Abstract
The degree of porosity (degree of opening) of a wool assembly has a great deal to do with the mechanism of practical processing. The author has made experimental measurements concerning the solvent scouring process as his second attempt to analyze the bearing which the degree of porosity of a wool assembly has on practical processing. (Reports on his initial attempt were published in the June and December 1958 issues of this Journal.) The author concludes in this article that:
(1) In the steeping system for the treatment of a wool assembly, the efficiency of treatment, particularly short-time treatment, varies with the degree of wool porosity.
(2) In the flowing-out system, the efficiency of extraction is fairly high even when the degree of wool porosity is considerably small.
