Machines of Cotton Yarn Manufacturing: Working Principle & Technical Data

Last Updated on 17/02/2022

Machines of Cotton Yarn Manufacturing: Working Principle & Technical Data

Ramandeep Singh
Dept. of Textile Engineering
Giani Zail Singh Punjab Technical University Campus,
Bathinda, Punjab, India
Email: rmnsandhu3335@gmail.com

Spinning:
Cotton yarn manufacturing is a process of converting cotton fibers into yarn. It consists of different processes. Spinning is the first steps of textile product processing. The process of making yarns from the textile fiber is called spinning. Spinning is the twisting together of drawn out strands of fibers to form yarn, though it is colloquially used to describe the process of drawing out, inserting the twist, and winding onto bobbins. There are different types of spinning, the most commonly forms of spinning are: Ring, Rotor spinning, Air Jet, Friction etc. During cotton yarn manufacturing different types of machines are used. Now I will discuss about different machines of cotton yarn manufacturing process with functions, working principle and technical data.

List of Machines Used in Cotton Yarn Manufacturing:

1. UNIFLOC (A-10)
2. UNICLEAN (B1)
3. CVT3
4. Dustex
5. Carding machine
6. Drawframe
7. Comber
8. Simplex
9. Ringframe

Flowchart in Blowroom:

UNIFLOC (A-10):

Objectives:

1. The basic objective of unifloc ix to open the bales into smaller and lighter tuffs or floc.
2. To transfer this materials to the various other machine of blowroom line for further processing.

The Unifloc is the first step in material processing spinning mill. It successively opens the raw material into minituffs.

The Unifloc severs the purpose in an unrivalled way the secret lies in the well thought out construction of the take-off unit. The toothed disc of the opening roller are arranged so as to cause a tumbling action therefore by preventing the formation of furrows on the bales..

The setting of unifloc system depend upon two factor:

1. Overall production of the unit
2. Length of the belt

Technical Data:

• Make ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Trutzschler
• Model ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Unifloc A10
• Machine weight ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2700 kg
• Max.work of depth ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1.7 m
• Production up to ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1000 kg/h

UNICLEAN (B1):

Introduction:
The uniclean is the efficient cleaning and machine in the first stage after the unifloc . Material coming from unifloc and waste opener is sent to uniclean.

In Uniclean a cylinder equipped with pin which lead the material several times (six times) over a separating surface consisting of triangular grid bar. This process is entirely mechanical.

The cleaning principle separates the tufts exposing dust which is eliminated together with fibers fragment and small trash particles through a special continuous suction system by means of a control panel. The relative waste amount and the cleaning intensity can be entered directly. The cylinder are automatically adjusted according to these values. In combination with the unifloc a separates working point for each assortment can be defined when several types of raw material are being processed.

Technical data:

• Make ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Reiter
• Model ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,UnicleanB1
• Year ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 1992
• M/c weight ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1220 kg
• Waste % ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1-1.5 kg
• Pin roller weight ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,165 kg
• Pin roller rotate ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,480-800 rpm
• Production up to ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1000 kg

CVT3:

This main purpose of CVT3 is to open the material thoroughly and to remove trash if any form cotton. A diagram of CVT3 is shown in the figure.

Working Principle:
These work on the principle of passing cotton over different cylinder having relative velocity to each other. cotton is fed in machine through the conveyer belt. Pressure roller provides the limited supply of cotton while the feed roller provides limited as well as proper supply of cotton. In cvt3 are three cylinders first having needle clothing while second and third having metallic clothing. Speed of middle beater is more than first beater while speed of third beater is more than second beater. First beater having needle clothing convert big flocks of cotton in smaller flocks while 2nd and 3rd converts them into individual fiber.

Technical data:

• Make ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Trutzschler
• Model ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,CVT 3
• Year ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2003
• M/c width ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1220 mm
• M/c length ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2455 mm
• 1st beater speed ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,960-1760 rpm
• 2nd beater speed ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1840-2804 rpm
• 3rd beater speed ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1790-3570 rpm
• Beater dia ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,250 mm
• Air intake rate ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,3000+10 %m 3/h

Dustex:

Cotton delivered by the cvt3 is enough open to feed this into the card. But this opened cotton contains some dust particles which create problem to the labour working in spinning mill. So dust should be removed from the cotton before feeding the cotton to card.

Working Principle:
Fast moving Cotton having dust particles is allowed to hit the perforated wall where cotton being bigger in size is stopped there while small dust particles because of inertia travel by the small holes of the perforated wall. So dust gets separated from the cotton.

