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Uster Quantum Clearer
Uster Quantum Clearer
Uster Quantum Clearer
of last 10 years
Submitted To:
Mr. Zulfiqar
Yarn Faults:
The principles of the spinning process for short and long staple yarns remained the
same for many decades. Changes took place especially in the field of automation
and production quantity per production hour in order to reach the highest
production of yarn in a good quality at the least expenses for personnel, capital, and
energy. For this, big technological progresses in each process stage were essential
Despite this progress and many years of experience in spinning technology, it is still
not possible to produce a fault-free yarn straight off. Depending on the raw material
and state of the machinery park, there are about 20 to 100 events over a length of
100km yarn, which do not correspond to the desired appearance of the yarn. This
means, that the yarn exhibits a yarn faults every 1 to 5 km. these kinds of yarn
faults are places, which are too thick or too thin. Foreign fibers or dirty places in the
yarn are also counted as yarn faults
Yarn faults cause disruptions in the subsequent process stages, which affect
production and quality.
Yarn faults, which get in the woven or knitted fabric, can only be removed at very
high costs or not at all. Therefore, the yarn processing industry demands a fault-free
yarn from the yarn producer. The spinner has to fulfill these demands; otherwise he
could not sell the yarn covering his costs.
The measures to avoid the origin of yarn faults are numerous and start with the
choice of the raw material, the maintenance of the machines up to the cleanliness
in the spinning mill. Well educated, motivated personnel and an efficient quality
management play also an important role.
1- During the winding process from bobbin to cone, the yarn is completely
monitored for yarn faults with an electronic device , the yarn clearer
2- As soon as the yarn clearer detects a yarn fault, the yarn will be separated by
the cutter. The winding process is interrupted.
3- The yarn fault will be removed by the suction of the winding machine.
4- Ends, the upper yarn from the cone as well as the lower yarn from the
bobbin, are going to be combined again. The yarn joint is done by splicing
with a splicing device or knotting with a knotting device. The latter is only
used very rarely for special yarns. A good splice should not be realized by the
human eye. Present yarn clearer also monitors the quality of the yarn joint.
Uster automatic D
Uster Automatic D was a type of yarn monitoring telling the thin places as well. This
device was basically for the coarser yarn which was easy to check for thin places.
This yarn clearing device was optional in getting data of the yarn. This was first
introduced in 1962 by uster with winding position control option.
Uster Polymatic
This was the famous Yarn Clearer patent by USTER co. in 1990. It was a complete
yarn clearing device giving the option of all SLT monitoring.
Uster polymatic was the most successful yarn clearer device which was just made
better by adding some parameters. Otherwise the Modern USTER Quantum clearer
is the basic Uster Polymatic.
One year after the introduction of USTER QUANTUM Clearer, uster technologies
developed the software “Computer Aided Yarn Clearing“CAY as an option to the
USTER QUANTUM CLEARER installation. The option is an easy-to-use tool to optimize
the clearer limits for yarns which are not yet available in the data bank
The sensor must be able to monitor a yarn which runs with up to 120km/hr through
the sensor and to detect even very short faults. In order to achieve this, the yarn is
measured every 2mm
With the capacitive measuring principle, the yarn signal corresponds to the yarn
cross-section yarn mass, respectively, which is located in the measuring field.
Changes of the yarn mass cause a portional change of the yarn signal.
The infrared light source (1) and the photocell (3) represent the sensor for the
optical monitoring of the yarn thickness. The infrared light is scattered by a diffuser
With the optical measuring principle the yarn signal corresponds to the diameter of
the usually round yarn, which is located inside the measuring field. Changes of the
yarn diameter cause a proportional change of the yarn signal
2- USTER GRADES
The USTER GRAES are a representation of yarn faults in real size. The percentage
increase the fault size is marked on the vertical scale and the length of the fault is
marked on the horizontal scale. This result in a linear diagram of the fault sizes.
Now it is possible to mark the clearing limits directly and to evaluate the effect of
the yarn clearing immediately. Furthermore, the size corresponds to the disturbing
faults of the textile industry of today.
Data which is collected with USTER QUANTUM EXPERT can be transmitted to further
systems in order to generate long-term reports, statistics and so on. For this reason,
only a limited number of standard reports are available. Application-related reports
and diagrams provide a good overview. It allow the recognition of tendencies and
exceptions which affect the quality.
CAY stands for Computer-Aided Yarn Clearing and is software for the data system
USTER QUANTUM EXPERT. The software CAY makes it easier for the user to control
the production process with data of seldom-occurring yarn faults and foreign fibers.
With CAY it is possible to show thick and thin places in the yarn by their
classification by their classification points in the classification matrix. The resulting
scatters plot provides information about the frequency, location and size of the
events. With this tool the job of the quality management is made easier, as the
system registers faults in an early stage, so that measures against such faults can
be taken in time.
USTER QUANTUM EXPERT makes it much easier to find suitable clearing limits.
Furthermore, the systems offers further advantages like:
• Setting are visualized and their effects on the number of cuts are displayed
directly
• Various forms of representation, as e.g. the scatter plot or the density lines
are an aid for the choice of the clearing limit
• Clearing limits can be downloaded to the control unit at the machine in order
to avoid wrong inputs at the machine.
• For each pint in the scatter plot, the yarn fault can be simulated o the
computer screen. This can be shown as an individual fault or in a woven or
knitted fabric. Such simulations possible for thick places, thin places and
foreign fibers.
USTER QUANTUM EXPERT provides the best possible setting to remove the colored
foreign fiber contamination in the yarn which has somehow made to pass through
the back processes.
It can be said: the longer a foreign fiber and the higher its color intensity:
As regular yarn clearing, it can also be said that foreign fiber clearing is a
compromise between quality and productivity
– Vegetables:
○ Are mainly short length ranges
○ Occur in the whole intensity spectrum from low to high
○ Should not be cleared, if possible, as they are possibly remover or
neutralized in the following process
– Foreign fibers and packing materials:
○ Are spread all over the spectrum regarding the length as well as the
intensity
○ Must be cleared as soon as the limit to the disturbing foreign fiber is
exceede
– Trash
USTER QUANTUM CLEARER, provides FD-channel (Foreign matter Dark) and FL-
channel (Foreign matter Light) for optimum clearing.
1- Class Alarms
It one wants to monitor repeatedly occurring faults which are not disturbing as a
single event but as a group of faults the winding position can be stopped with the
class-alarm
With the USTER QUANTUM CLEARER class-alarm according to the USTER CLASSIMAT
criteria, the user has a tool which operates according to the same criteria as the
USTER CLASSIMAT for the laboratory area. Seldom-occurring yarn faults are
detected, assessed and classified within the well know CASSIMAT matrix according
to length and mass deviations. This provides the user with complete information on
the yarn quality and allows him to make forecast for the subsequent process stages.