Title: Apparatus for producing novelty yarn

Abstract: A conventional spinning or twisting machine is easily and inexpensively adapted for producing a unique novelty yarn by mounting an auxiliary strand guide device in accordance with this invention onto the strand guide support conventionally provided above the spindle. The auxiliary strand guide device is in the form of an elongate wire element having respective guides formed therein and located for directing respective effect and binder strands onto an advancing foundation strand for being wound thereabout to produce a novelty yarn.

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Inventors: Foil, Jr., Martin B. (Mount Pleasant, NC, US)

Application Number: 005205
Filing Date: 1979-01-22
Publication_date: 1980-05-13
Assignee: Tuscarora Yarns, Inc. (Mount Pleasant, NC)
Primary Class(es): 57/12 57/90, 57/207, 57/352, 242/157R
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US Patent Ref:

2309095	Jan, 1943	Bry	57/12.
3164951	Jan, 1965	Donaldson et al.	57/12.
3308615	Mar, 1967	Susskind et al.	57/207.
3334483	Aug, 1967	Radcliffe	57/207.
3339355	Sep, 1967	O'Neill	57/12.
3343356	Sep, 1967	McKinnon	57/12.
3380241	Apr, 1968	Callaway	57/207.
3385044	May, 1968	Anderson et al.	57/12.
3389545	Jun, 1968	Grunder et al.	57/12.
3445994	May, 1969	Nalpas	57/18.
3945189	Mar, 1976	Allen	57/91.

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Primary Examiner: Petrakes, John
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Attorney: Bell, Seltzer, Park & Gibson