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Master, Indigo Slasher, 1989, 3400mm Width, Looptex System

Master, Indigo Slasher, 1989, 3400mm Width, Looptex System

Description

  1. Overview
    1. Width: 3400 mm
    2. Year: 1989 (electrical panel upgraded twice in recent years)
    3. Direct warpers from Enova and Benninger
  2. Warper #1: Enova
    1. Year: 2000
    2. Comsa creel with 546 positions, air controlled with Eltek automatic break detection and stopping system
    3. Electrojet top air cleaning system for the creel
    4. Beams width 1000 mm, 1800 mm
    5. 42 primary beams
  3. Warper #2: Benninger
    1. Year: 1988
    2. Beam width 1000 mm
    3. Comsa creel 650 positions
    4. Stopping unit Eltek Electrojet aspirator system
    5. Electrojet aspiration
  4. Indigo Dye Machine
    1. Looptex system made by Master Machinery (Italy), year 1989
    2. Primary beams width: 1800 mm
    3. Final working width is up to 3000 mm (after Sucker-Muller sizing machine)
    4. Usually working in 2400 or 2200 mm beams
    5. All systems have been updated several times in recent years to be in optimal working condition
    6. Last 2010 dye machine standard work speed: 35 meters per minute
    7. Normally dye lots are approximately 6 to 8 tons
    8. Double creel for 12 primary beams each creel
    9. Creel are constantly rotated in order to have one in preparation while the other is working
    10. Banana unit for width control
    11. 1 padder for tension control
    12. Tension and speed regulation unit
    13. 1 box for preparation, caustification or dyeing box with squeezing rolls up to 6 tons pressure
    14. Dosing system
    15. Heating system with indirect steam, 950 liters capacity
    16. 1 air passing 30 meters, tension control for caustification
    17. Tension and speed regulation unit
    18. 3 boxes, each with squeezing rolls up to 6 tons pressure
    19. Indirect steam heating system
    20. Tension and speed regulation unit
    21. Last box unit with dosing system, 950 liters capacity
    22. 1 box for indigo dye (1700 liters) with horizontal squeezing rolls, pressure up to 7 tons
    23. Automatic hydrosulfite feeding system
    24. Automatic liquid indigo feeding system, Dosapro pump driven by metering system
    25. Of line “Metron” titration unit for indigo and hydrosulfite control
    26. Of line “Shimatzo” spectrophotometer for indigo control
    27. Automatic caustic soda feeding system driven by Crison pH system
    28. 6 loop system that drives the yarn up to 6 times around the machine for oxidation and into the indigo dye box, each loop 60 meters length
    29. Tension and speed regulation unit
    30. 1 air oxidation system 60 meters
    31. 1 double box, over dye applications and washing, with intermediate and final squeezing rolls, 6 tons squeezing pressure
    32. Heating system with indirect steam
    33. Tension and speed regulation unit
    34. 1 double box, fixing, softening or washing, with intermediate squeezing, equipped with dosing system, heating system with indirect steam
    35. 1 drying unit with 10 drums with steam
    36. Mahlo drying controlling system
    37. 1 foulard for tension control
    38. 1 J accumulator with 200 mts capacity
    39. 1 foulard for tension control
    40. 1 creel with 12 beams, each with individual speed and tension control system
    41. 36 beams, with intermediate separator 1000 mm width, 1800 mm wide
    42. On each beam we roll 400 yarns, 200 on one side, then a separator and the other 200
    43. Dye kitchens with all the different storing vessels and pumps for indigo preparation, indigo, black topping and bottoming
    44. Caustic soda dosing system for the caustification unit
    45. Electrical cabinets for all the systems with air conditioning
    46. UPS with enough power to avoid small (micro) power cuts affecting the whole machine
    47. All machinery has been updated several times for optimum work
    48. Spare part for most of the machine: beams, rollers, pumps
  5. Sizing
    1. After the multiple beams creel used for the indigo on cones and in line with the indigo machine there is a sizing unit to size the warps on the loom beams if desired
    2. Sucker-Muller sizing machine 3400 mm width, for beams 1000 mm wide
    3. Year: 1980
    4. 16 drying steam drums, first drums with Teflon coating
    5. Cooking kitchen for preparation of the sizing
    6. Mahlo system to control humidity
  6. Unbeaming (Unwarping)
    1. This system allows you to make bobbins of indigo yarn, dyed, that will work in knitting machines
    2. A total of 1400 bobbin rewind positions
    3. 6 rewinding systems, each system has 4 elements: beam unroller, breaking detection, speed synchronizer and winding machine with the winding supports for each bobbin
    4. Working speed 100 meters per minute
    5. With all the machines working production can be from 4 to 8 tons per day, depending on yarn count (Ne 30/1 approximately 4 tons per day, Ne 7/1 production 8 tons per day)