Just a few of the many types of yarn coned at rayon plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. In the front row, left to right, are cones of 1,100 denier Super-Cordura high tenacity rayon yarn for tire cord, weighing four pounds; 50 denier bright...
Yarn beaming at DuPont's nylon manufacturing plant at Seaford, Delaware. In this operation the yarn is transferred from individual pirms to the big beam to enable the fabric maker to handle the yarn more efficiently.
Yarn beaming at DuPont's nylon manufacturing plant at Seaford, Delaware. In this operation the yarn is transferred from individual pirms to the big beam to enable the fabric maker to handle the yarn more efficiently.
Careful check of yarn formation on shipping bobbins holding Lycra spandex fiber is made by supervisor at DuPont's Waynesboro plant. This careful scrutiny of the yarn takes place even before it is okayed to be sent to inspectors who prepare it for...
Before leaving spinning areas, en route to washing and de-sulfuring, cakes of yarn are wrapped in stockings of various colors, which designate denier, filament count, type of yarn, and other information of importance in ensuing operations at rayon...
High tenacity rayon yarn, a specific DuPont development which was made available to the entire industry without charge as a contribution to the national security in WWII was introduced in 1936 under the trademark Cordura. The yarn was brought...
Before leaving spinning areas, en route to washing and de-sulfuring, cakes of yarn are wrapped in stockings of carious colors, which designate denier, filament count, type of yarn, and other information of importance in ensuing operations at...
Hundreds of individual ends of continuous filament yarn feed from the creel in the processing operation at E. I. du Pont Nemours & Company's plant for manufacturing Orlon acrylic fiber at Camden, South Carolina.
Careful inspection is given to every cone of yarn before shipment from the rayon plants of E.I. de Pont Nemours & Company. Skilled in dining imperfections, their eyes trained to find trouble with the least loss of time and effort, a corps of...
Racks of rayon yarn in cakes pass into huge ovens to dry in temperatures considerably above 100 degrees F., following washing and de-sulfuring plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
Winding rayon yarn into cones at plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. Each operator has been trained to tie the thread with a particular kind of knot, called waver's knot, and to place all knots on the face of the cone.
An endless procession of centrifugal dryers force water out of the yarn, after the washing and de-sulfuring operation at viscose process rayon plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Running off rayon yarn for weighing to determine denier (weight) at the Richmond, Virginia plant of the Rayon Division of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
From cakes, yarn is reeled into skeins at rayon plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company and some types are laced by hand for use by knitters and weavers.
