- Industry: Textiles
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A change in the shape of a specimen, e.g., an increase in length produced as the result of the application of a tensile load or force. Deformation may be immediate or delayed, and the latter may be recoverable or nonrecoverable.
Industry:Textiles
A calendering process for producing raised or projected figures or designs in relief on fabric surfaces. Embossed surfaces are usually produced on fabrics by engraved, heated rollers that give a raised effect. Embossed velvet or plush is made by shearing the pile to different levels or by pressing part of the pile flat.
Industry:Textiles
1. The process of attenuating or increasing the length per unit weight of laps, slivers, slubbings, or rovings.
2. The hot or cold stretching of continuous filament yarn or tow to align and arrange the crystalline structure of the molecules to achieve improved tensile properties.
Industry:Textiles
A broad term referring to the collection of dye and chemical baths, drying equipment, etc., in a continuous-dyeing line.
Industry:Textiles
1. Generally a machine in which molten or semisoft materials are forced under pressure through a die to form continuous tubes, sheets, or fibers. It may consist of a barrel, heating elements, a screw, ram or plunger, and a die through which the material is pushed to give it shape.
2. In fiber manufacture the machine that feeds molten polymer to an extrusion manifold or that first melts the polymer in a uniform manner then feeds it to a manifold and associateD equipment for extrusion.
Industry:Textiles
1. An open design made in knitting by removing some of the needles at set intervals.
2. A defect in knit fabric.
Industry:Textiles
1. The last or delivery cylinder of the card from which the sheet of fibers is removed by the doffer comb.
2. An operator who removes full bobbins, spools, containers, or other packages from a machine and replaces them with empty ones.
Industry:Textiles
1. Immersion of a textile material in some processing liquid. The term is usually used inconnection with a padding or slashing process.
2. The rubber compound with which tire cordsand other in-rubber textiles are treated to give improved adhesion to rubber.
Industry:Textiles
1. An imperfection in fabric caused by residual undissolved dye.
2. A defect caused by small sections of undrawn thermoplastic yarn that dye deeper that the drawn yarn.
Industry:Textiles
