- Industry: Textiles
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A part of the feed mechanism of the card. It consists of a hollow, metal roll with a spirally grooved surface containing a special saw-toothed wire. The lickerin opens up the tufts of the picker lap as it is fed to the card and transfers the fibers to the main cylinder.
Industry:Textiles
An acronym for load at specified elongation: the load required to produce a given elongation of a yarn or cord.
Industry:Textiles
A device for producing an intense beam of coherent light. It is used for cutting, spectroscopy, photography, biomedical investigations, etc.
Industry:Textiles
A manufactured fiber in which the fiber-forming substance is a copolymer of acrylonitrile and a diene composed of at least 10% by weight, but not more than 50% by weight, of acrylonitrile (-CH2-CH(CN)-) units (FTC definition).
Industry:Textiles
One of the two types of knitting machine needles. The latch needle has a small terminal hook with a latch that pivots automatically in knitting to close the hook. The fabric loop is cast off. The latch then opens, allowing a new loop to be formed by the hook, and loop-forming and casting-off proceed simultaneously.
Industry:Textiles
The degree of resistance of dyed textile materials to the color-destroying influence of sunlight. Two methods of testing are in use:
(1) exposure to sunlight, either directly or under glass, and
(2) accelerated testing in a laboratory apparatus equipped with any of several types of artificial light sources.
Industry:Textiles
A condition whereby fibers are imbedded in the lickerin wire clothing so as to resist transfer to the cylinder clothing.
Industry:Textiles
Migration leading to uniform distribution of dye in a dyed material. Leveling may be a property of the dye or it may require chemical assistance.
Industry:Textiles
A device for controlling the delivery and tension of the warp during weaving.
Industry:Textiles
A term describing a tufted or woven carpet with uncut, equal length loops composing the pile surface.
Industry:Textiles
