Yarn Hairiness

One of the biggest challenges for the Textile Industry is the Yarn Hairiness. With the increase in speeds, the productivity has gone up, but so has the yarn hairiness gone up.

Yarn Hairiness is such a mess , that on all modern looms, at high speeds the hair on the yarn is pressed first by the Reed Force and bulges out , giving a nice pilling effect . Even with the best of the fabrics, the pilling has now become a very big problem.

The yarn hair, unless singed always cause pilling and give a pathetic look.

Given the new technologies of heat and temperatures, it should have been possible to remove the hair either at the time of spinning on Ring Frames or during winding.

All it needs is a temperature source which would burn off the extra hair before the yarn winds. Singeing machines by itself is a process and is quite cumbersome. Needs fire burners, exhaust etc etc. A simple heater tube maintaing a temperature enough for the extra hair to get shaved would have been an idle solution.

Such a tube could have been fixed before the winding drum and with simple suction, the extra hair would have been removed from the system.

Another concept was to ensure that the protruding hair be pressed back into the yarn stream either with rollers or with air nozzle. In case of compact yarns, the compactness only marginally improves the yarn hairiness. It is still not an idle solution.

In case of air nozzle, the results are insignificant. The system did not take off at all.