Technical data:

• Make ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Trutzschler
• Model ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Dustex 38
• M/c width ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1864mm
• Total length ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2150mm
• Total height ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2650mm
• Material suction ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,200-250pa
• Dust extraction ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,300-400pa
• Material feed ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,150-200pa

Card:
Carding is the heart of the spinning industry. Carding is carried out by passing entangled fibers between closely spaced surfaces of cylinder and flats covered with sharp metal teeth. The surfaces are moved relative to each other and so the fibers are disentangled .

Objectives of Carding:

1. The carding machine opens the folks of fibers to individual fiber stage.
2. Removal of impurities.
3. To remove the neps and short fibers from cotton.

Material flow in carding machine:

Setting of card:

Parameters:

• Feed roll dia 100mm
• 1st l-in dia 172.5mm
• 2nd l-in dia 172.5 mm
• 3rd l-in dia 172.5mm
• Cylinder dia 1287mm
• Doffer dia 700mm
• Cylinder Speed=(494-604)rpm

Licker-in Speed:

• 1ST=945-1230
• 2ND=1467-1909
• 3RD=1922-2502
• Doffer speed (120-180)rpm
• Draft=60-250fold (120fold)
• Flat Speed =320mm/min
• Dfk pressure 0-999pa (300pa)
• Fineness .066-.197Ne (.135Ne)
• Ppsi cylinder rolls 860
• Ppsi doffer 360
• Production= 41-52.5kg/h

Change positions

• Motor pulley
• Cylinder pulley
• Licker-in pulley
• Change wheel for draft between doffer and stripping roll
• Change wheel for draft between stripping roller and squeezing roller
• Change wheel for draft between calendar roller and coiler roller
• Flat speed change gear

Can dimension

• Can diameter – 24 inch
• Height (from ground) – 48 inch

Maintenance points in cards

• Check for flat loading
• Abnormal sound in m/c
• Machine heating up
• Smooth web material
• Chute filling
• Waste suction
• Safety doors and covers
• No air leakages

Special feature of card

1. centrally chute feed system for entire card
2. automatic can changer
3. total coverd body

Cleaning schedule

• Genral cleaning 3days
• Full cleaning 1month

Labour employed

• Operator 1
• Reliver 1
• Floor cleaner 1

Pre-comber Drawframe:
Although the fibers are separated up to individual state but they are in random disorganized manner in the card sliver. Draw frame straightens and align the fiber along the axis of the sliver in order to have strong and even spinning.

Technical data:

• Manufacturer: Rieter.
• Model: SB2
• Year: 1994
• No. of machines: 2

Machine description:

• Input material: card sliver
• Total no of cans: 6×2=12
• No. of doublings: 6
• No of coiling head: 2
• Output: sliver
• Drafting system 3/3
• Total draft range 4.24-12.15
• Delivery speed 650- 800m/min
• Length of delivery 10750m/min

Lap Former Machine:

Sliver from card which is passed through the breaker drawframe is not suitable to feed in the comber because the feed material or the comber is lap sheet so preparation process known as lap preparation is done and machine used for the preparation is known as lap winding machine.

Objective of lap preparation:

1. To make even feed for comber
2. To present sliver hooks as leading hooks to the comber
3. To make the fiber more parallel

Material flow chart:

Machine data:

• Manufacturer: Rieter
• Model: E32
• No of machines: 2
• No of doubling 26
• No of delivery 1
• Drafting system 3/3
• Draft: 1.36-2.2
• Drafting system: 2 zone drafting system
• Delivery speed 124m/min
• Sliver count range: 3.3-6kTex
• Doubling: up to 28 folds
• Length of delivery 240m

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Comber:

Combing is the process which is used to upgrade the raw material. It influences the following yarn quality

• Yarn evenness
• Strength
• Cleanness
• Smoothness
• Visual appearance

In addition to the above, combed cotton needs less twist than a carded yarn.

Task of the Comber:

• To produce an improvement in yarn quality, the comber must perform the following operation.
• Elimination of short fibres as noil
• Elimination of remaining impurities
• Elimination of neps
• The basic operation of the comber is to improve the mean length or staple length by removing the short fibres.
• Trailing hooks from carding should be fed as leading hooks to reduce long fibre loss in the noil

Sequence of Operation in a Comber:

• Feeding, lap is fed by feed roller
• fed lap gripped by the nipper
• gripped lap is combed by circular comb
• detaching roller grips the combed lap and moves forward
• while the detaching roller delivers the material, top comb comes into action to further clean the lap
• While going back, nipper opens and receives a new bit of lap.

Types of feeds:

1. Forward feed (concurrent feed): Feed of the sheet into the nippers occurs while the nippers move towards the detaching roller
2. Backward feed (counter-feed): Feed of the sheet occurs during return of the nippers.

