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6 Cards in this Set
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False Twist
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yarn is twisted, heated, and the untwisted to form a helical coil. Resembles crepe.
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Knife Edge/Edge Crimping
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Heated filaments are drawn over an edge, which flattens one side of the filaments and causes the yarn to curl
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Stuffer Box
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filament yarns are pushed into one end of a small heated box until they bend. when the emerge from the other end of the box, they are in crimp form.
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Gear Crimping
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a sawtooth crimp is created when yarn passes through the teeth of two heated gears. Seldom used.
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Air Jet
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High-velocity air or steam is used to distort some of the fibers in a yarn so that they loop or curl
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Knit-deknit
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the yarn is knitted into a thin tube, heat set, and unraveled. The unraveled yarn will retain the looped shape formed by the knitting
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