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Manufactured fibers
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Textiles; Manufactured fibers
In a fibre production process the total throughput less waste and inferior or off-grade material.
Needle slot
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
A groove that houses a needle in the cylinder or dial of a circular-knitting machine or the needle bed of a flat-bed machine.
Needle set-out
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
A term that refers to long periods of time when certain needles are removed from the knitting cycle. The process is used to make sweater cuffs.
Needle loom
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
A machine for bonding a nonwoven web by mechanically orienting fibres through the web. The process is called needling, or needlepunching. Barbed needles set into a board punch fibre into the batt ...
Necking
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
1. The sudden reduction in the diameter of an undrawn manufactured filament when it is stretched. 2. Narrowing in width of a fabric or film when it is stretched.
Needle
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
1. A thin, metal device, usually with an eye at one end for inserting the thread, used in sewing to transport the thread. 2. The portion of a knitting machine used for intermeshing the loops. ...
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