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Impact of the Speed of Flat of a Typical Carding Machine on the Quality of Carded Sliver and 40 Ne Yarn Journal of Textile Science and Technology, 2021, 7, 66-76 https://www.scirp.org/journal/jtst ISSN Online: 2379-1551 ISSN Print: 2379-1543 Impact of the Speed of Flat of a Typical Carding Machine on the Quality of Carded Sliver and 40 Ne Yarn Zubair Bin Sayed1*, Naba Afrose2, Shabrina Kabir3 1Department of Textile Engineering, Port City International University, Chittagong, Bangladesh 2Department of Textile Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh 3Department of Textile Machinery Design and Maintenance, Bangladesh University of Textile, Dhaka, Bangladesh How to cite this paper: Sayed, Z.B. Afrose, Abstract N. and Kabir, S. (2021) Impact of the Speed of Flat of a Typical Carding Machine on the The carding cycle affects the sliver quality and the subsequent yarn attributes Quality of Carded Sliver and 40 Ne Yarn. since it is the main sliver formation step. Processing parameters assume a Journal of Textile Science and Technology, significant part in affecting the nature of the eventual outcome in any sorts of 7, 66-76. https://doi.org/10.4236/jtst.2021.71006 production. In the case of carding machine, a higher production rate makes the operation more sensitive. And this will cause degradation in product Received: January 17, 2021 quality. So optimization of speed is the talk of the town in spinning field [1]. Accepted: February 23, 2021 Extreme higher speed can prompt fiber harm and unnecessary neps genera- Published: February 26, 2021 tion will corrupt the end result. Again lower speed will lessen the production Copyright © 2021 by author(s) and rate which isn’t reasonable. So we need to discover the ideal speed which will Scientific Research Publishing Inc. be advantageous to both product quality and production rate. In carding This work is licensed under the Creative machine, real operational activity happens between flats and cards [1]. From Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). an ordinary perspective, high produce able cards generates higher level of http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ speed. Speed of the cards impacts the carding cycle and the nature of the yarn Open Access and in practical point of view, flat’s level of speed is advanced and optimized. The aim of the project was to find out the optimum flat speed in the context of yarn quality. 40 Ne cotton yarns were produced with the slivers manufac- tured at different flat speeds such as 240, 260, 280, 300 and 320 mm/min. The quality parameters of slivers and yarns were tested and analyzed. Keywords Flat, Carding Machine, Carded Sliver, English Count (Ne), Yarn 1. Introduction Since carding is a complex operation—it includes a number of parameters and DOI: 10.4236/jtst.2021.71006 Feb. 26, 2021 66 Journal of Textile Science and Technology Z. B. Sayed et al. factors—and grasps unique advancements, improvement of the carding effi- ciency has been made conceivable by the improvements in some scientific fields, for example, hardware, materials science, robotization and control. These improvements permit a few different ways for expanding carding prof- itability. The carding quality is essentially decided in the region of the cylinder. Here, the circulating flat is of specific significance. With an ideal number of level bars, it is liable for cleaning just as extricating neps and short filaments. This occupation is doled out to the pre-checking region with its cleaning and check- ing components. As a regulation: The higher the pre opening, the more intensive the carding operation, which results in expanded production. The motivation behind speedy carding is to expand the card efficiency without diminishing op- eration quality, or even improving it. It had been believed that increased carding speed would expand fiber breakage, however there is no proof why fiber brea- kage should be enlarged as card speed expands (Atkinson, 1986) [2]. It was im- portant to increase the rate of production of the carding machine in light of the fact that new advancements with significantly higher production levels were be- gun to be executed, implemented and introduced. Carding activity can be depicted as the combing of fibers between successive surfaces, which convey a number of angular wires (card clothing) focused on re- stricting headings, opposite direction when their relative speed is more promi- nent than zero. What individualizes the fibres and offers parallelism to the fiber mass flow is the connection between the saw-tooth cloth covering of cylinder, the flats/laborers furthermore, the fiber mass (Lawrence, et al., 2000) [3]. In the point of view of Deussen (1992) [4], fiber length picks up its significance as the main quality boundary for three reasons: 1) Yarn count that can be spun from cotton depends on its fiber length. With different properties being equivalent with, better yarns can commonly be spun from the longer length cottons. 