Patent ID: 7845923

Claim:
A spinning, drawing and texturing machine for the production of curled threads, comprising: a spinning unit and multiple machine modules disposed beneath the spinning unit, wherein the spinning unit is constructed and arranged to provide multiple sets of melt feeds, wherein each of the machine modules has (i) multiple processing assemblies for drawing and curling a respective set of melt feeds provided by the spinning unit into a single curled thread and (ii) a spooling unit for winding only that single curled thread to prevent sympathy breakage of an adjacent curled thread, wherein the machine modules are positioned next to one another to form a longitudinal side of the machine, wherein, for each of the machine modules, the multiple processing assemblies of that machine module are disposed within a narrow machine partition (T) in a range of <800 mm along the longitudinal side of the machine, wherein the spinning unit has multiple sets of spinnerets and multiple spinning ducts, each of the machine modules receiving its respective set of melt feeds from a respective set of spinnerets and a respective spinning duct which are disposed within the narrow machine partition (T) associated with that machine module, and wherein the spinnerets are held in rows parallel to the longitudinal side of the machine.