A RESEARCH ON DETERMINING OPTIMUM SPLICING METHOD IN TERMS OF FIBER TYPES AND YARN COUNT

Year 2019, Volume: 29 Issue: 1, 22 - 29, 26.03.2019

Seval Uyanık

https://doi.org/10.32710/tekstilvekonfeksiyon.451476

Cited By: 5

Abstract

The quality of the
splice made in the yarn is very important in terms of final yarn performance.
The yarn ends are not spliced well; the yarn breaking strength and elongation
are reduced, resulting in too many breaks in the machines during fabric
production and consequently low yield. Many methods, which are pneumatic
method, the mechanical method, the pneu-mechanical method and electrostatic
method, are used for splicing. Among them, pneumatic splicing is the most
popular. In this study, it was aimed to investigate spliced yarn performances
in terms of three types of splicing methods including air splicing, wet
splicing and mechanical splicing known as twin splicing, and to reveal optimum
splicing method in terms of fiber type and yarn count. For this aim, a
total of twenty seven ring yarns as pure and blended containing different raw
materials, which are cotton, viscose, polyester, modal and acrylic, were
produced with different yarn counts having Ne 20, Ne 30 and Ne 40. The obtained yarn samples were spliced in different splicers
including air splicer, wet splicer, and twin splicer on Savio Polar IDLS
winding machine. The strength and elongation values of spliced yarns were
measured with Mesdan-Lab Splice Scanner-3. The measurements were compared to
each other and the values before splicing. The study results revealed that twin
splicer is the best for cotton fiber and acrylic fiber, whereas it is the worst
for regenerated cellulosic fibers, all splicer types can be used for polyester
fiber, and the best splicer type is air splicer for fine yarns whereas it is twin
splicer for coarse yarns.

Keywords

Air splice, wet splice, twin splice, fiber types, yarn count, spliced yarn strength, spliced yarn elongation

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