Author:Galuszynski, SDate:Jul 1984A new method, allowing to stimulate the yarn assembly in a woven fabric for measuring yarn to yarn frictional force, is described.Read more
Author:Galuszynski, S; Gee, E; Robinson, GADate:Feb 1984An all-wool, an all-polyester and a wool/polyester blend fabric were each fused at the same interlining under industrial conditions.Read more
Author:Shorthouse, CA; Robinson, GADate:Jun 1987Repco wrapped core-spun (RWCS) and Repco wrapped spun (RWS) wool yarns, having textured nylon or polyester as the filament component were spun to a range of yarn linear densities from three lots of tops (1) polymer treated tops pretreated by ...Read more
Author:Weideman, E; Van Rensburg, NJJDate:Feb 1982The effect of electroflotation using aluminium electrodes on the C.O.D., D.O.C and colour values of liquors containing acid, disperse, mordant and basic dyes in the presence and absence of wool grease was investigated.Read more
Author:Van der Walt, GHJ; Van Rensburg, NJJDate:May 1985Different cotton fabrics, ranging from 91 to 330 g/m, were foam-dyed on a laboratory scale FFT machine using various reactive dyes.Read more
Author:Fuel Research Institute South AfricaDate:Apr 1980This brochure contains a brief account of the growth of the institute over the past 50 years and of its structure, mode of operation and activities.Read more
Author:Cizek, J; Turpie, DWFDate:Nov 1985A number of profiles of raw wool staples are illustrated, and also the profile of raw mohair staple. It is shown that testing of the strength of raw wool stapled at a short gauge, in addition to the maxim practical gauge, (namely where the ...Read more
Author:Turpie, DWF; Van der Walt, LTDate:Jul 1977An improved method for the rapid determination of non-ionic detergent in the cream, effluent and sludge from wool scouring liquors in recovered wool grease was established using dichloromethane as an extraction liquor.Read more
Author:Ellis, R; Robinson, GADate:Jul 1975The effect of incorporating leno and up to 5% of either multifilament or monofilament nylon into lightweight worsted suitings is described.Read more
Author:Turpie, DWFDate:Oct 1978A comparison in the processing performance during topmaking of wools from the ports of Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town was carried out on a 10/12 months 60/64's good topmaking wool, known as type 54.Read more
Author:Turpie, DWFDate:Mar 1978A comparison in the processing performance during topmaking of a 12 months 60/64s good topmaking wool (type 49) from the ports of Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town was made.Read more
Author:Robinson, GA; Turpie, DWFDate:Oct 1979Three matched lots of wools derived from various growing regions of South Africa and marketed in Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town respectively have been processed, spun and when woven into identical fabrics.Read more
Author:Cizek, J; Turpie, DWFDate:Mar 1985A staple length/ strength measuring instrument has been developed for the routine automatic measurement of the cross-sectional profile and length of a wool staple, the position and cross sectional area of its thinnest place, its tenacity and ...Read more
Author:Hunter, L; Van der Merwe, JP; Brydon, AGDate:Aug 1978The Mean Spindle Speed at Break (MSS) test was developed at SAWTRI for assessing the spinning potential of wool on worsted ring spinning machines.Read more
Author:Galuszynski, SDate:Apr 1985The effect of stitch length, pressure of presser foot, fabric structure and needle diameter on Fabric Resistance to Needle Piercing (FRNP) during the sewing operation, both with and without sewing thread, was investigated.Read more
Author:Hunter, L; Gee, EDate:May 1987The isolated weak places and other physical properties of some 120 commercial cotton, cotton/polyester and polyester yarns, mostly ring, but including some rotor (OE) samples, have been measured.Read more
Author:Robinson, GADate:Apr 1974Knit-de-knit body blanks were produced in various stitch length from approximately 67/33 polyester/ cotton blend yarns, and a ratio equal to finish stitch length for various tex yarns as calculated.Read more
Author:Robinson, GA; Cawood, MP; Dobson, DADate:Apr 1976The knittability of a range of yarn linear densities was determined from knittability curves of tightness factor versus the number of yarn breakages, during the knitting of plain single jersey fabrics.Read more