Research on pneumatic compact spun yarn quality

Compact spinning is one of the most important improvements of traditional ring spinning, which is implemented by adding a fiber condensing device to condense the fiber bundle and decrease the spinning triangle. Pneumatic compact spinning is the most widely used compact spinning method at present. Compact spinning with perforated drum and compact spinning with lattice apron are the two main kinds of pneumatic compact spinning. Therefore, in this paper, comparison analysis of yarn quality between compact spinning with perforated drum and compact spinning with lattice apron is presented. First, 9.7 tex cotton-combed yarn is spun in three different kinds of pneumatic compact spinning systems, including two kinds of compact spinning with perforated drum: Rieter's COM4 and complete condensing spinning system (CCSS), and one lattice apron compact spinning system: Toyota's four-line compact spinning. The test results of yarn qualities show that comparing with other two kinds of compact spinning systems, the yarn spun in CCSS has the best evenness, least long hairiness, and slightly lower strength. Then, the properties of spun yarns are analyzed using two methods. First, using Fluent Software, numerical simulations of three-dimensional flow field in condensing zone of three kinds of compact spinning system are presented, respectively. Second, the fiber movements in condensing zones are captured using high speed camera system OLYMPUS i-speed3.