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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1997
Terry Robin Cain, Greenwood, DE (US);
Dennis Leslie Frost, Newark, DE (US);
Melvin Harry Johnson, Chadds Ford, PA (US);
Maurice Cornelius Todd, Chadds Ford, PA (US);
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to: a non-interlacing expirating yarn bulker comprising a body having an enclosed yarn passage extending therethrough. The yarn passage includes an inlet region, a throat region and an expanding region. A single pressurized fluid channel extends through the body and intersects with the yarn passage in the throat region. Cross sectional areas at certain defined locations in the yarn passage exhibit predetermined relationships. In addition, the inlet region and the pressurized fluid channel both are symmetrical about a common reference plane of symmetry;