In the carding system, the processes after carding basically no longer have the functions of opening, carding and removing impurities, so the quality of the card sliver, especially the knot content, directly affects the quality of the yarn.
Therefore, quality control of raw strips is particularly important.
Quality indicators of raw strips:
The quality indicators of raw strips can be It is divided into two categories: regular inspection items and reference items in operation and production.
1. Regular inspection items:
1. Uneven rate of raw slivers
The unevenness of the raw sliver reflects the uneven thickness of each meter of the raw sliver. There are two inspection indicators: Saxony sliver and Ubbelohde sliver. Generally Sabouraud’s evenness should be controlled within the range of 14% to 18%, and the CV value of Ubbelohde’s specialness should be controlled within the range of less than 4%.
2. Raw sliver weight unevenness
Reflects the thickness of the 5-meter segment of raw sliver In case of unevenness, the weight unevenness should be controlled below 4.0%.
3. Neps and impurities in raw slivers
Reflect the amount of neps contained in each gram of raw sliver. The number of neps and impurities is determined by the enterprise according to product requirements. Its reference range is shown in Table 1.
Table 1 Control range of nep impurities in card slivers
Note: Numbers in brackets in the table It is an imperial count.
4. Short staple rate of raw sliver
Refers to the proportion of fibers below 16mm in the raw sliver. percentage, the carding process both eliminates short lint and produces short lint to a certain extent. The lint production volume of ordinary carding machines is greater than the discharge volume, so the lint content in the card sliver is generally more than that in the cotton lap. After using multi-point suction, the carding machine can greatly increase the amount of short lint and dust removal, which can make the short lint content in the card sliver less than that of the cotton roll. Generally, the short lint rate of the card sliver is controlled within 4%.
2. Reference indicators:
The clarity of the cotton web is a reflection of the structural status of the cotton web. Comprehensive indicators, by visually observing the straightness, separation and uniform distribution of fibers in the cotton web, we can quickly understand whether the mechanical status of the carding machine and the process configuration are reasonable.
Control of neps and impurities in the card sliver:
The neps and impurities in the card sliver directly affect the knotting of the carded yarn. Miscellaneous and cloth surface defects will affect the normal movement of the fiber during the drafting process of doubling, thickening and thinning, as well as the normal movement of the traveler when the spun yarn is twisted and wound, resulting in deterioration of evenness, increased yarn defects and end breaks. Therefore, it is necessary to control and reduce the number of foreign particles in the raw sliver. In production, it is necessary to strengthen control and management and rectify backward machines to reduce the dispersion of the number of nep impurities between machines as much as possible.
Due to the intense impact and careful carding of fibers during the cleaning and carding processes, the number of neps increases. Especially in the carding process, immature fibers are After being struck and rubbed by the saw teeth of the licker-in, and repeatedly rotated in the cylinder and cover plate working areas, neps are easily twisted into neps; in addition, some fiber clumps and bundles produced by fiber impurities, stiff cotton or cleaning cotton are also Easy to convert to form neps. Therefore, from raw cotton to card sliver, the weight percentage of impurities decreases rapidly, but the number of impurities gradually increases, and the weight of each impurity decreases. After the card sliver is combined and roughened, the number of knots and impurities increases. However, in the spinning process, some of the nep impurities are wrapped inside the yarn sliver, so the number of knots and impurities in the yarn is 20% to 40% less than that of the card sliver. %.
The control of nep impurities should be based on the properties of raw materials, cotton lap quality and yarn quality requirements, starting from process deployment, and giving full play to the dust removal effect at the rear belly and cover. The main measures are:
1. Configure the carding process:
Configure the carding process well The technology combined with “four fronts and one accuracy” and “tight gaps” can increase the percentage of single fibers in the cotton web, promote the fibers to straighten and parallelize, fully separate the fibers from impurities, and improve the carding machine’s ability to remove neps and impurities. .
2. Remove impurities early and at the right time:
Key points for removing impurities in the cleaning and combing processes Reasonable division of labor, impurity removal in each part of the carding machine itself also requires a reasonable division of labor. For impurities that are generally larger and easy to separate, the principle of falling early and breaking less should be implemented; impurities with greater adhesion, especially impurities with long fibers, should not fall early when they are not separated from the fibers, and should be removed during carding. It is more advantageous to clean it after sufficient combing on the machine. When the maturity of raw cotton is poor and there are many fiber impurities, the waste and impurity removal burden of the carding machine should be appropriately increased.
