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    Cotton fabric shrinks due to swelling when exposed to water and the release of mechanical stresses from spinning and weaving. The anti-shrink finish process uses a sanforizing or zero-zero machine to apply controlled shrinkage to fabrics. The machine places the moistened fabric onto the extended surface of a rubber blanket, then uses steam heating and roller contraction to shrink the fabric evenly as the blanket contracts. This subjects the fabric to controlled tension that limits its shrinkage, preventing further shrinking during washing.

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    Cotton fabric shrinks due to swelling when exposed to water and the release of mechanical stresses from spinning and weaving. The anti-shrink finish process uses a sanforizing or zero-zero machine to apply controlled shrinkage to fabrics. The machine places the moistened fabric onto the extended surface of a rubber blanket, then uses steam heating and roller contraction to shrink the fabric evenly as the blanket contracts. This subjects the fabric to controlled tension that limits its shrinkage, preventing further shrinking during washing.

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    Cotton fabric shrinks due to swelling when exposed to water and the release of mechanical stresses from spinning and weaving. The anti-shrink finish process uses a sanforizing or zero-zero machine to apply controlled shrinkage to fabrics. The machine places the moistened fabric onto the extended surface of a rubber blanket, then uses steam heating and roller contraction to shrink the fabric evenly as the blanket contracts. This subjects the fabric to controlled tension that limits its shrinkage, preventing further shrinking during washing.

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    Anti Shrink Finish

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    Rajiv Ranjan
    Cotton fabric shrinks due to swelling when exposed to water and the release of mechanical stresses from spinning and weaving. The anti-shrink finish process uses a sanforizing or zero-zero machine to apply controlled shrinkage to fabrics. The machine places the moistened fabric onto the extended surface of a rubber blanket, then uses steam heating and roller contraction to shrink the fabric evenly as the blanket contracts. This subjects the fabric to controlled tension that limits its shrinkage, preventing further shrinking during washing.

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    Anti Shrink Finish

    Praveen D Nagarajan

    ANTI-SHRINK FINISH
    SHRINKAGE:
    Shrinkage is the contraction in the dimension of the fabric
    due to usage.
    Cotton fabric suffers from 2 main disadvantages of creasing
    and shrinking during subsequent washing.
    Creasing is overcome by the resin finishing whereas the
    shrinking is prevented by a special finishing known as
    Sanforising.
    The machine used for that purpose is known as Zero Zero
    Pre Shrinking machine.

    HOW COTTON SHRINKS?


    Cotton has the property of swelling in
    water and these effects Shrinking.
    Also the mechanical stress, strain and
    tension, during spinning and weaving etc.,
    when released causes the fabric to shrink.
    The cotton fabric, when put in water,
    swelling takes place and rearrangement of
    internal forces takes place.
    The fibers will become free from tension
    and it comes to the original tensionless
    state. These are the reasons for
    shrinkage.

    In case of a fabric, the warp yarns are


    under much strain due to interlacement
    than the weft yarns.
    Hence, when a fabric is allowed to shrink,
    the warp yarn shrinkage will be more than
    weft yarn.
    To overcome this, the fabric is extended in
    widthwise to some extent in the stenter
    machine during the finishing process.
    Then it is subjected to the preshrink
    process.

    MECHANISM:
    The mechanism or principle adopted to
    produce shrinkage is
    To place the fabric on the extended
    surface of a rubber blanket represented by
    the concave surface,
    When the tension is released on the
    blanket, it shrinks; the fabric which is in
    close contact with the rubber blanket at
    the concave surface has no way other
    than shrinking along with the blanket.
    This principle is used to produce pre
    shrinking finish with the help of a
    sanforising or Zero Zero machine.

    METHOD OF PRODUCING
    SHRINKAGE IN
    SANFORISING

    PARTS

    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    6.
    7.
    8.
    9.

    Feed Rollers,
    Sprayer,
    Steaming Unit,
    Clip Expander,
    Cylinder,
    Felt Blanket,
    Sprayer,
    Cylinder,
    Plaiter.

    ANTI-SHRINK FINISH

    ANTI-SHRINK FINISH
    The amount or % of shrinkage depends
    on:
    1. The tension / stretch on the
    rubber blanket.
    2. Thickness of the rubber blanket.
    3. Diameter of the roller.

    ANTI-SHRINK FINISH
    Thickness of Blanket to be used
    If Shrinkage of fabric before
    Sanforising is
    0.275
    0.4
    0.45

    6 8 cm / m
    8 11 cm / m
    11 15 cm / m

    MACHINE DESCRIPTION:
    This is a mechanical method of shrinkage control.
    The cloth is fed into the machine through the
    feed rollers of a mangle. It is used to hold back
    the cloth and only allow the felt blanket to
    contract to the required amount.
    Otherwise over shrinking of the cloth occurs.
    From the feed rollers the cloth passes between
    Sprayers to moisten the cloth thereby making the
    yarn soft and plastic so that it can be easily
    compressed by the blanket.
    The moistening is assisted by a Steaming unit
    called Skyer.
    Then the cloth passed through a Short Clip
    Stenter to control the width of the cloth.

    ANTI-SHRINK FINISH
    The cloth is passed to the blanket over the feed
    roller and is placed in firm contact with stretched
    surface of the blanket by electrically heated
    shoes.
    If cold shoes are use, less shrinkage would result.
    The cloth in contact with the stretched surface of
    the blanket. Is passed to the main steam heated
    cylinder of the palmer machine so that when the
    stretched surface of the blanket is contracted by
    reversal of curvature, the cloth also is contracted.

    The main cylinder of the machine


    may be either 60 or 84 in diameter
    to the material for which it is
    intended.
    After passing a round of the drum of
    the palmer machine, the finished
    material maybe passed on to an
    auxiliary finisher. It has an additional
    palmer unit

    ANTI-SHRINK FINISH
    It can be used
    1) When both sides of the material are
    to be finished alike
    2) When additional shrinkage is
    required. If the additional palmer
    unit is used, the range is called as
    Duplex otherwise it is called as
    Simplex.

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