Yarn texturing process
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsLaurence N. Bascom, Franklin G. Parker, James W. Rogers
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Abstract
Air-jet textured core/effect nylon yarn provides fabrics having better cover when the core component has been draw-oriented after conventional melt-spinning, and the effect component has been spin-oriented by melt-spinning at unusually high speed. The improved yarn is particularly useful in upholstery fabrics.
Claims1
In the preparation of nylon core/effect yarn by an air-jet texturing process wherein multifilament core yarn is fed to the jet at a speed that is 5 to 8 percent greater than the take-off speed from the jet, and multifilament effect yarn is fed to the jet at a speed that is about 25 percent greater than the take-off speed from the jet;
- the improvement which comprises feeding core yarn prepared by a process in which polyhexamethyleneadipamide is melt spun at a speed of less than 1000 yards per minute and which includes cold-drawing at least 2.5.times. to a break elongation of 20 to 40 percent, and feeding effect yarn prepared by a process in which polyhexamethyleneadipamide is melt spun at a speed greater than 2000 yards per minute and is not cold-drawn and the yarn has a break elongation of 70 to 100 percent.
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