Device for application of lubricant liquid to yarn on double twister
AssigneeMurata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshihisa Inoue
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Abstract
A device for application of lubricant liquid to a yarn on double twister comprising a rigid porous wetting member disposed in a part of the yarn passage through which the yarn drawn from a feeding package passes and adapted to be in contact with the drawn yarn, a tank for reserving lubricant liquid to be applied to the yarn, and a plurality of wicks immersed into lubricant liquid in the tank at one end and brought into contact with the wetting member at the other end.
Claims8
A device configured to be disposed above a feeding package of a double twister, for applying a lubricant to a yarn, said device comprising:
- a lid having a yarn passage therein through which the yarn is drawn from the feeding package,
- a wetting member disposed adjacent the yarn passage and adapted to contact the yarn drawn from the feeding package,
- a tank in which the lubricant is reserved,
- a plurality of wicks, one or more of the wicks having a first end in communication with the lubricant in the tank and having a second end in communication with the wetting member
- whereby said lubricant is transferred by said plurality of wicks from said tank to said wetting member, and
- a connecting piece for connecting together the second ends of the wicks.
A device for applying a liquid to a yarn drawn from a feeding package on a double twister, comprising:
- a wetting member arranged to contact said yarn drawn from said feeding package;
- a plurality of wicks, at least one of said wicks having a first end in communication with said wetting member and a second end in communication with said liquid, for conveying said liquid to said wetting member;
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- a connecting member for connecting together the first end of each of said wicks, said connecting member is adapted to be independent of, but in capillary communication with, said wetting member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.