BHT501

Woven Fabric Manufacture

L-T-P3-1-0 Credits4 Session2024-25 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech Handloom & Textile Technology · Sem 5 (Core)

Syllabus

5 units · 60 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1

12 hrs

Objectives of warping, types of warping, material flow in beam warping and sectional warping machines, types of creels used in warping machines. Objectives of sizing, types of sizing machines, principle of two cylinder and multi-cylinder sizing machine, concept of modern sizing machine. Need for drawing-in and denting-in operation, manual and automatic drawing- in and denting-in, leasing, knotting and pinning process in machines.

Unit2

Unit 2

12 hrs

General description of plain power looms, Introduction to primary, secondary and auxiliary motion of plain power looms. Tappet shedding, over and under pick motions, Beating-up Mechanism – Eccentricity of sley, Loom timing of Primary motion, Negative and positive take up motion, five wheel and seven wheel take up motion, positive & negative let-off motions.

Unit3

Unit 3

12 hrs

Scope & limitation of tappet shedding, Detailed study of various types of tappet shedding mechanism, Scope & limitation of dobby, negative and positive dobby, right hand & left hand dobby & their pegging methods, Brief description of Knowles dobby, cross border dobby, heald reversing motion.

Unit4

Unit 4

12 hrs

Types of jacquards and working principles, size and figuring capacity of jacquard, single lift single cylinder Jacquard, Double lift single cylinder, double lift double cylinder, Electronic jacquard, split harness, Different system of harness tie- up. Calculation related to Jacquard, Harness and Design- set of harness, number of harness cords to each hook, casting out and size of repeat.

Unit5

Unit 5

12 hrs

Multiple box motion and their types, Pick-at will, pick and pick motion. Detailed study of various motions of automatic looms: pirn change, shuttle change loom, mechanical warp stop motions, electro-mechanical warp stop motion. Warp protective mechanism: loose reed & fast reed, weft detection mechanism side and center weft fork motion. Loom shed calculation- efficiency, production and production planning.

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1To identify the process of warping, sizing, & drawing machines and denting process.
  2. CO2To demonstrate the weaving process of power loom, including different shedding mechanisms.
  3. CO3To summarize the working of different Dobby and auxiliary motion.
  4. CO4To illustrate working principles of Jacquard, its recent developments and calculation.
  5. CO5To describe the different types of multiple box motion and loom shed calculation.

Text Books

  1. Talukdar, M. K., Sriramulu, P. K., & Ajgaonkar, D. B. (1998). Weaving: Machines, mechanisms, management. Ahmedabad, India: Mahajan Publishers.
  2. R. Mark and A.T.C Robinson, Principal of weaving (1986) the textile institute of Manchester.
  3. Banerjee, P.K. (2014). Principles of Fabric Formation (1st Ed.). CRC Press.
  4. Lord, P. R., & Mohamed, M. H. (1992). Weaving: Conversion of yarn to fabric.
  5. Prof N.N Banerjee (2000) weaving mechanism volume I & II.
  6. Thomas W.Fox, M.Sc Tech, the mechanism of weaving 2007

References

  1. Nodal center for up gradation of textile education 2008( NCUTE Production ) Woven fabrics production – I & II
  2. Omerod, A. (1983). Modern Preparation and Weaving Machinery. London: Butterworths.
  3. Booth, J. E., & Textile Institute (Manchester, England). (1977). Textile mathematics: Vol. 3. Manchester: Textile Institute.
  4. M. K. Talukdar. An Introduction to winding and Warping Testing Trade Press, Mumbai, 1982
  5. Majumdar, A. B. H. I. J. I. T. (2020). Principles of Woven Fabric Manufacturing.

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 4, 5 of the original AKTU PDF.

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