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Roving Creel

Roving Creel

Roving Creel

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Does anyone know what this is? Years ago I had to provide power to such a machine but I really didn't know waht it did.  Is it a machine called a creel that roves (moves) around the factory? Or a machine that does something to some sort of fibers (called roving)?

RE: Roving Creel

from wikipedia:
A creel is a device for holding the required number of roving spools or other supply packages of reinforcement fibers for Fiber Reinforced Plastics manufacturing. This device holds the rovings in the desired position for unwinding in continuous processes like Pultrusion and Filament Winding.

Sounds like definition #2 above.

RE: Roving Creel

•A creel is a device for holding the required number of roving spools or other supply packages of reinforcement fibers for Fiber Reinforced Plastics manufacturing.
•Creel, Chihuahua,is a small Mexican town in the Tarahuramas Sierra.
•A creel is a type of basket used in fly fishing.
•A creel is a wooden airer, for drying clothes, suspended by pulleys from the ceiling
•'roving creel' is a survey of fishermen, a creel machine appears (through a google search) to be a textile industry machine. However, there doesn't seem to be anything about a 'roving creel machine'.

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RE: Roving Creel

t'was brillig, and the slithy troves ...

RE: Roving Creel

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RE: Roving Creel

Could it be alongside the sky hook and bucket of steam.......

Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

RE: Roving Creel

Before cotton is spun into yarn it goes through various stages of cleaning and arrangement of the fibers in parallel. The final stage (or one possible final stage) is the production of roving, a loose group of parallel fibers that is twisted just enough so that it can be wound on bobbins and unwound again. A number of bobbins of roving are accumulated in a rack called a roving creel. I believe that the creel contains the winding mechanism which would need to be powered somehow. From the roving creel, the roving is unwound from the bobbins and fed into the spinning machine which combines the strands of roving into one continuous strand of more tightly twisted yarn.

The filled roving creel may actually be moved from the lapping, combing and drawing department to the spinning department, but I don't think the textile people say that the roving roves from one department to the other.

I believe that other natural fibers, textured synthetic fibers and blended fibers may also go through processing that involves accumulating roving in a creel.

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