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Federal health officials have now recommended that we cover our faces with fabric during the coronavirus pandemic. But what material offers the most protection?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted a no-sew mask pattern using a bandanna and a coffee filter as well as a video on making masks using rubber bands and folded fabrics found at home.

While a simple face covering can reduce the spread of coronavirus by blocking outgoing germs from coughs or sneezes of an infected person, experts say there is more variation in how much homemade masks might protect the wearer from incoming germs, depending on the fit and quality of the material used.

Scientists around the country have taken it upon themselves to identify everyday materials that do a better job of filtering microscopic particles. In recent tests, HEPA furnace filters scored well, as did vacuum cleaner bags, layers of 600-count pillowcases and fabric similar to flannel pajamas. Stacked coffee filters had medium scores. Scarves and bandanna material had the lowest scores, but still captured a small percentage of particles.

If you don’t have any of the materials that were tested, a simple light test can help you decide whether a fabric is a good candidate for a mask.

“Hold it up to a bright light,” said Dr. Scott Segal, chairman of anesthesiology at Wake Forest Baptist Health who recently studied homemade masks. “If light passes really easily through the fibers and you can almost see the fibers, it’s not a good fabric. If it’s a denser weave of thicker material and light doesn’t pass through it as much, that’s the material you want to use.”

Researchers say it’s important to remember that lab studies are conducted under perfect conditions with no leaks or gaps in the mask, but the test methods give us a way to compare materials. And while the degree of filtration for some homemade masks seems low, most of us — who are staying home and practicing social distancing in public — don’t need the high level of protection required for medical workers. More important, any face covering is better than none, especially if worn by a person who has the virus but doesn’t know it.

The biggest challenge of choosing a homemade mask material is to find a fabric that is dense enough to capture viral particles, but breathable enough that we can actually wear it. Some items being touted online promise high filtration scores, but the material would be unwearable.

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Yang Wang, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, worked with his graduate students to study various combinations of layered materials — including both air filters and fabric. “You need something that is efficient for removing particles, but you also need to breathe,” said Dr. Wang, who last fall won an international award for aerosol research.

To test everyday materials, scientists are using methods similar to those used to test medical masks, which everybody agrees should be saved for medical workers who are exposed to high doses of virus from seeing infected patients. The best medical mask — called the N95 respirator — filters out at least 95 percent of particles as small as 0.3 microns. By comparison, a typical surgical mask — made using a rectangular piece of pleated fabric with elastic ear loops — has a filtration efficiency ranging from 60 to 80 percent.

Dr. Wang’s group tested two types of air filters. An allergy-reduction HVAC filter worked the best, capturing 89 percent of particles with one layer and 94 percent with two layers. A furnace filter captured 75 percent with two layers, but required six layers to achieve 95 percent. To find a filter similar to those tested, look for a minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) rating of 12 or higher or a microparticle performance rating of 1900 or higher.

The problem with air filters is that they potentially could shed small fibers that would be risky to inhale. So if you want to use a filter, you need to sandwich the filter between two layers of cotton fabric. Dr. Wang said one of his grad students made his own mask by following the instructions in the C.D.C. video, but adding several layers of filter material inside a bandanna.

Dr. Wang’s group also found that when certain common fabrics were used, two layers offered far less protection than four layers. A 600 thread count pillow case captured just 22 percent of particles when doubled, but four layers captured nearly 60 percent. A thick woolen yarn scarf filtered 21 percent of particles in two layers, and 48.8 percent in four layers. A 100 percent cotton bandanna did the worst, capturing only 18.2 percent when doubled, and just 19.5 percent in four layers.

The group also tested Brew Rite and Natural Brew basket-style coffee filters, which, when stacked in three layers, showed 40 to 50 percent filtration efficiency — but they were less breathable than other options.

If you are lucky enough to know a quilter, ask them to make you a mask. Tests performed at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., showed good results for homemade masks using quilting fabric. Dr. Segal, of Wake Forest Baptist Health, who led the study, noted that quilters tend to use high-quality, high-thread count cotton. The best homemade masks in his study were as good as surgical masks or slightly better, testing in the range of 70 to 79 percent filtration. Homemade masks that used flimsier fabric tested as low as 1 percent filtration, Dr. Segal said.

The best-performing designs were a mask constructed of two layers of high-quality, heavyweight “quilter’s cotton,” a two-layer mask made with thick batik fabric, and a double-layer mask with an inner layer of flannel and outer layer of cotton.

Bonnie Browning, executive show director for the American Quilter’s Society, said that quilters prefer tightly woven cottons and batik fabrics that stand up over time. Ms. Browning said most sewing machines can handle only two layers of fabric when making a pleated mask, but someone who wanted four layers of protection could wear two masks at a time.

Ms. Browning said she recently reached out to quilters on Facebook and heard from 71 people who have made a combined total of nearly 15,000 masks. “We quilters are very much in the thick of what’s going on with this,” said Ms. Browning, who lives in Paducah, Ky. “One thing most of us have is a stash of fabric.”

