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| Title: | Machinery for extraction and traditional spinning of plant fibres |
| Authors: | Das, PK
Nag, D
Debnath, S
Nayak, LK |
| Keywords: | Plant fibre
Traditional spinning |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.7: B27, D01, G10D |
| Abstract: | Vegetable fibres
are produced from bast, fruit, seed, leaf, and sheath of plants. They are
discrete of single entities as in cotton; ligno-cellulosic meshy as in jute and
mesta; long as in jute, mesta, flax, sisal, ramie, pineapple
leaf fibre (PALF); and short as in areca nut, kapok. Some of them like cotton
and ramie are strong and fine with high length to breadth aspect ratio for good
spinability into yarn for fabric. Primarily, cotton is used for apparel; jute
and mesta for packaging; ramie for
fabrics, ropes and currency paper blanks; sisal for rope; flax for linen; sun
hemp for rope and tissue paper, etc. Ramie is the strongest amongst all the
vegetable fibres and, therefore, it has great promises for specialised applications.
The traditional uses of some vegetable fibres are in packaging of food grains,
sugar, potato, onion, etc. Emphasis has, therefore, been given to crops like
jute, mesta, sisal and PALF right
from their extraction to finished products like yarns, fabric, sacking,
hessian, ropes, twines, soil-savers, craft papers, etc. through mechanical
processing and intervention of a host of machinery. The need for production of
fine yarn/blended yarn has become acute in the context of manufacture/export of
fabrics and ready-made garments. Therefore, it becomes essential to explore all
spinning technologies for production of market friendly yarn. |
| Page(s): | 386-393 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.09(2) [April 2010]
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