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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2006
Rachelle Bentley, Cumming, GA (US);
Patrick L. Crane, Dawsonville, GA (US);
Matthew Duane Thompson, Cumming, GA (US);
Rachelle Bentley, Cumming, GA (US);
Patrick L. Crane, Dawsonville, GA (US);
Matthew Duane Thompson, Cumming, GA (US);
Abstract
A stabilized filament drawing device for a meltspinning apparatus and a meltspinning apparatus including the stabilized filament drawing device. The stabilized filament drawing device applies a high-velocity flow of air to attenuate the filaments, which are discharged from a device outlet in a discharge direction. The filament drawing device includes multiple inclined guides adjacent to the outlet that cause the filaments and high-velocity flow of air to deviate from the discharge direction. Each of the guides has a major surface that is angled relative to a common plane containing the discharge direction and a cross-machine direction of the device outlet of the filament drawing device. The guides are oriented such that the major surface is also inclined relative to the discharge direction.