Method of coating strands and apparatus used therein

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method of treating textile strands wherein textile filaments are coated with aqueous solutions of coating material or contacted with a substance to be incorporated into said strand, gathered into strands and the strands are collected, the improvement comprising passing the treated strands into a zone of fluid turbulence, passing a gaseous fluid in contact with said zone and circumferentially around said zone so thereby remove excess solution or substance from said strand, directing the solution or substance removed from said zone to n collection zone and recovering the solution or substance collected therein. In some instances the yarn itself is improved in that flat yarns being treated …