Yarn measuring and yarn feeding therefor

An apparatus and method for sequentially feeding a plurality ofindividual yam segments to a sensing device wherein a property of the yarn segments is measured. In a preferred embodiment ofthe invention, the denier of the yam is measured and the sensing device is an electronic denier sensor. Each of the yarn segments is drawn through a yam path which includes the sensing device by a previously measured yam segment which is spliced to the subsequent yarn segment and thereafter severed so that the subsequent yam segment can be measured. The splicing operation takes place as the yam is moving through the yam path so that the measuring operation is continuous. Each yarn segment is loaded into a magazine which is intermittently moved to sequentially feed each yarn segment into a stationary splicer. Each yam segment is sequentially spliced to the next after a predetermined length of each yarn segment has passed through the sensing device.