Linear blower automation on jacquard looms in the textile industry: an experience report

Abstract

Through a mechatronic system, the project of the linear blower was born from the difficulty found by the textile industry (which uses cotton as raw material) in keeping their machines and equipment in proper working conditions and without cotton residue accumulation, causing several problems and damaging the final product. To avoid this problem, the solution used until then was a manual cleaning process, which demanded a qualified labor force because there are places of difficult access for cleaning and a certain daily downtime for this reason. The objective of this article was to report the experience of developing an automatic cleaning system, the “linear blower.