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    Lap formers take slivers from carding and draw them to make the fibers parallel. The slivers are fed into a lap former machine to form a 20 inch wide lap that is condensed with a slight draft to a set weight. The machine runs smoothly without disturbing the fibers before they undergo combing. One lap former can feed eight comber machines. The laps are automatically wound, cut to a fixed length, and ejected to a stand to be automatically started again. Lap formers are needed to produce uniform laps for comber machines since combers require lap feeding and cannot process slivers directly. Laps also allow combers to work more efficiently than a hypothetical sliver feeding system would.

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    Lap formers take slivers from carding and draw them to make the fibers parallel. The slivers are fed into a lap former machine to form a 20 inch wide lap that is condensed with a slight draft to a set weight. The machine runs smoothly without disturbing the fibers before they undergo combing. One lap former can feed eight comber machines. The laps are automatically wound, cut to a fixed length, and ejected to a stand to be automatically started again. Lap formers are needed to produce uniform laps for comber machines since combers require lap feeding and cannot process slivers directly. Laps also allow combers to work more efficiently than a hypothetical sliver feeding system would.

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    Lap formers take slivers from carding and draw them to make the fibers parallel. The slivers are fed into a lap former machine to form a 20 inch wide lap that is condensed with a slight draft to a set weight. The machine runs smoothly without disturbing the fibers before they undergo combing. One lap former can feed eight comber machines. The laps are automatically wound, cut to a fixed length, and ejected to a stand to be automatically started again. Lap formers are needed to produce uniform laps for comber machines since combers require lap feeding and cannot process slivers directly. Laps also allow combers to work more efficiently than a hypothetical sliver feeding system would.

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    Lap Former

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    Ratul Hasan
    Lap formers take slivers from carding and draw them to make the fibers parallel. The slivers are fed into a lap former machine to form a 20 inch wide lap that is condensed with a slight draft to a set weight. The machine runs smoothly without disturbing the fibers before they undergo combing. One lap former can feed eight comber machines. The laps are automatically wound, cut to a fixed length, and ejected to a stand to be automatically started again. Lap formers are needed to produce uniform laps for comber machines since combers require lap feeding and cannot process slivers directly. Laps also allow combers to work more efficiently than a hypothetical sliver feeding system would.

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    **** Lap Former :

    - Literature review of lap former


    - working procedure
    - why need lap former
    - History
    - function

    Lap formar working procedure:


    On the lap former machine the material flow starts with the creel (1, Fig. 27),
    consisting of two feed rails. In normal operation 12 cans are laid out under each
    roller-assisted feed table. Altogether, this gives a total of 24 doublings. The pre-draw
    frame slivers run over a guide bridge above the service alley and also over several
    guide rollers to the drafting system at 2 (Fig. 30). The web created by the draft of 1.3 to
    2.5 passes over two deflecting plates (Fig. 28) onto the web table on which the webs are
    superimposed. Calendar rollers draw these superimposed webs from the table to the
    lap winding assembly. The strong compression created between the calender rollers
    forms a new web, which is rolled into a lap in the lap forming assembly. Empty tubes
    are automatically exchanged for full laps. Transport of the laps to the combing machine
    is semi-automatic or fully automalic.
    Lap formar working procedure:
    Drawing Machines where slivers from carding are Drawn in to, so as to make the fibers
    parallel and are fed to a similar machine to get a better parallelization which goes to the
    next department.
    In Lapformer machine, slivers are fed to form a lap of 20 inches wide condensed with a
    slight draft and weighing as per set length.The machine runs smoothly so as not to
    disturb the fibers which undergo combing at the comber machines.One such Lap
    former is sufficient to feed 8 comber machines.The machine is equipped with sliver
    break stop motion.Whenever the sliver in any of the cans happens the machine stops
    and a red light goes up to indicate the operator that it has stopped.These Laps are
    wound to fixed lengths and is cut at that length and the machine ejects it to a stand and
    starts automatically.

    Working Principle of Super Lap Former


    Machine in Textile:
    The total super lap former machine description and material passage flow chart have
    presented in the following:
    1. There are three creels, three zones and three different feed plates in this machine.
    Here, 48-60 slivers (in each creel 16-20slivers) are fed at a time.
    2. The slivers are passed through 3 over 2 drafting system, made up of pair of back
    rollers.
    3. After drafting the webs are led through the pairs of calendar rollers and along a table
    where they are superimposed, calendared and made into a lap.
    4. Stop motions are fitted to all the rollers including the calendar rollers and an
    indicating light is fitted there.
    6. Here, doffing of full laps and threading are fully automatic.

    Why Lap Former is Needed?


    Yarns which are made up of longer length of fibres, tend to show less irregularities in
    subsequent processes. Those yarns are superior in quality and carry lower percentage
    of hairiness as well. A comber machine provides such uniform and regular slivers that
    are free from a predetermined length of short fibres. So, basically for manufacturing
    such types of greater quality yarn, use of a comber machine is a must in spinning line.
    But before start to manufacture these uniform slivers in comber which ultimately lead
    to craft extraordinary yarn, need to produce a number of uniform laps as well. To
    produce those laps, there the lap formers come into action.
    As the comber machine is unable to process the drawing frame slivers directly and
    relying on lap feeding system only, introduction of the lap former machine becomes
    mandatory. Besides, lap feeding system helps the comber to comb it better and
    efficiently in comparison to hypothetical sliver feeding system.

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