摘要 |
A detwister apparatus for use in finishing operations on longitudinally travelling cloth or other sheet materials, especially materials such as knit goods which require handling at low levels of tension. The cloth, gathered into a rope-like bundle, is passed through a rotatable tube guide. The entrance end of the guide is fitted with a plurality of smoothly curved protrusions which extend radially inwardly only partially across the entrance, and are circumferentially spaced apart to engage the rope-like bundle lightly. The entrance may further be fitted with a bell mouth frame to guide the cloth bundle smoothly into the guide.
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