Patent ID: 6012277
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: D02G

Abstract:
Apparatus for spinning yarn comprising:drafting means for receiving and drafting a travelling fibre assembly;take-up means for drawing and taking up the fibre assembly from said drafting means:means for dividing the travelling fibre assembly into a plurality of fibre sub-assemblies downstream of said drafting means and for causing said sub-assemblies to traverse different paths; andmeans for recombining said fibre sub-assemblies by twisting them together at a point of recombination to form said yarn;wherein said paths are sufficiently proximate for fibres to continuously transfer from one or more of said sub-assemblies and be drawn onto or into another or other sub-assemblies prior to said point of recombination, so that in the yarn said continuously transferring fibres are incorporated for part of their length onto or into said one or more of said fibre sub-assemblies and for a further part of the length onto or into said another or said other sub-assemblies.