Patent ID: 7527216

Claim:
An apparatus for continuously unwinding yarns from one or more active packages, comprising: a frame with at least one pivoting leg connected thereto; two or more pivoting yarn holding arms attached to the pivoting leg; first yarn guides attached to pivoting guide brackets with sleeves configured to allow the first yarn guides to pivot on the frame with respect to first and second mutually orthogonal axes; a drive control assembly attached to the frame and configured to continuously unwind yarns from active packages installed on the pivoting yarn holding arms and fed through the guide brackets; and wherein the at least one pivoting leg is pivotably mounted at an acute angle relative to the frame, the first yarn guides are separated from the active packages by a minimum distance, the minimum distance from said first yarn guides to an end of said active package facing said first yarn guides measured on a line defined by the rotational axis of the active package and the acute angle is defined by the intersection of an imaginary line corresponding, respectively, to the rotational axis of the active package and the central axis of said first yarn guide that is perpendicular to a plane of an orifice, and the pivoting guide brackets are adjusted along said first and second mutually orthogonal axes in accordance with providing the acute angle relative to the frame.