Kinds of softness testers for textiles

Softness test is a clear indicator of many materials, such as household toilet paper, sanitary napkins, baby diapers and other products have high softness requirements, and some textiles also have certain softness requirements. This article focuses on What are the commonly used softness meters?

1. Textile handle tester
Textile handle tester:
Textile handle tester is a multi-function measuring device that can measure softness, smoothness/roughness, stiffness. Resilience is calculated as feel, as well as the compressibility of the fabric and fibers and the burst strength of the ball.
Scope of application:
Process optimization, product control, product optimization, comparison/product/* management, research and development, material selection/pulp incoming control/fiber
Main application:
>Base paper, toilet paper, fiber , textile, facial tissues, non-woven fabric, kitchen towel, leather, kitchen towel
Main use industryënn:
Tissue and fiber production, chemical supply, paper towel and fiber processing, Mechanical manufacturing
Replacing subjective quality evaluation with an objective measurement method
Features:
Softness is the basic quality parameter of paper towels and fiber, smoothness, compressibility, stiffness can also be used and folding performance.
There are some other devices on the market that measure all individual parameters and combine the results with complex functions to finally get a value that gives a more or less reliable way of giving a subjective perception of softness. methods to assess softness are very expensive and not suitable for quality assurance.
The new Textile Material Softness Analyzer simultaneously collects all individual relevant parameters that influence the softness of fabric. In addition, it is also possible to measure smoothness/roughness, stiffness, elasticity, etcas calculating handfeel , and compressibility and The burst strength of the ball can be measured automatically by powerful computer software. . Compared to the subjective evaluation, the test results are very ideal.

2. Fabric Touch Tester
Scope of application:
The softness value of the test material can be used to objectively evaluate the hand (touch) performance. textiles, non-woven fabrics, Softness test of sheet soft materials such as toilet paper products and leather. At the same time, using various accessories, it can also test the performance indicators of the sample, such as elasticity/viscoelasticity/plasticity, bursting properties, compressibility, basis weight and thickness.
The principle of the instrument:
The specific working principle of the new softness measurement method is as follows: the main components of the instrument are a rotor, a vibration sensor and some other sensors for collecting then additional data and check of the function of the instrument. For the measurement, the rotor is pressed against the sample and starts to rotate when it has reached its final position. The mutual contact between the rotor and the sample causes the sample to vibrate. Vibration sensors capture these vibration signals and pass them on to analysis components. The analysis component transfers pre-prepared data to the computer. Then the computer goes through a complex computational methods to process this data. Using a complex formula, the softness value is calculated by synchronizing the other measured parameters and the parameters pre-entered by the customer (up to 68 different parameters can be used).

3. Fabric Stiffness Tester
The bending performance of the fabric is an important physical parameter for us to study the stiffness, drapability, softness and other properties of the fabric.DThis instrument adopts bending length (also known as drape stiffness) and bending stiffness (also known as bending stiffness) two mechanical indicators to express \"the ability of the fabric to resist shape changes in the direction of bending\", collectively referred to as stiffness. The fabric stiffness tester is suitable for the stiffness and flexibility test of general materials.
Applicable standard:
GB/T18318.1-2009 \"Textiles - Determination of bending length of fabrics\"
ZB W04003-87 \"Test method for stiffness of fabrics - Inclined plane cantilever method\" recommends the use of instruments.

4. Rigid-flexible tester
Related standards:
JIS L 1076, JAPAN TAPPI No.34, ASTM D2923-06
Application:
This machine It is a measuring instrument suitable for evaluate the stiffness and flexibility (softness) of fiber products (especially silk, cotton and chemical fibers for thin fabrics), paper products such as paper hacloths with different properties and plastic films. It is a tester manufactured in accordance with the Japanese industrial standard JIS L 1096 General Textile Test Method (stiffness: E method).
Put the test piece on the test bench with a fine groove, and measure the resistance (g) when the test piece is pressed into the groove to a certain depth (8mm) by the knife on the measuring device, in order to evaluate the softness of the test piece.
Different from other softness measurement methods, the feature of this measurement method is that when the test piece is pressed into the fine groove, the test piece slides on the test table for many times, so the measured value is the sliding friction force and the time of pressing. The compound drag force (softness).

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