People who don’t sew could try a folded origami mask, created by Jiangmei Wu, assistant professor of interior design at Indiana University. Ms. Wu, who is known for her breathtaking folded artwork, said she began designing a folded mask out of a medical and building material called Tyvek, as well as vacuum bags, after her brother in Hong Kong, where mask wearing is common, suggested it. (DuPont, the maker of Tyvek, said in a statement that Tyvek is intended for medical apparel, not masks.) The folded mask pattern is free online, as is a video demonstrating the folding process. In tests at Missouri University and University of Virginia, scientists found that vacuum bags removed between 60 percent and 87 percent of particles. But some brands of vacuum bags may contain fiberglass or are harder to breathe through than other materials, and shouldn’t be used. Ms. Wu used a bag by EnviroCare Technologies, which has said it does not use fiberglass in its paper and synthetic cloth bags.

“I wanted to create an alternative for people who don’t sew,” said Ms. Wu, who said she is talking to various groups to find other materials that will be effective in a folded mask. “Given the shortage of all kinds of materials, even vacuum bags might run out.”

The scientists who conducted the tests used a standard of 0.3 microns because that is the measure used by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for medical masks.

Linsey Marr, a Virginia Tech aerosol scientist and an expert in the transmission of viruses, said the certification method for respirators and HEPA filters focuses on 0.3 microns because particles around that size are the hardest to catch. While it seems counterintuitive, particles smaller than 0.1 microns are actually easier to catch because they have a lot of random motion that makes them bump into the filter fibers, she said.

“Even though coronavirus is around 0.1 microns, it floats around in a wide range of sizes, from around 0.2 to several hundred microns, because people shed the virus in respiratory fluid droplets that also contain lots of salts and proteins and other things,” said Dr. Marr. “Even if the water in the droplets fully evaporates, there’s still a lot of salt and proteins and other gunk that stays behind as solid or gel-like material. I think 0.3 microns is still useful for guidance because the minimum filtration efficiency will be somewhere around this size, and it’s what NIOSH uses.”

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COMPLETE ZIMMER CHROMOJET LINE, WIDTH 4000mm, YEAR 2000

WIDTH: 4000mm

YEAR: 2000

DPI: 1.666mm = 16 DOTS PER INCH (DPI)

2560 JETS

EACH PUMP WITH 256 JETS (10 PUMPS TOTAL)

JETS ARE IN GOOD CONDITION, TO PRINT ALL KINDS OF CARPETS OF ANY WEIGHT OR PILE HEIGHT 

CAN PRINT DOT OR HALF DOT

10 COLORS

COULD BE USED ALSO FOR BLANKETS

 

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S-1220 KUSTERS CALANDER AND EMBOSSING CALENDER, WORKING WIDTH 3400mm, YEAR 2002

KUSTERS CALANDER AND EMBOSSING CALENDER
MAKE: KUSTERS
YEAR: 2002
TYPE: 213.40/3400
WORKING WIDTH: 3400mm
3 CYLINDERS
COTTON – STEEL – RACOLAN
HYDRAULIC PRESSURE MAXIMUM 40 TONES
COMPLET ENTRY WITH METAL DETECTOR AND SEWING DETECTOR
5 DIFFERENT STEEL EMBOSSING CYLINDERS
PREPARED FOR OIL HEATING WITH PUMP AND VALVES
EXIT WITH SALVADE AXIAL A-FRAME ROLLING DEVICE
INCLUDING TWO MANUAL HAND CRANES
WITH FRAME TO CHANGE THE CYLINDERS

MACHINES ARE STILL RUNNING

QUANTITY: 1

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REFERENCE NUMBER: C-4076

COMPLETE BLANKET MANUFACTURING PLANT, YEAR 1994 TO 2002

 

DYEING
OFFER 001

PRESS AIPA-CIMA

TYPE: PM / 2 (7 KW)

YEAR: 1994
QUANTITY: 1

 

OFFER 002

AUTOCLAVE AIPA

MODEL: HT 200 / D

YEAR: 1994

CAPACITY: 5700 LIT

4.5 BAR
QUANTITY: 1

 

OFFER 003

CENTRIFUGE CIMA IMPIANTI

YEAR: 1994

185 KW
QUANTITY: 1

 

OFFER 004

CRANE OMIS

WITH WINCH AND BASKET

YEAR: 1994

QUANTITY: 1

OFFER 005

DRYER SN. LUCIA LTD

2 DRUMS

HEIGHT: 1600mm

YEAR: 1994

QUANTITY: 1

OFFER 006

PRESS

TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT FOR WET FIBERS

FORKLIFTS

COMPRESSORS

ETC.

