Highlights of wet processing machinery - Ⅻ

摘要

Parts Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ Ⅳ Ⅴ Ⅵ Ⅶ Ⅷ Ⅸ Ⅹ and Ⅺin this series on ITMA'99 Paris, published in the previous eleven issues of COLOURAGE, have dealt with machines for preparatory processing & bleaching, batchwise dyeing, continuous dyeing, printing, finishing stenters, shrinking machines, relaxation shrinking machines & decatising machines, shearing machines & singeing machines, raising machines & brushing machines, emerizing machines and coating machines for woven fabrics. Part XII deals with calendering machines simply called as calenders. These machines have a long history as fabric finishing machines, having heavy rollers or bowls mounted vertically on a robust frame to give gloss and softness to textiles through contact pressure and temperature. Now there are different categories of calenders developed for specific uses—the traditional but impro ved bowl calenders and felt calenders as well as the recent laminating calenders and sublimating calenders.