Patent ID: 7506831

Claim:
A method of feeding a group of at least two yarn strands to a textile machine having a plurality of needles, said textile machine using said yarn strands from at least a first and a second beam, said first and second beam separately rotatable about corresponding rotation axes, said method comprising directing a first strand of yarn from said first beam toward a first eye in a first header having a plurality of eyes and separately directing a second strand of yarn from one of a first and second beam toward the first eye in the first header, and then beginning to jointly feed said first and second strands of yarn at the first eye in the first header and continuing to jointly feed the first and second strands towards said textile machine to be provided to a single needle of the textile machine with the first and second beams rotating about their respective rotation axes while directing first and second yarns to the first header, and while proceeding from the first eye towards the textile machine, the jointly fed yarns pass jointly through at least one of a tube and a second eye of a second header having a plurality of eyes.