Rieter

Rectangular staple

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Fig. 3 - Staple diagram, rectangular staple

The rectangular staple (Fig. 3) is achievable, and imaginable, only with man-made fibers. Since the fibers are all equally long, no length variations are present, and material of this type would seem ideal. Such an impression would be false, however. For one thing, the length evenness cannot be maintained into the yarn because fibers are shortened in the spinning mill, mainly at the cards. For another, spinning machines are not suited to the processing of fibers having all the same length. In the drafting arrangement, for example, such fibers are moved not individually but in bunches, thereby finally producing a high degree of unevenness in the yarn.