y<sub>2</sub>, wherein the upper end 23 of a guide pipe 19 that engages the composite yarn Y has a rough surface 24. The rough surface 24 has a surface roughness of 4 µm to 15 µm R<sub>max</sub>, and is finished by blasting or formed by biscuit-firing.<img id="iaf01" file="imgaf001.tif" wi="71" he="103" img-content="drawing" img-format="tif" /></p></abstract><search-report-data id="srep" srep-office="EP" date-produced="" lang=""><doc-page id="srep0001" file="srep0001.tif" type="tif" orientation="portrait" he="297" wi="210" /><doc-page id="srep0002" file="srep0002.tif" type="tif" orientation="portrait" he="297" wi="210" /></search-report-data></ep-patent-document>