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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey T. Rhyne, Mt. Holly, NC (US);
Jack G. Haselwander, Chattanooga, TN (US);
Assignee:
Belmont Textile Machinery Co., Inc., Mount Holly, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06B 3/01 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06B 3/01 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for space-dyeing yarns, particularly fine denier yarns, including the steps of wrapping a plurality of feed yarns with a sacrificial wrapper yarn to form a composite yarn bundle, space-dyeing the composite yarn bundle, removing the wrapper yarn from around the feed yarns, and separating the feed yarns into individual yarns for further processing. An intermediate yarn product for passing through the space-dyeing machine is disclosed, as well as the end product fine denier yarns after being separated from the bundle in which dyeing took place.