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Abstract

A creel for feeding groups of yarn strands to a textile machine has a framework of interconnected frame members and vertical support members, each support member carrying a plurality of vertically spaced yarn cone holders. A group of yarn strands is supplied from cones mounted on holders on horizontally spaced apart support members. An outermost cone holder of the group has a yarn guide tube corresponding thereto mounted on a frame member with the inlet of the tube positioned for receiving a yarn from a cone mounted on the outermost holder. Each of the other yarn cone holders has an eyelet on a respective frame member for receiving a yarn strand from a cone mounted on a yarn cone holder carried by a respective horizontally spaced support member. The yarn strand from the cone furthest from the outermost cone holder is directed by the eyelet associated with it to the next adjacent eyelet and together with the yarn from the cone on the holder associated with that eyelet directs the yarns horizontally to each subsequent eyelet and then into the guide tube so that all of the yarns are guided by the guide tube to a header.

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First Claim