Apparatus for suction cleaning traveling textile yarns

Apparatus for cleaning a plurality of traveling textile yarns comprising a reed for guiding a plurality of traveling textile yarns in segregated side-by-side relation, said reed including means defining a plurality of substantially enclosed yarn guide passageways arranged in generally parallel side-by-side relation, each yarn guide passageway having an entrance opening and an exit opening, for travel of a respective yarn through each said passageway, and means for applying a suction force to each said passageway transversely with respect to the path of yarn travel for removing lint and other debris from each yarn, said reed comprising base means defining each said passageway, each of said entrance and exit openings and a respective longitudinal slot opening into each said passageway along and transversely with respect to its length, and means for selectively opening and closing said slots.

Apparatus for cleaning a traveling textile yarn comprising yarn guide means defining entrance and exit openings and a substantially enclosed yarn guide passageway extending between said entrance and exit openings for yarn travel through said passageway, means for applying a suction force to said passageway transversely with respect to the path of yarn travel for removing lint and other debris from the traveling yarn, and means for collecting lint and debris removed by said suction applying means, said collecting means comprising a filter having an elongate filter substrate longitudinally movable in the direction of its lengthwise dimension for collecting lint and debris thereon in the form of an elongate blanket.

Apparatus for cleaning a traveling textile yarn comprising yarn guide means defining entrance and exit openings and a substantially enclosed yarn guide passageway extending between said entrance and exit openings for yarn travel through said passageway, means for applying a suction force to said passageway transversely with respect to the path of yarn travel for removing lint and other debris from the traveling yarn, and means for moving the yarn within said guide means transversely of the direction of yarn travel.

Apparatus for cleaning a plurality of traveling textile yarns comprising a reed for guiding a plurality of traveling textile yarns in segregated side-by-side relation, said reed including means defining a plurality of substantially enclosed yarn guide passageways arranged in generally parallel side-by-side relation, each yarn guide passageway having an entrance opening and an exit opening, for travel of a respective yarn through each said passageway, means for applying a suction force to each said passageway transversely with respect to the path of yarn travel for removing lint and other debris from each yarn, and means for collecting lint and debris removed by said suction applying means, said collecting means comprising a filter having an elongate filter substrate longitudinally movable in the direction of its lengthwise dimension for collecting lint and debris thereon in the form of an elongate blanket.

Apparatus for cleaning a plurality of traveling textile yarns comprising a reed for guiding a plurality of traveling textile yarns in segregated side-by-side relation, said reed including means defining a plurality of substantially enclosed yarn guide passageways arranged in generally parallel side-by-side relation, each yarn guide passageway having an entrance opening and an exit opening, for travel of a respective yarn through each said passageway, means for applying a suction force to each said passageway transversely with respect to the path of yarn travel for removing lint and other debris from each yarn, and means for moving each yarn within its respective said guide passageway transversely of the direction of yarn travel.