John B. Hodgin
General Contractor at Dover Park Rd, Greensboro, NC

4540610, Sep 10, 1985

Sep 30, 1982

6/430004

Delano M. Conklin - Burlington NC
John B. Hodgin - Greensboro NC
Walter F. Illman - Greensboro NC

Burlington Industries, Inc. - Greensboro NC

B05D 118, B65H 7100

4274345

An apparatus and method effect application of molten size to textile yarns, such as spun yarns. An applicator cylinder is rotatable about a horizontal axis and has a number of grooves circumferentially formed in its surface, with peaked lands between the grooves, each land making an angle of about 8. degree. -12. degree. with respect to a plane bridging the top of an associated groove. A furnisher roll, also rotatable about a horizontal axis, picks up molten size from an open-top trough and delivers it to grooves in the rotating applicator cylinder. The surface of the furnisher roll cooperates with that of the applicator cylinder so that sloping areas of the furnisher roll mate with the lands of the applicator cylinder and so that flat areas of the furnisher roll bridge the entrances to the grooves. The furnisher roll may be of polytetrafluoroethylene machined to correspond to the surface of the applicator cylinder, or may have an elastomeric material surface. A cleaning device comprises a pad, which may be a thermoplastic polymeric material capable of lengthy exposure to high temperatures, having a surface corresponding essentially identically to the surface of the applicator cylinder, and mounted so that it is pressed into engagement with the applicator cylinder to remove molten size and contaminants from the grooves of the applicator cylinder.

4401782, Aug 30, 1983

Nov 15, 1982

6/441865

Delano M. Conklin - Burlington NC
John H. Hansen - Greensboro NC
John B. Hodgin - Greensboro NC

Burlington Industries, Inc. - Greensboro NC

C08L 2308, D06M 1516, D06L 106

524313

Non-aqueous, quick setting sizing compositions suitable for application as a melt to textile yarns, and for later removal by solvent or aqueous means, characterized by substantial amounts of hydrogenated tallow-type triglyceride wax, are disclosed. The compositions may include an approximately 50:50 weight mixture of a specific class of 80/20 ethylene/acrylic acid copolymers intimately blended with an equal amount of the wax. A fatty acid amide may be included in an amount up to about 7 weight percent of the composition or from 1 to 14 weight percent sebacic acid or dodecanedioic acid, the amount of copolymer being reduced accordingly. The compositions may contain up to 62 weight percent of the wax, and rigidify at ambient temperatures.