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Felt Product: WTI
FELT is a fabric produced without spinning or weaving by
using mechanical action to interlock fibres to produce a
homogeneous mass of interlaced fibres. Wool fibres if subjected to
heat, moisture and mechanical action, will migrate along their
axes, curl and interlace with adjacent fibre to form a
traditional Woollen felt. Other fibres can be blended with the
wool fibres when characteristics are required which are not
obtainable by wool alone, it is the wool in the blend which must
supply the felting ability.
Needle - Loomed felt can be
produced from fibres without any natural felting ability by using the
penetrating and compressive action of barbed needles to interlock
the fibres into a homogeneous mass. Such felts can be made partly or
wholly from fibres such as Wool, Rayon, Polyester, Acrylic,
Polypropylene etc.
There are a number of materials which are
erroneously called "felt" because they have felt like appearance.
Cotton batting, roofing felt, crimped paper are few examples.
- Wicking or capillary transport
- Storing and retention of fluids
- Lubricating
- Filtering of gases, vapours, liquids
- Absorbing of vibration, friction, sound
- Sealing or spacing between ridid parts
- Coating or wiping
- Polishing, Grinding, Deburring, Burnishing
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