- Industry: Textiles
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Feed systems in which the action of the screw generates pressure that causes flow. The system usually consists of a container with a closely fitting screw unit.
Industry:Textiles
An operation to remove the sizing and tint used on the warp yarn in weaving and, in general, to clean the fabric prior to dyeing.
Industry:Textiles
1. A hollow, cylindrical, coarse-mesh wire device used in pickers and certain openers to form the loose staple stock into a sheet, or lap. The screen is mounted horizontally on a shaft on which it revolves freely. 2. A stencil used in screen printing. It is made of fine cloth, usually of silk or nylon, finely perforated in areas to form a design and mounted on a frame. The paste containing the dye is forced through the perforations onto the fabric, leaving the design. A series of screens, one for each color, is used for multicolored designs.
Industry:Textiles
The tendering of a fiber surface by heat so as to change the color and texture of the surface.
Industry:Textiles
1. A high-grade fabric for coats, made from Saxony Merino wool. 2. A soft woolen with fancy yarn effects, used in sport-coat fabric. 3. A highly twisted worsted knitting yarn. 4. A term describing a cut-pile carpet having highly twisted, evenly sheared, medium-length pile yarns.
Industry:Textiles
1. The maximum intensity or purity of a color. If the color is as brilliant as possible, it is at saturation; if the color is subdued or grayed, it is dull, weak, and low in intensity.
2. The upper limit concentration of a solute in a solvent, i.e., no more solute can be dissolved at a fixed temperature and pressure.
Industry:Textiles
The maximum amount of dye that can be absorbed by a textile fiber under defined conditions.
Industry:Textiles
A filament extruded from natural or synthetic rubber and used as the core of some elastic threads.
Industry:Textiles
A break in the yarn of a knit fabric that causes the stitch to “run” along the needle line (wale) in a vertical direction.
Industry:Textiles
