ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,830, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG (Remscheid, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for producing a crimped composite thread" was invented by Mathias Stundl (Rellingen, Germany) and Eike Holle (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques produce a crimped composite thread, in which multiple individual threads are extruded in each case in the form of a plurality of strand-shaped filaments, cooled, drawn by means of a drawing device and together crimped by means of a crimping device to form the composite thread. Before the multifilament individual threads are crimped, they are entangled sep...