An improved apparatus for wetting filaments

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EP 0 120 674 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	21.11.1985 Bulletin 1985/47

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	03.10.1984 Bulletin 1984/40

(21)	Application number: 84301906

(22)	Date of filing: 21.03.1984

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE GB NL

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Priority:

29.03.1983 GB 8308573

(71)	Applicant: British Nuclear Fuels PLC
	()

(72)	Inventor:
	Tarrant, Colin David ()

(54)	An improved apparatus for wetting filaments

(57) Apparatus for treating a continuous filament with a wetting medium includes a bath, guides forthe filament disposed beneath the level of wetting medium contained in the bath, and filter means through which the medium in the bath is caused to flow by a current induced in the medium by the passage of the filament about to the guides.

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