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The detachment setting

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This refers to the distance between the clamping line of the nippers and the nip line of the detaching rollers when these parts are at their closest spacing. The detachment setting provides the chief means for influencing the level of noil elimination. A wide detachment setting results in a high level of noil elimination; a closer setting is associated with a lower noil level.

Spinning mills must find the optimal setting for their own conditions. If the detachment setting is increased, starting from a certain optimum, there will be hardly any improvement in quality except in relation to imperfections (Fig. 12). The detachment setting normally lies in the range of 15 - 25 mm. If the noil percentage varies for no reason while the machine settings (including the detachment setting) are kept constant, the cause lies not in the machine but in the raw material (variability of the raw material characteristics, e.g. short fiber content).