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US 3,981,129 AGranted
Method and device for the felting of sliver and suchlike into felted yarns
AssigneeI.W.S. Nominee Company Limited
InventorHenricus Cornelis Johannes Briaire
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Abstract
Apparatus and method of making felt or felted yarns includes passing a wet wool-containing sliver or yarn through a flexible hollow tube while flexing the tube preferably in a traveling wave motion.
Claims7
A method of felting wool-containing fibres consisting essentially of the steps of
- a. providing a flexible guide tube;
- b. passing wet wool-containing fibres through said guide tube;
- and
- c. simultaneously with step (b), flexing said guide tube.
1 more element
Apparatus for felting wool-containing fibres comprising a flexible guide tube, means for passing a wet wool-containing fibre through said flexible guide tube, and means for flexing said guide tube during the passage of the wet wool containing fibres therethrough.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.