METHOD OF LAYING PROTRUDING FIBRES, AND INCREASING ABRASION RESISTANCE OF TEXTILE YARNS

Textile yarn spun from natural or man-made staple fibres and of the kind, such for example, as jute, from which fibres usually protrude at random so that the yarn has an appearance of hairiness, has a fine wrapping material, for example nylon yarn or film in tape form, extending helically and externally thereof, by which fibres which would otherwise protrude from the yarn are laid along and anchored to the body of the latter, the abrasion resistance of the yarn is increasd and fibre loss in subsequent processing is decreased. The wrapping material is fed to the yarn during spinning in a spinning frame, as the yarn passes, while twisting, from the drawing rollers to the eye of the wharve of a spindle of the frame, so that the wrapping material becomes helically wrapped around the yarn externally.