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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Wingate Curran, Paisley, GB;
John Aitken, Paisley, GB;
Assignee:
J. & P. Coats, Limited, Glasgow, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D02G / ; D02J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
28220 ; 24240 ;
Abstract
A method for making a thread comprising: feeding at least two drawn, continuous filament starting threads (18, 19), of which at least one is a multi-filament thread, together to an intermingling device (21) to form a single bulked thread of which the filaments of the starting threads are intermingled and looped, and applying a bulk-reducing treatment to the bulked thread characterized in that the bulk-reducing treatment comprises a treatment under tension without the thread being heated.