摘要 |
An apparatus, method and package are provided for producing and winding bundles of filamentary material to achieve good split efficiency of removal of the plurality of bundles from the package for further processing, and to produce a package of wound bundles of filaments having good edges. The apparatus has a filament forming means, gathering means to gather the filaments into a plurality of bundles of filaments, rotatable winder to attenuate and wind the bundles, traversing guide, reciprocating means, and contacting means. The traversing guide has angularly opposing sides that converge to meet and extensions protruding from each angularly opposing side to subtend partially the point of convergence of the angularly opposing sides. The extensions do not meet each other to form an opening for placement of the bundles into the containment area formed by the angularly opposing sides and extensions. The traversing guide deposits the bundles of filaments in essentially uncrossed, side-by-side relation, and cooperates with the contacting means at each end of a layer to deposit the bundles in grouped relationship.
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