Cotton and synthetic knitted hose: Production Process

The major raw materials used in the production of cotton and synthetic hose are synthetic and cotton yarn .

The yarn (cotton and synthetic) is purchased directly from the market and wound up on reels in the form of warping beam by winding machine. Then it is placed on a circular knitting machine and the fabric is knitted. |It is then drawn up wards, the wound on a roller. The hoses are finally coiled/spooled by coiling machine, in standard lengths and packed up and dispatch. The only waste of the process is rags which can be used for the production of pillows and mattress as a result the process is environmentally friendly.

Some equipment: a circular loom for weaving hoses Winding machine Coiling machine

Cotton gin and production process flow sheet

Cotton ginning is the process of separating cotton seed from the lint so that the lint will be baled and goes to textile industries for further processing whereas the cotton seed is milled by oil mills to produce edible oil.

Cotton ginning, therefore, requires the unprocessed raw cotton, and then is applied on the cotton ginner in order to produce baled cotton and cottonseed.

The major unit operations involved in cotton ginning are: -

1. Separation
2. Drying
3. Cleaning
4. Extraction
5. Distributing
6. Feeding
7. Ginning
8. Lint cleaning
9. Baling

Schematic diagram of cotton gin production

1. Raw cotton from the storage