The history of the development of textile machinery

Humans initially used natural fibers as raw materials for spinning and weaving, predating the invention of writing (see World Textile History, Chinese Textile History).

China in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States already used hand-cranked spinning wheel spinning, by the Song Dynasty has invented more than 30 spindles of water power spinning wheel.

In 1769 the Englishman R. Arkwright) (also known as Richard Arkwright) made the water-powered spinning machine.

In 1779, the Englishman S. Crompton (Samuel Crompton) invented the walking spindle. Crompton) invented the walking spindle spinning machine.

After the introduction to the United States, in 1828, the American J. Thorpe invented the ring spinning machine, because the use of continuous spinning to increase productivity several times.

The looms of the Warring States period in China already utilized the principle of leverage to drive the heald frames to complete the opening action with a foot-operated linkage.

In 1733, the Englishman J. Kay (also known as John Kaye) invented the flying shuttle, which strikes the shuttle and makes it fly at high speeds, increasing the productivity of the loom exponentially.

In 1785, the Englishman E. Cartwright (also known as Edmund Cartwright) invented the power loom, the same year the United Kingdom built the world's first steam engine-powered cotton spinning mills, is the textile industry by the workshop handicrafts to the transition to large-scale industrial production of a turning point.

The progress of human society and the increase in population has contributed to the development of the textile industry, and accordingly promoted the improvement of textile machinery.

The energy reform (steam power instead of manpower and animal power) laid the foundation of modern textile machinery.

At the end of the 19th century, man-made fibers were introduced, broadening the field of textile machinery, adding a category of chemical fiber machinery.

People's need for synthetic fibers to promote the growth of synthetic fiber spinning equipment to large-scale (spinning screw diameter of up to 200 mm, a single spinning machine to reach 100 tons of daily output) and high-speed (spinning speed up to 3,000 ~ 4,000 m / min) the direction of development.

The world's fastest-growing synthetic fiber industry in the country, almost in 5 to 6 years, the equipment update once, the number of machines in 10 years to double.

In the past 20 years, the spinning and weaving equipment to adapt to the pure spinning of chemical fibers or blended with natural fibers made a number of local improvements, such as expanding the range of draft agencies suitable for spinning fiber length, eliminating static electricity on the fiber and so on.

In the dyeing and finishing of the development of high-temperature and high-pressure dyeing equipment, heat shaping equipment, resin finishing equipment, as well as loose finishing equipment.

Human beings have been spinning and weaving cloth by traditional methods for more than 6000 years.

The spinning and weaving machines designed according to the traditional principles are still the main equipment of the world textile industry.

But since the 1950s, new processes have been created that have partially replaced traditional methods to produce textiles with much higher efficiency, such as rotor spinning, nonwoven fabrics, and so on.

New process methods breed new textile equipment, new textile equipment maturity and promotion, and promote the textile industry further forward.