Fabric crimp

Nonwoven Fabric. Crimped PVA staple is being used for the manufacture of dry-laid nonwoven. Also, as an example utilising the uniqueness of the fiber, a soft sheet is prepared by shrinking and pardy dissolving in hot water a nonwoven from water-soluble PVA fiber and then insoliibili ing the fabric by acetalization or similar processes. This sheet is used as car wipers, wipers for high grade furniture, and for similar purposes. 

Unit mm) Welded wire fabric Crimped wire cloth... 

Crimp percentage Wavy path followed by warp and weft when interlaced in a fabric, crimp percentage is measure of waviness. 

Fabric crimp n. The angulation induced between a yam and woven fabric via the weaving or braiding process. Vincenti R (ed)... 

Fabric crimp angle n. The maximum acute angle of a single weaving yarn s direction measured from a plane parallel to the surface of the fabric. 

Fabric crimp or waviness is another critical factor, which is the distortion of a yam owing to interlacing in the fabric in both the warp and weft directions. The crimp means the constituent yam has extra length other than the linear fabric dimensions. The crimp of a fabric affects the fabric modulus if the crimp is high, the modulus will be low. 

Improved Hot—Wet Properties. Acryhc fibers tend to lose modulus under hot—wet conditions. Knits and woven fabrics tend to lose their bulk and shape in dyeing and, to a more limited extent, in washing and drying cycles as well as in high humidity weather. Moisture lowers the glass-transition temperature T of acrylonitrile copolymers and, therefore, crimp is lost when the yam is exposed to conditions requited for dyeing and laundering. 

Texturing. The final step in olefin fiber production is texturing the method depends primarily on the appHcation. For carpet and upholstery, the fiber is usually bulked, a procedure in which fiber is deformed by hot air or steam jet turbulence in a no22le and deposited on a moving screen to cool. The fiber takes on a three-dimensional crimp that aids in developing bulk and coverage in the final fabric. Stuffer box crimping, a process in which heated tow is overfed into a restricted oudet box, imparts a two-dimensional sawtooth crimp commonly found in olefin staple used in carded nonwovens and upholstery yams. 

Even when crimp is fiiUy developed it is easy to pull out (low energy) and difficult to translate into noticeably bulkier woven and knitted fabrics. It does however improve the absorbency and the cohesion of the staple (important in spun-yam and nonwoven making) and gives a subtiy different texture... 

Cross-sectional modifications of a more extreme nature than skin-bursting, which nevertheless do not form crimp, have grown in importance since the early 1980s. These yield a permanent bulk increase which can be translated into bulky fabrics without the need for special care. The first commercial staple fiber of this type was Courtaulds hoUow Viloft, developed in the 1970s using a carbonate inflation technique (37). 

Empirical attempts have been made to relate strip and grab test results, particularly for cotton fabrics, so that if one strength is known, the other can be calculated. The relationship is complex, depending on fiber strength and modulus, yam size and crimp, yam-to-yam friction, fabric cover factor, weave, weight, and other factors (19). 

The type of reinforeement. In the case of fabric reinforcement, factors such as cloth weight and crimp will have a large effect on mechanical properties. 

The materials of construction are usually stainless steel as well as specific other metals that will draw into wire, or crimp without cracking. The wire mesh types have been fabricated of some plastics such as Teflon , polypropylene, etc. however, the surface must be wettable by the liquid, or the efficiency will be poor, and performance data are needed to complete a good design. 

PTT POY yams were textured by the false-twist method at 140 to 160 °C. Crimp development was almost twice as high as PET, with crimp contraction reaching about 50 %. When PTT yams with a high level of crimp contraction are knitted into stretch fabrics, the amount of stretch achieved is equivalent to PET stretch fabrics incorporated with 6 to 8 % of Spandex [89], In addition to stretch, PTT fabrics tend to have softer hand and better drape than PET. Since they do not absorb moisture like nylon, PTT fabrics also have a desirable dry touch and comfort. 

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