Georgia, Florida Inventors Develop Yarn Texturizing Apparatus

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Jerry Lane of Hahira, Ga., and Louie Earl Seago of Greenville, Fla., have developed a yarn texturizing apparatus.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "texturizing apparatus comprising a drive housing having a false twist inlet to allow a plurality of yarns to enter the drive housing, a pair of opposing counter-rotating nip rollers positioned downstream of the false twist inlet, each nip roller having a circumferential drive surface adapted to engage the plurality of yarns and at least one circumferential spacer surface, and means for applying compression to one of the nip rollers to force the at least one …