Patent ID: 6170247
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A device for preparing a thread end for splicing with an apparatus for knotless pneumatic splicing of textile threads and yarns having a splicing chamber, the device comprising:a treatment tube, including an inlet end and a second end, the inlet end and second end being opposite one another, which is open at its opposite ends and which is suitable for receiving a thread end to be treated in correspondence at a peripheral point of the inlet end, and at a distance from and opposite said inlet end of the tube,a circular nozzle for blowing a jet of pressurized fluid the nozzle having an axis and the nozzle being axially aligned with said tube and connected by means of a shut-off element to a source of pressurized fluid,wherein the end from which the jet of fluid emerges from said nozzle is cut obliquely with respect to the axis of the nozzle so as to form an elliptical aperture,wherein the nozzle is mounted in rotatably adjustable manner about its own axis andwherein the nozzle's elliptical outlet aperture faces towards the peripheral point of the inlet end of the small tube in correspondence with which the latter receives the thread end to be treated.