SPINNING

OFFER 007
FIBER MIXING PLANT

MODEL: 3652 AND 3660

MANUFACTURER: MECHANICAL CARESI LTD. AND T. BRACCIOLINI

YEAR: 1994
QUANTITY: 2

 

OFFER 008

BONINO CARDING MACHINE

MODEL: CA 83

YEAR: 1994

DELIVERY IN CANS
QUANTITY: 1

 

OFFER 009

RIETER DRAWING MACHINE SB2

YEAR: 1994

QUANTITY: 1

OFFER 010

RIETER OPEN END

MODEL: RL10

YEAR: 1994

QUANTITY: 1

OFFER 011

100 BARRELS FIBERS

COMPRESSOR

PALETTE FOR YARNS

TROLLEYS

ETC.

WEAVING

OFFER 012
HACOBA WARPER

MODEL: US-B

YEAR: 1994

WIDTH: 3000mm

SPEED: 20 TO 600 M/MIN
WITH CREEL 490 COILS

QUANTITY: 1

 

OFFER 013

SOMET THEMA SUPER-EXCEL

WIDTH: 3000mm

YEAR: 2001

WITH JACQUARD GROSSE

MODEL: EJP2

QUANTITY: 1

 

OFFER 014

SOMET THEMA EXCEL

WIDTH: 2200mm

YEAR: 2002
JACQUARD GROSS

MODEL: EJP 2
QUANTITY: 2

 

OFFER 015

SOMET THEMA 11E

WIDTH: 2200mm

YEAR: 1994
GROSSE JACQUARD

MODEL: EJP
QUANTITY: 9

 

OFFER 016

WITH 24 BEAMS

VARIOUS TROLLEYS

ETC.

FINISHING

OFFER 017
MARIO CROSTA SRL WOOLLY 2

MODEL: MC 10/30

YEAR: 1994
QUANTITY: 1

 

OFFER 018

WOOLLY MULLER GMBH

TRI 224

PR- 1

YEAR: 1994

WIDTH: 2200mm
QUANTITY: 2

 

OFFER 019

MULLER MOWERS

YEAR: 1994
QUANTITY: 3

 

OFFER 020

REAM OF STEAMING (SCREED) TO SANTA LUCIA

BRAND: FABRICS

YEAR: 1994

QUANTITY: 1

OFFER 021

COMPRESSOR

BOILER FOR STEAM VAPORAX 1000

ETC.

MAKING

OFFER 022
HEMING LINE FROM MAGETRON S, R, L

YEAR: 1995
QUANTITY: 1

 

OFFER 023

SEWING MACHINES

OF DIFFERENT TYPES AND MODELS

ETC.

OFFER 024
BOILER

WATER TREATMENT

OTHER PERIPHERICAL EQUIPEMENT

 

QUANTITY: 1 PLANT

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REFERENCE NUMBER: K-5014 HOTMELT GLUING MATTRESS PRODUCTION LINE 2200mm 1000 MATTRESSES PER 8-HOUR SHIFT MAXIMUM WIDTH: 2200mm CAPACITY: 1,000 MATTRESSES PER 8-HOUR SHIFT 1ST BRIDGE: 3 PNEUMATICALLY MOVING GUNS WITH 4 NOZZLES ON EACH HOTMELT GUN. CAN BE CONVERTED TO SPRAY AT NO EXTRA COST. 2ND BRIDGE: 2 GUNS FOR THE EDGE: ONE HAS 8 NOZZLES (T-SHAPED), THE OTHER HAS 4 NOZZLES. 3RD BRIDGE: 3 PNEUMATICALLY MOVING GUNS. THEY ARE SPRAY; LINE NOZZLES CAN BE ADDED 4TH BRIDGE: EXACTLY THE SAME AS 3RD BRIDGE. FLOORSPACE DIMENSIONS: 72000mm X 13000mm QUANTITY AVAILABLE: 1 Learn More

REFERENCE NUMBER: M-4426 (10102MNJHX9RX) K KUSTERS CALENDER YEAR 2008 WIDTH 3200mm KUSTERS CALENDER YEAR 2008 WORKING WIDTH 3200mm PLC CONTROLLED CONTROL PANEL A HYDRAULIC MOTOR DRIVEN ROLLERS POLYAMIDE AUTOMATIC ROLL COOLING SYSTEM METAL DETECTOR AUTOMATIC SEWING CONTROL SYSTEM EDGE HOLDING SYSTEM STATIC ELECTRICITY RECEIVER CLOSED CIRCUIT OIL HEATING SYSTEM ROLLER BEARING SYSTEM ALL CAMERA CONTROLS CAN BE PERFORMED ON DIGITAL SCREEN ALL MALFUNCTIONS THAT MAY OCCUR, CAN BE SEEN ON THE DIGITAL DISPLAY CHROME CYLINDERS INDISE AND OUTSIDE SURFACE TEMPERATURE CAN BE MEASURED AT VARIOUS POINTS POLYAMIDE ROLLERS TEFLON BASED COMPUTER-AIDED SPECIAL GRINDING MACHINES ARE GRIND. 2 ROLLS (CYLINDERS) QUANTITY AVAILABLE: 1 Learn More