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Blowroom | Blow-room & Blending Importance in Textile Spinning

COLLECTED BY:Muhammad Abid Farooq


What is Spinning Blowroom:

Definition of Blowroom: Blowroom consists a number of machines used on succession to open and clean the cotton fibre. About 40% to 70% trash is removed in blow-room section.

Objects of Blow-room:

1. Opening:
a) To open the compressed bales of fibres.
b) To make the cotton tuft as small as far as possible.
2. Cleaning:
To remove dirt, dust, broken seeds, broken leaves, and other foreign materials from the fibre.
3. Mixing & Blending:
To make good value of yarn and to decrease production cost mixing and blending is done.
4. Lap or flocks formation:
To transfer opened and cleaned fibre into sheet form of definite width and length which is called lap or in modern system directly feed to the carding machine into flocks form.

Importance of Blowroom in Yarn Spinning:

1. Blowroom is installed to achieve uniform quality.
2. to improve processing performance.
3. to reduce and control production cost.
4. to meet end use requirement
5. to facilitate the cotton for regaining its moisture content lost during boiling.