The dynamic behaviour of the yarn conveyed with the flow of air in the curved yarn guide pipe is studied in the present paper. Several different radiuses of curvature of pipes whose cross section remain uniform are used for the test. The results obtained are as follows :
(1) The yarn flies along the side edge of the slot in the pipe, since the jet inhaled through the slot pushes the yarn aside. It is necessary and also sufficient conditions to jump the yarn out of the pipe used to the test that the ten sion developed in the yarn amounts up to the value in which the yarn can penetrate into the jet.
(2) The jumping behaviour is affected principally by the air flow pattern in the section near the upstream edge of the slot, especially by the development of the separation of flow near the upstream edge of the slot and the secondary flow in the cross section of the pipe. When the tension of the yarn reaches the sufficient value to bring the yarn itself into the jet, the yarn begins to jump out of the pipe in the section near the upstream edge of the slot.
(3) The value of the tension of the yarn to jump out of the pipe varies proportionally with the yarn diameter, and is scarcely affected by the feeding speed of the yarn.
(4) The result obtained from the one dimentional analysis for the flow of fluid along the pipe axis is also appli cable for the prediction of the value of tension in the flying yarn.
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