- Industry: Textiles
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A knitting machine needle with a long, flexible hook, or beard, that allows the hook to be closed by an action known as pressing so that the loops can be cast off. The hook springs back to its original position when the presser bar is removed.
Industry:Textiles
An extrusion cabinet for dry spinning in which the drying medium (hot air) is introduced between the jet and the yarn outlet and flows in both directions.
Industry:Textiles
1. In the processing of tow, a defect in which the integrity of opened tow is disturbed by separation or division into two or more segments longitudinally. Splitting can be continuous or intermittent, long or short term. 2. In slashing, the separation of sized yarn ends before takeup on the slasher beam.
Industry:Textiles
A flanged wooden or metal cylinder upon which yarn, thread, or wire is wound. The spool has an axial hole for a pin or spindle used in winding.
Industry:Textiles
1. A defect in fabric caused by breakage of some of the singles yarns in a plied warp yarn. 2. A defect in manufactured filament yarn caused by breakage of some of the filaments.
Industry:Textiles
Two or more staple fibers adhering together, causing a stiff cluster that resists pulling apart in normal processing, and reacting in the yarn spinning process similarly to higher than nominal denier fiber.
Industry:Textiles
A measure of the number of coalesced fibers, mealy particles, or other such matter in staple fiber.
Industry:Textiles
1. The joining of two ends of yarn or cordage. There are several methods used, e.g., by interweaving the strands, by the use of knots, by tapering, lapping, and cementing the ends, etc. 2. A method of reinforcing knits, e.g., the heels and toes of hosiery, by introducing an additional yarn for strength.
Industry:Textiles
The twist added to yarn during spinning to give it strength and other desired characteristics.
Industry:Textiles
Specialty yarn made by winding heavier, slackly twisted yarn around a finer yarn with a hard twist to give a slubby appearance.
Industry:Textiles
