STUDIES ON THE ANGORA RABBIT FIBRES
(X) A TRIAL PREPARATION OF A COMPRESSION-METER OF A BULK OF FIBRES FOR STUDYING THE FELTING PROCESS
1956 Volume 12 Issue 9 Pages 615-620
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1956 Volume 12 Issue 9 Pages 615-620
When a bulk of the animal fibres such as wool is compressed repeatedly, its volume decreases gradually as the result of felting. A compression-meter was prepared in order to trace this process in the water and air.
The apparatus has the following features:
1) The compression can be made vartically, because the compression plate is kept always horizontal by means of a special automatic control.
2) The sensibility of the meter is 0.01g/cm2.
3) The thickness of the sample (the fibres) under no load can be measured exactly.
The good reproducibility was proved in the experiments.
