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Method and means for blending fiber strand segments in a base strand

  • US 3,952,372 A
  • Filed: 06/03/1974
  • Issued: 04/27/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of adding segments of at least one supplemental strand of fibers of at least one characteristic of color, texture and construction into at least one base strand of fibers of at least one other characteistic of color, texture and construction to produce a composite strand of blended fibers with an unpredictable random distribution of said supplemental strand segments therein, said method comprising separately and continuously advancing said at least one base strand and said at least one supplement strand indiscriminately pulling from said at least one supplemental strand segments of lengths greater than the length of individual fibers thereof and of unpredictably random size and occurrence, adding said pulled supplemental strand segments to said advancing at least one base strand for incorporation therein to form a composite strand, and in advancing said at least one base strand during adding of said pulled supplemental strand segments thereto said at least one base strand is attenuated by drafting.

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