one alternative design of the compacting device 20 is schematically shown in fig3 for this in a depiction as it could be implemented in the embodiment according to fig1 and fig2 for producing a crimped composite thread the compacting device 20 includes a texturing unit 33 disposed above or upstream of a cooling drum 35 the texturing unit 33 consists of a nozzle part and a compression part wherein the filament bundles 3 1 3 3 are transported collectively via the nozzle part into the compression part the filament bundles 3 1 3 3 are compressed with the help of a heated delivery medium to form a thread plug 34 by means of the texturing unit 33 the thread plug 34 is subsequently deposited on the circumference of a powered cooling drum 35 after the cooling of the thread plug 34 on the circumference of the cooling drum 35 the thread plug is broken down to form the composite thread 26 and taken up via the pull off godet 36 a swirling unit 21 is provided between the pull off godet 26 and the redirecting godet 23 in order to increase the cohesion of the crimped filaments of the composite thread 26 for this the speeds of the pull off godet 36 and the redirecting godet 23 are configured to one another such that the filament strands of the composite thread 26 can relax the compacting device 20 depicted in fig3 is.