- Industry: Textiles
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A process of Richen, Inc., for continuous heat-setting of carpet or other heavy yarns. Individual ends are continuously fed into a heat-setting chamber and withdrawn into take-up cans or fed to winders.
Industry:Textiles
The ratio of the actual vapor pressure of moisture in air to the saturation vapor pressure at ambient temperature.
Industry:Textiles
Oxide or non-oxide, amorphous or crystalline, manufactured fiber generally used for applications at temperatures greater the 1063°C in both oxidizing and non¬oxidizing atmospheres, i.e., Al2O3, ZrO2, Al2O3 •SiO2.
Industry:Textiles
A material which begins as cellulose but at some stage in the chemical processing takes the form of another chemical compound, then appears again in its completed state as cellulose. Viscose and cuprammonium rayons are regenerated cellulose.
Industry:Textiles
1. A revolving frame on which yarn is wound to form hanks or skeins. 2. The frame on which silk is wound from the cocoon. 3. A linen yarn measure of 72,000 yards. 4. The large wheel in a horizontal warper onto which the warp sections are wound in the indirect system of warping. 5. A spool of large capacity used to wind yarn or wire.
Industry:Textiles
A fabric defect consisting of warpwise light and heavy streaks in a woven fabric, caused by bent, unevenly packed, or weak reed wires.
Industry:Textiles
A comb-like device on a loom that separates the warp yarns and also beats each succeeding filling thread against that already woven. The reed usually consists of a top and bottom rib of wood into which metal strips or wires are set. The space between two adjacent wires is called a dent (or split) and the warp is drawn through the dents. The fineness of the reed is calculated by the number of dents per inch.
Industry:Textiles
The removal of unabsorbed disperse dye from the surface of polyester at the end of the dyeing or printing process by treatment in a sodium hydroxide/sodium hydrosulfite bath. A surface-active agent may be employed in the process.
Industry:Textiles
