(under subclass 240) Apparatus wherein attenuation or elongation of thread is effected by stretching means providing a thread path which extends along and is transverse of the longitudinal axis of such means and which path continuously or successively increases in length as the thread moves therethrough and along the stretching means.
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219, for shrinking of thread without the production of coils, crimps, crinkles and like linear distentions by similar apparatus having progressively decreasing lateral thread paths.