2) At the equivalent count, yarns spun from longer length cottons, other fiber proper- ties being equivalent, are more grounded than those from smaller length cottons. 3) Fiber length has an immediate bearing on yarn strength in light of the fact that the longer the filaments in yarn, the more noteworthy the quantity of pur- poses of contact and attachment among them, and therefore expanded yarn strength. Artzt (2000) [5] revealed that in the light of the present information, compact spinning produces yarns which generates a prevalent ring yarn. It is accordingly actually another brand new spinning operation, in spite of the fact that the yarn looks a lot of like ring yarn. Spinning devoid of without turning triangle results in uniform fiber reconciliation pressure through the yarn cross-segment, and subsequently in various conduct in downstream operation. In compact spinning, the filaments are compacted into a hollow sliver after a basically pressure free drafting operation inside a compacting zone and they are twisted after the pinching point as a reduced intensified sliver. As in the exem- plary spinning triangle, fringe filaments are exterminated. In the current work, the influence of the speed of flat of the quality of final yarn was studied. Research works have been carried out time to time on the influence of different parame- DOI: 10.4236/jtst.2021.71006 67 Journal of Textile Science and Technology Z. B. Sayed et al. ters over the sliver and yarn quality. Nadim Hossain, et al. [6] in 2017, worked on effect of taker-in speed of card on the quality of ring spun yarns yarns which generates a prevalent ring yarn. It is accordingly actually another brand new spinning operation, in spite of the fact that the yarn looks a lot of like ring yarn. Spinning devoid of without turning triangle results in uniform fiber reconcilia- tion pressure through the yarn cross-segment, and subsequently in various con- duct in downstream operation. In compact spinning, the filaments are compacted into a hollow sliver after a basically pressure free drafting operation inside a compacting zone and they are twisted after the pinching point as a reduced intensified sliver. As in the exem- plary spinning triangle, fringe filaments are exterminated. In the current work, the influence of the speed of flat of the quality of final yarn was studied. Research works have been carried out time to time on the influence of different parame- ters over the sliver and yarn quality. 2. Material & Methods 2.1. Materials Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) cotton originated from Uzbekistan was utilized as the raw material to plan tests of sliver and yarn. The raw cotton fiber properties were tested with the assistance of USTER EVENNESS TESTER-5 and USTER AFIS PRO 2 as per the standard testing conditions appeared in Ta- ble 1. Sliver fineness Ne 0.12 and one sort of yarn count (Ne 40) were utilized as tested sample. Both were delivered by Motin Spinning Mills Ltd. 2.2. Methods 2.2.1. Carding Process In this experiment, the flat of carding machine (TC 03) was driven at five dif- ferent speeds, that is, 200, 240, 280, 320, and 360 mm/min, by keeping all other parameters unchanged. The process parameters of the carding machine are giv- en in Table 2. Five carded slivers were delivered for every level of flat speed to take care of the output of breaker draw frame. 2.2.2. Spinning Process A ring outline machine, named Lakshmi, was utilized for creating yarn. Ne 40 checked yarn was created from Ne 0.70 wandering. In ring frame, roving was placed on same shafts for every flat speed. Significant cycle parameters for the spinning procedure are provided in Table 3. Table 1. Properties of raw cotton. Properties Value Raw material 100% cotton Staple length 29 - 30 mm Micronaire 3.8 Raw material origin Uzbekistan DOI: 10.4236/jtst.2021.71006 68 Journal of Textile Science and Technology Z. B. Sayed et al. Table 2. Process parameters of carding machine. Technical Data Settings Technical Data Settings Sliver hank 340 - 465 grain/6 yds. Feed roller to taker-in 0.65 mm Feed roller diameter 100 mm Taker-into cylinder 0.22 mm Taker in diameter 172.5 mm Back stationary flat to cylinder 0.55 mm, 0.55 mm, 0.45 mm 0.30 mm, 0.275 mm, 0.25 mm, 0.25 Taker in speed 1162 rpm Revolving flat to cylinder mm, 0.20 mm 1) 34, 10˚ Front stationary flat to cylinder 0.55 mm, 0.55 mm Taker in PPSI 2) 163, 10˚ Cylinder to doffer 0.125 mm 3) 210, 10˚ Doffer. to take of Roller 0.15 mm Cylinder diameter 1287 mm Take-off roller to delivery roller 0.25 mm Cylinder speed 561 rpm Delivery speed 190 m/min Cylinder PPSI 950, 40˚ Doffer dia.
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