Monsanto Company

Arnold L McPeters

Don E Carter

David F Bittle

Hobson L Skeen

A spinning pack for wet spinning a tow having at least 20,000 bicomponent acrylic filaments is described. The pack includes a plurality of specially designed plates arranged so as to provide filaments having a substantially uniform distribution of the components along the entire length of each filament and from filament to filament.

Spinning pack for wet spinning bicomponent filaments

A method for stretching a tow of filaments wherein the tow is passed under tension through a chamber, the chamber having openings at the ends thereof for passage of the tow, and streams of heated liquid are forced transversely through the tow at the chamber openings at a critical minimum rate at least as great as

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Arnold L McPeters