Open AccessDesign and development of an automatic kilcha (skeining) machine
Author(s) -
D. Sargunamani,
K. Raghu,
Subhas V. Naik
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of engineering, science and technology andb. lagos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2141-2839
DOI - 10.4314/ijest.v13i2.3
Subject(s) - skein , quality (philosophy) , production (economics) , computer science , test (biology) , work (physics) , manufacturing engineering , engineering drawing , industrial engineering , artificial intelligence , engineering , mechanical engineering , economics , computer security , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , biology , macroeconomics
Denier test for raw silk testing requires skeins of 450 metres length in slightly twisted form (Kilcha), and the existing processis done manually with skein winder, that has few drawbacks, which are low production, quality and higher time and labour.Hence, the present study proposed to design and develop a machine to rectify the above drawbacks for faster production withgood-quality silk skeins, and to reduce testing time and labours involved in work. The innovated machine is designed anddeveloped as automatic skeining (Kilcha) machine and the result showed improvement in production, and quality with reductionin time and labour compared to the manual winder.