Patent ID: 8137094

Claim:
An apparatus for manufacture of a composite yarn formed by intermingling of continuous glass filaments with continuous organic thermoplastic filaments, comprising: at least one bushing fed with molten glass, a lower face of the at least one bushing being provided with a multiplicity of orifices associated with a coater; at least one spinning head fed with a molten organic thermoplastic, a lower face of the at least one spinning head being provided with a multiplicity of orifices, associated with a variable-speed drawing device wherein the spinning head extrudes a plurality of bundles of thermoplastic filaments; a roll around which the plurality of bundles travel, wherein the roll joins the plurality of bundles into a plurality of sheets of thermoplastic filaments; and means common to the bushing and to the spinning head, allowing the composite yarn to be assembled and drawn, wherein the bushing is associated with means for separating the glass filaments into a plurality of bundles or sheets, and the spinning head is associated with means for mingling the sheets of thermoplastic filaments with the bundles or sheets of continuous glass filaments.