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Accessories and parts for yarn manufacturing

Ascotex has beeen manufacturing accessories for textile machinery for over 40 years and has developed a wide product portfolio over this time.

Ceramic yarn guides

On any textile equipment with a running yarn, the yarn contact point is probably the most critical aspect, governing the friction and ultimately the tension and stability of the yarn. Over the years, Ascotex has developed a range of ceramic bodies and surface finishes to suit specific applications. For example, the company offers several types of ‘low friction’ finishes on its A997 high-purity alumina body for use on the highestspeed synthetic fibre production machinery, where friction must be minimal. For applications running delicate yarns such as medical sutures and glass and carbon fibres, the company has developed a super-smooth, diamond polished titania ceramic body T27B. This material is also available in an electrically-conductive version (T27C), which permits the static discharge of a yarn.

Spin finish appllicators

Other new developments include new types of spin-finish applicators intended to reduce both oil consumption and air turbulence, lightweight twist stops, low-friction ceramic bearing rollers and extra-long ceramic bars and tubes.

The company boasts a comprehensive ‘standard’ range of ceramic yarn guides normally available from stock.

Metal yarn guides and tension discs

While being the oldest products in the company’s portfolio, metal yarn guides and tension discs still play an important role on modern textile machinery and have advantages over ceramics in terms of design complexity, strength and thermal conductivity. The company offers bespoke manufacture to suit customers’ exact requirements and is geared to making small runs as well as bulk batches for machinery manufacturers.

Base materials include hardened steel, stainless steel, aluminium and brass. Wear-resistant hard chrome plating is available in various surface finishes from mirrorbright through to matt.

Yarn tensioning units

Utilising its experience in yarn guide manufacture, the company also manufactures a wide range of yarn tensioning units. The standard range includes Disc Tensioners, Gate Tensioners, Hysteresis Tensioners and Storage Tensioners and bespoke designs can be manufactured to suit individual applications.

Yarn break detectors

The company offers simple, single-end ‘micro-switch’ type sensors, as well as multi-end ‘Stop Motion’ units which can be wired into the machine control circuits to provide feedback in the event of a yarn breaking. The latest Stop Motion used on warping creels incorporates an infra-red light beam to detect the fall of a dropper arm, and then activates an internal relay switch to provide feedback to the machine. The configuration of the Stop Motion can be of any number of yarn ends up to 100, and at various pitches.

Other textile machinery parts

The company’s large engineering workshop is equipped to manufacture a wide variety of other textile machinery components such as rollers, bobbin holders and take-off caps, springs, pressings, gears, wire clips, needles, blades and belts.

Catalogues and samples are available upon request.