Production Calculations
Production of the comber is dependent upon the following:

• N- Nips per min
• S- feed in mm/nip
• G- lap weight in g/m
• K- Noil percentage
• A- tension draft between lap and feed roller(from 1.05 to 1.1)
• E- efficiency

There are 8 combers in Hall 1&2

• No of heads = 8
• Noil % = 16.5%
• Nips/min = 450-458
• Feed/nip = 4.7-5.2mm
• Length of delivery = 6290
• Delivery rate = 215m/min
• Drafting system = 3/3
• Noil suction pressure = 12-15mm of water column
• Time taken to fill up a can = 29min
• Sliver weight = 4.720ktex

Technical data:

• Manufacturer: Rieter
• Model: E65
• Year: 2006
• Nos. 8

Input feed:

• Lap width: 270-300mm
• No. of lap per machine: 8
• Batt weight per meter: 60-80 gm/mt

Production data:

• Lap diameter: up to 650mm
• Feed per nip: 4.3/4.7/5.2/5.9mm
• Noil: 8-25 %
• Drafting system: 3/5
• Doubling: 8 fold
• Sliver weight: 3-6 kTex
• Break draft: 1.14-1.5
• Total draft: 9.0-23.1

Pressure:

• Loading: pneumatic
• Top detaching roller: 3-4bar
• Drafting system front roll: 2.5-3bar
• Drafting system 2nd and 3rd rolls: 3.5-4.5bar

Drawframe:

Sliver from comber before feeding to speed frame is passed through drawframe to get maximum possible evenness which result in the even roving at roving frame.

Objectives:

1. To make sliver with maximum possible evenness.
2. To make required hank for input in speed frame.

Material Flow Chart:
Material flow on the Drawframe is given by following flowchart

Autolevelling:
When sliver is passed through the scanning rollers then it measures the thickness of material. Scanning rollers are connected to the signal generator which converts thickness variation in the electronic signals. These signals are compared by standard value by the electronic memory and then it gives the signal to the servo drive to maintain the proper draft with particular thickness.

Technical data:

• Manufacturer: Rieter.
• Model: LRSB851& RSB 851

Drafting system:

• Drafting arrangement: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,3/3 3/3 Draft range: 5.5-11.5 5.5-11.5
• Sliver hank delivered: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,0.12-0.19

Top roller cot size:

• Top rolls(mm): ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,26x38x160
• Dia of bottom rollers: ,,,, 40,30,30
• Break draft ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,0.99-1.03
• No of machines ,,,,,,,,,,,,, 7

Stop Motions on Drawframe:

1. Sliver Break stop motion,
2. Sliver lapping stop motion,
3. Can exhaust stop motion,
4. Safety door stop motion.

Roving Frame / Speed Frame / Simplex
Simplex is the intermediate machine between draw frame and the ring frame. The purpose of the roving frame is to produce out of the draw frame sliver a well prepared roving of required as well as the prepare bobbin for the ring frame.

Objectives of Roving Frame:

1. To draft the material to the required linear density.
2. To insert minimum required level of twist.
3. To produce a suitable package for the next process.
4. To reduce the thickness of the sliver.

Technical Data:

• Model: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,LF1400 & LF1400A
• Manufacturer:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, LMW
• Year: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1994
• Total no of spindles ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,120
• Drafting system ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,3/3&4/4 drafting system
• Spacer size ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,3.5to11mm
• Bottom apron size ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,76*40*1.0mm
• Bottom roll dia ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,27-30mm
• Top apron size ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,38.5*41.5*1.0mm
• Cradle ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,31mm
• Rubber cots ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,29mm
• Roller gauge ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,45/58-45/68
• Saddle gauge ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,51/56-51/66

Ring Frame:
Ring spinning is the last state of conversion of fibre to yarn completely. Ring frame is the last machine in the spinning section.

Objectives of Ring Frame:
It performs mainly two operations-

1. To convert roving into yarn of required count.
2. To wind yarn on the cop.

Flowchart of Material:

KTTM (RXI 240)

• Manufacturer: KTTM
• Model: RXI-240
• Year: 1994
• Total no. of machines: 23
• No of spindles per machine: 864
• Spindle speed: 20000 rpm (max)

LAKSHMI-RIETER (G5/1)

• Manufacturer: LAKSHMI-RIETER Model: G 5/1
• Year: 1994
• Total no. of machines: 25
• No of spindles per machine: 864

Table:

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Founder & Editor of Textile Learner. He is a Textile Consultant, Blogger & Entrepreneur. Mr. Kiron is working as a textile consultant in several local and international companies. He is also a contributor of Wikipedia.

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