Teijin Limited

Nobuo Yoshioka

Atsushi Yamamoto

Yukio Kitamura

Satoshi Yakushiji

A method of taking up a bundle of filaments is disclosed wherein the bundle of filaments is ejected together with a compressed fluid toward a container and coils of the bundle of filaments are formed when the bundle of filaments is received in the container. Before arriving at the container, the above-mentioned compressed fluid is deviated from a passage of the bundle of filaments having a spiral shape. The apparatus for effectively carrying out this method comprises a rotary member rotating around the central line of the upstream portion of a guide passage for feeding the bundle of filaments toward the container and means, which ejects the bundle of filaments being conveyed into the rotary member in the above-mentioned upstream portion by means of a compressed fluid. The rotary member has a guide passage that expands gradually toward the outlet end of the guide passage. When the above-mentioned apparatus is operated, the bundle of filaments runs along the rearmost portion of the inside wall of the guide passage, which defines the running passage of the bundle of filaments, while the compressed fluid is separated from the above-mentioned bundle of filaments and discharged in a different direction.

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Iwakuni, Japan

Nobuo Yoshioka