Principles of Spinning

This volume explains cleaning of cotton after blow room treatment and individualization process in conventional card. It also includes description of improved cleaning at higher production rates and individualization at such higher rates. This volume also includes the related calculation for both card and draw frame.

Dr. Ashok Khare is a graduate, post-graduate and doctorate from a well-known technological institute - Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai (formerly known as Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute). He graduated from this Institute in 1970 and went to serve a well-known textile group of Mafatlal mills. After serving for nearly 5 years in the textile mills, he returned back to his Alma mater in 1975 as a lecturer in textile technology. In the due course, he was promoted to Assistant Professor and Professor. In the last phase of his service in V.J.T.I., Mumbai, he took over as the Head of the Textile Manufacture's Department. Almost during the same tenure, he held a position of Deputy Director in the same Institute. He has written several articles on card cleaning efficiency, role of uni-comb, extended research work on influence of doubling parameters on properties of blended doubles yarns.

1. Carding. 2. Important Regions in Carding. 3. Stripping - Burnishing & Grinding. 4. Card Setting. 5. Developments in carding. 6. Features of Modern High Speed Carding. 7. Faults and their Elimination. 8. Draw Frame. 9. Features of Modern Draw Frame. 10. Faults in Draw Frame. 11. Card Gearing Calculations.