Process and device for bursting a textile tow

摘要

To obtain a large number of elementary filaments which are substantially parallel and continuous, a textile tow which is burst in order to disintegrate its component elements is used; the tow is drawn into a guide conduit 3, 2 by means of a pressurised gaseous fluid, and the gaseous fluid is expanded violently by means of an abrupt increase in the cross-section of the guide conduit 3, 2. <IMAGE>