Centrifugal hydroextraction

The removal of water by centrifugal force from wet textiles contained in a perforated rotor or 'basket'. (See also expression (percent).)

Centrifugal Pot

See POT SPINNING.

Centrifugal spinning

1. A method of spinning in which the yarn passes down a central guide tube and is then collected by centrifugal force on the inner surface of a rotating cylindrical container. (See also box spinning.)
2. (ManufLictured fibre production) A method of fibre formation in which a molten or dissolved polymer is thrown centrifugally in fibre form from the edge of a rapidly rotating surface.

Centrifuge

A machine that employs centrifugal force to remove excess liquid from fabrics. In general centrifuges are also used to separate materials of different densities. © 2001 Celanese Acetate LLC

Ceramic (fibre)

A refractory fibre composed of a metal oxide, metal carbide, metal nitride or their mixtures. Alumina and silica are the most commonly used. (See also Classification Table, p.401.)
Note 1: In this context, silicon and boron are regarded as metals.
Note 2: Ceramic fibres are used in electrical, thermal and sound insulation, in high temperature filtration and as reinforcement in some composites.

Ceramic Fiber

An aluminum silicate fiber made by heating aluminum fluoride at 1000- 1200 with silica and water vapor. The crystals or “whiskers ” obtained are up to 1 cm long and have high strength. Ceramic fibers are used in reinforced plastics.

Cerifil

A system of spinning in which the yarn is wound on to the spinning tube via a 'winder'. The winder, which is rotated by the yarn, replaces the ring and traveller which are used in ring spinning and confines the yarn balloon.
Note: Cerifil' is a trade mark originally owned by the Cerit Research Organisation.

Ceylon

A coloured woven fabric for blouses and shirtings made from a cotton warp and a cotton-wool weft.

Ceylonette

An imitation ceylon fabric made entirely from cotton, with 22 ends x 18 picks/cm and 12 tex warp and weft.

Chafe mark

A localized area where a fabric has been damaged by friction.

Chafed End

A warp end that has been abraded during processing. It generally appears as a dull yarn often containing broken filaments.

Chafer fabric

A fabric, coated with unvulcanized rubber, which is wrapped round the bead section of a tyre before vulcanization of the complete tyre, and whose purpose is to maintain an abrasion-resistant layer of rubber in contact with the wheel on which the tyre is mounted.
note.. Chafei. fabrics originally were cross-woven cotton. For tubeless tyres they are usually resin-impregnated multi-filament mesh fabrics of rayon or nylon or alternatively nylon mono-filament mesh.( sub category of tyre textiles)

Chafer fabric

A fabric, coated with unvulcanized rubber, which is wrapped round the bead section of a tyre before vulcanization of the complete tyre, and whose purpose is to maintain an abrasion-resistant layer of rubber in contact with the wheel on which the tyre is mounted.
Note.. Chafei. fabrics originally were cross-woven cotton. For tubeless tyres they are usually resin-impregnated multi-filament mesh fabrics of rayon or nylon or alternatively nylon mono-filament mesh.

Chaff

A component of trash in cotton in the form of a heterogeneous assortment of vegetable fragments, most of them being small pieces of leaf, leaf bract (a small form of leaf growing beneath the boll), and stalk.

Chain

1.Threads lengthways in a fabric as woven.
2.A number of threads in long lengths and approximately parallel, in various forms intendedfor weaving, knitting, doubling, sizing, dyeing, or lace-making.
note. To arrange threads in long lengths parallel to one another preparatory to further processing.
note.. In addition to beaming the following methods of warping are practised: ball warping, cross-ball warping, and chain warping. The primary stage of these methods of warping is the withdrawal of ends from a warping creel and their assembly in rope form, a form that may conveniently be used for wet processing. For convenience of handling, this rope may be
(i) wound into a ball (ball warping),
(ii) machine-wound on to a wooden roller into a cross-ball cheese (cross-ball or cheese warping), or
(iii) shortened into a link chain (chain winping). A number of these ropes may be assembled into a complete warp on a beam in a dressing frame, or may be split adddressed and incorporated in warps made by other methods. (See also section warping.)