The carding roller part of the carding machine is a key impurity area. Broken seeds, stiff flaps and impurities with short fibers should be discharged in this area to prevent impurities from being Crush or get stuck between the teeth of the cylinder needles, affecting the combing effect. Therefore, except for a small amount of adhesive impurities, the licker-in part should fall off early and fall off more. Reasonable configuration of the licker-in speed and the rear turning process has a significant effect on improving the impurity removal efficiency of the licker-in part and reducing the impurity of the card sliver. The cylinder and cover parts are suitable for removing small impurities, neps and short lint with fibers of different lengths. The specifications of the cylinder and flat card clothing and the distance between the two needle surfaces, the position of the upper front cover plate, the distance between the front upper cover plate and the cylinder, and the speed of the flat plate also affect the cotton in the sliver. The amount of junction impurities. For raw materials that are less mature and contain more harmful defectsCotton, special attention should be paid to the role of the cover plate in removing debris in the working area.
3. Reduce fiber twisting:
According to the tightness of the fibers in the neps, it is divided into There are loose neps and tight neps, and tight neps mostly contain impurities. A nep is generally composed of dozens of fibers, most of which are thin-walled fibers with low maturity coefficients. Such fibers have low rigidity and high moisture regain. On the carding machine, due to the impact and friction of the licker-in and the cylinder cover, Repeated rubbing between boards can easily cause neps to form kinks. In addition, when the teeth of the cylinder, cover plate and doffer needles are blunt or have burrs, the fibers cannot be transferred repeatedly between the two needle surfaces and tend to float between the two needle surfaces and be rubbed by other fibers, forming more neps. . The distance between the lick-in roller and the cylinder is too large and the serrations are not smooth, which can easily lead to poor peeling between the lick-in rollers and return of the lick-in rollers, resulting in a significant increase in neps. The needle surface of the cylinder is rough due to grinding, there are oil stains and rust spots on the needle surface, and the distance between the cylinder and the doffer is too large, which can easily cause the cylinder to wrap around and increase neps.
4. Strengthen temperature and humidity control:
Temperature and humidity also have a great impact on nep impurities. Influence. When the moisture regain of raw cotton and cotton laps is low, impurities tend to fall, and neps and bundles can also be reduced. The moisture regain control range is: 8% to 8.5% for cotton laps and 10% to 11% for raw cotton. The carding workshop should control a low relative humidity, generally between 55% and 60%, to release moisture from the fiber, increase the rigidity and elasticity of the fiber, and reduce the friction between the fiber and the needle teeth and the filling of the tooth gaps. However, if the relative humidity is too low, on the one hand, it is easy to generate static electricity, and the cotton mesh is easy to be damaged or broken, especially when spinning chemical fibers. This phenomenon is more obvious. On the other hand, it will reduce the moisture regain of the card sliver, which is detrimental to the drafting of the subsequent processes. .
Control of sliver uniformity:
The sliver unevenness is divided into the sliver weight There are two types of unevenness and unevenness of the card sliver. The former represents the weight difference between the long segments of the sliver (5m), and the latter represents the unevenness of the segments per meter of the sliver.
1. Control of uniformity of raw strips:
Unevenness of raw strips Evenness affects the weight unevenness, evenness and strength of the yarn. The main factors that affect the unevenness of the card sliver include the carding quality, the uniformity of fiber transfer from the cylinder to the doffer, the mechanical state, and the cloud spots, holes and broken edges of the cotton net, etc.
When the carding quality is poor, there will be more residual fiber bundles, or clusters of aggregated fibers of different sizes will appear in the cotton net, forming cloud spots or fish scale-like defects. sick. Poor mechanical conditions, such as inaccurate gauge, periodic changes in gauge caused by vibration of the licker-in, cylinder and doffer, poor gear meshing in the coiler, etc., will increase the unevenness of the slivers. In addition, if the distance between the stripping rollers is incorrect, the drafting of various parts between the doffer and the coiler and the cotton web tension are too large, and the sliver quantity is too light, etc., it will also increase the unevenness of the sliver.
2. Control of card sliver weight unevenness:
Card sliver weight unevenness It has a certain relationship with the spun yarn weight unevenness and weight deviation. The sliver weight unevenness should be controlled from two aspects: internal unevenness and external unevenness. The main factors that affect the unevenness of the card sliver weight include the uneven weight of the cotton lap, the difference in the noil rate between the various machines of the carding machine, and the poor mechanical condition. To control the internal unevenness of the card sliver weight, the unevenness of the cotton roll weight should be controlled to eliminate the sticky layer, holes and poor roll change joints of the cotton roll. To reduce the external unevenness of the card sliver weight, the spacing and noil rate of each carding machine spinning yarn with the same linear density are required to be uniform, to prevent the wrong use of the drafting conversion gear, and to do a good job in maintaining the condition of the equipment to ensure Mechanically in good condition. </p
