Wool Development International Limited

Dynic Corporation

Iws Nominee Co. Limited

John P Coulter

James D Gibson

Kenneth Houlbrook

Colin E Gore

An applicator 10 for crease setting composition comprises an applicator body 12 having at one end thereof a nozzle 14 for applying a crease setting composition to a crease line and at the other end thereof an inlet 26 for compressed air for forcing the composition out of the nozzle 14. Guidance projections 18, 42 are mounted beneath the body so as to guide the applicator nozzle 14 and cause it to deliver composition accurately into the crease. Guidance projections 18, 42 is operatively connected to a valve 2 in the compressed air circuit such that when the guidance projections 18, 42 contacts the garment to be treated pressure is applied to the composition and when the guidance projections are removed from the garment to be creased pressure is removed from the composition.

Application for crease setting composition

A strand break-out device for preventing the formation of the fault yarns due to strand breakage when two unspun fibrous strands are spun on a common twisting spindle. A member (24) has pins (38) forming a passage means to which the strands converge during travel to the spindle and on which the strands may bear to apply force to the member. The member is pivotally mounted on a support (28) so that it may move freely on the support between limits of displacement from a mean, stable disposition. If a strand breaks the force applied by the remaining strand moves the member beyond the respective limit whereupon the member moves to a further position wherein the pins distort the path that the remaining strand would otherwise take. This distortion is such as to cause the remaining strand to break.

Strand break-out device

A durable crease is formed in a textile article by applying a flexible casting compound in a preformed crease using a non-rotary applicator in conjunction with a structure for guiding the applicator along the crease. A screw driven piston within the applicator dispenses the compound in response to applicator travel.

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Shipley, United Kingdom

John P Coulter