Principles of Spinning: Combing in Spinning

Principally focussed on combing procress, the initial chapters of this book explain the basic functioning of the conventional comber, which is not very different from modern combing. Various associated motions with reference to certain timings along with importance is illustrated in detail.

Ashok R. Khare is a graduate, post-graduate and doctorate from a well-known technological institute - Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai (formerly known as Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute). He graduated from this Institute in 1970 and went to serve a well-known textile group of Mafatlal mills. After serving for nearly 5 years in the textile mills, he returned back to his Alma mater in 1975 as a lecturer in textile technology. In the due course, he was promoted to Assistant Professor and Professor.

In the last phase of his service in V.J.T.I., Mumbai, he took over as the Head of the Textile Manufacture’s Department. Almost during the same tenure, he held a position of Deputy Director in the same Institute. He has written several articles on card cleaning efficiency, role of uni-comb, extended research work on influence of doubling parameters on properties of blended doubles yarns.