SPINNING MACHINE AND METHOD

A spinning machine has a rotary spinning chamber whose inner circumferential surface annularly surrounds its axis of rotation and diverges from an open side of the spinning chamber towards a transverse surface extending transversely to the axis and provided with an axial recess into which air-escape channels open. A liquid is admitted into the open side of the chamber so that it becomes deposited as a liquid layer on the inner surface of the chamber and the transverse surface is provided with a plurality of liquid-escape apertures for the escape of excess liquid, these apertures surrounding the axis of rotation. Fibers are admitted into the chamber for deposition on the inner circumferential surface of the chamber and in the liquid of the layer, to thereupon become converted into a yarn which is then withdrawn from the chamber. The liquid may be a dye, a yarn-treating agent, a yarn-sizing agent, an antistatic agent or the like, but serves primarily to exert drag on the fibers as the yarn is withdrawn, and may only secondarily be a treating agent.