Textile yarn carrier

A textile yarn carrier constructed of an open plastic shell having generally cylindrical configuration facilitating the passage of a liquid dye therethrough from the inside but being reduced adjacent at least one end sufficiently to permit stacking wherein an upper portion of each yarn carrier is nested within a lower portion of a next adjacent yarn carrier comprising:

• a plurality of generally axial apexes with valleys therebetween formed by undulations within the surface of the plastic shell;
• said plastic shell being of generally uniform thickness;
• a plurality of spaced openings in said plastic shell;
• said generally axial apexes with valleys therebetween formed by undulations extending along said yarn carrier;
• said apexes and valleys of the top of one yarn carrier serving as means guiding an upper portion of said one yarn carrier into nested relation with respective apexes and valleys aligned in a lower portion of a next adjacent yarn carrier;
• stop means carried inside said lower portion of a carrier limiting the amount to which said upper portion a yarn carrier may be pushed into said lower portion of another;
• the apexes of the undulations being aligned in an axial direction such that the yarn carriers can be pushed into one another a predetermined amount forming nesting portions;
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• spaced recesses being formed on the apexes of the respective yarn carriers to avoid jamming.