Cabinet

A basic part of the manufactured-fiber spinning machine where in dry spinning the filaments become solidified by solvent evaporation and in melt spinning the filaments are solidified by cooling.

Cable

To twist together two or more folded yarns. (See also folded yarn and cabled yarn.)

Cable cord

A cord consisting of three case cords that have been over-twisted and are then twisted together in the reverse direction. The smaller sizes are often referred to as 'lacing cords' and the larger sizes, traditionally over 6mm diameter, as 'French crepe cord'.

Cable laid rope

A rope formed by three or more ropes twisted to form a helix around the same central axis. The ropes that become the secondary strands are 'S' lay and the finished cable is 'Z' lay or vice versa(sub category of rope)

Cable laid rope

A rope formed by three or more ropes twisted to form a helix around the same central axis. The ropes that become the secondary strands are 'S' lay and the finished cable is 'Z' lay or vice versa

Cable stitch

Two or more groups of adjacent ales that pass under and over one another to give a cabled effect.

Cable Twist

A construction of thread yarn cord or rope in which each successive twist is in the direction opposite the preceding twists; i.e. and S/Z/S or Z/S/Z construction.

Cabled yarn

Two or more folded yarns twisted together in one or more operations.
Note 1: Combinations of folded yarn(s) and single yarn(s) may be described as cabled yarns.
Note 2: In the tyre-yarn and tyre-cord sections of the textile industry.continuous-filament, manufactured-fibre cabled cords or cords. These terms include two twist 12 turns/inch yarns, a traditional example being: 1650 denier (180 tex) rayon cord, singles t(Z) and cable twist 12 turns/inch (S), (470 turns/m).cake age, roughly cylindrical in shape, of continuous-filanient yarn produced in the viscose The pack spinning industry by means of a Topham box. (See also mock cake.)

Cake sizing

The application of size to yarn wound in the form of a cake.

Calavry Twill

A pronounced raised cord on a 63-degree twill weave characterizes this rugged cloth usually made from wool or wool blend yarns.

Calender

1. A machine in which heavy rollers (bowls) rotate in contact under mechanical or hydraulic pressure. The bowls may be unheated, or one may be a thick-walled steel shell heated internally. All bowls may rotate at the same surface speed, or one highly polished and heated bowl may rotate at a higher surface speed than the rest. In certain specialized machines, e.g., those for knitted goods, two adjacent bowls may be heated, or, in the case of a laundry calender, one roller may work against a steam chest shaped to the curvature of the roller. (See also frictioncalendering.) flatten it, to close the calender
2. To pass fabric through a triachine as in 1 above, normally to smooth and intersections between the yarns, or to confer surface glaze. Special calenders with an engraved heated bowl imprint a pattern in relief (see emboss) or modify the fabric surface to give high lustre (see Schreiner).calender
3. In coating fabric with rubber or plastics, to use such a machine with the bowls a definite distance apart, so that the rubber or plastics mass is attenuated to a thin uniform sheet, which is then pressed into a firm adhesion with one side of the fabric passing through. Sometimes this operation is referred to as catender spreading.

Calender bonding

A method of making a thermally-bonded nonwoven fabric in which calender rollers are used to apply heat and pressure to a fibreweb orbatt, thus causing bonding by the softening ormelting of the heat-sensitive material. Embossed calender rollers are in common use for point bonding.

Calendering

A mechanical finishing process for fabrics to produce special effects such as high luster glazing moiré and embossed effects. In this operation the fabric is passed between heated rolls under pressure.

Calendering Rolls

1. The main cylinders on a calender. 2. Smooth or fluted rolls used on carious fiber-processing machines such as pickers and cards to compress the lap or sliver as it passes between them.

Calico

A generic term for plain cotton fabric heavier than muslin.